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Subject: Re: Eli Richards 1771-1804
Date: 21 Sep 2005 05:11:49 -0600


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Once again, I thank you for all of the information. From various sources, I have that Rowland Richards, his minor children, and three of his married daughters and their families, left Frederick County between 1800 and 1802. They all settled in the part of Hamilton County, Ohio that became Warren County in 1803. A number of years prior to this (1787), Rowlands son Abijah, whose mother was Mary Miles, left Frederick County and settled in Loudon County, upon his marriage there. No later than 1806, Abijah relocated to Columbiana County, Ohio, on the far side of Ohio, away from his father. It was in Columbiana County, Ohio in 1820 that my ggg-grandfather Townsend Richards married Sarah McNeely, a Quaker native of Chester County, Pennsylvania. She was "dismissed" by the Quakers for her marriage, and never rejoined them.

Every member of Rowland's family except Eli seems to have been well documented, especially through the Quaker records. I know that Rowland Richards and his second wife Lydia Townsend had a son named Townsend Richards born 1778 and died just short of his tenth birthday. My ggg-grandfather Townsend Richards was born 20 years later in 1798. By then, Eli Richards would have been 27 years old.

I have read that my ggg-grandfather had a son named Eli who died before the 1850 census, but I don't have any idea what the source of that information was. Indeed, earlier census records did show that he did have one other son. So, I have nothing but circumstantial evidence so far, although it looks very promising, that my Townsend Richards was the son of Eli, and grandson of Rowland Richards and Lydia Townsend.

It is very helpful to know that Eli might have still been in Frederick County as of 1799. That would have been a year after my ggg-grandfather was born, and just prior to his sister having been born in Virginia in 1800.

Thanks again.

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