Person:Josiah Richards (3)

Name	Josiah Richards
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	22 Sep 1713	Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage	22 Sep 1737	Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United Statesto Hannah Whiting
Death^[2]	24 Oct 1771	Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States

References

↑ Dedham (Massachusetts). Town Clerk; Julius Herbert Tuttle; Benjamin Fisher; and Don Gleason Hill. The early records of the town of Dedham, Massachusetts. (Dedham, Massachusetts: Dedham Transcript Press, 1886-1936)
p. 40.

Josiah, the son of Edward and Sarah Richards, was born September the 22, 1713.
↑ Dedham (Massachusetts). Town Clerk; Julius Herbert Tuttle; Benjamin Fisher; and Don Gleason Hill. The early records of the town of Dedham, Massachusetts. (Dedham, Massachusetts: Dedham Transcript Press, 1886-1936)
p. 108.

Josiah Richards, Obt. October 24, 1771.
Smith, Frank. The founders of the first parish, Dover, Massachusetts: with descriptions of all the houses now standing which were built before the Revolution. (s.n., 1908?)
p. 11.

JOSIAH RICHARDS was born on the Rev. Dr. Burgess farm in Dedham Sept. 22, 1713. He was the son of Edward and Sarah (Wheeler) Richards, and was descended in the fourth generation from Edward Richards of Dedham. He made the original Richards settlement on Strawberry Hill, (the farm owned by the late Miss Mary Bullard) in 1737. He married Sept. 22, 1737, Hannah, daughter of Nathaniel and Joanna (Ellis) Whiting. Children: Lemuel, Moses, Hannah, Asa, Sarah, Thaddeus, Josiah, Solomon, Mary, Lucy, Abijah, Jesse, Betsey. He died Oct. 24, 1771, and is buried in Dover.