John Richards

Citations

1. [S12] Rev. Abner Morris, Genealogical Register of the Descendants of Several Ancient Puritans, Volume III: pages 106-107.
2. [S1164] Herbert W. Sumner Jr., Birth Records of Dedham, Massachusetts, page 413 - John Richards, son of John & Mary, 20 July 1673.
3. [S1508] Francis H. Fuller, Notes and Queries, page 327 - Richards-Fuller – The statement that John Richards, born 20 (5) 1673 married Judith Fairbanks, appears in Morse’s Richards Genealogy (1861) , page 107, and this error has been repeated in several publications, notably in the second volume of Dedham Records, page viii, in the sketch of Hannah Shuttleworth, who was a descendant of John and Judith Richards, and in a sketch in the Dedham Historical Register, vol. xii, page 109, of Mrs. Mary (Richards) Tyler (wife of Rev. Andrew Tyler, of the third precinct church of Dedham), . . . There is no mention of a Judith Fairbanks in Dedham records of the Fairbanks Genealogy, John Richards’s wife must be found in some other family.
   John Fuller, son of Thomas, had a daughter Judith, born 21 Nov., 1673, who married a Richards, as appears in the will of John Fuller (Suffolk Co. Wills, file 4182), dated 8 Dec., 1718, proved 26 Jan., 1718-19. The only Judith Richards whose name appears in the Suffolk Co. Registry of Deeds was the wife or widow of John Richards of Dedham. No record of the marriage of John Richards and Judith has been found, but that it was as early as 8 Mar., 1694-5, is shown by the deed in Suffolk Co. Registry, Vol. 73, fol. 35, when John Richards and Judith his wife conveyed to Nathaniel Richards six acres of Fowle Meadow, “Being all our interest in the farm that was our grandfather Edward Richards’s commonly called Cooke’s Farm and was given by deed in part and by will in part by our grandfather to our Hon’d father John Richards, deceased.” This deed was not recorded until 11 Feb. 1746, more than fifty years after its execution.