(Colonel) Barzillai Richmond

Below is the biography of Barzillai Richmond from the Richmond Family book. Was his possible participation in a famous incident not known when this biography was written (ca 1896)?

The Gaspee Organization makes the case that Barzillai Richmond (and his son and son-in-law)  participated in "the 1772 burning of the hated British revenue schooner, HMS Gaspee, by Rhode Island patriots as America's 'First Blow for Freedom'TM."

343.  (COLONEL) BARZILLAI RICHMOND (5) (William 4, Silvester 3, Edward 2, John 1) was born in Little Compton, R.I., April 13, 1721, and died January 5, 1796.  He married in Providence, November 24, 1743, Sarah, daughter of Ebenezer and Elizabeth Knight, who was born November 21, 1718, and died October 10, 1791.

He was one of the seceders from the First Congregational Church on account of Josiah Cotton preaching "damnable good works."  He was in the Canada War during two campaigns, and in 1755, and afterwards was ordered to raise a body of men and proceed to the relief of the British Colonial Army on Lake Champlain.  He contracted a disease in one of his legs which made him lame for life.  He was at the siege of Ticonderoga under Dalrymple, as Colonel; he was not, however, in the storming party.  His brother William, of Little Compton, was with him as volunteer lieutenant.

At one time he received orders late Saturday night.  He repaired to his minister's, and had an appropriate sermon preached on Sunday morning; opened a rendezvous for enlistment in the afternoon, and in the evening, with a large company, was on his march.  Of the four companies to be raised as a reinforcement to go against Crown Point under Major-General Johnson, he was captain of the fourth company, and was Lieutenant-Colonel in 1758 and 1760.  He also held various municipal, civil and State offices. 

Children (born in Providence, R.I.):

1023.  William (6), born Aug. 17, 1744; married, 1st, Lois Gray; 2nd Hannah Mason
1024.  Elizabeth (6), born April 5, 1746 (?), married James Searle
1025.  Ebenezer (6), born Feb. 5, 1747; died unmarried
1026.  Mehitable (6), born June 21, 1749; married Lewis Bosworth
1027.  Anna (6), born Oct. 1, 1750; married Silas Talbot
1028.  Sarah (6), born Sept. 28, 1758; died Sept. 12, 1785.

There were probably three other children, viz: Barzillai, Samuel and Cyrus.

His Mayflower connections found here in an article about Elizabeth Pabodie and Descendants.

Barzillai Richmond's name was listed in the Report on the formation of the Society for Providence Society for Abolishing the Slave-Trade, published in the Thursday, Feb. 26, 1789.  His name was also among petitioners for the establishment of a university (Brown University).


The Richmond Family book's profile of Barzillai's brother, William Richmond, here.

French War Artifact From King George II

1133. POLLY RICHMOND 6 (John 5, Sylvester 4, Silvester* 3, Edward 2, John 1) was born in Dighton, Mass., February 9, 1770, and died July 30, 1840. She married (29 Dec 1799) Daniel Rutenbur, who was born September 19, 1772, in Providence, R. I., and died June 18, 1850. They resided in Providence, and were buried in the "Old West Burying-ground."
*Married a Mayflower descendant

CHILDREN (born in Providence, R. I.):

2944. Mary Rutenbur 7, born Feb. 3, 1800; died Dec. 28, 1852; married Charles P. Shelton of Boston, who died in South Coventry, Conn., March 3, 1855. Children: Polly 8, Eugenia 8, Anna J. 8, and Daniel R. 8.

Source

2945. Eliza A. Rutenbur 7, born April 17, 1806; married Sterry Kelley. They resided in Providence, R. I. Children: Albert S. 8, Jesse E. 8, Mary E. 8, Margaret F. 8 (died 16 Dec 1860), and George S. 8 (died 18 Feb 1860).

2946. Margaret Lee Rutenbur 7, born Nov. 8, 1809. [Died 25 Jan. 1867] She had a table of rich and rare workmanship, with a design of the Lion and Unicorn with the Crown, which was presented to one of the Richmonds by the King, for services as a Colonel in the old French War**.

**After the capture of Louisbourg and Capt Breton, Col. Sylvester Richmond was invited to England to receive the thanks of the Crown - he sent his son, Col. Ezra Richmond instead, who received a commission from King George II (per J.B. Richmond book). Perhaps the table was a present to Colonel Sylvester Richmond, Margaret Lee Rutenbur's great-grandfather.

From "A list of Rhode Island Literary Women":
Rutenbur, Margaret Lee, b. (about) 1812, d. 1866. Nat. Contributor to Peterson's and
other Philadelphia mags.

Wild Flowers, by Margaret Lee Rutenbur, published in Peterson's Magazine in 1861:

Nathaniel Richmond - Who Was Killed In Louisbourg Expedition

Nathaniel Richmond was born about 1700 and died in the Louisburg Exepedition, according to the Joshua Bailey Richmond "Richmond Family" book:



64. NATHANIEL RICHMOND 4, (Edward 3, John 2, John 1) was born in Taunton about 1700. He married, November 2, 1732, Alice Hackett, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Elliott) Hackett, born January 18, 1715. He was killed in the Louisburg Expedition in 1763*, and his widow married ---Finney**.
*The date is questionable
** Probably Joseph Phinney

Children (born in Taunton):
230. Nathaniel 5, born in 1733; married 1st Mary Richmond; 2nd Sarah Damon [1731 - 1791/3]
231. Gideon 5, married 1st, Hannah Richmond; 2nd Susannah Busby
232. Alice 5, married Onesimus Campbell***
233. Elizabeth 5, married Ezra Leonard

***The marriage was in 1744 -- was it the widowed Alice Hackett who married Onesimus Campbell? Most likely.

Onesimus and Joseph Phinney (Alice's probable 3rd husband) were listed together in this history of the Church of North Middleborough, Massachusetts. There is an IGI entry that lists the marriage of Alice Hackett and Joseph Phinney on 14 Jan 1762 in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts.

From Nathaniel's father's bio in the J.B. Richmond book:


The descendants of Nathaniel 4 say that he was born about 1700; that he was killed at the siege of Louisburg; that he left a son Nathaniel who married his second cousin, Mary Richmond (daughter of John and Dighton (Mirick) Richmond; that this last Nathaniel was born about 1731, and died in 1813, at Camillus New York.

John Richmond, Nathaniel's grandfather married 2nd Abigail Rogers according to the Mayflower descendant publication:

Nathaniel was a member of the Thomas Rogers, Pilgrim, family:

Nathaniel Richmond 5 (Captain Edward 4, Abigail 3 Rogers, Elder John 2, Thomas 1) born ca 1700.

This source stated that there was no verifiable offspring of Nathaniel & Alice (Hackett) Richmond and their descendants are no longer accepted to the Thomas Rogers Society nor the Mayflower Society.

John Richmond Hired A Substitute In the French-Indian War

327. John Richmond 5 (Stephen 4, John 3, Edward 2, John 1) was born in Westerly, R. I., February 24, 1733. He married first, November 3, 1757, Sarah Hazard of West Greenwich, R. I., daughter of Robert Hazard, who was born May 6, 1734, and died November 1760. He married, secondly, Sarah Mowry, who died January 2, 1810, without children. He married, thirdly, Mrs. Martha Doylas, who died April, 1822. He died March 4, 1816.

He was a Justice of the Peace for a number of years, and was a Quaker. He was admitted a freeman of Richmond, R. I., March 14, 1754, and was drawn for the French War, but hired a substitute on account of religious scruples.

CHILDREN BY FIRST MARRIAGE:
967. Nancy 6, born in 1758; married Josias Lawton
968. Sarah 6, born in 1760; married John Webster