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Captain Edward Richardson

A MEMORIAL

With Genealogical Records of Some of His Ancestors and Descendants

By ELIZABETH WILLS VERNON RADCLIFFE

Privately Printed 1923 NEWCOMB & GAUSS Printers

SALBM, MASS. CONTENTS

Biographical Sketch of Capt. Edward Richardson 1

Genealogical Records ...... 41

Appendix . . · ...... 69

CAPTAIN EDWARD RICHARDSON-A MEMORIAL.

,VITH GENEALOGICAL RECORDS OF SOME OF His ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS.

BY ELIZABETH WILLS VERNON RADCLIFFE.

One Sabbath morning, more than one hundred years ago, a sailing vessel dropped anchor in the harbor of a Massachusetts seaport town. A young sailor came ashore, walked along a peaceful road and into its Baptist l\ileeting House. Soon he heard a sweet voice singing. "Who is that?" he inquired of a friend. "That's Patty Smith, one of the belles of Hadley," was the reply. Edward Richardson looked up from where he was seated and discovered a beautiful girl. "I'll walk home with her after service," he whispered to his companion. "You can hardly do that," was confided, "s·omebody else claims the privilege." Nevertheless, at the church door he stood awaiting the descent from the choir; was introduced, and did walk home with her that morning, in the spring sunshine, and into her heart as well; this we may conclude, as their engagement and marriage soon followed. In her father's familv Bible is recorded: &I "July 28, 1813, My daughter ~Iartha aged 19 years and 8 months, was married to Edward Richardson, aged 24 years, of Danvers, Mass." Edward was the son of Seth, who fought in the Revo­ lutionary War, and ,vho was with Washington when he [I] C.1\.PTAIN ED,VARD RIC_HARDSON crossed the Delaware and at Valley Forge, and of Hannah Waters, whose ancestors go back to the earliest settlers of Salem; to John Tomkins and through Trasks, Gardners and Porters to l\iajor ,villiam Hathorne, head of ~Iilitia of Colonial Wars; and through Richard Waters, of Danvers, 'Over the seas to James, of the parish of St. Buttolph without Algate, London, citizen, May 17, 1617, who married Phebe Manning; and through her, through the many generations and years to the 14th century to Simon Manning, who married _Catherine Chaucer, sister of the famous English poet, Goeffrey Chaucer; while three more generations back, we find that "Symon de Manning, of the city of Bettred, took part in many different military expeditions under King Richard I, 1189-1199. He was among the first of the English Barons to take up the Cross and go with King Richard to the Holy Wars in the Third _Crusade, for which he was knighted. He died in the time of Henry III." (H.F. Waters' Genealogical Gleanings.) The old vVaters homestead was built about 1630. It was in the possession of the family over two hundred years, and was burned down September 24, 1845, ·on the site of the Hussey house of today. One beautiful old _Colonial desk, belonging to Captain Seth, originally stood in this house, and remains in the family, with its claw legs, fan ornaments and secret columns intact, and upon which much of this record is being compiled. Seth and Hannah were among those tortured souls who suffered on land at the wreck of the ill-fated ship Margaret of Salem on May 21, 1810, while their boy as 2d. mate was miraculously rescued with fifteen others, after four days in a long boat, four hundred miles from the nearest land. He was then in his twenty-first year. On the 10th of April this ship sailed from Naples under command of _Captain Fairfield. To quote from [2] A l\IEMORIAL a contemporary account: "During a fierce gale she was hove on her beam end and totallv., disabled. Lat. 40° N., long. 39° 30 W .... With an axe we cut away the weather lanyards, masts, shrouds and long boat, which being done, the ship righted with her hatches off, chests, water casks, etc., drifting amongst the wreck. The guns, anchors, camboose and all other articles on deck were thrown overboard to lighten the ship .... During this time the long boat lay beating among the wreck of spars, etc., b·ottom up. . . . "With the utmost difficulty she was hauled along side the ship, turned over and found to be badly stove; her gunwales and stem broken entirely off, her wood ends and garboard strake open and large holes in the bottom, so that we found it impossible to bail her out. We were under the necessity of upsetting her again in the sea with the hope of being able to stop some of the holes in her bottom which we, in part, effected by driving the butts together and by putting canvass, etc., into the largest holes. After that we turned her over again and by continued bailing with every bucket, which we could procure ,ve were enabled to keep her from sinking·. By this time it was about 7 P. M. When the boat, being hauled near the ship, for the purpose of getting canvas and oakum to stop the leaks, as many men as could reach the long boat jumped into her and finding the boat would again be sunk if we remained so near the ship, we were obliged to veer to the leeward, at the dis­ tance of 15 or 20 fathoms, being 12 in number in the boat. . . . We had been in this situation but a short time before one man jumped from the ship into the sea and made for the boat. We took him in but, finding that all on board were determined to pursue the same plan we were obliged to veer the boat further off. At that time we were 13 men and 2 men in the stern boat ".,hich augmented our number to more than could, with any [3] CAPTAIN EDWARD RICHARDSON degree of safety, attempt to leave the ship. We were continually bailing to keep her from sinking·. It was a wretched situation for we had no compass, quadrant or any instrument whatever ·by which we could direct our course, and not a single drop of fresh water in the boat. About this time casks of brandy and sundry other arti­ cles of the cargo were drifting from the wreck, amongst which we picked up the mizzen top gallant sail, 2 spars, 5 oars, I cask ·of olive oil, I drowned pig and I drowned goat, I bag of bread, and they hove us a gallon keg of brandy from the ship, which was secured. We then fixed a sail for the boat from the mizzen top gallant sail. . . . We made our course as nearly east as possible , for the island of Corvo or Flores, and the last we saw 'Of the ship she was lying in the same situation as when we left her. "We continued our course to the eastward having winds variable from S. S. E. to N. W. and two men constantly bailing, steering in the night by the stars when to be seen and in dark cloudy weather by the heaving of the sea, and in the day time by judging from the bearing of the sun-when to be seen, and when not, by the best of our judgment. "Fpr 4 days we continued sailing eastward without seeing any vessel; but on Saturday, 26 May, at IP. M. to our great joy we espied a sail which proved to be the brig Poacher of Boston, Capt. James Dunn, who took us on board and treated us with every attention, kind­ ness and civility. . . . _Capt. Richard Pedrick after­ wards very generously took six of us on board his vessel and brought us into Marblehead." Martha (Patty) Smith, his wife, was a daughter of Thomas Smith-descendant of Sergeant Joseph Smith, born 1657, and removed to Hadley, Mass., about 1680-and _Catherine l\iatthews of Hadley, and grand- [4] THE OLD RICHARDSON HOMESTEAD, DANVERS, MASSACHUSETTS. (Photographed in recent years.)

A MEMORIAL daughter of Thomas Smith and Rhoda Worthington. In the Worthington records is stated: "Rhoda and Sibil (sisters) had great strength and sweetness of character." We may say she inherited these qualities from this grandmother Rhoda, as she certainly pos­ sessed them in large measure. Her immigrant ancestors, Nicholas Worthington and Nathaniel Alexander, were in service in the Turner Falls fight, 1676. John Loomis, in N aragansett Wars, was also Representative of Windsor, .Conn., 1666-1667 and 1675-1677 and among the first settlers there. And there were Thomas Bunce of Pequot War fame, John .Crow, one of first settlers of Hartford, Conn., and Hadley, Mass., in 1666. Edward Richardson purchased a house and land from John Fowler, June 12, 1815. It was near the banks of the Waters River, named for this Waters family. A picture is given as it appears today-a .Colonial homestead with a summer and winter kitchen and a Samuel McIntire door. Two stately elms guarded the entrance on each side of the garden gate, and here the family lived between the long voyages at sea. He became a member nf the Alarm _Co., called the New ~,!ills Minute Men, at New Mills (Danvers) formed to defend the town during the War of 1812, with "Always Ready" for its motto. An earthen fort was built at the river's edge near the Richardson house, mounted with two iron guns. This point where two rivers converged was a logical position for a f ortifica­ tion and well might the Richardson families have felt secure with such protection. At one of the signals at midnight when it was supposed that the British were landing at Salem, these ~Iinute ~fen marched until intercepted by a man on horseback with the news that it was a false alarm. On one occasion as they passed [5] CAPTAIN EDWARD RIC_HARDSON through River Street they were saluted by the Rev. Jeremiah _Chaplin, who, raising his hat, remarked: "There go the defenders of our country's liberty, the men who are not ashamed to speak with the enemy at the gate." Captain Richardson became a Freemason, raised in Jordan Lodge, Feb. 14, 1814. Soon the children came: Edward Trask, Thomas Smith, J-oseph Worthington, William Proctor, Aaro11 _Cheever, who died in infancy, Martha Adeline, another Aaron Cheever, and later Mary Waters, a child by adoption but equally loved and cherished, and then their letters were full of the new interests and responsibilities. Often the _Captain's thoughts turned to that little group around the "keeping room" fire, where they gathered after their busy day of varied activities. No doubt the sampler, with its astonishing sentiment from one 'Of ten years, worked by the hands of Martha Smith in the old schoolhouse in Hadley, developed an interest in needlework, for tales are told of her domestic accom­ plishments, of a famous hooked rug that c-overed the floor of this same "keeping room." Knitted counter­ panes still exist that lay over the high post bedsteads, and many dozens of shirts were made of the finest linen with exquisite workmanship for the husband, and later on for the boys. Sister Nancy Richardson was always one of the household and shared these activities. Later in life she is remembered in the Brooklyn home as always ready with cookies and apples for the visiting grandchildren while reading to them from their story books. There were visits made to old Hadley, where "Patty" Smith had grown to womanhood amid its peaceful scenery and simple life. Here the smaller children sometimes lingered with their Smith relations and [6] A MEMORIAL the elder ones were sent to boarding school, while their mother went occasionally to sea. They experi­ enced there the New England Sabbath, beginning Saturday evening, a serious day indeed, but in those times, at sunset, it was considered Monday morning, so, often, we've been told, the little ones would run behind the barn and gaze earnestly at the western sky, to discover this longed-for occurrence, for then they could begin again to play. The Salem ship registers contain, among many others, the following items:

Adeline, ship, 249 tons, built Eden, Me., 1808. Reg. Jfay 27, 1809. Engaged in Sumatra trade from Salem, Mass., 1817. Edward Richardson, master. Dear Sally, Danvers, schooner, 115 tons, built Alna, l\fe. 1816. Reg. Jan. 4, 1817. Nathaniel Putnam, Danvers, Thomas Cheever, John W. Osgood, owners. Edward Richardson, master. Friendship, schooner, 47 tons. _Captured in ,var of 1812. Reg. Aug. 4, 1815. Edward Richardson, owner and master. West Indies. Andrew Jackson, ship, 263 tons, captured in the War of 1812. Reg. May 25, 1815. Samuel Cook, Thomas Whittredge, William Manning, Tracy Patch, owners. Tracy Patch, master. Also Reg.Nov. 15, 1817. James Cook, Samuel Cook, Edward Richardson, master. Liverpool, Bremen, New Orleans. Condemned at St. Ubes, 1821. Levant, brig from Gottenburg, Oct. 4, 1820. Later he had an interest in Ship Poland, New York, 1833. The Brooklyn also was commanded and owned by Edward Richardson, and in this ship he made many foreign voyages, including _Canton, Singapore, Batavia and Whampoa. [7] _CAPTAIN En,vARD RIC_HARDSON In 1822, while en route to Bremen, there occurred a religious revival in Danvers, and the wife wrote to the husband of her desire to join the church. This news gave him deep concern and he discoursed in writing to his father, Seth Richardson:-

"New Orleans, May 19, 1822. "Dear Father: "Your kind favor of April 2nd came to hand a few days since with two others; one from my good wife, and the other from my dear Sister Lydia. "I was much rejoiced to learn you were all enjoying the blessings of health and have the pleasure to inform you that we are all in possession of the same. "I am much pleased with your description of the change in my dear Martha ( although I thought she was good enough before), which I hope ere long to have the extreme pleasure of witnessing myself, although perhaps I may not be capable -of participating with my beloved wife in this extreme happiness, as you are, my dear Father. "I have written to my dear Partner, a lengthy epistle on the subject. Perhaps you, Sir, may call it a foolish one-I am not mvself., sure it was not-some of it; but I can with much candor assure you, my most esteemed parent, the design was good and it was written without the least idea of creating any prejudice in the mind of my wife against any religious impressions she had expressed and my most fervent and earnest wish is, my dear parent, that you will not ( or allow my dear wife to) decide too hastily on an affair of such importance. You are sensible that even our O"\Vn feelings often deceive us. To·o many have been deceived by such feelings and have become stumbling blocks in the way [8] SAMPLER OF PATTY SMITH. AGED TEN YEARS

Worked at the Old Hadley School 1n 1803.

A ME~iORIAL of others. You will not deny we have many such in our little village. Pardon me, my dear Father, I do not mean to infer from this that Martha is not truly pious. I hope from my heart she is, but I suppose she is as liable to be deceived as others. Why not1 And why shall not her appearance deceive you. I beg of you to be cautious how you encourage her too much before you have sufficient proof of her having met with that change which is essential to her salvation. I cannot believe that a few days, nr even months, can possibly produce sufficient evidence of the fact. "So, my kind father, think as I do, that a delay of a few months (just for me to return) cannot be attended with any disagreeable consequences. It will afford me much pleasure to return and find my wife still firm in the belief that she appeared to possess when she wrote me last, and I will then cheerfully consent to her join­ ing the church if she wishes to, but I cannot willingly do it while absent, and I am sure, my dear Father, you will not urge it after perusing this and Martha's letter. . . . I am very much engaged about lo·oking out for a freight. . . . I shall accept any offer I ca11 get this w·eek. "My love to my dear Mother, brother and sisters, and accept, my dear Father, the love and best wishes of "Your dutiful son, "Edward. "P. S. May 26. "I open this to inform you that I have commenced loading for Bremen. From Bremen I shall return to Salem in ballast." This last item of information from a prudent and thrifty New Englander further reveals his perturbation of mind in thus speedily returning· home. We must conclude he ,vas convinced ·of the sincerity and lasting [9] CAPTAIN EDWARD RICHARDSON qualities of the conversion, for the First Baptist _Church of Danvers records the baptism of Martha Richardson in 1823 and of Edward Richardson in 1825, in the fol­ lowing words: "Martha Richardson related the dealings of Provi­ dence and the way in which her mind had been exercised which the church reviewed as a _Christian Experience Apr. 5, 1823." Also (Nov. 19, 1825), "Heard the relation of _Capt. Edw. Richardson respecting the dealings of God with him and the ways in which his mind had been wrought upon and views of the way of Salvation and voted unanimously to receive it as a Gospel Expression." Five years later, the records of the new Baptist Meeting House show that: "Edw. Richardson purchased pews No.'s 15, 40, 53, 54, 55, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 64, 16, on Nov. 9, 1830 . . . with all the privileges and appurtenances to the same belonging, as long as said house stands . . . " He also made generous contributions toward the building of this church, being the largest subscriber. He became a delegate to the Salem Baptist Association and, through it, a large subscriber to scholarships in schools and col­ leges. This association included all the Essex County Baptist churches and was founded in 1828. Upon hearing of the death of one of his children, _he wrote from the South. "New Orleans, Sunday afternoon, 23 Jan., 1825. "l\,Iy dear:- "r.,.. our afflicting letter of 20th Dec. has come to hand and my fears are realized. . . . Strange, wonderful, incomprehensible are the ways ·of providence. . . . We were unworthy of such a blessing and, n1y dear, may this afflicting stroke ( of providence) induce us to [10] A MEMORIAL double our exertions for the Lord is good unto those that wait upon Him . . . though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion. The dear child has gone but a little ahead of us. . . . Hnw important it is that we should study well the nature of the voyage we have undertaken: have our vessel in perfect order, capable of enduring the severest storms, our compasses regulated; be provided with the best charts, engage in season the only good Pilot that we may be sure, when approach­ ing the shores of Eternity, upon safe arrival, and, if we should be blessed with righteousness and wisdom, let us spare no pains to instruct our children, but say, with Joshua, that we and our house will serve the Lord ... ''Your afflicted ''Edward.'' Three years later : "Ship Salem at sea, Jan. 2, 1828. " . . . Just now we overtook and passed by a French ship 9 days from _Charleston, S ..C .. , f-or Bordeaux. The first vessel we have spoken since we left Brother Brown (by whom I wrote you). I like to speak a vessel once in a while: it seems so sociable. "This morning we discovered a rudder floating by, which, no doubt, the loss of has caused some p·oor fellows much trouble. ". . . Although we are about half way on our pas­ sage the thermometer is at 70° and has not been below 68 since we left ; it being the middle of winter I expected a rough passage with sorne gales and squalls but thus far " .. ·e have been highly blessed. ,v e have our rneet­ ings regularly Sundays on the quarter deck.. . . . I do believe, my dear, that the Lord is with us, and I hope and pray about to ,vork on the hearts and conseiences of my crew. It's cheering and encouraging to have [II] CAPTAIN EDWARD RIC.HARDSON them lay aside their profaneness and cheerfully attend on the Sabbath to hear the word read and explained and blessed be God who has I trust more than ever enabled me to engage in such delightful duties with a liberty and ardour of s·oul which a short time back I was a stranger to . . . Oh, how much time I have wasted. M v talents have been buried in the earth. How much joy and consolation and peace, which passeth knowl­ edge, have I cheated myself of . . . Now I have no outward difficulties . . . much time for meditation and reflection and bountifully supplied by a kind overruling Providence with all the necessities of life if not the luxl1ries, and having the best ship the world a:ff ords you must suppose, my dear, that I have no cause to murmur. _Certainly I have not, but could wish the society of my family were added, although I should not he willing under all circumstances to have them all here. "Wed. 9th. "After closing my remarks last evening the wind and weather began to change and at 3 this morning commenced a severe storm from N. E. the :first un­ pleasant weather since I sailed from N. 0 . ... "Saturday night, Jan. 12, 1828. Lat. 38° 30, Long. 56, 3 weeks from Balize ... we shall not feel much inconvenience from the cold in the cabin, it is so filled up with cotton it will be difficult for it to find its way in. During the short gales ,ve have experienced our famous ship has behaved herself lln­ commonly well. 'She makes good weather' as we sailors say. All aboard are in excellent health and I believe perfectly content. We have no jarring, no profanity: all seem willing, ready and able to do their duty and we have a fine pig of about 50 pounds hang­ ing up for dinner tomorrow. But I can hardly expect those happy times will continue after we arrive in port, [12] ! ------:---_____;;_..;,_------_·______.:..,...... _.__:_._..,;__;._;_-'-: ..7 I l .. .. ~ ., .

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A MEMORIAL as several of the sailors who were shipped at N. Orleans have been unsteady in their habits and I have reason to believe will soon fall a prey to their evil propensities, when beset on every side by temptations as they will be no doubt on our first arrival. Oh, that the Lord would now awaken them to behold themselves in the gladness of His law and cause His word to take deep root in their hearts . . . may the God of love and grace be with you all, hear and answer all your prayers of faith and preserve your spirits, souls and bodies blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus .Christ. Continue to pray for me." "Sunday evening, 13 Jan. "We are now 200 miles nearer our port of destina­ tion and of course as much farther from my dear home. I have enjoyed a pleasant and I trust a profitable Sab­ bath; have had two meetings, all the congregation attended except the cook in the forenoon. He was engaged about the dinner. Wish you were here to help us with the singing. I have to take the lead gen­ erally and three or four others who sing nearly as well as I do make out to follow and I can assure you ( although you may laugh) we have what we think good music. Really, my dear, we have abundant reason to be thankful that we can enjoy our Sabbaths so well at sea. . . . I seem to have more strength, more confi­ dence, no trembling, no fear of man . . . God keep me humble and use me as seemeth to Thee best. Make us Thy servant and handmaid, instruments in Thine hands in bringing our dear children whom Thou hast bestowed upon us into Thine ark of safety. . . . I feel anxious indeed for the precious cause in my dear native village [Danvers] and do hope and earnestly pray that those who love our dear Lord and Savior meet often together and that they all brethren and sisters [18] CAPTAIN EDWARD RICHARDSON are especially on such occasions wrestling Jacobs and prevailing Israels . . . Good night. "Monday evening, 14th. "We are going on rapidly, have diminished our dis­ tance about the same as the last day, and although the weather continues stormy the wind is fair. Undoubt­ edly we will have snow when we approach nearer the coast of Ireland. It is very common for sailors in long storms at sea to form plans and resolutions about buy­ ing farms, leaving off going to sea, becoming fisher­ men, opening brickyards, building factories, etc., and although they seldom think much more about it when fine weather returns, yet I can assure you, my dear, I am pretty firmly resolved by leave of Providence, storm or no storm, to 'give up the ship,' as so-on as the period shall arrive which you have heard me name and possibly sooner. I do not mean you should un­ derstand by this I haYe fixed on a certain day, for circumstances may be such that on the 28th July, 1829 [his birthday and wedding dayJ, if it please my Creator to permit me to continue in life till that day, I may be in Europe or India. In that case I should not be willing to release the ship until she had conveyed me to my native soil, when at any rate I could reach my dear family by taking my land tack, but after all, my dear, a year and a half is a long way to look ahead. Great changes may take place in this state of uncer­ tainty. Circumstances may be materially altered. We may all live and be in health at that time, but the little property which has been bestowed on us by a kind Providence may take wings and fly away. In such a case no doubt my duty to God and my family would direct me to pursue the business I am best fitted for and whatever the events of time or Providence may be, I really hope and pray, I and you may ever be resigned [14] A l\1El\10RIAL to a strict performance of our duty with perseverance and cheerfulness amid storm or sunshine. . . . "Aug. 30, 1828. I am now 21 days out of Lisbon for New York and Danvers, my dear native village, various have been the scenes and vicissitudes I have passed through. It seems when I look back that I must have been born on eagle's wings. Certainly a kind Providence has watched over me and made a way for me to pass,, in safety 14,000 miles through the mighty d eep. . . . In a brochure of "The Bank of Manhattan :c.o.," it is stated: "During 1832 the registered and enrolled tonnage of New York was greater than that of Liver­ pool or any city in the world except London. In the early part of the century the city experienced what has been called the New England invasion, when there came from New England a surprising number of those who later became New York's leading shipping mer­ chants. Their success was due largely to the invaluable experience gained while in the employ of New England merchants and capitalists who in the early days owned most of the shipping in the country." In 1832 the family moved from Danvers to New York _City, and here, with the _Colonial furniture were accumulated many foreign treasures, such as marbles from Italy, nests of lacquer tables and work boxes ,vith pearl inlaid, exquisite carved ivories and jade, em­ broidered shawls, Hong Kong baskets, N ankin and Canton china, brass-trimmed and brass-nailed cedar and hand-painted leather trunks and other articles, selected with loving th·oughts in the Far East for the dear ones at home. The deep religious nature developed as the years passed. The fallowing gives evidence of this: [15] CAPTAIN EDWARD RIC_HARDSON "Ship Poland, half way to Havre, 5 Mch. 1833. "Mv. dear Martha:- "Fearful that I may be too much hurried, on my arrival (if it should please a kind and all wise provi­ dence to bring it to pass) to write y·ou as lengthily as I could wish, I have commenced this evening, and here I sit jambed up in one corner of my little room. Every now and then a sea thumps the ship and makes it quite difficult to hold to my desk. The weather is dark and stormy but the wind is fair and we are gal­ loping off about ten miles an hour as we have been nearly all the time since we left. _Certainly, my dear, we have very great reas·on to praise the Lord for his continued and unmerited goodness. My cold, which made me very unhappy on the day I left, continued to increase until the third day out, and being so much occupied I could not, or thought I could not, do anything for it until the fourth day, I became very seriously ill . . . and if I ever longed for anything it was for the luxury of my dear wife to attend me . o • although I had every attention from the steward and lacked nothing, yet I was alone, had just left my dear home and my poor weak mind seemed to have com­ pletely broken loose from all restraint and so it dashed about from wave to wave, like a ship with the loss of her rudder in a gale of wind . . . and it is now two days since I have quite recovered, for which I hope to feel grateful to Him who has so frequently raised me up when brought low by sickness, as well as ·other causes . . . . 0, my dear, how much the Lord has done for me since I was on my passage to this same port, eight years ago. 0 the depth of His goodness and long suffering in sparing me and bestowing so many blessings on me who have been so unworthy. Not far from here the [16] MARTHA ("PATTY") SMITH (Mrs. Edward Richardson) In her youth

A MEMORIAL Lord first enabled me to see myself in some measure, and befnre I arrived in port He made me some glorious discoveries of Himself . . . Since I became able to have the exercises of morning service, I have felt, more than for a long 'time before, the importance of faithfulness and diligence in the Lord's work and it's my most earnest prayer that I may be able, on this voyage, to do s·omething in the strength of the Lord for the poor deluded souls by whom I am surrounded, and may I not expect that you will be in this instance, as I have reason to believe you were eight years ago, and many times since, a helpmeet? Who had I then on earth who could so forcefully and feelingly press my des­ perate case, my almost hopeless condition at a court of mercy, as the dear wife of my bosom, and if a twofold cord is not easily broken, may we not hope that the Lord will own and bless our feeble efforts to glorify Him by the c·onversion of those who continually sur­ round us, and especially our dear children. 0, my · dear, our dear children, most of them in the gall of bitterness! Although to look back upon our past neglect would almost distract us, yet, in looking for­ ward, we have the sweetest encouragement. May the Lord enable us to bear them and each other on the arms of our faith daily at a throne of grace and to follow up our prayers by a watchful and persevering course of conduct towards them. Oh, we must very so·on meet with them at the Judgment Seat. Oh God, enable us to guide them from temptation; teach them the soul destroying influences of the world and its fathoms. Since I left you I have read of a Mother idolizing her child. . . . I fear it is not a snlitary case, and if any are exposed to this danger, we are at present, for I · believe God never favored any with more lovely chil­ dren than our little ones. Oh God, lead us not into [17] CAPTAIN EDWARD RIC_HARDSON temptation and deliver us from the numerous evils to ,vhich we are exposed." "II ~iarch: . . . Since I have recovered from the indisposition, my mind has enjoyed more rest from perplexing cares of temporal things than for several months past, and I have been lead to consider the mer­ ciful dealings of Providence during my past life. "How many times I would have destroyed myself by sin if I had been left to myself. The whole of my past life presents one continued chain of Providential mercies• ... "I bless God that my parents had not wealth enough to ruin me, and that necessity made me a sailor as much as choice, and how good He was in restoring me to health when so low as to be given up by all the doctors; and then, too, I was wandering upon the dark moun­ tains of sin and then I was mercifully, almost miracu­ louly delivered from a watery grave while still out of the ark of safety; and then, my dear, in this chain of wonderful mercies came that link which of all others seems to bear the mark _of a heavenly workman. Yes, my dear Martha, at the first happy moment of our meeting, commenced a most evident series of very pro­ vidential occurrences, which, if properly viewed, is sufficiently clear and plain to satisfy the most skeptical, that the hairs of our head are numbered and that not a sparrow falls to the ground without notice of our Heavenly Father. "I look upon it that if the curtain were withdrawn, we should see that our first serious impressions about our souls were in perfect connection with farmer events, for I have always been impressed with the belief that your change and prayers were powerful auxiliaries in my conversion and of that of many others . . . . Mch. 13th ". . . and I am of the opinion that we too often look [18] A MEMORIAL at the dark side of Providence. How much better to 1eave the dark things, which are behind, and turn our whLle attention to those glorious things which are so clearly exhibited and affectionately offered in the Gospels. Oh my dear, I bless God for the unusual -c·omfort, calm and peaceful enjoyment of my soul the past ten days, and I do think that through the goodness -of God, my pleasant, and I trust profitable visit, with my dear family, especially with the dear partner of my 'joys and sorrows, has in a great measure contributed to it. But for your encouragement, my dear, I will say that I scarce ever experienced a more continued desire to spend much time in meditation and prayer, and a kind providence has afforded me much time for the gratification of this best of all desires. I have like­ wise been highly favored with opportunities and strength to recommend the glad tidings of salvation to my crew and passengers. 'They that water others shall be watered.' 'It is more blessed to give than to receive' . . . The more we think of and handle heavenly things, the less we value and care about earthly things-unless in so far as they may be used for the glory of God. . . . "Oh, t]ien, let us embrace them a·nd teach them to our children, that we may, with our dear offspring, finally come off more than conquerors through Jesus Christ our Lord. . . . 'All things work together for good to those who love God.' "Providence has wonderfully led us through the Red Sea and wilderness. "'\i\T ater has gushed out of the rock and manna hath come down from Heaven. Although we have murmured all the way, it is now time to awake, and, instead of wishing circumstances, which appear grievous, to change, to ask, with humility and submission, what the Lord would have us to do under our present circumstances and in the situation in which we now find ourselves. [19] _CAPTAIN EDWARD RICHARDSON "What work has my Redeemer for me to do here? Oh, may we continually look to Him and be enlightened and encouraged." "Havre, Mch. 30, 1833- "Mv dear:- . I am again safe in port; have had a pleasant, although long, passage. We are all well on board . . . shall leave here on the 16th of April. "Remember me, my dear, at the Throne of Grace,. and believe me, Your Devoted Husband, E. Richardson." And again: "Sunday evening, 31st March "I have this day e:r;ijoyed the privilege of meeting with all my crew in the morning and some others with them, in the cabin, from which we all went to the Mariners' church and heard a good sermon from the Seamen's preacher sent here by the Seamen's Friend Society of New York. After supper I set out for Paris and travel all night and tomorrow. It's one hundred and fifty miles. Shall be gone about six days. "God bless you all­ E. R." And to his little daughter-not yet seven years old­ he wrote: "Ship Poland, 11 Mch, '33 .. ''My dear Daughter:- "Having written to all my dear children except you and your little brother A. C., I fear you may have reason to complain if I pass you by, and, rather than this should be the case, I will write to you both, hoping you will so improve your advantages at school as to be able to answer it by the time I return. "We are about two thousand miles from ....t\.merica,. [20] A MEMORIAL tossing about upon the waves with a head wind and, what is very unpleasant, we are making but little progress. We have had no bad storms since we sailed. The c·ook is just recovering from a fever. All the ·others have been very well. So you see, my dear child, the tender mercies of the Lord are over us, even though a great way off on the sea. . "I hope you are attentive to the Sabbath school, that you study well your lessons so as to understand them. "I need not tell ynu to love your little brother and to be very kind to him, for I am satisfied you are not wanting in that duty; but I want you to get all the kno,vledge you possibly can about God and his son J" esus Christ, that you may love them better than Brother or any ·other person. You are surrounded with friends who will delight to teach you and who daily pray for you and I hope you will soon begin to pray earnestly to Jesus yourself. He likes to have little children call upon Him, and says to them 'Seek me early and ye shall find me,' and if you do not seek you will never find, and 'We know not what a day may bring forth.' Little children die as often as grown people. I very much fear that new pink bonnet took up· too much of your thoughts. You must be on your guard or you may neglect your soul. "The best way is, whatever others say or do, to seek God and his favor first, and then we shall be sure that all things else necessary for our present and eternal happiness will be added. "Take Jesus for your friend and counselor and never desire anything or use anything, either as dress or in any other way, without first asking Him. Although you do not see Him, He is everywhere present and you may make a friend of Him and consult Him any time you please, so do so my dear child, and then you will be happy here and after death, and if you live long, [21] CAPTAIN EDWARD RICHARDSON you may be employed by Jesus to persuade others to escape from the awful consequences of unpardoned sin."' "Havre, 31 March. "Safe on shore again, my dear M. A., and I have this afternoon been to Sabbath School. There were about forty scholars, part of them French. I hope you try to get all of your lessons well. "I am going to Paris and don't know what to buy for you, but must see. Your loving Father." One may wonder what was purchased in Paris and if the paternal love here forgot the pitfalls of the "Pink Bonnet." Later, when Mary Lyon had begun her pioneer work for the higher education of girls at Mt. Holyoke,. the practical housework, combined there with the advanced education for this beloved daughter greatly impressed him. "Martha Adeline" was sent to the Seminary at South Hadley, Mass.

Writing to her there May 2, 1843: " . . . I can never feel sufficiently thankful to Miss Lyon and the other teachers for their kindness, and to God for having directed our attention to that Institute." As the family now lived in New York, then a long traveling distance, Martha Adeline was homesick, so, on completing a year's study, she did not return the next fall, but was entered at Rutgers Female Institute in New York _City, of which Dr. Charles E. West was president. From this Institute she graduated in the class of 1845. It is interesting to note the studies in these Institutes included Paley's Natural Theology, Whately's Logic, Wayland's Moral Philosophy and Political Economy, [22] CAPTAIN EDWARD RICHARDSON From a group picture made in the eighteen forties.

A MEMORIAL and Butler's Analogy, as scheduled in annual cata­ logues. Education was considered by the .Captain of such importance that three sons and two nephews were ·sent through colleges, although during this period finances were far from flourishing. Rev. Jeremiah Chaplin, D. D., the minister who married them, and who was a life-long friend, had become President of Waterville Seminary, a Baptist Institution ( now .Colby _College). This college was therefore chosen, as were also Brown and Amherst for these boys. To nne he writes:- "New York, 29 May, 1838. ". . . I have confidence in you but it is so common for young men of your age, away from home, to make shipwreck, in an unguarded moment, of all their best hopes and prospects, that I really tremble for you and I do assure you my dear, dangers are thick around you. 'Let him who thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.' "Your prospects are now very good but it will require, on your part, the greatest care and watchfulness. . . . " Writing to the last to go: "New York, July 31, 1839 "Business is wretchedly dull and prospects- worse . . . I cannot advise any increase in expenses . . . but any exertion or sacrifice I can make to accomplish so desirable an ·object (graduation) will be cheerfully made." Again he writes to this son, at Amherst: "Charleston, S. C., 23 Dec. 1839. "What providence has in store for us I cannot tell, but we must be thankful and hope for the best. I feel some,vhat unsettled in my mind about prospects of [23] _CAPTAIN EDWARD RIC.HARDSON business. Our expenses are very heaVJT and we must, all of us, try our best to retrench, and, in future, accus­ tom ourselves to a more rigid system ·of economy. ~iuch may be saved by a little management, and I am grati­ fied to find you will not be behind any of us in such improvement. · He again writes: "_Charleston, S ..C. "I am in hopes soon to hear of your dear Mother's safe arrival at Salem. She will enjoy her visit down there, I have no doubt, I expect a good deal better than I shall my winter passage across the stormy Atlantic with a crank ship; but I intend she shall be stiff enough coming back. "I am encouraged, my dear son, to have you tell about holding up my hands and supp·orting one another. Rest assured I value most highly your ability to do so. _Cheerfully will I toil upon the ocean if my children will, all of them, improve as they have done and unitedly try to favor and comfort me and their kind mother." There were always the spiritual pleadings. To his youngest son, at the age of thirteen, he wrote: ". . . Your mind is well stored with scriptural knowl- edge. Endeavor to spend a short time daily in prayer. You must not defer your soul's salvation. Nn day will be so good as the day you receive this. . . " In 1841, from shipboard: "Apalachicola, 12 Feb. "I suppose you have heard of the petitions all over the country to make me _Consul at Havre. One has been sent out here for the _Captains and merchants to sign, and, I hear, has been sent back pretty well filled up. If we can judge from the zeal of my friends I [24] A MEl\iORIAL should think they may succeed. I shall know more on my arrival at Liverpool." His lVIassachusetts friends did not for get him, to judge from the lists of names from Salem still extant, addressed to his Excellency, William H. Harrison, then President of the United States, but alas, the pro­ verbial slip! He certainly was a philosopher, as, later, he re­ marked: "I think the hand of God is seen in every par­ ticular event of my history." He was a member of the firm nf Richards & Richard­ son, Shipping Merchants, until 1839. Barrett in "Old J{erchants of New York C_ity" says that Capt. Richard­ son, member of the celebrated firm of Richards & Richardson, was originally in command of the ship Salem. She was a fast sailer, made quick passages and coined money. _Capt. Richarson owned one third of her. Under Richards & Richardson were the fallowing sailings from the port of New York, among over one hundred recorded in the bi-weekly newspaper, "Ship-­ ping and Commercial Lists and New York Price _Cur­ rent," 1834-1839: Brig Henry, Capt. Brown, for Havana. Schooner Gideon Lee, _Capt. Hall, Apalachicola. Schooner Lydia, _Capt. Benedict. Sch·ooner Oscar, _Capt. Sands. Schooner Roarer, Capt. Nickerson, St. Thomas. Ship Hogarth, Capt. Greenleaf, New Orleans. Ship Alfred, Capt. Cheever, Liverpool, etc. In 1839 this partnership dissolved and Capt. Edward Richardson once more assumed the command of a ship. A young nephew, A. _C. _Crooker, wrote to a cousin during 'One of the voyages he had with Capt. Richardson, [25] CAPTAIN ED1VARD RICHARDSON of rather rough weather in going round the Cape, and of visiting Sidney, Manila, Lintin, Singapore, _China and Batavia. A few years later the .Captain retired altogether from the sea to resume mercantile pursuits. He had created the firm of E. Richardson & _C_o., at 52 South Street,. in 1841. His son, Thomas Smith Richardson, was his partner until his sudden death in 1852. In 1849, when the gold fever broke ·out in _California, another son,. Capt. Joseph Worthington Richardson, was put in command of their full-rigged clipper ship Brooklyn, which "was the first to be ready for sea, up for loading at East River, Dec. 16, 1848, sailing Jan. 15, 1849." Among the sailings under this firm, E. Richardson & .Co., are to be found: To _Cadiz, Sicily, Ship Tinror, Capt. Truman. _Charleston, Ship Brooklyn, .Capt. J. W. Richardson. New Orleans, St. John, Brig Martha Kingsman~ .Capt. Chandler. Liverpool, Brooklyn, Capt. J. W. Richardson. Bordeaux, Barque Science, .Capt. Elliot. .C.adiz and Rio Grande, Brig Buenos Ayres, .Capt. Luscom. Lisbon, Rio Janeiro, Cape de Verde, Brig Gannicleft, Capt. Nicholson. Venice, .Cadiz, Lisbon, Ship Nathaniel Hooper, Capt• .Churchill. Buenos Ayres, Ship Nile, .Capt. Smith. Sandwich Islands, from Newburyport, Brig Henry, .Capt. Kibborn. Panama and San Francisco, Ship Brooklyn, Capt. J. W. Richardson. Melbourne, Ship Eastern State, Capt. Ross. Gibraltar and Malaga, Barque Texidor, _Capt. Lock­ wood. [26]

A MEMORIAL (A more complete list of sailings is given in the ap­ pendix.) The Seaman's Bank for Savings was founded in 1829. Edward Richardson became a trustee by election ii1 July, 1834, remaining a member of the Board until 1857, when he resigned and was appointed Real Estate Inspector in charge of mortgage loans, which office he held until the date of his death. He was elected a member of the New York .Chamber of _C·ommerce, January 4, 1853. It was during this period that he became intensely interested in the sailors' welfare and spent much of his leisure in their interest. Among his activities was the· New York Port Society ( organized in 1818 and incor­ porated 1819}, of which he became a life member, and~ in 1836, Vice-President, holding this office during the rest of his life. To quote from its 26th ..i\.nnual Report ·( of 1859) found in the New York Public Library: "The Marine Temperance Society, organized in 1833,. has from its commencement advanced steadily onward and now numbers 35,314 members, who have been en­ rolled upon its books. This Society is ·one of the blessed instrumentalities of the Port Society. Regular meet­ ings are held in the Lecture Room of the Marine .Church, corner Madison and _Catherine Streets, and . . . at the Sailors' Home, 190 _Cherry Street, conducted by the sailors themselves, Capt. Edw. Richardson, our Presi­ dent, presiding in both places, apparently never weary in well doing, always present, as he has been, since per­ manently residing on shore. This fact ought to be men­ tioned, because, as an old sailor remarked at our last meeting, 'When the commander is always found at his post ( as he has known that to be the case with the Marine Temperance Society for many years) he would [27] CAPTAIN EDWARD RICHARDSON always find a crew ready to obey ·orders with alacrity when their own best interests were so perseveringly attended to.' We could not sav too much of this noble Society, tending to elevate the .,character of the sailor." "He was also the moving spirit and directed the activ­ ities of its mission at Water and Dover Streets, which was then unique, preceding, as it did, all the various missions of like character." Mr. George Moore Halsey, the late president of the Seamen's Bank for Savings, has related: "I knew him well. He was a great friend of my father's. A straight, tall, slender man without fear, and good clear through. He was devoted to the Dover Street Mission. The _Cap­ tain used to call at our house to get our people to make sandwiches for the mission entertainments. No one c-ould refuse him." One winter's night this narrator, then a hov, started down to the Mission with a basket of provisions, when two policemen stopped him. He further related: "They traveled then in pairs, of necessity, for mutual protection in that neighborho-od. 'Where are you going?' they inquired. 'I am carrying sandwiches to the Dover St. Mission,' I replied. 'You can't go alone, you'll never come back alive: we'll go with you.' 'Why is it,' I asked, as we walked along together, 'Capt. Richardson goes there alone?' 'Capt. Richardson!' they exclaimed, 'he is different. He can go anywhere; no one will harm him. The only man in the city that can do that!' He would walk into saloons in the toughest streets, and, standing at the bar, where the lowest men and women congregated, in a friendly way talk to them on temperance and right living with intense and earnest pleading. They never resented his talk for they kne,v he was their friend and respected his sincerity and eourage to the extent of ceasing the .course of their foul language in his presence, while [28] A MEMORIAL many visited his mission, perhaps the first decent thing they had done in many years." _Copied from a penciled appeal in his handwriting was found the following (no doubt notes for an ad­ dress): "Since the commencement of this church about 14 years ago, the number of sailors has more than doubled,. and yet little or no increase, in this port, of the means of grace for seamen. Brother S., with a few resident members, has been blessed with many cheering evidences of God's presence in their midst. But all are fully convinced that more can and should be done. The object of this association is to promote and encourage mariners' churches, establish colporting libraries and reading rooms for seamen and also to encourage good boarding houses and to render such other temporal relief from time to time as it may be· able, such as relieving the shipwrecked, the oppressed, the sick (many are shut out of hospitals) and, although we are entirely out of funds, it is the intention 'Of the managers to give themselves to the work by visiting boarding houses, shops, and other places where their brethren of the sea may be found; sometimes in pris'011. We are fifty in number and all working men, and believe money, scarce as it now is, may be obtained whenever needed, in such a work. Our principal aim is to seek and to save lost sinners. This church has been blessed in its work. Many of the seamen, who have been converted here, are now laboring in the Master's service." Th~ heart of his wife was also filled with compassion for seamen. We have been told she entered energeti­ cally into his work. With singular tact and persever­ ance she exerted her talents upon those with ,vhom she came in contact. The roughest and most hardened were influenced by her earnest appeals and motherly [29] CAPTAIN EDWARD RICHARDSON sympathy. She knew the way to a sailor's heart and they were often entertained in the Richardson home. One instance is recalled of their daughter's attempt to help a .Chinaman learn English. He repeated after her, "Ship, sheep, chip, cheap,'' then exclaiming, iii despair, "It is chip, chip, chip, chip! I can never learn your language!" v\T e can only hope th~t he did. Under conviction ·of the eYils of drink, on one of his voyages, he called together his sailors, earnestly ex­ horted them to sign the pledge, threw overboard· all liquor and never afterwards touched a drop. Assisted by several other ship masters, he organized the very first Total Abstinence Society in Great Britain. He was the founder of the New York Marine Temperance Society, and, for thirty-nine years, its President; re­ ceiving word of his re-election two weeks before his death. He and two of his sons were members of the first board of directors of the Mariners' Life Insurance Co. of New York. He was a member of the Marine Society of the .City of New York. In 1838 he was constituted a Director and Life Member of the American Seamen's Friend Society. It erected an edifice on Cherry Street known as the Sailor's Home, laying its corner-stone October 14, 1841, and continuing until the Manhattan Bridge was built, the supports of which were placed upon its site,-a boarding h-ouse which gave a sailor, while in port, the comforts of a real home, bringing him under happy influences at a nominal price. There was a school where the elements of an English education and navigation were taught, a spacious library, with books, magazines, newspapers, maps, charts, etc. Gratuitous concerts, astronomical and other lectures, were periodically given. Many were the letters of friendship and gratitude that [30] A MEMORIAL came from foreign ports from these appreciative sailors during their wanderings over the seas, back to their friend, "The _Captain." Later, from the Sailors' Magazine, 1843: "Capt. E. Richardson, to whose instrumentality the cause is largely indebted, was elected President, l\Iay 10, 1841. He served until May, 1848, and was consti­ tuted a Life Member." He endeavored to interest women in the cause. The Sailors' Magazine, of June 21, 1842 records: "The New York Ladies' Home Society met at the Home, 190 _Cherry Street, to organize, in· order to aid in the prom_otion of the benevolent objects of the Sea­ man's Friend Society; E. Richardson presiding." "'"re may conclude at this early date he had begun to realize the power of woman's influence and work.

He was one of the founders of the Sailors' .Cemetery .. Association of the Port of New York, which is still in existence and provides a respectable burial place for sailors who die in this port. He was chairman of a committee that in 1853 built a monument ·on a com­ manding site in Evergreen _Cemetery, Brooklyn, N. Y. With the aid of the United State Government, which appropriated the sum of $5,000, and an additional $8,000, solicited and collected by Capt. Richardson and the .Committee from friends among the shipping mer­ chants, a plot of ground was assigned and a lofty shaft erected, with an inscription, "For Sailors of All Nations." On the first Board of Trustees were: Walter R. Jones Capt. E. Richardson Pelatiah Perit _Capt. N. Briggs _Capt. E. E. Morgan _Capt . .C. H. Marshall William H. Macy C_aleb Barstow [81] _CAPTAIN EDWARD RIC_HARDSON He had now moved to Brooklyn, N. Y., on what is known as "The Hill." A neighborhood half a mile east of that, called "Jackson's Hollow," existed there about 1867 and for many years following. P·ortions of this land being entailed, shanties were erected upon it and lived in by squatters. Goats roamed the streets and dirty, ragged children; while many so-called hoodlums emerged therefrom to disturb the peace at night. Capt. Richardson _discovered the need of a mission there. Having joined the Washington Avenue Baptist Church, he talked and pictured the conditions, persuad­ ing his friends there and elsewhere, until donations flowed in, and a substantial iron structure was erected for Sunday and weekly services, with an elementary day school. It was built of iron in fear of incendiarism and other destructive forces. One Thursday evening, during a prayer meeting, there were shouts heard outside. Stones were thrown at the windows and threats were proclaimed to break up the service by a crowd of roughs and bullies at the entrance. The meeting, however, proceeded, and ended as usual with a hymn and prayer. At its close, _C_apt. Richardson appeared in the doorway. There was rough crowding and more threats and muttered curses, while a number of these young men followed him down the street, as he walked away. Nothing daunted, he quietly conversed with them as they all moved along together, until this strange procession reached his nwn door. Here he suddenly turned and invited them to enter. Surprised at this unexpected cordiality, they followed him into the house, and soon found themselves seated around a table, listening to a chapter from the Bible, and then to an earnest prayer for their welfare :1nd conversion. One result, at least, of the evening's experience was that disturbances [32] r-· ..

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OF THE AMERICAN SEAMEN'S FRIEND SOCIETY, 190 Cherry Street, New York. From an engraving made in the early forties.

A MEMORIAL ceased at the mission sessions, for he had won cham­ pions and friends. After _Capt. Richardson's death, it seemed expedi­ ent that the relationship of the church and mission should be dissolved. His daughter~ then Mrs. Samuel Vernon, formed, among her friends, a non-sectarian organization, called the "Mission Light Society," which was later incorporated, under the laws ·of New York State, as the "Edward Richardson Memorial Mission." This, at her death, was presented to the Free Kinder­ garten Society of Brooklyn, as the "Edward Richard­ son Memorial," to co-ordinate with their work. The following obituary from the New York Tribune, Dec. 13, 1894, written at the death of his daughter, continues its history: "The death of Mrs. Samuel Vernon, which occurred at her home, 201 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn, on Monday last, has brought deep bereavement to numerous relatives and friends and a sense of personal loss to thousands of others, who, in one way or another, have come within the influence of her singularly beautiful and useful life. "Her maiden name was Martha Adeline Richardson, and she was born at Danvers, Mass., the daughter of that Cap­ tain Richardson whose name is identified in this city with so much religious and philanthropic work. In her child­ hood the family moved to New York and then to Brooklyn. "In the latter city she was married to Mr. Samuel Ver­ non, a well-known and esteemed member of the Paper Trade of New York. On his death, which occurred while she was yet a young woman, she renounced most of the pleasures of society and devoted herself to the care and education of her six young children and to the promotion of various religious and charitable enterprises. "For more than twenty years she was one of the mana­ gers of the Home for Friendless Women and ·Children. She was, for a long time, prominently associated with the direc­ tion of the Brooklyn Baptist Home, and secured the endow­ ment of a room therein, by the Washington Ave. Baptist Church, of which she and her family were members. [33] .CAPTAIN EDWARD RIC_HARDSON "The great annual Orphan Asylum Fair and innumer­ able other good works also received much of her means and attention. "But the enterprise to which she most especially devoted herself is the Edward Richardson Memorial Mission. This is a non-sectarian but evangelical institution for both religious and charitable work, founded by her father and conducted, for some years, by him and by her husband. It stands in what was once known as Jackson's Hollow, the most squalid and vicious part of the city. The mission chapel had to be built of iron, with heavy iron window shutters and whenever opened had to be guarded by the police, to save it from being wrecked by the lawless hood­ lums of the Hollow. In late years the character of the place has greatly improved and it is now an attractive residence quarter. "For nearly twenty years Mrs. Vernon was the chief financial support of the Mission, and the most constant and earnest laborer in its behalf. She conducted a class in its Sunday School and ~as a veritable Lady Bountiful to many children who came thither from homes of poverty. "Mrs. Vernon's health had been poor for several years, and for a considerable time before her death she was pros­ trated and was a great sufferer. She endured her affliction, however, with singular fortitude and within a day or two of her death was actively engaged in planning and direct­ ing work for the Mission. "She leaves six children, Samuel Edward Vernon, Frederick R. Vernon, Mrs. James A. Radcliffe, Mrs. Fred­ erick G. Corning, F. Joseph Vernon and Miss Frances M. Vernon; also two grandchildren, Vernon Radcliffe and Vivian Vernon." Among the notes in the local press at the time of Capt. Richardson's death, were the following: "A memorial service to the late Capt. Edw. Richardson, the seaman's friend, the widow's and orphan's stay, the inebriate's benefactor, and the founder of many charitable institutions in this city and Brooklyn, was held at the Water and Dover Streets Mission on Sunday, Apr. 14th, at 3 :00 P. M., to an appreciative audience. The Captain lived to the ripe age of 83 years. At 73 he started the [34] A MEMORIAL above mission, attending two and sometimes three nights in each week, no matter how rough the weather. "He was the founder of the Marine Temperance Society and for 39 years its President. During that time over 50,000 signed the pledge. He was also Vice President of the New York Port Society. "His heart was in the saving of souls, picking up the most worthless and taking them to his home, finding employment for them and inviting them to his church, or sometimes lifting one up who had fallen through the bane­ ful influence of the cup, to command his own ship. "Such acts speak volumes for him who has gone to reap his reward in that better land "Just beyond the river." MEMORIAL SERVICES. "The late Capt. Richardson, the Seamen's friend. Sketch of his Life and Services at the Madison St. Church. "Last evening the Mariners' Church, at the corner of Madison and Catherine Streets, was filled by a large and appreciative audience, assembled to pay a last tribute of respect to the memory of the late Capt. E. Richardson. "This gentleman's demise occurred on the 6th inst. and his obsequies were performed in the Washington Avenue Baptist Church, Brooklyn. "Capt. Richardson was probably better known to the sea­ faring men, who visit this city, than the town clock. His many good deeds and meritorious actions will live long in the minds of those who have been beholden to him for favors great and small, and thousands afloat and ashore will drop a silent tear to the memory of one whom all loved and respected. "Forty years ago the Capt. inaugurated the temperance principle upon the lines of packet ships plying between the United States and Europe. "He was the founder of the Marine Temperance Society, of which he was President until the hour of his death; one of the founders of the Seamen's Home and the Water Street Mission. "He was Vice President of the N. Y. Port Society, and the originator and prime mover in an establishment in [35] -CAPTAIN. EDWARD RICHARDSON. . Brooklyn devoted to the clothing and feeding of unhappy outcasts. "The whole record of his life is a fair and beautiful one. Self-abnegation was his most prominent characteristic. In his last moments he could 'Lay the :flattering unction to his soul,' that he had wronged no man, but ... had saved from misery and ruin a countless multitude of his fellow men. "One of the greatest deprivations that the seaman has to contend against is the utter dearth of wholesome literature with which to beguile away the idle hours upon the ocean. This need the Captain sought to the best of his ability, to supply. He provided small libraries for the forecastles of vessels whose crews expressed a wish for reading matter, and, in short, spent the hard-earned savings of a useful life in ministering to the spiritual and bodily welfare of his fellow -men. "The Captain was one of the incorporators, in 1867, of the King's County Inebriates Home at Fort Hamilton, also on its Board of Directors and its Executive Committee." At the regular monthly meeting of the Executive Com­ mittee of "The Inebriates Home for King's County,." held at the Mercantile Library, Brooklyn, April 9th, 1872, the following resolution was unanimously adopted: Whereas-This committee has heard with sincere regret of the death of our esteemed associate, Edward Richardson, Esq., who, after a long life of Christian and philanthropic labor, has entered, as we fully believe, into the enjoyment of his reward; Be it Resolved-That as an evidence of our respect and regard, of our estimate of his faithful services to the cause in which we have been associated, of his distinguished char­ acter as a Christian philanthropist, and of our sense of the loss we have sustained in his death, this committee will adjourn its session and attend his funeral this 3 P. M. at the Washington Avenue Baptist Church. Resolved-That this minute be entered upon the records of this committee and that a copy be presented to ·the family. (Signed) THEODORE L. MASON. [36] THE NEW YORK PORT SOCIETY'S WATER STREET (OR DOVER STREET) MISSION FOR SEAMEN From a print made in 1871.

~ MEMORIAL Among the letters of condolence received by Mrs. Edward Richardson, was the following: "Apr. 8, 1872. "My dear Madam:- "I am greatly pained by the announcement of the decease of my old and honored friend, your husband. My acquain­ tance with your husband commenced about the year 1828, when he visited the family of his early friend and pastor, the Rev. Dr. Chaplin, then President of the college which is now Colby University. He was then in his early prime and I well remember him as the charm of the family circle. His intelligence, his knowledge of the world, of which he had seen much, his genial temperament, his cheerful piety, earnest Christian spirit and warm interest in everything good, made him a delightful fireside companion in a re­ ligious family. His conversation was that of a Christian gentleman and man of the world. His business, as Cap­ tain of merchant vessels, carried him to many different ports and he saw much of men and men of various grades and every shade of character. But he saw everything with the eye of a Christian and in its relation to the Chris­ tian life and work. ''Whether on the deck of his vessel, or in port, or in the family or social circle, he was the same Christian man that he was in the church or the conference room. On his ves­ sel he had religious services for the men under his com­ mand and no profane or intemperate man was employed by him. "He early put on the Christian armor; he wore it man­ fully all his life and never laid it by, till the Great Captain bade him put it off and called him home. "It has been my happiness to know many good Christian men whom I have loved and honored for the Savior's and for the truth's sake, but no one in my memory takes pre­ cedence of your own beloved husband. "And now, my dear Madam, what can I say to you in your great bereavement? I well know what it is, and I know how unavailing are the customary grounds of conso­ lation. The years of separation, it is truly said, are few; but the hours, as I have sad reason to know, are many; and life is made up of hours, not years. Many lonely [37] _CAPTAIN EDWARD RICHARDSON hours will wearily pass before you will again rejoin your husband, to be parted no more. "In the meantime, the memory of all he was to you, and you to him, will cheer your solitary way, and the Saviour you both have loved and trusted will sustain you in it. "Your sympathizing friend, "T. J. Conant." Thomas Jefferson Conant was the Bible translator and scholar, whose daughter _Carrie was a delight in the Vernon home with her wonderful fairy tales and stories of adventure. He was son-in-law of the Rev. Dr• .Chaplin. _Charles Thurber, a member of his church and a well­ known composer of hymns, wrote the fallowing for publication:

LINES WRITTEN TO THE MEMORY OF CAPTAIN EDW. RICHARDSON. Farewell, old man with that young heart, And form so youthlike and erect. You used to love in ~treet and mart, To go and search for God's elect. In garret, cellar, fetid den, In haunts of vice and want and woe, Wher'er ye saw the wrecks of men And wretched women, there ye' d go. And oft from depths the deepest down Ye brought up gems for Jesus' crown. A rude rough tar before the mast, Grown rougher with the lapse of years, A stern commander at the last.. Ye feared not storms nor mutineers. But when the Saviour touched your heart, How mild and lamb-like you became, And ever more in street and mart, Your banner bore the Saviour's name. Till up at eighty-two and more Ye sailed for Jordan's farther shore. [38] A MEMORI... 4-L Oh, the dear church ye loved so well, And that loved you and listened so, All breathless when they heard you tell About the poor, the weak, the low, And how much good we all might do If each would only do his part. How Joy would spring the wide world through And Jesus reign in every heart. And then you would enforce your plea By telling of a storm at sea. "The wind and waves made war one night And sought to make my ship a wreck. When lo, a wave of mountain height Swept one from off the rocking deck. With this right hand I seized a rope, With this a struggle in the sea, And those on shipboard drew me up, And that poor sailor clung to me. So brothers grasp the Christian's hope And, as you're drawn, draw others up." The Missions, from the precious seeds You've sowed upon these teeming isles, Still flourish by your words and deeds, Still bask in your remembered smiles. But who shall bring in new recruits, Who raise the sinews for the war, Who ~o direct, that victory's fruits Shall be worth praying, toiling for? Oh, other hands than yours must come And guide the sorrowing wanderers home. When some sad, homeless widow pleads For her poor starving, shivering ones, Until the flintiest bosom bleeds, To see her tears and hear her moans, We cannot, as we could before, Make all seem Christianlike and fair By pointing to the Captain's door And telling her, there's succor there. Ourselves must now the kindness do That we have left so long to you. [39] CAPTAIN EDWARD RICHARDSON We miss you, Captain, when we meet For Christian converse, praise and prayer. We look to your now vacant seat And almost see you sitting there, And hear you fired with Christian hope, And with the purest love aglow, Cry out, Oh Christians! raise them up. The poor, the vicious, weak and low, There is a friend who's lifting you, Grasp others and he'll lift them too. God called you home perhaps because You did the work we should have done, And that we now may bear the cross You bore until it was not one. For oft I've heard you say that you Wished not to go to Heaven's bright bowers While there's such pleasant work to do Within this checkered world of ours. For 'twas to you a Heaven to go And aid the poor, the weak, the low. Oh, Captain, we all loved you more Than we e'er thought we did or could, And when you sailed to yon bright shore We wept more than we thought we should. And oh, what rapture will await Us, when we mount to yon blue dome, To see you at the pearly gate To welcome us to our new home, And with a smile that used to win Hear you exclaim, "Come in, Come in!"

[40] CAPTAIN EDWARD RICHARDSON His Last Photograph.

ANCESTRY OF CAPT. SETH RICHARDSON. I. SAMUEL RICHARDSON, from England in 1640, was one of the founders and largest land owners of Woburn, Mass. His wife was Joanna, who died about 1666. He died Mar. 23, 1658. II. J10SEPH RICHARDSON, b. Woburn, July 27, 1643; mar. Nov. 15, 1666, Hannah Green, dau. Thomas and Elizabeth Green, who died May 20, 1721. He died Mar. 5, 1717-18. He was a soldier in the Narraganset Fight in 1675. III. J10SEPH RICHARDSON, gentleman, b. Woburn, May 19, 1672; mar. Oct. 24, 1693, Mary Blodgett, who was b. Sept. 15, 1673 and d. Mar. 11, 1752. He died Dec. 5, 1754. IV. J10SEPH RICHARDSON, b. Woburn, Nov. 8, 1699; mar. Susanna, dau. Lt. Seth and Esther (Johnson) Wyman, who was b. Woburn, June 30, 1695 and d. Mar. 5, 1725-6. She was a granddaughter of Lt. John Wyman, one of the founders of Woburn, and a great-granddaughter of Capt. Edward Johnson, author of "Wonder-working Providence," that valuable early history of New England, who crune with Winthrop in 1630 and was Deputy to the General Court, 1646-1672. Joseph Richardson d. Dec. 7, 1725 and his wife d. Mar. 5, 1725-6. V. CAPT .. JAMES RICHA'RDSON~ was born in Woburn, Mar. 1, 1723. He served at Louisburg in the French and Indian War, and, in the Massachusetts Archives, is a record of the members of his company, consisting mostly of men from Haverhill and Woburn. James Richardson, gentleman, first appears in Danvers in 1760, when he was taxed in the New Mills or Danversport section of the town.. His cousin Joseph Richardson, who was a miller, had come to Danvers from Stoneham three years before. Whether that fact had any connection with James' arrival is unknown, but on Nov. 26, 1761, Samuel Clark of Danvers, joiner, sold to James Richardson of Danvers, gentleman, one-fourth part of two grist mills and one .saw mill, commonly called the New Mills on Crane river. The witnesses were Malachi Felton, father of Joseph Richardson's wife, and Bartholomew Dodge. At [41] _CAPTAIN ED,vARD RIC_HARDSON about the same time he bought of Samuel Clark, Nov. 21, 1761, one acre of land at Porter's Neck, bounded by William Brown on the west, John Leath of Medford, who was prob­ ably his brother-in-law, on the north, the highway to New Mills on the east and William Brown on the south. Upon this land he built a house, which he sold, Jan. 31, 1763, to Nathaniel Brown of Danvers, cooper. On Dec. 20, 1762, he disposed of his interest in the mills to Israel Hutchinson. About this time he seems to have left Danvers, as his name appears in the list of families who had recently come into Salem in Dec., 1763, together with his wife Sarah and children Betty, James, Joseph and Seth, also Elizabeth Leathe, probably his wife's sister. ( Court of General Sessions, Dec. Term,, 1763.) He returned in 1766 and was taxed there continuously until 1777. Jaines Richardson married Sarah, daughter of John and Eline~ (Floyd) Leathe, who was born at Rumney Marsh (Chelsea), Mar. 6, 1727 and baptised, but living in Woburn at the time -of publishment, July 21, 1749. Hugh Floyd, Sarah's grandfather, was an early settler and large land­ owner in Rumney Marsh, and a famous Indian fighter.* John Leathe, Sarah's father, was prominent in Chelsea early and at one time kept a famous tavern, "The Sign of the Lamb", but was a resident of Woburn at the time of his death, Mar. 2, 1775.t According to the settlement of his estate on file in Middlesex probate records, Sarah Richardson, his daughter, was probably not living, as John Leathe, her brother, ad­ ministrator, in his account of expenses; Mar. 9, 1778 records ''to going to Danvers to site the heirs, expense etc. £1. 8 s.; to cash paid James Richardson, £9; 5 s.," and again on Apr. 21, 1778, "going to Danvers on estate business £2: ls." The John Leathe homestead was on the line between Stoneham and Woburn. In 1783, James Richardson served as Collector and Surveyor for the "Neck of Land District," later known as Danversport. When it was first proposed to form a Bap­ tist society in this town in 1781, James Richardson was the largest subscriber and after the church was erected, he owned pews Nos.i 27, 29, and 35. * See New England Register, vol. 63, p. 246, and Bodge's King Philip's War. t See Chamberlain's History of Chelsea. [42] A l\IEMORIAL Children of Ca pt. J arnes and Sarah ( Leathe) Richardson : BETTY, b. Woburn, Apr. 23, 1754; d. Danvers, July 20, 1829; mar. Aug. 17, 1777, William Hilbert, who was b. Aug. 12, 1752 and d. in Danvers, May 24, 1841. Ch.: Nathan and Sarah. In a letter dated Danvers, July 21, 1829, from Martha Richardson to her brother-in-law, Rev. Jeremiah Dale, at Newport, Ohio, (whose descendants are now living at Marietta), she writes: "Aunt Hilbert died last Monday (July 16, 1829) . . . Aunt Hilbert was buried last Wednesday." JAMES, b. Woburn, Apr. 4, 1756; d. 1844; mar. at Danvers, May 23, 1780, Polly Clinton, b. Feb. 22, 1757. JOSEPH, b. Woburn, Jan. 19, 1758; bapt. Woburn Church, Jan. 22, 1758 ; d. Danver,s, Sept. 1773, aged about 15 years. ("T.ext Books" of Deacon Joseph Seccomb, printed in the Essex Institute Historical Collections.) SETH, b. Stoneham,. Feb. 8, 1759; bapt. Woburn church, Dec. 16, 1759. JEDIDIAH, b. Jan. 1, 1768. Guardianship granted to his father, July 17, 1784; mar. Oct. 30, 1791, Lydia Crowell. SAMUEL, b. June 30, 1770. Guardianship granted to his father, July 17, 1784; mar. int. to Hannah Skidmore, Sept. 23, 1797. Ch. all b. D.anvers: Hannah, b. Dec. 8, 1799, mar. int. to Elias T. Pulsif er of Salem 1822 ; Betsey, b. 1802; William, b. 1803; Rachel, b. 1806; Samuel, b. 1811; Jeremiah, b. 1809, who mar. Elizabeth Bancroft of Danvers, July 19, 1833, and had children, born at Lynn, (1) Martha Adeline b. Nov. 24, 1834; (2) Aaron Cheever, b. Aug. 22, 1836; (3) Phebe Ann, b. Aug. 25, 1844; ( 4) Clara H., d. 1846; ( 5) Samuel Edwin, b. Mar. 8, 1848; (6) George Pulsifer, b. Jan. 16, 1858. In a letter dated Lynn, Jan. 15, 1865, writ­ ten by Jeremiah to his cousin Capt. Edward Richardson in Brooklyn, he returns thanks for being entertained at the Brooklyn home and mentions an exchange of photographs of different members of the family.

[43] SOME OF THE DESCENDANTS OF CAPT. SETH AND HANNAH (WATERS) RICHARDSON: CAPT. SETH RICHARDSON, son of James and Sarah (Leathe) Richardson, was born in Stoneham, Feb. 8, 1759, and died Feb. 27, 1831. He was married, Sept. 19, 1786, to Hannah Waters, daughter of Abel and Lydia (Trask) Waters, who was born in Danvers, 1761, and died in New York City, Feb. 24, 1843. Seth Richardson came with his parents to Danvers New Mills during infancy, his father, in 1760, having become a partner in Crane River or Hutchinson's Mills. Upon his marriage to Hannah Waters, they resided in the old W ater.s homestead, which he subsequently purchased from his wife's mother, Lydia (Trask) Waters, in 1797. Here all of his children were born. He enlisted as a private in the Revolution, in 1775, at the age of sixteen years, in Capt. James Gray's Company, Col. Thomas Marshall's Regiment. He served five years, having been discharged Feb. 26, 1780. With Capt. Samuel Page of Danvers, he saw service in Col .. Benjamin Tupper's Regi­ ment, and also in Col. Ebenezer Francis' Regiment, in many of the most important battles of the war. He took part in the battles of Hubbardton, Saratoga, Monmouth and Stony Point, was with Washington at the crossing of the Delaware, and in the severe winter of 1777, he shared in the suffering of the American army at Valley Forge. He was at Saratoga at Burgoyne's Surrender, also in the campaign of 1779 and with the advance when the gallant Wayne stormed Stony Point.* Early in life he engaged in the fishing industry, which flourished in Danvers New Mills in the latter part of the eighteenth century. Capt. Samuel Page was the owner of a large number of schooners which made three and four voyages each year to the Grand Banks, and in these vessels Seth Richardson received his early lessons in navigation. His first venture was in 1787, in the Dolphin, a schooner of 69 tons, built in Danvers in 1785. He shipped as mate * See Capt. Samuel Page's Journal and Li:fe in Fowler's Papers, Essex Institute. [44] A MEMORIAL the following year and again in 1789. In 1788 and '89, he also shipped in the Nancy, a schooner of 60 tons, built in Danver~ in 1787, of which Samuel Macintire was master. In 1790, he was skipper of the schooner Rebecca, 137 tons. In 1791 Capt. Richardson, as skipper of the schooner Clarissa, 59 tons, built in Danvers in 1787, brought in two fares aggregating 16,000 fish. He made other voyages in this schooner in 1792 and 1793. As mate of the same schooner, with Thomas Whittredge as master, he sailed for St. Luce in the West Indies, in 1794, with a cargo of shoes, beef and provisions. They were taken by the British ships-of-war Terpsichore and Blanche, carried to the Island of Dominico and condemned as a prize. The cargo was insured by Salem merchants. Capt. Richardson was master of the Industry, a schooner of 58 tons, built in Danvers in 1787, and owned at that time by John Pindar and Richard Elliott of Danvers. He pur­ chased one-half interest in her in 1798, his partner then being Richard Elliott. According to the bill of sale now in possession of his descendants, she was a square-sterned schooner, 57 feet in length and 16 feet in width, of which Solomon Giddings was the master. Capt. Richardson was one of the original members of the First Baptist Church at New Mills, when the organization was formed in 1793, and was an active member and sup­ porter of it throughout his life. A contemporary said of him: "Seth was a very jolly old gentleman and was familiarly known as 'Skipper Dick,.' and Hannah was a lovely old lady;" referring to Hannah Waters, his wife. Rev" Dr. A. P. Putnam once wrote: "I have heard how in his later Iife the old hero's eyes and face would brighten at the thought or mention of the glorious days that were gone and with what intense interest he would talk of the battles and struggles through which he and his comrades had passed." Rev. Dr. William Lamson, a grandson, in a letter to Capt. Richardson's son, Capt. Edward Richardson, dated Brookline, May 18, 1866, wrote; "Since I have been shut up I have read through Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. Strangely it has brought Grandfather Richardson before me. I have heard him and Aunt Lander talk over every character there." Again, writing some "Reminiscences," for a local paper in the early 1870's, he refers to Capt. Richardson, as fallows: "Speaking of the brick tavern, [45] CAPTAIN EDWARD RIC.HARDSON reminds me of the time when it was built (1820), and first opened to the public. There had been no Tavern in the Village before, none nearer than Berry's Tavern on the Plains. It was therefore a matter of great interest to the younger p.eople when this b~ick building was going up, and especially when the sign was hung out, and the tavern opened by Mr. Allen Gould.. But it was a matter of very different interest to another older and conscientious portion of the people. For there was to be a dancing hall in con­ nection with it. And then there would come dancing schools,. and balls and all the other inventions of the 'Evil one.' My Grandfather was a lineal descendant, morally and spiritually, of John Calvin of Geneva, and when the dancing school was opened in the new Hall, his youngest son was of the age to wish to attend. I remember the day when this son tremblingly asked his father's permission to attend the school. And I remember the stern and emphatic answer : 'No, no, Seth. If you should offer me your hat-crown full of gold, I would not give my consent.' There was no more to be said." Capt. Richardson was buried in the Jacobs burial ground at Gardner's Hill. The following obituary appeared in the Salem Gaz.ette, Mar. 1, 1831 : "Capt. Seth Richardson of Danvers, aged 71 years, died on Lord's day, Feb. 27 ,, after a lingering illness. He had been a member of the Baptist church more than twenty years, during which time he honored the profession by a life devoted to Christ. During a few of the last weeks of his life, his mind was much impaired until near its close, when with increasing vigor he was enabled with firmer grasp to take hold of the promise of the Savior and calmly expired with a cheering hope of immortality. His funeral will be attended at his late dwelling house to-morrow at 2 P. M.. " Children of Capt. Seth and Hannah (Waters) Richardson, all b. Danvers :- SARAH, b. June 21, 1787, d. 1743; m.ar. Aug. 28, 1808, C~pt. William Lamson, who was b. at New Boston, N. H., d. at sea about 1815, Master of ship "Driver." Ch.: Betsey, b. Mar. 10, 1810, mar.. Apr. 3, 1828, Allen Jacobs, d. Feb. 20, 1829. Rev. Dr. WilliCim Lamson, b. Feb. 22, 1812, mar. Nov. 7, 1837, Elizabeth Wanson (Giles), ch. Samuel Giles, d. Civil War. Joseph Lamson, b. Dec. 15, 1814. [46] A MEMORIAL SARAH, mar. 2nd, Nov. 25, 1824, Branch Joslyn of Danvers. Ch: Sarah. EDWARD, b. July 28, 1789, d. Apr. 6, 1872. SETH b. July 18, 1791, d. July 21, 1791. HANNAH, b. Dec. 1, 1793, d. Brooklyn, N. Y. May 16, 1866; mar. Jan. 14, 1813, Zenas, son of Zenas and Content (Stetson) Crooker, b .. Plymouth, Mass., Mch. 2, 1792, d. June 24, 1871. Ch.: Aaron Cheever, b. Bridgewater, Nov. 12, 1814, d. Mch. 19, 1898; mar. Nov. 5, 1838, Emeline Frances, dau. Ezra atid Mary (Appling) Faunce, b. No. Carver, Mass.,. Sept. 8, 1817, d. Brooklyn, Mch. 1907. ch:­ (1) Aaron Waters, b. June 2, 1840, d. Jan. 2, 1921; mar. Catherine Sullivan, d. 1893. (2) Emeline Frances, b. May 22, 1842, d. Brooklyn, Feb. 15, 1919; mar. Sept. 8, 1859, John Halsey Lockwood, b. Apr. 16,. 1832, d. June 1879. Ch :-(a) John Frances, b. Oct. 3, 1860, d. Dec. 12, 1916. (b) Augustus Cheever, b. Feb. 24, 1863. (c) Henrietta Crooker, b. Mch. 26, 1865. (d) Emma Florence, b. Nov. 22, 1868. ( e) Rachel Belknap, b. Mch. 16, 1872. (f) Evelyn Louise, b. Oct. 4, 1875. (g) Daisy Estelle, b. Oct. 13, 1877. (3) Henry Augustus, b. Jan. 22, 1845, d. Aug. 19, 1845. ( 4) Henrietta, b. Dec. 19, 1846, d. May 15, 1921, mar. Aug. 20, 1867, Chas. Seaman Langdon, son of Geherdus C. Langdon, b. Jan. 10, 1836, d. May 20, 1900. Ch: Grace Taylor, b. Jan. 22, 1869. Chas. Seaman, Jr., b. Jan. 18, 1872. Amelia Emeline, b. Feb. 16, 187 4. William Haskins, b. Nov. 6, 1876.. Henrietta Crooker, b. Nov. 29, 1879. Dorothy Cheever, b. Oct. 12, 1888. (5) Zenas Stetson, b. Brooklyn, Apr. 22, 1848; mar. June 5, 1869, Anna Sophia, dau. of William R. and Mary Emma (Rogers) Foster, b. Waverly, N. Y .. Feb. 29, 1849, d. New York City, Nov. 24, 1916. Ch. :-(1) Mary, b. and d. New York City 1872. (2) Frederick Foster, b. New York,. Nov. 13, 1873; mar. Brooklyn, June 27, 1900, Irene Stearns, dau. of Walter and Caroline (Ainsworth) Charles, b. Dec. 26, 1876.. Ch. :­ Mary Janice, b. June 4, 1901, Frederick Deal, b. Aug. 4, 1906. Ainsworth Stetson, b. Oct. 17, 1908, Zelda, b. May 9, 1910. (6) Elizabeth Cheever, b. Feb. 5, 1850, d. May 31, 1852. George Richardson, b. Bridgewater, Mass. Jan. 10, 1817, d. Middletown, Conn. June 6, 1883; mar. Raynham, Mass. Oct. 26, 1840, Julia Ann, dau .. of Alvin and Chloe (Pratt) Crossman, b. Taunton, l\1ass., Dec. 3, 1815, d. Bridgeport, [47] _CAPTAIN EDWARD RICHARDSON Conn. Ch.:-(1) Edward Lewis, b. Aug. 4, 1843, d. Washington, D. C. 1865'1 (2) George Bradford, b. Mch. 14, 1851, d. Southern Pines, N. C. Jan. 27, 1899; mar. June 6, 1871, Ida Louise Stillman of Bridgeport, Conn. Ch.: (a) Edward Tower, b. Bridgeport, Conn., Oct. 13, 1873. (b) Ida Catherine, b. Feb. 27, 1877, d. Troy, N. Y.; mar. New Haven, Conn. Mch. 31, 1896, Leon De Marbury. Zenas Barker, b. May 15, 1819, d. Baton Rouge, La., Aug. 16, 1863; mar. 1st. Feb. 14, 1839, Lucy Ann King, dau. of Benjamin and Abigail (Young) King,. b. 1817, d. 1851. Ch.: (1) Abigail Young, b. Boston Nov. 10, 1839, d. Providence, R. I.; mar. Jan. 20, 1870, John C. Farnham. Ch.: Benjamin King Farnham, b. Jan. 18, 1872. ( 2) Caroline Barker. Zenas Barker, mar. 2nd, Nov. 20, 1856, Mrs. Isabel (Bra­ den) Morrow, b. England, Feb. 26, 1832,. d. San Francisco, Mch. 21, 1884. Ch. :-(1) Emily Victoria, b. Brooklyn, Oct. 17, 1857. (2) Albert Edward, b. Apr. 12, 1861. (3) Harry Williams, b. May 3, 1863; mar. 1st, Jan. 26, 1885, Mary Louisa Doane, who died Feb. 2, 1886; mar. 2nd, Catherine Sheridan, Dec. 1, 1897. Ch. :-Elizabeth Bacon, b. Feb. 11, 1899. Donald Gordon, Hope Sheridan, b. July 20, 1901. Edward Lewis, b. Sept. 24, 1821, d. June 2, 1822. Cath­ erine, b. Apr. 9, 1823, d. Nov. 27, 1873, Dorchester, Mass. Hannah Richardson, b. Nov. 15, 1825, d. July 25, 1844. Eliza Ann, b. Bridgewater, June 11, 1828, d. May 18, 1846. Seth Richardson, b. Bridgewater, Mass., May 20, 1831, d. West Newton, Mass., 1916. ABEL, b. Dec. 15, 1797, mar. Helen C. Cochran, int. May 19, 1832. LYDIA WATERS, b. Aug. 18, 1800, d. Oct. 1859; mar. at Hamilton, July 22, 1824, Capt. Par;ker Brown, who was b. Hamilton, Sept. 23, 1788 and d. Dec. 1872. Children : Lydia Safford, b. Salem, Oct. 6, 1826, d. Sept. 1898, mar. 1849, Capt. Henry A. Ballard. Ch.: (1) Harry P., b. May 23, 1856, at Salem, mar. 1st Eliza A. Parker and had (a) Edith Parker, b. Malden, Dec. 30, 1887 and (b) Albert Parker, b .. Malden, Apr. 4, 1894, mar. Nov. 23, 1922, Eleanor May Hatch. Mar. 2d, Mabel Thorpe, and their child (c) Joseph Thorpe, b. Jan. 10, 1902; (2) Minna Waters, b. Yokohama Japan, Dec. 1, 1865, mar. Oct. 24, 1888, John H. Parker, b. Brookfield, Mass., July 15, 1862 and d. June 19, 1890; Ch.: Margery Gilmore, b. Malden, Nov. 15, 1889, mar. Sept. 16, 1915, Hamilton Foster, b. Boston, Oct. 5, 1878, and had ch.: Alan Stewart, b. Melrose, Mar. 18, [48] A 1\1:El\iORIAL 1921 and Mary Rosamund, adopted daughter; Martha Gould, b. Salem, Oct. l, 1828, d. Mar. 17, 1885, mar. 1851, Augustus Shove. Ch.: Francis A., b. Salem, Nov. 27, 1854, mar. July 6, 1882, Rebecca Tosier, b. Methuen, June 5, 1855; Ch. : Martha Frances, b. Malden, Sept. 8, 1887, mar. Sept. 8, 1913, Harry F. Damon, b. Dec. 9, 1886, their children: Harry F., Jr., b. June 21, 1914, Katherine, b. July 30, 1916, Herbert Shove, b. Dec. 24, 1917 and Stephen Francis, b. Apr. 22, 1922; Susan Waters, b. Salem, Sept. 10, 1832, d. June 17, 1923, mar. May 29, 1861, Charles M. Holmes, b. Copenhagen, Denmark, Mar. 22, 1836, d. May 28,, 1908. Ch.: Lena Waters, b. Feb. 27, 1862, d. June 17, 1865; Major A. Parker Broivn, b. Salem, July 27, 1835, d. July 16, 1917, mar. 1st, Dec. 1, 1868, Sarah S. Putnam, ~ 1ho d. May 19, 1870, mar. 2d, June 1, 1882, Rebecca Mor­ rison, who d. Aug. 25, 1887. Ch.: (1) Captain Parker Rich­ ardson, b. Boston, Nov. 27, 1883, mar. Feb. 2, 1918, Mrs. Agnes Prime Dickinson, b. Freeport, N. S.; (2) Rebecca M., b. Jamaica Plain, Aug. 22, 1887, mar. at Malden, June 20, 1910, Truman R. Hawley, b. Boston, Oct. 17, 1876. Ch.:­ Rebecca Morrison Hawley, b. Malden, Apr. 27, 1912; Nancy Augusta, b. Danvers, July 20, 1837, d. Sept. 21, 1923; Eliza Lamson, b. Danvers, July 6, 1839; William Lamson (twin brother), b. Danvers, July 6,. 1839, d. July 13, 1839; Joseph Banvard, b.Feb.6, 1842,d.Jan. 1849. NANCY, b. Oct. 16, 1802; d. Boston, Jan. 2, 1886. SETH, b. Nov. 29, 1804; d. 1824.

[49] DATA RELATING TO THE WATERS FAMILY. Hannah Waters was of the fifth generation from Richard Waters, son of James and Phoebe Manning of London, England, one of the earliest settlers of Salem, who came from England in 1637. The line of descent from Richard (1) runs as follows :-John (2) b. Nov. 29, 1640, mar. Jan. 6, 1663, Sara Tompkins, d. 1706. John (3) b. July 4, 1665, mar. Mary - d. 1741. Lt. John (4) b. July 19, 1702, mar. Nov. 30, 1721, Elizabeth Gardner, d. Apr. 29, 1760. Abel (5) bp. May 4, 1729, d. May 24, 1786, mar.. May 20, 1760, Lydia Trask, bp. Nov. 27, 1737, d. Sept. 1, 1815. Hannah Waters was also descended, in the fem ale line Jrom Lieut. Thomas Gardner, John Porter, John Tompkins and Major William Hawthorne, all among the earliest settlers of Salem, Mass. The great great gr~at grandfather of Hannah Waters, Captain William Trask, was probably born in 1589, in Somersetshire, (son of Nilcholas Trask) came from England in the ship Abigail. He was one of the "Old Planters" of Salem, Mass., 1628, Deputy, 1635-1637, and again in 1639; had command, under Endicott, against Pequots in 1637; d. Danvers. Had military funeral, May 16, 1666. Other children of Abel and Lydia (Trask) Waters were: LYDIA, b. Aug. 22, 1762; d. June 16, 1808; mar. Dec. 31, 1789, Johnson Proctor, b. Oct. 29, 1765, d. Nov. 11, 1851; Ch. :-John Waters, b. July 30, 1791, d. Nov. 26, 1874, mar. Mary (Ingersoll) Osborn, Ch. :-(1) Mary Ingersoll, b. Aug. 3, 1825, (2) Elizabeth Osborn, b. Oct. 16, 1831, (3) John Webster, b. Dec. 7, 1834, (4) Caroline Waters, b. Mch. 26, 1836, ( 5) Augusta Osborn, b. Dec. 28, 1838, ( 6) Henry Harrison b. Dec. 18, 1840 (7) Edward Waters, b. Mch. 14, 1843. Lydia, b. Aug. 16, 1793, d. Apr. 3, 1798. Lucinda, b. Jan. 31, 1795, d. Sept. 18, 1854. Lydia Waters, b. Mch. 14, 1798, d. Mch. 18, 1868, mar. Samuel Preston, dau. a well-known author, Harriet Waters Preston. Abel Proctor, b. Mch. 28, 1800, d. Dec. 30, 1879, mar. May 6, 1830, Lydia Porter Emerson who died Oct. 6, 1883. Ch.: (1) Lydia Waters, b. Nov. 21, 1831, mar. Nov. 21, 1866, [50] A MEMORIAL Rev. Isaiah Thatcher. (2) Abel Johnson, b. May 19, 1833, d. Oct. 9, 1834. (3) Thomas Emerson, b. Aug. 29, 1834. d. Dec. 7, 1894, mar. Sept. 1865, Emma Howe. (4) Abel Johnson, b. June 12, 1836, d. Feb. 21, 1861, mar. July 16, 1857 Lucy Harwood. (5) Mehetable Cummings, b. Dec. 14, 1837, d. Nov. 11, 1914, mar. Nov. 3, 1860, Daniel C. Perkins. Mar. 2nd. Apr. 2, 1873, Hon. James Phinney Baxter of Portland, Me., who d. May 8, 1921, ch.: (a) Emily Poole, b. July 15, 187 4, d. Sept. 4, 1921, (b) Hon .. Percival Proctor Baxter, b. Nov. 22, 1876, Governor of Maine 1921-1924, (c) Madeline Cummings, b. Jan. 26, 1879, mar.. Fenton Tom­ linson, Oct. 9, 1907, ch.: James Baxter, Edward. (6) Sarah Ann Emerson, b. Jan. 12, 1839, mar.. Oct. 24, 1867, Allen L. Joslin~ (7) Mary Putnam, b. Dec. 16, 1840, mar,. July 1875, Rev. William A. Lamb. (8) Elizabeth Putnam, b. May 27, 1842, mar. Oct. 4, 1865, W.. H. Wetherill. (9) Augusta, b. Dec. 20, 1843, d. Feb. 22, 1892. (10) Ellen Osborn, b. June 18, 1847, d. Jan. 25, 1902. ABIGAIL, b. Sept. 27, 1764, mar. Jan. 16, 1791, Daniel M. Proctor, ch.: Daniel, mar. Harriet Herrick of Beverly. Betsey Abigail, mar. Rufus Putnam, Edward Trask Proctor, mar. Nancy Ann Woodbury of Beverly, ch. (1) Nancy, (2) Mary Elizabeth,, mar. Dr.. John Sawyer, son, John, ( 3) Daniel, ( 4) Caroline, mar. George Wood. ABEL, b. June 26, 177 4. SARAH, b. 1776, mar. Nov. 14, 1793 Capt. Thomas Whittredge; daughter Sarah, mar. DI".. Osborn of Danvers, ch. (1) Eliza, mar. Michael W. Shepard, (2) Thomas, mar. Caroline Putnam, (3) George. BETSEY or ELIZABETH, b. Sept. 5, 1777, d. Sept. 19, 1857, mar. 1st. 1800-Capt. William Cheever, b. Sept. 28, 177 4, d. Calcutta, June 27, 1807., Ch. Aaron Waters, b. June 30, 1801, d. March 29, 1813. William H. b. Nov. 22, 1805, d. Feb. 21, 1807. BETSEY, mar. 2nd July 27, 1809, Capt. Nathaniel Putnam, b. Mar. 22, 1774, d. June 10, 1849. Children: Elizabeth Cheever, b. May 30, 1810,, d. Oct. 2, 1881, mar. June 17, 1830, Albert, son of Thomas Putnam, b. Feb. 23, 1799, and Mary (Fitz) Putnam. Ch. (1) Nathaniel W., b. Mar. 18, 1833, d. Sept. 1, 1914. (2) George W. (3) Elizabeth W., b. May 4, 1836, lost at sea Nov. 1873. (4) Albert Edward, b. Apr.. 3, 1842,. d. July 9, 1895, mar. Nov. 29, 1865, Margaret Elizabeth Morrison. Ch. Albert William, b. Sept. 22, 1877. A. B., LL. B. [51] CAPTAIN EDWARD RIC_HARDSON Mary Warner, b. Oct. 5, 1812, d. May 16, 1840, mar. 1833, Samuel W. Slocum, b. Salem, Nov. 15, 1807, d .. Jan. 15, 1869. Ch. (1) William Cheever, b. July 18, 1834, d. Feb. 9, 1853. (2) Frank P., b. Mar. 16, 1836, d. Apr. 26, 1877. (3) Mary Warner, b. 1838, d. 1839. (4) Samuel W., b. and d. 1839. Lydia Waters, b. Sept. 3, 1814, d. April 10, 1884, mar. 1842, Samuel W. Slocum, (her brother-in-law), ch. (1) Mary W,. P. b. Sept. 30, 1844, d. May 2, 1919, mar. Frank D. Barstow, June 6, 1864, ch. (a) William Slocum, b. Feb. 15, 1866, mar.. Oct. 4, 1894, Francoise M. Duclos, son, Frederic Duclos Barstow, b. Oct. 1, 1895, (b) Lydia Putnam Barstow, b. Mar. 2, 1869. CAPT. EDWARD RICHARDSON, son of Capt. Seth and Hannah (Waters) Richardson, was born in Danvers, July 28, 1789. He was married July 28, 1813, in Danvers, by Rev. Jeremiah Chaplin, D. D., of the First Baptist Church, to Martha ("Patty") Smith, daughter of Thomas and Catherine (Matthews) Smith, who was born in Hadley, Mass., Nov .. 23, 1793, and died in Brooklyn,. N. Y., Dec. 19, 1878. He died in Brooklyn, Apr. 6, 1872. Martha Smith was of the fifth generation from Joseph Smith, an early settler of Hartford, Conn .. , whose son was of Hadley, Mass., in 1680. The line of descent in Hadley from Joseph (1) runs as follows: Sergt. Joseph, (2) b. Mch. 1657, mar. Feb. 11, 1681, ·Rebecca Dickinson, d. Oct. 1, 1733; Joseph, (3) b. Nov. 8, 1681, mar. 1715, Sarah Alexander of Northampton; Thomas, (4) b. Dec. 6, 1725, mar. Oct. 15, 1754, Rhoda Worthington of Colchester, Conn., d. Oct. 17, 1808; Thomas, (5) b. Dec. 3, 1761, mar. Nov. 6, 1785, Catherine Matthews of Leverett, Mass., who d. in New York, Feb. 26, 1841. She was also descended in the female line from the following early settlers of the 17th century: Nathaniel Dickinson, Nathaniel Foote of Weathersfield, Conn., George Alexander, Samuel Allen, Ephraim Huitt, Joseph Loomis of Windsor, Conn., Thomas Woodford of Northampton, Mass., Thomas Scott, Richard Church, Thomas Graves of Hartford; John Crow, William Goodwin of Hadley, as well as the Matthews, Wood, Johnson, Morse, Shattuck and Pierce families of old Marlborough. She was also a lineal descendant of Capt. Thomas Bull and Thomas Bunce of Hartford, who fought in the Pequot War; John Wood, Jr., of Marlborough, Nicholas Worthington, [52] From a daguerreotype taken during a v1ait to Niagara Falls, celebrating 1heir Fortieth Wedding Anniversary, 1853.

A ~IEl\lORIAL Nathaniel Alexander of Hadley, and John Loomis of Windsor who served in King Philips War, and Silas Matthews, who was a Sergeant in the Revolution. Children of Capt. Edward and Martha (Smith) Richard­ son, all born in Danvers :- EDWARD TRASK, l\iI. D., b. Sept. 12, 1814, d. Aug. 14, 1881; mar. Nov. 10, 1841, Susan P. Smith, who died Oct. 3, 1872 aged fifty four years. No children. He attended Waterville Seminary and was graduated from Brown University in 1835, studying medicine in New York. After hospital service there he practiced in Syracuse, as an Allopath,. when he was appointed, with Dr. Clary, to in­ vestigate the claims of the New School of Medicine and was so impressed with its merits that he became converted to Homeopathy. He moved to Brooklyn in 1855 and for many years was a prominent physician on Montague Street, on the Heights. TH01\1AS SMITH, b. Apr. 3, 1816. He graduated from Waterville College, Maine, (Now Colby College). He was an "earnest Christian gentleman" Superintendant of the Mission Sunday School, connected with Amity Street Baptist Church, New York, then held over Jefferson Market and later, when the family moved to Brooklyn, he became the Superintendent of the Sunday School of the Pierrepont Street Baptist Church there. He was a member of the firm of E. Richardson & Co., Commission Merchants, 52 South Street, until killed, through an accident, on one of their vessels, and died in New York, Dec. 17, 1852. He married first in Brooklyn, N. Y., June 1, 1842, Mary Burr Ovington, who was born in New York, Aug. 23, 1819 and died in Brooklyn Mch. 4, 1843. She was the dau. of Henry Alexander Ovington and Mary Hubbard White and grand­ daughter of William Ovington, first emigrant from England, and Sarah Alexander. Her mother, Mary Hubbard White of Danbury, Conn., b. Jan. 15, 1800, was dau. of Ebenezer Judson White, (son of Ebenezer Russell White), and Mary Hubbard Burr, who was dau. of Oliver Burr (mar. Mary Hubbard) son of Colonel Andrew Burr, son of of John Burr, son of Major John Burr, son of Jehiel Burr emigrant, 1630. Child by first marriage : Mary Ovington, b. Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb. 27, 1843; Packer Institute, 1861, P. C. I. Alumnae Ass'n.; mar. in Brooklyn, Jan. 31, 1878, Herbert Codman Clapp, M. D., of Boston, [53] CAPTAIN EDWARD RICHARDSON Mass. Harvard, 1867, Harvard Medical 1870, Professor at Boston University Medical; Physician; son of John Codman Clapp and Lucy Ann Blake; grandson of Joseph Clapp and Betsey Tileston. Lucy Ann Blake was dau. of Jeremiah Smith Boise Blake and Lucy Davenport. Ch. of Herbert Codman Clapp and Mary Ovington (Richardson) Clapp. ( 1) Theodora White, b. Boston, Jan. 20, 1879; Boston University 1900, Phi Beta Kappa; mar. June 20, 1906, Newman Loring Danforth, of Buffalo, N. Y., b. Sept. 26, 1879, Mass. Tech. 1901; son of John W. and Julia B. (Newman) Danforth, grandson of Loring Danforth and Louisa Woolworth (Mills) Danforth who was dau. of Rev. James Hervey and Mary Buell (Woolworth) Mills of Smithtown, Long Island. Julia B. Newman was dau. of George E. Newman, b. Mch. 10, 1829, d. Feb. 19, 1911, Buffalo, N. Y., and Eliza S. (Shaw) Newman, b. Dec. 28, 1833, d. Jan. 27, 1903, Buffalo, N. Y., married, Jan. 11, 1853. Children of Newman Loring Danforth and Theodora White (Clapp) Danforth; Mario Clapp, b. Mch. 11, 1907, in Buffalo, Theodore Loring, b. Hampton, Va. Nov. 20, 1909, Lucy Blake, b. Buffalo, May 5, 1916, John Herbert, b. Buffalo, Dec. 16, 1917. (2) Lucy Blake, b. Boston, Jan. 4, 1881, mar. June 25, 1910, George Greenwood Reynolds, of Brooklyn, N. Y., b. Apr. 11, 1885, Wesleyan, 1905, Harvard Law, 1907; son of Frank Reynolds and Mary W. Myrick, grandson of Judge George Greenwood' Reynolds and Harriet (Townsend) Reynolds and of James Randall Myrick and Elizabeth (Wisner) Myrick. Children of George Greenwood Reynolds and Lucy Blake (Clapp) Reynolds; Blake Greenwood, b. Mt. Vernon, N. Y., Jan. 8, 1914; Nancy, b. Brooklyn, N. Y., Dec. 12, 1915. (3) Marion Lazell Clapp, b. Boston, Sept. 21, 1882, Smith College, 1904. THOMAS SMITH RICHARDSON, mar. 2d, Apr. 8, 1846, Mary Saunders, who was born Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, Feb. 3, 1819, and died Oct. 16, 1898 at Boston .. Mass., dau. of William Henry Saunders and Mary (Hoole) Saunders from England. Child: Williani Henry b. Brooklyn, N. Y., Dec. 10, 1848, mar. Auburn, N. Y., Dec. 24, 1874, Rose A. Arnett, who was b. Auburn, Aug. 26, 1841, d. Feb. 28, 1923; dau. of Silas White [54] A l\'IEMORIAL Arnett and Mary (Wilson) Arnett. Ch.: (1) Thomas Smith Richardson, b. Auburn, Dec. 9, 1875, Cornell University 1902, Electrical Engineer, mar. June 1, 1904, Laura Melita Williams, who was b .. July 22, 1878, dau. of William Williams and Laura (Chedell) Williams, and grandaughter of William Williams and Jean Nichols, and of General John Hatch Chedell, and Melita Cook. Ch.: Jean, b. Aug. 2, 1907; Thomas Smith, Jr., b. May 8, 1909, John Chedell, b. Jan. 6, 1912. (2) Mary Arnett Richardson, b. Auburn, July 6, 1879, mar. Sept. 9, 1908, Rev. Bernard Lea Rice, b. May 14, 1878, Colorado College, 1897-1901, Cumberland University, School of Theology, 1902-1906. Edinburgh University, Dept. of Philosophy and Ethics, 1908-1909, son of Phidelah Alonzo Rice and Anna Marcella Bernard, grandson of Jonathan Alexis Rice and Mary Clay Bender, and grandson of Joab Bernard and Arabella Mathers Bier.. Ch.: Richardson Lea Rice, b. Sept. 6, 1910, Virginia Rice, b. Mch. 23, 1914. CAPTAIN JOSEPH WORTHINGTON, b. Danvers, Mch. 25, 1818, d .. July 30, 1889, mar. 1st. Oct. 1854, Maria Smith, of Hadley, b. Nov. 23, 1831 and d. Feb 17, 1864; mar. 2nd. Margaret H. Halsey, July 2, 1867, no childr,en. In early years he followed the sea taking his first voyage before the mast from Boston to the West Indies ; on his return, being made mate and then skipper. His voyages included many to foreign lands and later he sailed as Master on the "Brooklyn" to California in 1849. After retiring fl".om the sea he settled in Brooklyn, N. Y. and engaged in the real estate business. WILLIAM PROCTOR, b. Oct. 9, 1820; d. unmarried in Brooklyn, Aug. 25, 1890. He graduated from Amherst College in 1842, studied law in New York and practiced in that city with an office in the Trinity Building until his death. He was a m·ember of the Union League Club and other organizations. .AARON CHEEVER, died in infancy, Dec. 1824. MARTHA ADELINE, b. July 20, 1826; d. Dec. 10, 1894; mar. June 12, 1855, Samuel Vernon, who was born in England, July 2, 1809, and died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept. 23, 1870. Samuel Vernon b. Appledore, England, July 2, 1809 was the third son of Richard Vernon of Devonshire born in Appledore, 1773, d. Mch. 21, 1836. Other children of [55] CAPTAIN EDWARD RI_CHARDSON Richard and Elizabeth (Wills) Vernon ·were Richard, Charles Wills, Elizabeth, Miles, and Thomas. His father Richard Vernon was b. in Plymouth, 1744, d. Northam Boroughs, Mch. 13, 1819, whose antecedents belonged to the branch of the Vernon family at Plymouth, their vessels sailing from that port to Italy. On one of .the voyages this Richard Vernon came himself to America, before its Revolution, and, mingling with the people, acquired their point of view ·so that his sympathies were actively with the colonies and he publicly advocated American sentiments on his return to England. Samuel Vernon's mother was Elizabeth (Wills) Vernon b. Honiton, England, 1773, d. Sept. 24, 1854, descendant of the family of Wills from John Wills of Camelford whose son Jonathan was ejected 1662, of Rev. John Lavington, A. M., of Rev. William Ball, b. Ottery, 1590, ". . . an eminent minister in the town of Ottery, St. Mary; was plucked down from the pulpit ther,e by the rude soldiers while he was in a sermon pleading for the liberties of his country . . . He could converse in three languages, with equal freedom, was also very familiar with French and Dutch ... 'mighty in the Scriptures' and, at the age of ninety, composed his sermons with the same ease as in younger years." His son also of the same name ejected in 1662. Elizabeth Wills was a descendant, through her mother, Elizabeth Evans, of "Rev. William Yeo, A. M., b. Totnes 1617, Chaplain, Colonel Gold's Regiment. He removed to Newton Abbot, and did much service by his preaching and exemplary life ... ejected 1662 as a non­ conformist . . . after he was silenced he continued firm in his principles and preached as the times would bear it . . . when his end drew near . . . he had discharged his office in the parish, in public and in private about fifty thr,ee years." Samuel Ver.non left England, when thirty-one years old, in a sailing vessel which encountered severe storms fol­ lowed by calm seas, lengthening the passage to six weeks, during which time he conscientiously jotted down daily, in a journal the events of the voyage, his thoughts and emotions in order to send them back home to his mother, for on the closing page he wrote asking her to "accept them as a token of affection· fr.om her son Samuel." He arrived in America June 21, 1840, going out to the [56] SAMUEL VERNON MARTHA ADELINE RICHARDSON From a daguorreotypo made about 1846. (Mrs. Samuel Vernon)

A MEMORIAL West in an endeavor to protect investments there. Soon however, he returned to New York and, after varied experiences, he with his younger brother Thomas, founded the firm of Vernon Brothers, a paper warehouse, the second oldest in New York City, owning mills at Northampton, Holyoke, Mass. and in other locations. He became a citizen of the United States, admitted June 3, 1856 at the Supreme Court, New York. He was an active member of the Pierrepont Street Baptist Church, on Brooklyn Heights where also attended the Richardsons; both families, at this time residing in Br.ooklyn. Then history repeated itself, for here Martha Adeline, like her mother, met her future husband one Sunday morning too, his junior by seventeen years. Soon after marriage, in order to live in surburban openness, they moved to the Hill. Here these Vernon brothers built, on Lafayette Avenue, twin adjoining houses, commanding three avenues, at its crest, that were sur­ rounded by lawns and shade trees, and here he gratified his love of horticulture. The wistaria vine, in the front garden, grew to such proportions that it cover.ed thirty feet in width and when it finally crept up to the roof, was supported by heavy wires wound around the chimneys, laden all the way in the springtime, with its fragrant tassels. The back garden, protected by a high fence, in charac­ teristic English method, was where he spent much of his happy leisure, pruning grape vines and pear vines too, as they also were trained to twine about heavy wir,es fastened to posts, in rows to catch the sunshine and were known to bear fruit that weighed a pound. These trellises were arranged to form squares, and in the inclosed spaces were strawbe~ry and asparagus beds and a variety of vegetables in season. The garden also contained hedges of currant bushes, with berries of three colors, and crab apple, cherry, plum, peach, nectarine and apricot trees. Part of the gr,ounds were set apart for a rose garden, and other flowers, Mrs. Vernon's especial pride. A bowling alley, which originally connected the two houses, by extend­ ing across them, in the rear of the top floor, was, to the delight of the younger generation, finally transplanted in this dear garden, into a structure built along the outer fence, and then "The Bowling Club" members wandered along the shaded walks and under the grape arbors, during [57] CAPTAIN EDWARD RI_CHARDSON the spring and fall evenings a deux, between their turns to score, often playing a double game. Samuel Vernon had a facile pen, writing serious and humorous verses and often made free hand drawings of his little family for their amusement as they would stand in turn before him, always ready for a new "picture." His elder children remember many points of honor taught them, such as "Always keep an engagement on time. Remember while ·you have a right to do as you like with your own time, that of others does not belong to you." He was called "a very upright moral business man" whose "name everywhere commanded respect and esteem." The following testimonials were received:­ AT A MEETING of the Paper Dealers and others connected with the TRADE held on the twenty-fourth day of September 1870 The following preamble and resolutions were unanimously adopted. WHEREAS it has pleased Almighty God to remove from among us our friend -- SAMUEL VERNON -- Who during an honorable career as a Merchant in the City of New York for more than a quarter of a century, endeared himself to all who were in any way brought in contact with him, by his Christian Character, Upright deal­ ings and truly Estimable Conduct as a Citizen-- Therefore RESOLVED, That we tender to his bereaved wife and family our heartfelt sympathy and commiseration in their great affliction and sorrow. RESOLVED, That we as a body attend the funeral obse­ quies at the w ASHINGTON A VENUE BAPTIST CHURCH, BROOKLYN, on Sunday A. M., 25th instant. RESOLVED, That these resolutions -be published in the daily papers and that a copy of them be presented to the family of the deceased. Bradley R. Hard W. H. Parsons l Edwin Bulkley Secretary A. F. Hand Committee President James White [58] A MEMORIAL He was an earnest Bible student, his library which he with personal care collected, being Biblically vast and many hours were devoted to preparing his talks for the Sunday School. At a l\'.leeting of Members of the Adult Bible Class formerly taught by Deacon SAl\tIUEL VERNON held at the WASHINGTON A VENUE BAPTIST CHURCH Sunday, October 3rd, 1870 it was RESOLVED that we the members of Deacon Samuel Vernon's Bible Class, deeply mourning his loss as a TEACHER, here and now bear testimony to his untiring faithfulness to his class, his diligence and assiduity in the study of the Scriptures and in preparation for his work of instruction, and to the devout and loving spirit which he manifested. "RESOLVED, That we tender to his bereaved family and friends our heartfelt sympathy in their great loss, expressing at the same time our full confidence that to him, who had sought so earnestly to know and to do the will of God, the change was one from anxious car.e and suffering to eternal joy and peace at the right hand of the Blessed Saviour. By Order and in Behalf of the Adult Bible Class, R. J. Chard, Secretary. L. P. Brockett, Chairman. James C. Hallsted Benjamin Palmer, Jr. Duncan Ward Henry Tasker John H. Ireland Emma Tasker l\i1ary Ireland Mathias Sand J. H. Comiskey James E. Budlong J.E. Knight Hannah E. Greene Evelyn A. Chard lVL Emily Wycoff Geo. W. Sheldon Ada \Veston Georgie S. Sheldon Sarah J. Bedford Philander Betts G. Van Keuren [59] CAPTAIN EDWARD RI_CHARDSON Children of Samuel and ~1:artha Adeline (Richardson) Vernon:- Samuel Edward 11 ernon, b. Sept. 23, 1856, Adelphi Academy, 1875, died Oct. 5, 1914, member of New York Yacht, Atlantic Yacht, Marine Field, Oxford, Crescent and Dyker, Meadow Clubs. Stationers Board of Trade. He early developed an instinct for business. "An esteemed merchant, a gifted after dinner speaker," his genial nature endeared him to his family and friends. Mar. Feb. 4, 1892, Jennie Best Mu~ray, dau. of Jacob Best Murray and Martha Hull (Wheeler) Murray, who mar. 2nd Royall H. Willis, M. D. Ch. :- (1) Vivian Vernon, b. Mch. 9, 1894, mar. 1\1:ay 11, 1918, Leo George Nunes b. Leghorn, Italy, Jan. 29, 1892, gradu­ ated in Civil Engineering, Rome, Italy, 1913, Cavaliere della Corona d'Italia, Duelling Sword Championship, Rome, Italy, 1914. United States National championships :-Three Weapon 1917, 1921, 1922. Duelling Sword, 1917, 1922. Saber, 1922. He is son of Leonino Nunes and Teresa Mauri, who was son of Eugenio Nunes and Allegra Colombo. Ch:-Edward Vernon Nunes, b. Apr~ 10, 1921. (2) Murray Vernon, b. Jan. 3, 1897, Ensign United States Navy, 1918. Commanding Officer, S. C. 52. New York State Handball Champion, 1922. J\iar. June 7, 1923, Marcella Verran. The before mentioned Jacob Best Murray, b. Capoke, Columbia Co., N. Y. Dec. 17, 1827, d. Aug. 24, 1880, mar~ North Stonington, Conn.,, June 20, 1855, Martha Hull Wheeler He was son of William Murray (b. Feb. 28, 1783, Canaan, Conn., d. Hillsdale, N .. Y., Feb. 28, 1860) and Sarah (Best) Murray (b. Apr. 21, 1792, at Livingston, N. Y., d. Hillsdale, Oct. 1, 187 4.) She was dau. of Capt. John Best (Amer. Revolution) and Margaret Mesick. This William Murray was son of Solomon Murray, b. Ancient Woodbury, Conn.1758 and Martha (Patty) Averill, mar. 1782; (he and his seven brothers were all in American Revolution) son of Zekiel (Guy) Murray, b. Mch. 28,, 1708 and Lady Mary Way, mar. Nov. 12, 1733, who was son of Jonathan Murray and Anne Bradley, dau. of Nathan, mar. July 17, 1688. Jonathan came from Edinborough, Scotland with the younger ,vin­ throp, latter part of 17th century. Martha Hull (Wheeler) Murray, his wife, ,vas dau. of Russell Wheeler of N. Stonington, Conn., b. Aug. 20, 1796, [60] THE VERNON RESIDENCE 201 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, New York. (Photo by Vernon Radcliffe.)

A MEMORIAL d. July 8, 1856, mar. Oct. 1, 1828, Esther (Hull) \Vheeler, of N. S., b. Sept. 13, 1807, d. Mch. 7, 1858; descendant of John Howland, (Mayflower) John Gorham, Capt. King Philip's War, Mathew Grant, first Surveyor Windsor, Mary Dyer, associate of Anne Hutchinson and who was hung on Boston Common, 1660, for the crime of being a Quaker-Oliver Grant, Capt. in Amer. Revolution and George Denison in corr.tllland at "Great Swamp Fight." Frederick Richardson Vernon, b. Oct. 31, 1858, Adelphi Academy, 1876, Yale University, 1881, A.B., D.K.E. Scull and Bones. Yale Foot Ball Team 3 years. One of the founders of the Crescent Athletic Club and its 2nd Presi­ dent. Admitted to New York Bar 1886. Mar. Dec. 16, 1897, Mary Virginia Genevieve Arguimbau, b. Dec. 16, 1860, d. Mar. 3, 1901. Their child:- Mary Virginia Vernon, b. Mch. 3, 1901, mar. June 12, 1923, Peter Edward Smith. Mary Virginia Genevieve (Arguimbau) Vernon was the daughter of David Vincent Arguimbau, b. Dec. 15, 1835, d. Jan. 9, 1891, and Emma Jane (Logan) Arguimbau b. Oct. 1, 1838, d. Mch. 4, 1919, dau. of David Logan and Charlotte Owen. Her father, Daniel Vincent Arguimbau, a native of Minorca (Mahon) of the Balearic Islands, Spain, was the son of Joseph Arguimbau y Mercadal de Maria Anna Bousquet, who was son of Narcis Arguimbau y Arredas de Antonia Mercadal. A branch of this family extends back to the 15th century, occupying principal positions in its municipal government. The venerable Bernard Arguim­ bau was Lieutenant Governor of-Alayor in 1447-1449. An uncle of the said Daniel, "Laurence Arguimbau y Mer­ cadal born Minorca, Jan. 26, l 783~ lost his left arm and was otherwise wounded in the wars against Napoleon I . . . was Lieutenant General of the armies of her Britannic Majesty, Colonel of the 80th Reg. Knight of the military order of the Bath. Decorated with the Cross of Waterloo, also the Cross of San Fernando, granted him by her Catholic Majesty the Queen of Spain . . . besides receiving other honors for his many heroic actions." Elizabeth Wills Vernon, b. Jan. 5, 1860, Clinton Ave. Institute, 1877, Brooklyn Heights Seminary, 1878, mar. Oct. 29, 1884, James Anderson -Radc~iffe, "a Southern gentleman," b. Wilmington, N. C., Jan. 17, 1858, and died New York City, May 30, 1916. Enlisted, June 5, 1879, National Guard 2nd Div. 23rd Regiment, Company K. He [61] _CAPTAIN EDWARD RI_CHARDSON was the son of James Dilliard Ra~cliffe, Colonel of 61st Regiment North Carolina Infantry organized in Wilming­ ton, Aug. 1862, who was born in Columbia, S. C., Apr. 17, 1832, mar. Dec. 18, 1856, died July 16, 1890. In the "Historical Sketch of South Carolina Military Academy, (John P. Thomas)" dated 1879, among the list of gradu- ates is recorded :-"J. D. Radcliffe, Charleston, S. C., graduated 1854. Professor of Mathematics Dr. Deems School, Wilson, N. C. Appointed Major Engineers N. C. '61. Colonel 18th Regt. N. C., 12 months volunteer July, '61. Colonel 61st N. C.. troops, Aug. 30, '62. Commanded Con­ federate forces in battle Rawles' Mill, taken prisoner at battle Kingston, Dec. 14, '62; exchanged, Jan. '63; engaged at siege of Charleston, '63. After war, mercantile business in Augusta, Ga. James A. Radcliffe's grandfather Norborne Radcliffe was b. Williamsburg, Va. 1796, d. Charleston, July 5, 1854, mar. Mary F. Campbell of Waterboro, S. C. The Radcliffes were among the first settlers in Virginia, but, unfortunately much of their public and private records with those of many of the Southern families were destroyed during the Civil War. A brother of this grandmother Campbell wrote to the Colonel's wife, and the mother of James A. Radcliffe, regarding a silver cup presented origin­ ally to the latter. As it afterwards traveled North to the next generation, until now it is in possession of another "little Jimmy," he may, some day be interested to read the following letter : "Charleston, S. C.. , Oct. 1865. "Your little Jimmy's cup began its Hegira with your old Uncle from Summerville, headed the enemy at Branchville on to Cola. with three of his grandchildren, Eugenia, Jane and Mary Williams. Thence on 17th, 18th of July 1865 to Chester, still ahead, on to Yorkville where I left the children and went back to Chester. Found Wheeler's men on the retreat, and I was pr_ovidentially carried to Charlotte, thence to Greensboro, N. C. and in order to keep out of the way of contending armies, and Tories, went to a farm, 12 miles N. E. of Greensboro where I squatted three weeks and taught school. Hearing the way was open back to S. C. I passed Salisbury just time enough to escape the raid on that place, and back to Chester, via Charlotte and on to Yorkville where I met my grandchildren who had not heard [62] A MEMORIAL from me since I left them there. They nearly pulled me to the ground with their embraces and smothered me with kisses. Ther.e I remained three weeks and Cup and I thought we ought to move. So we went to Spartanburg by wagons, capsized five times on the route, no bones broken :-Hearing the enemy were at hand, near Spartan­ burg, got wagons and on to Greenville, short stay there, thence to Abbeville where I felt safe. But Pr.esident Davis must come to spoil my quietude for 'twas said Yankees were after him. Every wagon, cart and wheel barrow was in requisition by those who had valuables. The farmer who engaged to tote me off got scared at the sight of the cavalry who covered the road into the village. But provi­ dentially again, when all hope of escape failed, I found means to get in the dark to that same farmer's house about 1 o'clock. "After two days confinement with him, got back to Abbeville. The enemy had passed on to Anderson. There they found all your Aunty's silver and ancient valuables etc., where John had put them for safe keeping in a safe of which robbers had intimation 7 miles off, before they got into the town and they took all the old lady's valuables. I left Cup at Abbeville and got my friend Mr. Robert Adger to send for me.. They had robbed him of all his horses and valuable mules but he sent a wagon and two rusty old mules for me. He told me he had a thought of sending a pair of broken down oxen as the only team the Yankees would not take. We passed (all the valuables being left at Abbeville) on to Pendleton, where I lived and enjoyed the hospitality of my good friend Adger and his kind family about five weeks, in which time I recruited my wasted frame considerably, after the fever caused by re­ action subsided. I then came by wagon to . . . thence to Summerville by R. R. There I met at Depot with only one white person I knew and no negroes of my acquaintance. Knew not where my family were, not having heard of them for 4½ months. Hired a cart and rode up to the gate, and w-as about to give the usual whoop which had always been answered by the dog, Fanny, and little Robby, but on looking in, found the garden fences gone and every­ thing desolate-so I did not whoop,, but went in. On the piazza there was a scared looking negro . . . To my ques­ tion who is in this house, she muttered something I did not [63] C_APTAIN EDWARD RI.CHARDSON understand, so I bolted in, saying 'This is my house, these are my pictures and furniture; vvho is here?' A female voice, a strange one, issued from my own chamber. 'Take a seat, Mr. Campbell, I am changing my dress.' And who are you? inquir.ed I and where is Mrs. Campbell and all my negroes? I finally found Binah in the house formerly occupied by the Preacher and from her learned wife was at Archy's, etc., etc. "About a month ago Cup returned to this city. All I now ask for. returning it to you is that you will teach little Jimmy when he drinks from it, to thank the good Lord who made a way of escape for his old Uncle and preserved him and all the property of the city Treasury, so that not one cent of it was lost. Love to big Jimmy. . . . "Your old Uncle, "Archibald Campbell." Reference to the City Treasurer's office shows that its records were destroyed or lost during the time of upheaval of the 1860' s. From Miller's Almanacs, Charleston Library: "Archibald Campbell, Treasurer 1858 to 1866." From Charleston, S. C., Courier, Tuesday, 23rd Oct., 1866: "Died at Summerville, on 21st inst., Archibald Campbell, age 67 years and 9 months." Charleston Courier, Wed., 24th Oct., 1866: "City Council held its regular meeting on the evening of the 23rd. The Mayor, announcing the death of their treasurer, said, 'No words of commendation are needed for one so well known to us. Some tribute of respect, however, is due, and, in announcing officially the death of our treasurer, Archibald Campbell, it is impossible to do so without some reference to his valuable services as a public man.' Alderman Rav­ enel made some feeling allusions to the death of so worthy a public officer and citizen." On the maternal side, the mother of James A. Radcliffe, Elizabeth Drane (Brown) Radcliffe, b. Wilmington, N. C., July 14, 1839, d. Salem, N. C., Feb. 11, 1875, was the daugh­ ter of Thomas William Brown, b. Jan. 21, 1803,. d. Wilming­ ton, Oct. 15, 1872, and Caroline Amelia Marshall, b. Dec. 31, 1812, d. July 10, 1844, and granddaughter of James Brown, b. Bladen Co., Apr. 15, 1768, d. Feb. 20, 1813, mar. Sept. 17, 1793, Elizabeth Adair, b. Bladen Co., Sept. 21, 177 4, d. Wilmington, Aug. 19, 1844. (This James Brown was a [64] JAMES RANDALL RADCLIFFE A Great-great grandson of Captain Edward Richardson (Photo by Vernon Radcliffe) 1921

A MEMORIAL nephew of Major Gen. Thomas Brown of the American Revolution.) She was also granddaughter of James Marshall, ~. Bladen Co., N. C., Aug. 9, 1779, d. Wilmington, June 26, 1830, who married Lucy Jones Brown, b. Bladen Co., Sept. 30, 1790, d. Wilmington, Oct. 7, 1818. A marginal note in the Bible of Thomas Wm. Brown, written by his 2nd wife, Caroline Amelia (Marshall) Brown, reads :-"Children of my paternal grandfather Mr. Samuel Marshall by his second marriage with Mary Watson of Wales:-Samuel Marshall, b. Jan. 6, 1771, Sarah, b. Mch. 16, 1772, William, b. Feb. 23, 1776, James, b. Aug. 9, 1779. Grandpa was born in the city of Exeter, England, died in the city of London-" A letter written by him (Samuel Marshall) in possession of the family shows the manana methods of navigation 143 years ago. To quote in part:- "Rotterdam, 2 Feb. 1780." ". . . I make no doubt when you receive this that you will be very much surprised that I am no further on my passage to Eustatia . . . when that will be God knows for we ar.e now frozen so fast that I do not expect to sail before some time in Mar.ch which is owing to the Captain. We were ready to sail from Rotterdam the 25 Dec. but the Captain, having a family here, and not wanting to leave them this winter, laid his plans so well that we did not sail before the 5th of Jan. We got down the river about 30 miles . . . to the narrowest part where we came to that night and the frost set in and froze so hard that in the morning the ship was so fast we couldn't stir, so all the comfort we have is to wait till the frost breaks up which is expected to last all this month • • • " He then describes sailing in ice-boats, with their "won­ derful speed" of twenty miles an hour, and of the shooting of wild fowl and skating, so we may conclude he found other diversion besides letter-writing to "comfort" him. Child of James A. and Elizabeth W. (Vernon) Radcliffe: Vernon Radcliffe, b. Brooklyn, N. Y., May 31st, 1889; Adelphi Academy, 1906: Brooklyn Latin School, 1907; Amherst College, 1911-Chi Phi, Kellog Five, First Arm­ strong Prize, Editor-in-Chief Amber.st Monthly 1909-11, President Amherst Dramatic Association 1910-11, Ivy Orator; Enlisted U.S. Signal Corps, 1917; mar.. at Pelham [65] CAPTAIN EDWARD RI_CHARDSON Manor, N. Y., Feb. 12th, 1918, Phoebe Randall, b. New York City, Sept. 28, 1894. Miss Masters' School, Dobbs Ferry 1912.. Their child: James Randall Radcliffe, b. Dec. 2, 1918. Phoebe (Randall) Radcliffe is the daughter of Wm. Bradley Randall, b. Oct. 2, 1857, South Lee, Berkshire Co. Mass. and Evelyn (Smith) Randall, son of Abel Bradley Randall, b. Sept. 2, 1822, at Hermitage, Wetherfield, N. Y., mar. Ann Eliza Ormsby. He was the son of Amos Palmer Randall, b. Nov. 13, 1793, at Voluntown, Conn., mar. Nov. 14, 1816~ Tryphenia Marsh. He was son of Amos Randall, Jr., b. Mch. 22, 1768, mar. Selina Rathborne. He was son of Amos Randall, b. Voluntown, Conn., 17 40; at the age of 25 mar. Phoebe Palmer, age 16, on Apr. 25, 1765. He was the son of Nathan Randall, b. 7 July, 1709, d. Voluntown, Conn. He was the son of John Randall, Junior, b. Wes­ terly, R. I., 1666. He was the son of John Randall, birth unknown, but who died at Westerly, R. I. in 1684 or 1685. Wm. Bradley Randall had two ancestors who fought in the American Revolution, Reuben Marsh and his father, Luther Marsh, who served as Lieutenant in Col. Whitney's Mass. Regt. Evelyn (Smith) Randall (mother of Phoebe (Randall) Radcliffe) b. Aug. 28, 1860, mar. Oct. 16, 1888; daughter of Addison P. Smith, was b.· 1825, d. 1891, and Phoebe Car­ gill. He was son of Fletcher Smith and Rebecca Jerome, who was son of Zoeth Smith and Olive Merwin, son of Thomas Smith and Urania Wright. The said Phoebe Car­ gill, b .. 1833, mar. 1857, d. 1888, was dau. of James Cargill 4th and Hannah Comfort. This James Cargill, Phoebe (Randall) Radcliffe's great grandfather, was a descendant of the well known Arnold family of Providence, R. I. which traces its ancestry back to the King of Gwentland in the twelfth century. He was son of James Cargill, 3rd, and Chloe Chaffee, who was son of James Cargill, 2nd and Dorcas Arnold, son of James Cargill 1st and Phoebe Smith, son of John Cargill of Scotland whose ancestor, Rev. Donald Cargill, b. about 1610, was executed for treason, J. martyr to his convictions in reference to religious liberty. Three ancestors of Phoebe Cargill,. James Cargill 2nd, James Cargill 3rd and Richard Comfort served in the American Revolution. [66] A MEMORIAL Their son, Bradley Randall, b. New York, Dec. 4, 1890,. mar. June 25, 1921,. Eleanor V. Jacob. Ch.: Bradley, Jr., b. Mch. 8, 1923. Marion Adeline Vernon, b. July 1, 1861, mar. June 18, 1891, Frederick Gleason Corning,, who was born Brooklyn, Mch. 27, 1857. E. M. Royal School of Mines, Freiberg, Saxony, 1879; LL.D. University of Pittsburg, 1911; Hon­ orary Freeman of Freiberg, 1922; mining engineer and metallurgist, member Amer. Ins. Mining and Metall. Engrs. Son of James Leonard Corning, b. Aug. 21, 1828, d. Sept. 1, 1903, and Sarah Ellen (Deming) Corning, b. July 14, 1828, d. Jan. 10, 1883. James Leonard Corning was Congrega­ tional minister, lecturer, author, Vice and Deputy Consul at Munich, Germany, at various times, 1892-1897. Francis Joseph Vernon, b. July 17, 1863, Adelphi Academy, 1881, Yale University, 1885, Wolf's Head, D.K.E., was a member of Yale and the University Clubs, the Graduate's Club of New Haven and, among others, Crescent Athletic, Calumet, Hamilton, Atlantic Yacht, Dyker Meadow Golf, Apawamis, Restigouche Fish and Game Club of Canada, also a member of the Sons of the Revolution, died suddenly of pneumonia, Feb. 16, 1914. A talented racon­ teur, a radiant personality with a "genius for friendship." "A committee was appointed at a class meeting of 1885 for the establishment of a memorial at Yale to Francis Joseph V-ernon which was indorsed by the secretary and members of the University Faculty and was subscribed to by the class and a number of his intimate friends, to be presented annually, by the committee of award, appointed by the Yale Corporation as a prize for the best song or a poem illustrating Yale life, and associations, to be known as the Francis Joseph Vernon Prize . . . the purpose of the gift was to establish a memorial to one who, during the College course and since graduation, did so much to brighten and cheer his own class meetings and many other functions where Yale men came together . . . a memorial to Joe Vernon who, with his wit and clever satire never left a sting but only a heartache that he is no longer with us." Frances Mary Vernon, b. Feb. 18, 1865, mar. Jan. 28, 1896, Austin Graham Turner, b. Brooklyn, Mch. 25, 1866. Mt. Pleasant Military Academy, Sing Sing, 1884; died, Feb. 9, 1908; son of Austin Haydn Turner, b. Bristol, Eng- [ 67] :CAPTAIN EDWARD RICHARDSON land, Dec.. 1, 1835, d. Brooklyn, Aug. 1, 1886,, and Mary (McCafferty) Turner, b. Albany, N. Y •. Oct. 27, 1838, d. Brooklyn, Aug. 15, 1904. They were married Apr. 22, 1862. Grandson of George Turner, b. 1808, near Bristol, England~ d. Oakfield Place, Clifton. Connected all his life with Bristol Cathedral, from Chorister to Organist, as were his f o~ebears for several generations ; died 1866 and buried in the Cathedral Close as was also his wife Anne (Prideaux) Turner, b. 1802, d. in Clifton, 1883. They were married at Westbury-upon-Trym, Gloucestershire, 1833. His maternal grandparents wer:e born in the North of Ireland near the Scottish border:. Michael McCafferty, d. Albany 1861. Jane (Johnson) McCafferty, his wife, d. Brooklyn, N. Y., 1881. Ch, (1) Frances Turner b. Jan. 2, 1897, Brooklyn Heights Seminary, 1915, mar. Mch. 28, 1918, Theodore Constant Backe, b. June 2, 1895. (2) Richardson Vernon Turner, b. Jan. 1, 1902. Poly­ technic Preparatory Country Day School 1921. Class Presi­ dent, 1920, 1921, Captain Track Team 1920, 1921, Sigma Delta Psi, Oasis Society. Yale University of class of 1925. Harriet Eveline Vernon, b. Sept. 8, 1866, d. Feb. 6, 1869• .AARON CHEEVER, b. June 15, 1829,, d. July 18, 1864. He engaged in Fir:e and Life Insurance business for a time, but ill health prevented his continuance, and he died at an early age, unmarried, in Brooklyn. MARY WATERS, adopted daughter, b. Jan. 14, 1835, died Sept. 18, 1911, mar. Apr. 7, 1857, William T. Everngham, Free mason. He enlisted in the West, in War with the Indians, was transferred to the Army of the Potomac, re­ ceiving the rank of Major in the Civil War.

[68] APPENDIX From the Gauge Book at Custom House, Salem: Return of the gauge of 194 casks molasses and weight of 4 bbls. and 72 bbls. brown sugar landed from on board brig Happy Chance, Edward Richardson, Master, from Point Petre, Nov.18, 1816. Consignees,. Edw. Richardson, Jas. Cheever, Frances Quarles, Wm. Fettyplace and Jno. Winn, Jr. Return of the gauge of 71 casks of molasses and weight of 68 casks coffee, 2 bags do., 1 bale of cotton, 1 box nut­ megs, landed from on board Schooner Sally, Edw<1 Richard­ son, master, from Aux Cayes, June 4, 1817. Consignees, Edw. Richardson, Nath1 Putnam, Nath1 Gerry, Jas. Winn, E. Abbot, Wh. Fettyplace, E. Bancroft. Proposals are advertised for, in the Boston Advertiser, for building at Apalachicola,. Florida, from 40 to 60 brick stores, 3 stories high, 30 by 80 ft., with granite pillars, zinc or tin roofs to be commenced in November and completed in July. Richards & Richardson and Wm. Tucker & Sons, Boston, received the proposals-Essex Register, Aug. 1836. The following entries are from Impost Books in Salem Custom House, Edward Richardson being master of these vessels: Hawy Chance, brig from Point Petre, Nov. 18, 1816. Consignees, Frances Quarles, Edward Richardson, James Che~ver, Jr., Wm. Fettyplace. Cargo, molasses and sugar. Duties, $1166.65. Sally, schooner from Aux Cayes, June 11, 1817. Con­ signees, Nathaniel Putnam, Edward Richardson, Joseph Winn, Ephm Abbot, Nathaniel Gerry, Wm. Fettyplace, Ebenr Bancroft. Cargo, coffee, molasses, cotton, cigars and nut­ megs. Duties, $2573.60. Andrew Jackson, ship, from Liverpool, Aug. 31, 1818. Consignees, Edward Richardson and Samuel F. Coolidge. Cargo, salt, coal, white lead and cheese. Duties $1982.61. Levant, brig, from Gottenburg, Oct. 4, 1820. Consignees, Pickering Dodge, E. Richardson. Cargo iron and steel. Duties, $3436.92. The following are from Essex Register: [69] CAPTAIN EDWARD RI_CHARDSON Friendship, Richardson, Salem, cleared Aug. 5, 1815. West Indies; Oct. 18, 1815; Tuesday Oct. 17, Schooner Superior, 30 days from Maran, Martinico, left Sehr. Friendship, Richardson, of Danvers, to sail in 15 days. Happy Chance, brig, Richardson, Aug. 7, 1816, cleared (Salem) for Guadaloupe; Nov. 6, 1816, Brig Happy Chance, Richardson, 21 days from Pt. Petre for Salem, was at Tar­ paulin Cove on Sunday Nov. 16, 1816, Friday Nov. 15 sailed from the Vineyard, brig Happy Chance, Richardson, for this port (Salem) ; Nov. 18, 1816 all the vessels in Holmes' Hole sailed on the 8th, among them the Happy Chance for this port (Salem) ; Nov. 20, 1816, arrived (Salem) brig Happy Chance, Richardson, from Guadaloupe, via the Vineyard, with molasses. Daniel Read, Seaman, died on the passage. Sehr. Sally, Richardson, Jan. 8, 1817 cleared (Salem) for West Indies; Mch. 22, 1817, last from Porto Rico, sailed fr. St. Johns on the 13th Feb. for St. Domingo; May 3, 1817, left Aux Cayes for Salem, 15 days; June 4, 1817, June 3, arrived, Salem 25 days from Aux Cayes, with molasses and coffee, to Putnam and Cheever and J. W. Osgood, Danvers. Ship Andrew Jackson, Capt. Edw. Richardson, Nov. 19, 1817, (Salem) Nov. 15, cleared New Orleans Dec. 13, 1817, lat. 30.34 Ion. 68, 8 days from Salem for New Orleans; was spoken on Nov. 26, 1817 by ship Acastus; Jan. 28, 1818, 31 days from Salem, arrived at the Balize, Dec. 21st and was at the turn 27th ; Mch. 7, 1818, advertised at New Orleans Feb. 7, for freight or charter. May 30, 1818, Brig Anna Maria was spoken 8 days from New Orleans. She left ship Andrew Jackson, Richardson, of Salem to sail in 4 days for Liverpool. June 24, 1818, 25 days from New Orleans, was spoken 3 ins. lat. 40, long. 51. July 29, 1818, spoken June 17, lat. 50.36, long. 14.05 from New Orleans for Liverpool, Aug. 19, 1818, Arr. Liverpool, from New Orleans, Sept. 29, 1818. Friday morning,. Sept. 28, arrived (Salem) 40 days from Liverpool, with salt and coal to J. Cook and others. Nov. 18, 1818, cleared (Salem) for New Orleans. Wed. Jan. 20, 1819 has arrived in the Mississippi. America, ship, Richardson, Feb. 16, 1820, arrived Boston, Feb. 15, from Canton, China. Cargo, teas, silks, nankin, sugars, etc. Ship Francis, Feb. 16, 1820, arrived Salem, from Canton, leaving ship America, Richardson to sail in four days. [70] A MEMORIAL Levant, May 18, 1820, Salem, cleared for Bremen, Sept. 27, 1820; Monday, Sept. 25, brig Edward reported brig Levant, Richardson, w·as to sail from Gottenburg. From Salem Register: Ship Andrew Jackson, Feb. 9, 1822, under London, Dec. 31, 1821, is the following: Arrived at the Balize, Jan. 12, ship Andrew Jackson, Richardson, of Salem,. from Bremen, Feb. 16, 1822, from Bremen, was at the English Turn, near New Orleans, 18 ult. (Jan.), Feb. 28, 1822, entered at New Orleans, Jan. 24, from Bremen. June 29, 1822, under New Orleans, advertised May 25, for Bremen, July 3, 1822. At New Orleans, June 7, loading for Europe. July 20, 1822, cleared at New. Orleans, (June) 21st. Bremen, Aug. 8, 1822, was parted with, 30 June, the next day after leaving the Balize, in lat. 28, Oct. 12, 1822, was spoken Sept. 4, lat. 40, long. 5.4. Oct. 30, 1822, from New Orleans, arr. in the Weser, Sept. 4, Nov. 27, 1822. In the Weser, Sept. 24, for St. Ubes. Jan. 8, 1823, from Mr. Topliff's agent, Holmes' Hole, Jan. 3, Brig Mary of St. Ubes,. for Boston, left ship, Andrew Jackson, of Salem, condemned as unsea­ worthy. Capt. Richardson has arrived in the Mary. Brig Jones, of Boston, Capt. Edw. Richardson, master, arrived at New Orleans, Dec. 23, 1823, from New York for Havre, sailed from New Orleans, Jan. 19, 1824; sailed from Havre for New Orleans, Mch. 26, 1824; spoken, July 6, 1824, lat. 38, long. 68 from Balize, which she left, June 9, 1824; arrived at Hamburg about Aug. 14, 1824 from New Orleans; at St. Ubes, Sept. 28, 1824, from Hamburg; spoken Dec. 31, 1824, 14 days from Boston, for New Orleans; Jan. 15, 1825, at the Balize; arrived at New York, Mch. 1825, from New Orleans; cleared at New York, Mar. 24, 1825, for New Orleans; for Cork, was loading at New Orleans, June, 1825; was spoken on morning of June 3, 1825, Tortugas E. by N. All well, just making sail. At Gravesend, England, July 18, 1825, for Virginia; sailed from Boston on Oct. 4, 1825, for London. Brig Jones, Edward Richardson, master,. owned by Thatcher Magoun of Medford, Mass., George G. Jones of Charlestown and Edward RichardsoI;t of Danvers. Brig Jones was built at Medford in 1818, had 2 decks and 2 masts, 101 ft. 10 in. long, 24 ft. 4 in. in breadth, 12 ft. 2 in. deep measures 271 tons, square stern, no galleries and a [71] CAPTAIN EDWARD RI_CHARDSON figurehead. Reg. at Boston, Apr. 18, 1823,:-(from Boston Custom House Ship Register). Ship Salem, Richardson, New York, ent. at New Orleans, Dec. 6, 1827; for Liverpool, cld. at New Orleans, Dec. 20, 1827; at Liverpool Jan. 29, 1828, for New York; cleared at New York for New Orleans, Apr. 1, 1828; at the Balize, Apr. 18,.1828; at New Orleans, May 10, 1828; sailed from New Orleans, May 22, 1828 for Bremen; off Florida Reef, June 2, 9 days from New Orleans, for Bremen; off Dover, July 2, 1828; at Bremen, July 18, 1828, for St. Ubes; arr. New York, Sept. 16,.1828, from Lisbon; cleared at New York, Nov. 3, for New Orleans; arr. Nov. 21; left S. W. Pass, Dec. 24, in company with ship Tennessee for Liver­ pool; reported at Liverpool, Feb. 18, 1829, for New York; sailed from Liverpool for New York off Holyhead, Mch. 20, 1829; spoken, Mch. 23, 1829, lat. 50.28, long. 10.19, 3 days from Liverpool for New York; arr. at New York, from Liverpool, Apr. 19, 1829; cleared at New York, May 15, 1829, for Antwerp; arr. Portsmouth, June 16, 1829, sailed for London; arrived at Flushing, July 19, 1829; at Gotten­ burg, Aug. 7, 1829, for New York, about half loaded; spoken Nov. 17, 1729, fifteen miles from the Mississippi; arr. at New Orleans, Nov. 21; at New Orleans, Dec. 6, 1829; arr. at Liverpool, Jan. 7, 1830; adv. at Liverpool, Feb. 8, 1830, for New Orleans; at Liverpool, Mch. 16, 1830, for New Orleans; cleared at New York, Apr. 29, 1830, for Liverpool; arr. Liverpool, May 27, 1830; arr. New York, July 14; sailed from New York, Aug. 6,, for Liverpool; adt. for New York, Sept. 7; cleared at New York, Nov. 27, for New Orleans, arr. Dec. 21, 1830; cleared at New Orleans, Dec. 26, 1830, for Liverpool; was aground on the Bar, at New Orleans, Jan. 2, 1831; reported still aground in the Mississippi, Feb. 16, 1831 ; off Point Lynas,. Feb. 18, from New Orleans; adv•. at • Liverpool, Mch. 21, for New York; arr. Apr. 18, cleared, May 21, for Liverpool, arr. July 12; sailed for New York, Sept. 10, 1830. "Cause of Temperance. It is stated that Capt. Richard­ son of the ship Salem of this port, which sailed lately from New York for Antwerp, enlisted his crew with the express understanding that no ardent spirits would be allowed on the voyage, and that under this prohibition he obtained an excellent crew."-Essex Register, Aug. 10, 1829. In shipping list of vessels owned in the district of Salem [72] A MEMORIAL and Beverly, published in the Essex Register, Jan. 7, 1830, the ship Salem, Richardson, is listed as of 473 tons. Ship Adeline of Danvers, Mass., Capt. Edw. Richardson at Havana, 17 Nov. 1826, just arrived from Truxillo. Ship Adeline, Richardson, Bremen, cleared at New Orleans, May 16, 1827. Ship Adeline, Richardson of Danvers, in the channel (previous to July 6, 1827,) from New Orleans to Bremen. Ship Adeline, Richardson, at Bremen, July 10, 1827, for New Orleans. Ship Adeline, Richardson, at Bremen, July 22, 1827, for St. Ubes, next day. Ship Adeline, Richardson, sailed from St. Ubes, Aug. 25, 1827, for New York. Ship Adeline, Richardson, arr. at New York, Sept. 25, 1827, 31 days fr. St. Ubes. Ship Poland, (New) Capt. Edward Richardson, cleared at New York, Nov. 8, 1832, for Liverpool, arr. Nov. 26; arr. New York, Dec. 28; cleared Feb. 23,. 1833, for Havre; arr. at Havre, Mch. 25, 1833; arr. New York, May 28, 1833; cld. New York, June 24, arr. Havre, Aug. 19, arr. New York, Sept. 21, 1833. Ship Brooklyn, Capt. Richardson, arr. New York, June 16, 1835; arr. New York, from Liverpool, Feb. 20, 1836; cleared, Sidney, New South Wales, May 23, 1836; spoken, Aug. 8, 1836, from New York for Sidney, N. S. W., at Sidney, N. S. W., Nov. 21, from New York; at Sidney N. S. W. for Canton; sailed in Nov. 1836; at Singapore, Mch. 3, 1837, from Canton, just arrived; at Batavia, sailed about July 10, 1837. At Whampoa, China, Aug. 28, 1837, for Batavia. At Canton, Sept. 3, for Batavia soon; at Batavia Nov. 4, from China, loading for Europe; at Batavia, Nov. 25, for Cowes next day; arr. Cowes, Mch. 17, 1838, leaky, and with fore and mizzen masts sprung; at Cowes, Apr. 29, 1838 from Batavia, repair­ ing; sailed from Cowes, July 21, for Amsterdam; at New Dieppe, July 30, for New York soon; arr. New York, Sept. 28, from Amsterdam; cleared New York, Apr. 22, 1839, arr. Liverpool, June 1, 1839; sailed from Liverpool, June 20, for New York; arr. Aug. 5, cld. New York, Nov. 22, for Charleston, arr. Charleston, Nov. 27; cld. fr. Charleston, Jan. 10, 1840, for Liverpool; arr. Feb. 9, adv. at Liverpool,. for New York for 1st of Apr.; cld. Liverpool, [73] :CAPTAIN EDWARD RI.CHARDSON Apr. 4, for New York, arr.; cld. New York May 1st for Liverpool; arr. May 26, sailed for New York June 21; arr. Aug. 9; cld. for Liverpool Sept. 4; arr. Nov. 21, ent. for loading at Liverpool, Dec. 12, 1840, for Apalachicola; sailed Dec. 18; arr. Jan. 5, 1841, at Apalachicola; cld. Mach. 13, for Liverpool; arr. Apr. 1~; adv. at Liverpool, May 6, for New York; put back to Liverpool, May 10,, 1841, with loss of bowsprit, cutwater and leaky, having been run into, sailed from Liverpool June 20, for New York; arr. July 24; cld. from New York for Charleston, Nov. 9; arr. Nov. 17; cld. Dec. 21, from Charleston for Liverpool ; arr. Jan. 19, 1842; sailed Mch. 23, 1842 for New York; cld. May 30, for Liverpool; arr. June 25, 1842; sailed Aug. 20, from Liver­ pool to New York; arr. Sept. 2; cld. Oct. 24, for Charleston; arr. Nov. 5 ; sailed from Charleston, Jan. 17, 1843, for Liverpool; at Liverpool, Mch. 6, loading for New York; arr. Apr. 10, cld. from New York June 1, for James River; June 28, 1843 went to sea from Hampton Roads (from James River) to Cowes; arr. Cowes, July 21; sailed Sept. 16, from Gravesend for New York; arr. at Deal, Sept. 18, 1843, from London and sailed for New York; arr. at New York, Oct. 20, 1843. From "Shipping and Commercial Lists and Price Current." A bi-weekly newspaper published in New York City: 1834. Richards & Richardson,. New York, N. Y.:­ From Havana:- Brig Henry, Capt. Brown, 19 Mch. St. Jago de Cuba, Brig Emit, Capt. Brown, 25 Feb. Apalachicola:- Sehr. Gideon Lee, Capt. Hall, 15 Mch. Sehr. Lydia, Capt. Benedict, 5 Apr. Bark Miranda, Capt. Hancock, Sept. and Dec. Sehr. Oscar, Capt. Sands. Sehr. Roarer, Capt. Nickerson, Aug. Brig. Harriet, Capt. Smith, Aug. St. Thomas, Chagres :- Sehr. Roarer, Capt. Nickerson, 7 June and 25 Nov. Mobile:- Schr. Hudson, Capt. White, Oct. Sehr. Gideon Lee, Capt. Hall, 5 June and Dec. Brig. Geo. Washington,. Capt. Crook, Aug. [74] A MEMORIAL Malaga:- Schr. Lydia, Capt. Benedict. Charleston:- Ship Sarah, and Caroline, Captain Prince, 25 Nov. Chagres and St. Thomas; Sehr. Roarer, Capt. Nickerson, 25 Nov. New Orleans:- Ship Hogarth, Capt. Greenleaf, Aug. 30. Ship Kutusoff, Capt. Newton, 20 Sept. Ship Hercules, Capt. Wood, Aug. and Oct. Ship Sarah Ann Caroline,, Capt. Prince. Liverpool: Ship Alfred, Capt. Cheever. 1835. Apalachicola:- Barque Miranda, Capt. Hitchcock, 10 Jan. and Mch. Ship Alfred, Capt. Cheever, 8 Jan. 23, Nov. Sehr. Gideon Lee, Capt. Hall, Capt. Petit. Brig Chieftain, Capt. Talbot, 1 Apr. Brig. Stranger, Capt. Soule, 8 Apr. Brig Ames, Capt. Raymond, 2 May Ship Pilot, Capt. Raymond. Barge Virginia, Capt. Sinclair. Sehr. Wilmington, Capt. Robinson. Mobile:- _Brig Mary Cole, 8 April. Brig Triumph, Capt. Leeds. Brig Raymond, Capt. Lavensaler, 2 May. Sehr. Gideon Lee, Capt. Hall, Capt. Petit. Ship Olimpia, Capt. Adams, 5 Dec. Barque Binney, Capt. Hopkins, 15 Oct. Brig Tuscany, Capt. Prince, 4 June. Ship Tremont, Capt. Cunningham. Ship Hogarth, Capt. Crocker, 30 Nov. New Orleans:- Brig Durant, Capt. Dodge. Barge Pomona, Capt. Nason. Ship Missouri, Capt. Owen,. 26 Sept. Ship Grotius, Capt. Page, 3 Oct. Brig Russia, Capt. M'Lellan. Brig George Washington, Capt. Krook, 6 May. Brig Zauza, 14 Apr. [75] CAPTAIN EDWARD RI_CHARDSON Natchez, Miss. :- Ship Brooklyn.

1836. Apalachicola:- Brig Robert Bruce, Capt. Morrell. Sehr. Clementine, Capt. Ash. Barque Binney, Capt. Hopkins, 8 Oct. Sehr.. Tiberius, Capt. Murray, 14 Dec. Ship Spring, Capt. Graves, Feb. 27. Brig Timoleon, Capt. Clark, 23 Meh. Brig Alexander, Capt. Drummond, Capt. Freeman, (Allen & Porter or R. & R.) Mobile:- Sehr. Mexico, Capt. Rysdick. Brig Roxbury, Capt. Page, 13 April. Barque Venice, Capt. King. Ship Hogarth, Capt. Crooker, Nov. 30. Ship Spring, Capt. Graves. (Depeyster & Whitmarsh or R. & R.) Barge LeGrange, Capt. Seldon. Brig Zauza, Capt. Waterhouse, 23 Mch. Ship St. Lawrence, Capt. Chase, D. & W. or R. & R. Brig Denmark, Capt. Delano, 3 Apr. Sehr. Mexico, Capt. Winslow. Brig Ames, Capt. Donnell, 11 June. New Orleans:- Brig Horace, Capt. Foss, 10 Feb. (D. & W. or R. & R.) Brig Junius, Capt. Cowen, H. Haviland or R. & R.,. 6 Apr. Ship Ferax, Capt. Healey, 24 Sept. Ship Frances Ann, Capt. Foule. Ship Alfred, Capt. Cheever, 19 Nov. Charleston::_ Ship Tarquin, Capt. Hunt, Feb. 13. Brig Amaranth, Capt. M'Near. Savannah:- Ship St. Mark, Capt. Holmes, Capt. Churchill, 19 Nov.

1837. Apalachicola:- Brig Eliza, Capt. Holbrook, 11 Jan. Brig Tim.oleon, Capt. Clark, 14 Feb. [76] A MEMORIAL Havana:- Ship North America, Capt. Heath, 21 Apr. Brig Sarah Ann Alley, Capt. Straw, 21 Apr. Mobile:- Schr. Temperance, Capt. Leach, 14 Jan. Ship Havre, Capt. Wotton. Oct. 4. Ship Henri IV, Capt. Kearney, 8 Nov. Ship Carroll of Carrollton, Capt. Bird, 25 Nov. New Orleans:- Brig Commerce, Capt. Dashiel, 4 Feb. A. G. & A. W. Benson or R. & R. Brig Castor, Capt. Cutts. Ship Ann, Capt. Penhollow, 28 Mch. Ship Philip 1st, Capt. Skellington. Ship Austerlitz, Capt. Hammond, 20 Oct. Ship Merchant, Capt. Jordan, 8 Nov. Ship Alfred, Capt. Cheever, 9 Dec. Charleston:- Ship Manchester, Capt. Hewitt. Liverpool:- Ship Groton, Capt. Baker. Ship Westchester, Capt. Ferris, Nov. 25. Ship Jeanneth, Capt. Lovett, 4 Jan. Ship Hewes, Capt. Sumner, 21 Feb. 1838 Apalachicola:- Brig Timoleon, Capt. Clark,. 10 Nov. Mobile:- Ship Alfred, Capt. Cheever, 29 Dec. Cadiz, Madeira, Rochelle :­ Brig Sophia, Capt. Krook, 1 Dec. Savannah:- Ship Byron, Capt. Puritan, 16 May. Ship Westchester, Capt. Ferris, 4 Oct. Ship St. Mark,. Capt. Holmes, 1 Dec. Lisbon:- Brig Sophia, Capt. Krook. Liverpool:- Ship Westchester, Capt. Ferris, June 5. Oct. Ship Alfred, Capt. Cheever, June 27. [77] ~CAPTAIN .,. EDWARD RICHARDSON.. - 1839 Apalachicola:- Brig Timoleon, Capt. Clark, 6 Mch. Havre:- Ship Nathaniel Hooper, Capt. Freeto, 27 Apr. Charleston:- Ship Alfred, Capt. Cheever, 20 Oct. St. Marys:- Brig Timoleon, Capt. Clark. New Orleans:- Ship Oronoco, Capt. Rogers, 21 Jan. Rio Grande and St. Catherines :- Brig Otranto, Capt. Doty, 12 June. Liverpool :- Ship St. Mark, Capt. Varnum, 17 July. Ship Brooklyn, Capt. Richardson, 17 Apr. R. & R. or Wotherspoon & Co. Lisbon:- Brig Sophia, Capt. Krook, 24 July. 1841. E. Richardson & Co., 52 South St., New York City:- Cadiz, Sicily:- Ship Timor, Capt. Truman. Charleston:- Ship Brooklyn, Capt. Richardson, 6 Nov. J. P. Elwell or E. R. & Co. New Orleans:- Brig Martha Kinsman, Capt. Chandler. 1842. New Orleans and St. Johns:- Brig Martha Kinsman, Capt. Chandler, Jan. Ship Claiborne,. Capt. Burgess, 10 Nov. Liverpool:- Ship Brooklyn, Capt. Richardson, May 30. Br. Ship Chester, Capt. Doyle, July 25. Br. barque Countess of Arran, Capt. O'Bryen. Ship Chester, Capt. Doyle, Oct. Ship Arno, Capt. Dixey, Dec. 31. Bordeaux:- Barque Science, Capt. Elliot, 25 June. [78] A MEMORIAL Pernambuco :- Brig Jones, Capt. Nickerson, Aug. Gibraltar and Malaga:- Barque Texidor, Capt. Lockwood, 6 Aug. A. W. Sus or E. R. & Co. Charleston:- Ship Brooklyn, 24 Oct. Georgetown, S. C. :- Sehr. Princess, Capt. Smith, 6 Oct. Brig Georgiana, Capt. Bidell,, 22 Oct. 1843. Cadiz and Rio Grande:- Brig Buenos Ayres, Capt. Luscum, 11 Jan. Brig Lela, Capt. Dixey, May 1st• Barque Fardiu, Capt. Linsey. Lisbon:- Brig Gannicleft, Capt. Nicholson, May 12. Matanzas:..!.- Brig Thos. Cutts, Capt. Perkins. Rio Janerio, Cape de Verdes, Lisbon:­ Brig Gannicleft, Capt. Nicholson, May 12. Liverpool:- Br. Ship Chester, Capt. Doyle, June 1. Roche Bros. & Co., or E. R. & Co. Nuevitas:- Brig Thomas Cutts, Capt. Perkins, 29 Apr. Hold & Owens or E. R. & Co. New Orleans:- Ship Viola, Capt. Jamison, 5 Sept. 1844. Liverpool:- Barque Science, Capt. Adams, Mch. 27. Ship Brooklyn, Capt. Richardson, May 3. E. Richardson & Co. or W otherspoon & Co. Cadiz, Lisbon:- Ehip Nathaniel Hooper, Capt. Churchill, May 4. Bark Eliza,. Thornto:1, Capt. Little, Oct. Venice:- Ship Gloucester, Capt. Proctor, July 27. New Orleans:- Ship Jas. H. Shepherd, Capt. Redman, 15 Oct. [79] _C_APTAIN EDWARD RI_CHARDSON 1845. Buenos Ayres:- Ship Nile, Capt. Sn1ith, 21 July. A. G. & A. W. Benson or E. R. & Co. 1846. Sandwich Islands:- From Newburyport, Brig Henry, Capt. Kibborn. 1847. Cienfuegos:- Brig Deleware, Capt. Elliott. Havana:- Brig Martha Kinsman, Capt. Griffin. Sehr. Sarah, Capt. Perry. Liverpool:- Ship Brooklyn, Capt. Richardson,. 1 Aug. 1849. Panama and San Francisco:- Ship Brooklyn, Capt. Richardson, Oct. A. G. Benson & Co. or E. R. & Co. Ship Tarmaroo, Capt. Richardson, 15 Jan. E.G. Benson or E. R. & Co. Ship Angelique, Capt. Windsor, 10 May. Ship Far West, Capt. Briard, 21 June. Davis, Brooks & Co. or E. R. & Co. Ship Washington, Capt. Foster. Charleston:- Sehr. Rober Bruce, Capt. Jerry, 20 Oct. Kingston, Adele (new) Capt. Appleby, 5 Dec. E. R. & Co. or H. Underwood. 1851. Liverpool:- Ship Fides, Capt. Boreland, Jan. 1852. Lisbon:- Brig Hollander, Capt. Brown, 16 Oct. Matanzas:- Brig Reindeer, Capt. Arey, 10 June. San Francisco:- Ship Lone Star, Capt. Bontelle, June. [80] A MEMORIAL 1853. Melbourne:- Ship Norma, Capt. Thayer, May. Liverpool:­ Brig T. Hammond. Ship Fides, Capt. Borland. Havana:- Barque J. Patten Jr., Capt. Johns, Oct. Brig R. G. Prescott, Capt. Gilkey. 1854-1855. Melbourne:- Ship Eastern State, Capt. Ross, Dec., Feb. Aikell & Elliot or E. Richardson & Co. New Orleans:- Barque Almade, Capt. Anken, 3 Oct. N. H. Brigham & E. Richardson & Co.

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