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John Richmond was one of the older men of the settlement in Taunton. His name does not apppear in the list of males [able to bear arms] in 1643; he was in Rhode Island in 1655, and it is probable that he was there at the time or in England. He took the oath of fidelity in Taunton before 1640. The family were large landowners in the easterly part of town, and gave to a village in that section the names of Richmondtown. He was one of the Commissioners, for Newport, of the Court of Commissioners, held at Portsmouth in 1656. He ownd six shares in the orininal purchase of Taunton in 1637. John Richmond is my Husband's ancestor. We have the Richmond family tree that goes back to the beginning of the early 1600s. They were a big part of Massachusetts history. Richmond, Massachusetts was founded by John Richmond.

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