Английская Википедия:Edward Richards (Massachusetts politician)
Edward Richards was an early settler of and nine term selectman in Dedham, Massachusetts.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn
Richards was born circa 1610 -1615.Шаблон:Sfn He may have been the brother of Nathaniel Richards and, through his wife Susan, was brother-in-law of John Hunting.Шаблон:Sfn He may have traveled in 1632 on board the Lyon from England to Massachusetts with Nathaniel and settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts until 1636.Шаблон:Sfn Nathaniel moved to Connecticut to found Hartford, but Edward Richards first appears in Dedham in 1636, which is where he married Susan in 1638.Шаблон:Sfn He signed the Dedham Covenant and was a member of First Church and Parish in Dedham.Шаблон:Sfn
Though Dedham was intended to be a Utopian commune, and there was little disparity in wealth, Richards went by the title of "Gent" and, unlike others, aspired to a manor.Шаблон:Sfn He received large tracts of land, second only to the minister, John Allin.Шаблон:Sfn Before moving to Dedham, he purchased a large estate to use as his home and did not receive a house lot, as other settlers did.Шаблон:Sfn He then purchased and was distributed other tracts of land, one of which became known as Broad Oak.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn
He died in May 1684. In his will, he left his home to his second son, Nathaniel, and not his oldest, John.Шаблон:Efn It is suspected that this was because Nathaniel had given Richards more grandsons and thus would be in a better position to transmit the family name down through successively more prosperous generations.Шаблон:Sfn
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- Dedham, Massachusetts selectmen
- Politicians from Cambridge, Massachusetts
- English emigrants to Massachusetts Bay Colony
- 1684 deaths
- Signers of the Dedham Covenant
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