Jonathan RICHARDSON

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 21 Nov 1697, First Church at Hartford, Conn.

Jonathan married Anna TREAT on 25 Oct 1721 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA. Anna (daughter of Rev Salmon TREAT and Dorothy NOYES) was born on 26 Aug 1699 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA; died on 17 Mar 1777 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jonathan married Ann EDWARDS in 1696. Ann (daughter of Richard EDWARDS and Elizabeth TUTTLE) was born in 1678 in Hartford, Fairfield Co., Connecticut; died in May 1764 in Coventry, Tolland Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Representative from Stonington to the General Co.
• Fact 1: Made a Freeman
• Baptism: 20 Jun 1652, First Church in Boston, Mass.
• Military Service: Between 1675 and 1676; Served in King Philip's War

Notes:

Stephen served in King Philip's War at the time of the Great Swamp fight, and was one of the soldiers who shared in the Voluntown grant made by the State in 1696. Was Probably the Quartermaster for the Connecticut troops. On May 18, 1676, the Colonial Council authroized him to sell arms in his possession in part payment for his services. Minor's Diary, December 15, 1675 says: "Concticut Armie Set forth from mr. Richardsons," and Jun, 1676, "Thursday, the 15, wee were to meet all the soldiers at steeven Richardson house.: Was imprisoned by Rhode Island in the summer of 1680. Presented a claim to the General Court for damages. In 1687, he was a representative from Stonington to the General Court.

Niles's History is authority for the statement that in July 1689, "Stephen Richardson shot dead onthe spot one William Trimming, a notorious English decoy in the service of the French privateers." Trimming had secreted himself in a house on Fisher's Island, and Richardson, with sixteen other men, went there to capture him. He was censured by some for his action, as they wanted to take him alive.

Stephen married Lydia GILBERT before 25 Sep 1673. Lydia (daughter of Jonathan GILBERT and Mary WELLS) was born on 03 Oct 1654. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Will: 23 May 1700

Richard married Elizabeth TUTTLE on 19 Nov 1667 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, and was divorced in Oct 1691 in By Act of the Connecticut General Assembly. Elizabeth (daughter of William TUTTLE and Elizabeth MATHEWS) was christened on 9 Nov 1645 in New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut; died after 1691. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From Conn. Quarterly: "The branch of the Tuttle family from which Elizabeth Tuttle came, was erratic to the degree of insanity, and is so to a certain extent to the present day. This family taint was restrained by the strong will and great spirituality and intellectual vigor of the Rev. Timothy and Rev. Jonathan, only to crop out again in the renewed activity in the son (Pierpont Edwards) and the grandson (Aaron Burr), of the 'divine Jonahtan', both of whom were profligate, vicious and licentious. Mrs. Richard Edwards' brother was found quilty of slaying his sister, by the Colonial Court, and executed; and another sister was found quilty of killing her own son, but through the confusion existing at that time, she escaped the penalty of the law."

From Tuttle Genealogy: "A remarkable feature in our family history, as it would be in any other, is the branch of Elizabeth. It is an interesting genealogical study. Both the parents were of the same Wlesh race. There is evidence that the mother had the sensitive and excitable temperament of genius. Richard Edeards, being an only child, inherited ample means and gave his children the best education the country afforded. To educate is to bring out, and to train, it cannot create talents or character. The ministerial profession was then almost the only field for the employment of able and educated men. So all things conspired to favor the natural bent for their son Timothy. The process was continued and in the next generation reached its hightest development in his son Jonathan. From the very geginning this branch has been noted for its higth regaard for education, its scholarly culture, and its religious disposition. It is said to include a larger number of eminent persons than have sprung from any other one of the New England founders. It is wonderful, says a late writer, how much of the grace and culture of American society has sprung from this root. The same pursuits continued generation after generation in the same families, or originally set apart by nature for a chosen work, has resulted in a heritage of confirmed aptitudes, enlarged natural capacities, delicacy and refinement of physical organization, manners, sentiments and tastes; a sort of 'Brahmin Caste in New Entland', as Dr. Holmes put it, of which the Edwards family form a considerable proportion, and in which it holds a high rank."