Person:Ezekiel Richardson (1)

m. 24 Aug 1590
  1. Elizabeth Richardson1593/94 - 1630
  2. John Richardson1596 - Aft 1630/31
  3. James Richardson1600 - Aft 1630/31
  4. Ezekiel RichardsonEst 1602 - 1647
  5. Samuel Richardson1604 - 1658/59
  6. Thomas Richardson1608 - 1651
m. Bef 27 Aug 1630
  1. Phebe Richardson1632 - 1716
  2. Theophilus Richardson1633 - 1674
  3. Josiah Richardson1635 - 1695
  4. John Richardson1638 - 1642/43
  5. Jonathan Richardson1639/40 -
  6. Lieutenant James Richardson1641 - 1677
  7. Ruth Richardson1643 - 1643
Facts and Events
Name[1] Ezekiel Richardson
Gender Male
Birth[1][10] Est 1602 Westmill, Hertfordshire, England (probably)
Immigration[1] 1630 Winthrop Fleet.
Residence[1] 1630 Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage Bef 27 Aug 1630 to Susanna Unknown
Other[1] 18 May 1631 Admitted freeman of Massachusetts Bay.
Residence[1] 1640 Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Will[1] 20 Jul 1647 Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Death[1][2] 21 Oct 1647 Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Estate Inventory[1] 18 Nov 1647 £190 6s. 6d., with no real estate included.
Probate[1] 1 Jun 1648 Will proved.


The Winthrop Fleet (1630)
The Winthrop Fleet brought over 700 colonists to establish a new colony at Massachusetts Bay. The fleet consisted of eleven ships: the Arbella flagship with Capt Peter Milburne, the Ambrose, the Charles, the Mayflower, the Jewel, the Hopewell, The Success, the Trial, the Whale, the Talbot and the William and Francis.
  Sailed: April and May 1630 from Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, England
  Arrived: June and July 1630 at Salem, Massachusetts
  Previous Settlers: The Higginson Fleet (1629)

  Passengers: Winthrop wrote to his wife just before they set sail that there were seven hundred passengers. Six months after their arrival, Thomas Dudley wrote to Bridget Fiennes, Countess of Lincoln and mother of Lady Arbella and Charles Fiennes, that over two hundred passengers had died between their landing April 30 and the following December, 1630.
  Selected leaders and prominent settlers: Gov. John Winthrop - Richard Saltonstall - Isaac Johnson - Gov. Thomas Dudley - Gov. William Coddington - William Pynchon - William Vassall - John Revell - Robert Seely - Edward Convers - Gov. Simon Bradstreet - John Underhill - William Phelps

  Resources: The Winthrop Society - The Winthrop Fleet (Wikipedia) - Anderson's Winthrop Fleet

References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 Ezekiel Richardson, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
    3:1580-83.

    "ORIGIN: Westmill, Hertfordshire"
    "CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: 'Ezechiel Richardson and his wife' admitted to Boston church as members #80 and #81, which would be in the winter of 1630/1 [BChR 13]; on 14 October 1632 'Ezechiell Richardson and Susan his wife' were dismissed to participate in the organization of Charlestown church [BChR 16]; on 2 November 1632 'Ezek' and 'Susan Richeson' were admitted to Charlestown church as founding members [ChChR 7].
    FREEMAN: 18 May 1631 [MBCR 1:366]."
    "BIRTH: By about 1604 (based on estimated date of marriage and chronology of his siblings), son of Thomas and Katherine (Duxford) Richardson [ Sarah Hildreth Anc 25-28]."

  2. Johnson, Edward F. Woburn Records of Births, Deaths, and Marriages . (Woburn, Massachusetts: Andrews, Cutler & Co., 1890-1919)
    2:157.

    "Richardson, … Ezekiel, s. of _____, [died] Oct. 21, 1647."

  3.   Converse, Parker Lindall. Legends of Woburn: now first written and preserved in collected form, to which is added a chrono-indexical history of Woburn. (Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States: Andrews, Cutler & Co, Printers, 1892)
    page 146.


    1647. Richardson's Row laid out.
          Ezekiel Richardson one of the original founders died Oct. 21.
    1651. Thomas Richardson one of the original founders died Aug. 28.
    1657. Samuel Richardson, one of the original founders, died Mar. 23.

  4.   The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
    Volume 7, Pages 172-173, 1853.

    Will (dated "20 : 5 : 1647" [20 Jul 1647], proved "1 (4) 1648" [1 June 1648]):
    I, Ezekiell Richardson of Woebourn, being in perffect memorie. Wife Susanna, and Eldest son Theophilus, Executors. To son Josias, thirtie pounds, to be paid in mony, Cattell or corne, when 21. Vnto son James, 30 pounds; Vnto dau. Phebe, 30 pounds. I discharge whatsoever demands haue bin my brother Samuel Richardson, and my selfe. Vnto brother, Thomas Richardson, his Son Thomas, 10 s. Overseers, Edward Converse and John Mousall of Woebourne. In case either die before the accomplishment of this my will, the surviuer, with the consent of Thomas Carter, pastor of the church in Woebourne, shall have power to choose an other overseer in his place. Vnto the overseers 30 pounds a peece. Debts discharged, all the rest to the Executors, provided wife may peacablie injoy her habitation in the house.

    Thomas Carter, scribe
    Edward Convars
    John Mowsall

    Ezekiel richardson.
    Proved by Edward Convers & John Mowsall. 1(4) 1648, before the Gov'r & my self.
    Increase Nowell, sec.

    Inventory taken 9: 18: 1647 [9 Nov 1647], by Edward Convars, John Mowsall, Thomas richardson. The debts of our sister Susannna Richardson, 6-10-0. Her legasie, 93-10-0. The remainder to the Executors, 90 pounds, 6s. -6.

  5.   The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
    Volume 7, Page 284, 1853.

    WOEBORNE

    John the son of Ezechiel Richardson dyed 7 (11) 1642. Richardson.
    Ruth the daughter of Ezechiel Richardson borne 31 (6) 1643 and dyed 7 (7) 1643. Richardson.

  6.   The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
    Volume 25, Pages 147-150, 340, 1871.

    THE FIRST RECORD-BOOK OF THE FIRST CHURCH IN CHARLESTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS

    Records of Baptisms, Arranged Chronologically Begin Here.

    1633
    10th: mo day: 22 Theophilus Richeson: the son of Ezekiel Richeson: and of Susanna his wife: was baptised.
    1635
    9th: mo day: 7 Josiah Richeson the son of Ezekiell Richeson and of susanna his wife was Baptised.
    1638
    5th: mo day: 21 John Richeson the son of Ezekiell Richeson and of Susanna his wife was Baptised.
    1639:
    12th: mo day: 15 And Jonathan Richefon son of Ezekiell Richefon and susanna his wife was Baptised.
    1641:
    5th: mo day: 11 James Richeson the son of Ezekiell Richeson and off susanna his wiffe - was Baptized.

  7.   Sewall, Samuel. The history of Woburn, Middlesex County, Mass. : from the grant of its territory to Charlestown in 1640, to the year 1860. (Boston: Wiggin and Lunt, 1868, 687 pgs.)
    Pages 632-635, 1868.
  8.   Davis, Betsey Warren. The Warren, Jackson and allied families, being the ancestry of Jesse Warren and Betsey Jackson. (Philadelphia: Printed for private circulation by J.B. Lippincott Co., 1903, 249 pgs.)
    pages 90-94, 1903.
  9.   Vinton, John Adams. The Vinton Memorial, Comprising a Genealogy of the Descendants of John Vinton of Lynn, 1648: also, genealogical sketches of several allied families, namely, those bearing the names of Alden, Adams, Allen, Boylston, Faxon, French, Hayden, Holbrook, Mills, Niles, Penniman, Thayer, White, Richardson, Baldwin, Carpenter, Safford, Putnam, and Green : interspersed with notices of many other ancient families, with an appendix containing a history of the Braintree iron works, and other historical matter. (Boston, Mass.: S. K. Whipple and Company, 1858)
    376, 1858.
  10. See Family talk:Thomas Richardson and Katherine Duxford (1) for additional discussion.