Amos Richardson family

The research on the Marsh and Winch families brought a lot of information on the Richardson family.


The Amos Richardson Family

Amos Richardson was born 26 November 1754 in Coventry, Tolland, Connecticut to Nathan and Phebe Crocker Richardson. He married Lurena Cheever 5 December 1776. She was born 22 December 1755 to Ebenezer and Ann Dewey Cheever.

Amos may have gone to Manchester, Bennington, Vermont, through the influence of his brother, Andrew Richardson, who was known for the beginnings of the First Congregational Church in Manchester. Their father, Nathan, along with other family members, also left Connecticut for the same area in Vermont. Amos died 3 March 1813 at Manchester. Lurena may have died in western New York as there was a woman in the home of Elijah Richardson in the 1820 census of LeRoy, Genesee, New York, the right age to be his mother.

Children of Amos and Lurena Cheever Richardson

  1. Elias Richardson born 5 December 1777 in Lebanon, Connecticut died 6 December 1837 in Manchester. He married Rachel Boarn 8 December 1814.
    1. Lois Ann Richardson born 1815 Manchester
    2. Amos Richardson born 13 February 1818 Manchester married Louisa Baldwin 28 January 1844
    3. Cyrus Richardson born 17 November 1820 Manchester

    These three children were named in the will of Lois Richardson, their aunt.

  2. Ebenezer Richardson born 29 January 1782 at Manchester died 10 March 1784 Manchester.

  3. Lois Richardson born 30 January 1784 at Manchester. She never married, and she was traveling with her brother, Elijah, when he went west. There is a precious letter of Lois’ written to her brother, Asa, that has been preserved. (Punctuation added) In 1828, Lois wrote:
    “Dear freinds, I now take my pen to inform you that I have given up going to make you a visit this summer. I calculate to go in September if posible. I mean to have your cloth ready aginst Asa comes out to court. Electy’s health is very poor yet; I think it is a chance if she ever enjoys good health agin. I think it is likely she will go into the consumption. She bloats and has times of raising blood. Give my love to the children so adieu. Lois P.”

    Lois was in the 1850 census of Franklin, Erie, Pennsylvania listed as Louis, but enumerated as a female. She was just doors from her nephew, William R. B. Richardson. She died 12 September 1850 in Franklin, Erie, Pennsylvania age 67 years 2 months, and 12 days, and she was buried in the Franklin Cemetery. Her stone says that it was made by H.D. Richardson of Girard, Pennsylvania. That would be Humphrey Davenport Richardson, who seems to be from the same area as Lois in Vermont, and is most likely family. Lois’ will was found in Erie County, Pennsylvania. She named the three children of her brother, Elisha, who were still living in Vermont, her “nephew” William R. B. Richardson, Daniel Hatfield, who was married to Eliza Richardson, Lois’ niece, and she gave her bible and other household items to her brother, Asa. The inventory of her probate said that she had a buggy that was in the possession of Cheever Richardson in Crawford County.

  4. Asa Richardson born 4 April 1787 Manchester, Bennington, Vermont died October 1872 at Newton, Pike, Ohio. He married Zerviah Kingsley 3 June 1814 in Manchester. Zerviah was born 9 March 1791 at Pittsford, Rutland, Vermont to Nathaniel and Rebekah Edgerton Kingsley and died 23 November 1869 at Newburgh, Cuyahoga, Ohio.

    1. Maretta Oratia Richardson born 5 July 1815 New York died c.1900 in Edenville, Midland, Michigan. She married 16 June 1837 at Independence, Cuyahoga, Ohio by the Rev. Mr. Keyes, John Harper, born 18 June 1812 in Wales to John Harper and Mary Jones. Later divorced.
    2. Harriet Richardson c. 1818. She married Israel Weeks 3 May 1846 in Pike County, Ohio.
    3. Miss Richardson (perhaps Elizabeth) c. 1819 in Ashtabula County, Ohio married a Mr. McDonald (perhaps John).
    4. Orrimill Richardson b. 1827 Ashtabula County, Ohio. He married 27 August 1853 Jerusha Yunker born 1 February 1830 to Peter L. and Lucinda Younker. Orrimill was a member of the 51st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, died 2 January 1863 at Battle of Stone’s River, Murfreesburo, Tennessee in the Civil War and is buried in section C, Stone River National Cemetery in Murfreesburo. Jerusha died 29 September 1854, about the time their only child, Jerusha Amanda Richardson, was born, and she was given to the care of her Younker grandparents.
    5. William Richardson born 1832 in Ohio. He married Mary A. Jones daughter of Charles Jones.

    Asa Richardson Zerviah Kingsley Richardson
    Pictures courtesy of Alice Harper Sias

  5. Cheever Richardson born 26 September 1791 at Manchester died after 1860 in Lenawee Country, Michigan. He married c. 1814 Electa Winch in Vermont. By 1820, the couple was living in LeRoy, Genesee, New York, near Electa’s brother, David Winch, Cheever’s brother, Elijah, and Electa’s cousin, Walter Marsh. Cheever went to Millsford in 1822 with his brother,. Elijah. The Methodist 1st Church was established in 1825 by the Reverend Joseph Carr, and it was held in Cheever’s home. At that time, there were fifteen members. Cheever was not in the 1827 Millsford Census, and by 1830, he was in Cherry Valley. It appears he moved on after that time, first to western Pennsylvania, and then on up into Michigan. He and Electa lived in the home of Truman Wheeler, their son-in-law. Electa died in the home of her son, John W. Richardson. There is more information about her on this same website under the section for Abijah Winch, her father.

    1. William R. B. Richardson born 1817 of Vermont. He married a Nancy ____ and in 1850, he lived in Franklin, Erie, Pennsylvania.
    2. Eliza Richardson born in 1818 in LeRoy, Genesee, New York She married Daniel Hatfield 10 June 1830 Ashtabula County, Ohio. They lived in Franklin, Erie, Pennsylvania and later in Michigan. Alice Harper Sias has a letter that was written by the Hatfield’s oldest daughter to her cousin, Marietta Richardson Harper.
    3. Rebecca Richardson born c. 1824 Ashtabula County, Ohio died 11 November 1880 aged 56 and was buried in Brookside Cemetery section J (no stone) in Tecumseh, Lenawee, Michigan. She married Truman Wheeler who was born c. 1820 in New York to Salmon and Celia Wheeler and died 10 March 1875 in Tecumseh, Lenawee, Michigan, and was buried in Brookside Cemetery section J (no stone).
    4. John W. Richardson born 4 February 1828 in Cherry Valley, Ashtabula, Ohio died 10 September 1881 in Waterloo, Jackson, Michigan. He married 4 July 1848 Martha Sophia Etheridge daughter of Nathaniel and Ellen Etheridge.

    Cheever and Electa had at least eight children. There was a Chester Richardson living next to Cheever in the 1850 census; he was likely a son. There was an Elisha Richardson buried in the same burial lot in Tecumseh as Rebecca Wheeler; he may have also have been a son or a grandson. Amos Richardson of Livingston County, Michigan was also likely a son as he and John W. were living in the same neighborhood in the 1850 census.

  6. Elijah was born 24 November 1800 in Manchester died 1 November 1828 in Millsford, Ashtabula, Ohio. Ashtabula County history says they he went to Dorset in June 1822 from Vermont. From the deed records of Manchester and family letters owned by Alice Harper Sias, it appears that Elijah returned to Vermont at least twice, once in 1818, and again in 1822/23. Elijah appears in the 1827 census of Millsford (Dorset). Elijah has been confused with an Elijah Richardson living in Underhill, Chittenden, Vermont, who married a Huldah Eaton in 1828. The Elijah here died unmarried.

    Elijah also wrote to his brother, Asa, when Lois wrote in 1828. (Punctuation added.)

    “Millsford July 7th 1828 Dear Brother, A few lines to inform you of our health which is about as good as usual. I have been quite unwell some part of the time since you were here but am about as well as usual at present. It has been very wet since you were here, and I have been unable to get much clearing done, but I mean to scratch as hard as I can to pay my debts this fall and winter, if there is any chance for it. I received your letter that you wrote soon after you got home. I shall have to attend to taking the depositions at Jefferson myself. I have written again to Smith but have received no answer as yet I think I (?) to be at my share of the trouble of attending to the suit, and I have concluded that I shall run my chance with you of the loss or gain in the affair. You must be out to court in August. I expect to have to promise the ? the witnesses and taking the depositions at Jefferson but shall be unable to pay it unless you come and bring the money, the business we talked of when you were here I wish you would find out about as soon as possible for I want to know how to get money for expenses I don’t know. Give my love to all the folks. May the Lord remember us in merry living and dying in haste. E. Richardson

    Ashtabula County Court records show that Silas Southerland and Asa, Cheever, and Elijah Richardson, swapped land (deed references shown below). Silas traded his land in Ashtabula for the Richardson's land in Vermont; however, there was an amount left owing to Silas in the trade that the Richardsons had given promissory notes for but had never paid. Silas sued to get his money and then some. The Richardson brothers claimed among several grievances that Silas had lied about the land he owned; he had made claims that there were enough people in the area to support a tavern the Richardsons wanted to build and that a river ran through the property that was navigable by boat and connected to Lake Erie. When they found the land to be just the opposite, they did not pay on the notes. Silas countered saying that they had never asked him some of the questions they had claimed to ask, and that he had answered honestly about the river being just a stream and so forth. But the court ruled in favor of the Richardson brothers and ordered Silas Southerland to pay their court costs as well as other damages. It may be that finding the Ohio land to not be what they expected was the reason that Asa and Cheever moved on as soon as they did.

    Elijah died that same year, and his probate is on file in Ashtabula County, Ohio. His death is thought to have been the first natural death in the area of Dorset, the later name for Millsford. Chester Woodworth was the administrator of the probate.

There are some deed records of interest from Manchester, Bennington, Vermont.

Other deeds from Ashtabula County, Ohio.


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