Person:Richard Hardy (5)

Title: Ancestry of Elizabeth Barrett Gillespie (Mrs. William Sperry Beinecke)Abbrev: Gillespie AncestryAuthor: Paul W. Prindle FASGPublication: 1976, Second Date, 22 Jan 2002Repository: Name: Allen County Public LibraryNote: Phone2: 260/422-9688 faxHomepage: http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/ Page: 328; Recorded 22 Jan 2002

Abbrev: Stamford Families Title: Stamford, CT Families (1641-1935)Author: Kaye, BarbaraPublication: 21 Mar 2004; http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com; Date: 24 Apr 2004

1.   Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
   2:355.

   RICHARD, Concord 1639, Shattuck says. He may be the man, wh. at Stamford m. Ann Huested, had Mary, b. 30 Apr. 1659, gave s. Samuel a ho. and ld. in 1683, and not long after in his will gives legacies to his ds. Elizabeth Persons, Parsons, or Pearson; Susanna Sherman; Sarah Close; Ruth Mead and Mary Hardy.

2.   Rev. Elijah Baldwin Huntington. History of Stamford, Connecticut: From Its Settlement in 1641, to the Present Time: Including Darien Which Was One of its Parishes Until 1820. (Stamford, Connecticut: Author, 1868)
   53.

   HARDY, RICHARD, was here in 1650, and gave name to the
   low grounds just west of our harbor, which arc still known as "
   Hardy's Hole." He married, probably, Ann Hasted, whose
   daughter Mary, was born April 30, 1659. He is probably the
   one who in 1639 was living in Concord. In 1083, he gave his
   son Samuel a house and land. In his will, on record at Fairfield,
   he makes bequests to his daughters Mrs. Elizabeth Pearson,
   Hannah Austin, Susanna Sherman, Sarah Close, Ruth Mead,
   and Mary and Abigail. He was a man of some distinction, representing the town three times in the State General Court.He was declared freeman of the Connecticut Colony in 1002.Robert Hardy was a landholder here in 1650.

3.   Moore, Edith Austin. John Austin of Greenwich, Connecticut. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1971)
   181.

   His 1st wife, name unknown died in Concord, MA giving birth to twins.
   from England, in Stamford, CT 1650. m. Ann Husted b. 1623, Eng.