Family: Stephen Richardson / Jane Montgomery (F2137)

• Male Stephen Richardson

  
  

  Birth	Abt 1700
  Death	Abt 1747
  Burial
  Marriage	Abt 1730  [1]	Ireland  [1]
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  Female Jane Montgomery

  
  

  Birth	Abt 1705	Ireland
  Death	Abt 1750
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  Male Stephen Richardson

  
  

  Birth	23 Oct 1738
  Death	20 May 1812	Bass Harbor, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Burial		Crockett Point Cemetery, Tremont, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Spouse	Elizabeth Gott | F4962
  Marriage	11 Mar 1762	Rockport, Essex, Massachusetts, USA

  
  

  Male Elijah Richardson

  
  

  Birth	1741	Windham, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA
  Death
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  Spouse	Jemima Gott | F7464
  Marriage	8 Nov 1764	Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA

  
  

  Male Hugh Richardson

  
  

  Birth	Abt 1741
  Death
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  Spouse	Elizabeth Clark | F7486
  Marriage	28 Sep 1766	Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA

  
  

  Male Thomas Richardson

  
  

  Birth	26 Aug 1739	Londonderry, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA
  Death	17 Feb 1813	Bass Harbor, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Burial		Pretty Marsh Cemetery, Tremont, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Spouse	Margaret Gott | F7497
  Marriage	23 Nov 1762	Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA

  
  

  Male James Richardson

  
  

  Birth	Abt 1732
  Death	12 Dec 1807	Hancock County, Maine, USA
  Burial		Pretty Marsh Cemetery, Tremont, Hancock, Maine, USA
  Spouse	Rachel Gott | F13887
  Marriage	19 Mar 1752	Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA

  
  

• Notes

  Married: Soldier Stephen Richardson and Lady Jane Montgomery eloped without their families' blessings

  
  

• Sources

  [S4246] Samuel Eliot Morison, The Story of Mount Desert Island, Maine - eBooks, (Name: Little, Brown; Date: 1960;), Google eBooks: The Story of Mount Desert Island, Maine -- The People of Mount Desert: Richardson. James Richardson, fellow pioneer at Somesville with Abraham Somes, was the offspring of an early Lady Chatterley’s Lover affair. His fa­ther, head gardener to a Scots laird, secretly married his em­ployer’s daughter, Lady Jane Montgomery; they eloped to America, and James was their son. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Story_of_Mt_Desert_Island_Maine/_w7YswEACAAJ?hl=en History-The People of Mount Desert This tells the story of how the Richardsons from whom we are descended initially came to Maine.