Family:Abial Richardson and Sarah Smith (1)

Parents: Timothy Richardson and Susanna Holden Abiel Richardson b. 12 Oct 1717 Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States d. 14 Nov 1765 Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada	Sarah Smith b. 28 Jul 1723 Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States d. 24 May 1751 Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

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Facts and Events

Marriage^[1]^[2]

14 Jan 1742

Children

		Birth	Death
1.	Sarah Richardson	15 Nov 1749 Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
2.	Susanna Richardson	2 May 1751 Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

References

↑ Johnson, Edward F. Woburn Records of Births, Deaths, and Marriages . (Woburn, Massachusetts: Andrews, Cutler & Co., 1890-1919)
Vol. 3, p. 229.

Abiel Richardson of Woburn and Sarah Smith of Lexington, Jan. 14, 1742.
↑ Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Record of births, marriages, and deaths to January 1, 1898. (Boston, Massachusetts: Wright and Potter Printing, 1898)
p. 144.

Richardson
Abiel, m., in Woburn, Sarah Smith, Jan. 14, 1742.
The long gap between marriage and the first birth is not explained, nor even commented on, in NEHGR, p. 100:129. It shows the same two children, and naming the first daughter Sarah, and second daughter after Abiel's mother, would be consistent with first children. On p. 128, the article mentions that Abiel Richardson's wife, Sarah, was admitted to full communion in Cambridge 28 Sep 1746, which even if one assumes the marriage date was misread, still represents close to a four year gap for a marriage in Jan 1746 until a child born in Nov 1749.