Abigail (Swan) Richardson (1687 - 1770)

Born 12 Feb 1687 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Wife of John Richardson — married 1 Jul 1714 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 22 Sep 1770 at age 83 in Boston, Suffolk, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Abigail Swan was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on February 12, 1686-7, the daughter of Gershom and Sarah Swan.^[1][2]

She married John Richardson, son of John and Deborah (Brooks) Richardson, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on July 1, 1714. They settled in Woburn, Massachusetts, and had children there. John died November 15, 1745. Children, Woburn births:^[1]

1. Gershom Richardson, born May 4, 1715; living March 27, 1746.
2. Abigail Richardson, born May 27, 1718; married ___ Stevens.
3. Ezra Richardson, born June 13, 1721; married Love ___.
4. Jasher Richardson, born December 8, 1724; married Lydia Atwood.
5. Deborah Richardson, born March 26, 1728; married, January 26, 1749-50, Jabez Burdett.
6. Abijah Richardson, born January 22, 1730-1; married (1) Sarah Stewart, (2) Sarah Lawrence.

Abigail (Swan) Richardson died in Boston, Massachusetts, on September 22, 1770, "aged 81 Years" (gravestone). She is buried in the Eliot Burying Ground in Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts, where her gravestone reads:^[3][4]

💀

Here lieth Buried yͤ Body of

M^rs ABIGAIL RICHARDSON

Widow of

JOHN RICHARDSON EſQ^r

She Died at Boſton yͤ twenty

second day of September

Anno Domini one Thouſand

Seven Hundred and Seventy

aged 81 Years.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Vinton, John. The Richardson Memorial, Comprising a Full History and Genealogy of the Posterity of the Three Brothers, Ezekiel, Samuel, and Thomas Richardson (Brown Thurston & Co., Portland, Maine, 1876). Page 56. Citing: "71. John Richardson."
2. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC9S-7X7 : 10 November 2020), Abigail Swan, 12 Feb 1687; citing Birth, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004198966. Transcript of Image: "Abigail, Daughter of Gershom & Sarah Swan born February-12 168⁶⁄₇".
3. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH5C-LPF : 10 November 2020), Abigail Widow Richardson, 22 Sep 1770; citing Death, Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009473.
4. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64863622/abigail-richardson: accessed 12 November 2022), memorial page for Mrs Abigail Swan Richardson (12 Feb 1687–1771), Find a Grave Memorial ID 64863622, citing Eliot Burying Ground, Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA; Maintained by Jeff Hubbard (contributor 47361123).

See also:

• Roxbury, Boston at Wikipedia.