Genealogy Data Page 688 (Notes Pages)

Note: He was a merchant, and lived at one time in Chelmsford, but was a seacaptain for several years, acting as both captain and supercargo of his own ship. He was faithful to every trust committed to him. In his early life, being in the city of Liverpool, he was impressed into the British service, and put on board a line-of-battle ship. He was with Lord Nelson in the great naval engagement of Trafalgar in 1805. He was sent ashore at Cadiz, two days after the battle, and often related how he found the beach strewn with the bodies of those who were killed and thrown overboard during the battle, and cast upon the beach by the sea to the number of several thousands. After a service of two years, he obtained release through the efforts of his brother-in-law, Mr. Jones of Dighton, who had learned of his capture.

Once, when navigating a brig to the West Indies, she was taken by a British sloop-of-war, and a prize-master with six men put in charge to sail her into Halifax. On the passage, although they left only one man and a boy of his crew on board, he managed to retake her, and brought the vessel safely into an American port. After leaving the sea he spent most of his life in Elizabeth City, N. C.

Death: 1833 Westport, MA

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Richmond, Samuel Buckman (b. 14 APR 1776, d. 16 JUN 1824)

Note: He was a shipwright in Dighton in 1794. He removed to Scipio, now Ledyard, Cayuga Co., N.Y.; thence to New Bedford; and was mate of a whaling vessel when twenty-one years old. He returned to Ledyard, cleared a farm on the banks of Cayuga Lake, where he lived until his death. He was six feet in height and noted for muscular strength. His wife was born in Hebron, Conn., and removed, when very young, with her father, to Harpersfield, N.Y. A few days after their arrival there, they were obliged to flee to Schoharie, and were in the fort when it so successfully resisted the attack of Indians and Tory allies in 1780.

Death: 16 JUN 1824

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Richmond, Samuel (b. 15 JUL 1801, d. 16 MAR 1866)

Death: 16 MAR 1866 Bergen, Genesee, NY

Burial: Mt. Rest Cemetery, Bergen, Genesee, NY

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Richmond, Sylvester (b. 16 AUG 1805, d. ?)

Death: --Not Shown--

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Woodworth, Cynthia S. (b. , d. 29 MAY 1802)

Death: 29 MAY 1802 Bergen, Genesee, NY

Burial: Mt. Rest Cemetery, Bergen, Genesee, NY

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