Person:David Richmond (4)

From the History of Chenango Co., NY - Guilford Twn. by James Smith, 1880

Settlements were made about 1800 by Major David RICHMOND, Abraham IVES, Colonel Stephen WINSOR, Daniel JOHNSON, Elihu MURRAY, Joel and Aaron ROOT and Eliab FORD.

   Maj. RICHMOND came in from Rhode Island and settled at Latham's Corners. His house stood on the site of the one owned by David WESTCOTT of Utica, and occupied at present by Emerson J. POTTER. He died there Oct 14, 1818, aged, 71, and Nancy, his wife, July 9, 1844, aged 94. His children were Joseph, Thomas, Polly, Esther, Nancy, David, who lived in Rhode Island, and Seth, who married Keziah HUNT and lived on the homestead till his death in June, 1879, at the age of 89 years. Joseph married Rizpah HUNT and settled on Richmond Pond, about five miles east of Norwich. His farm lay partly in Norwich and partly in New Berlin, but his house was in the latter town. He died there Jan. 25, 1853, aged 80, and his wife May 24, 1836, aged 61. Thomas married Lucy DURAND and settled on the flats one-fourth mile above Latham's Corners. He afterwards removed to the Corners and built the rear part of Orson Richmond's residence and subsequently the front part. He lived there till well advanced in years when he went to live with his daughter Nancy, wife of John HOLMES, of Smithport, Penn., and died there July 2, 1863, aged 86. His wife died May 14, 1857, aged 76. He and his brother Joseph were active, energetic men who did an extensive lumber business; the latter operated a saw-mill which was located at the mouth of Richmond Pond. Polly married Stephen ARNOLD and settled and died on the place now owned by Gordon WOOD on the south line of Norwich. Esther married David WESTCOTT and lived and died in Rhode Island. Nancy married Joseph WOOD and lived and died on the David CORNELL farm. Joseph's and David's children are all dead, and only one of Thomas' is living, Nancy HOLMES of Smithport, Penn. None of the grandchildren are living in the county. The children of George A. TRUESDELL at Latham's Corners are great-grandchildren of Maj. Richmonds. Orson Richmond of Latham's Corners, whose wife Euphemia is a writer of some note, is a descendant of Major Richmond's. Mrs. Richmond was written some ten volumes of juvenile sabbath school and temperance works, has been a contributor to the Ladies' Repository, and is now a regular correspondent of the Northern Christian Advocate, The Watchword, the organ of the Good Templars, the Christian Woman, of Philadelphia, The Christian at Work, the Rural New Yorker, and various other publications.

1. ↑ Smith, James Hadden. History of Chenango and Madison counties, New York: with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. (Syracuse, New York: D. Mason & Co., 1880).
2. ↑ Eardeley, William A D, and DeWitt Van Buren. Abstracts of Wills, Administrations and Guardianships in NY State, 1787-1835. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2006)
   1693-4.

   Will Book A, p. 296-299
   This 11 June 1818 David Richmond of Guilford, Chenango, N. Y.
   --to my wife Nancy Richmond all household goods - use of 1/3 of my farm during her life
   --to my son Joseph Richmond $1 + 1/4 of my waring apparel
   --to my son David Richmond now living in Glocester Co of Providence State of Rhode Island $1 + 1/4 waring apparel
   --to my son Thomas Richmond $1 + 1/4 my waring apparel
   --to my son Seth Richmond whole of my farm where now live of 150 acres & is same farm I purchased of Arthur Burlingame with the __mb__ment of his mother thirds during her life all my farming tools & all securities and money
   --to my dau Lucy Smith wife of Dexter Smith $100
   --to my dau Esther Westcott wife of Joseph Westcot $100
   --to my dau Lydia Arnold wife of Stephen Arnold $100
   --to my dau Nancy Wood wife of Joseph Wood $100
   --to my grandson Samuel Richmond son of Joseph Richmond $100
   -Appt. my son Seth Richmond Exr this day above
   Witnesses: Caleb Burdick, Ira Holmes, John Holmes

3. ↑ White Store Cemetery Transcriptions
4. ↑ Revolutionary War Pension File