Thursday, May 26, 2016

Treasure Chest Thursday - Post 315: Birth Records of Children of Joseph and Mary (Bowden) Richards in Southborough, Mass.

It's Treasure Chest Thursday - time to look in my digital image files to see what treasures I can find for my family history and genealogy musings.

The treasure today is the birth records of the children of Joseph Richards (1703-1758) and Mary Bowden (1705-1755) born in Southborough, Massachusetts:


The snippet of the list of children is (from the top of the left-hand page above):


The transcription of the list of children of Joseph and Mary (Bowden) Richards is:

1: Born to Joseph Richards & Mary his wife a Son Named
William Richards: on Feby 25 day in the year ---- 1729-30
2:  Born to Joseph Richards & Mary his wife a Son Named
Joseph Richards: on April 1st day in the year ---- 1731
3:  Born to Joseph Richards & Mary his wife a Daughter Named
Mary Richards: on Sept 27th day in the year ---- 1733
4:  Born to Joseph Richards & Mary his wife a Son Named
Ebenezer Richards: on Feb. 25 day in the year ---- 1738
5: Born to Joseph Richards & Mary his wife a Daughter Named
Martha Richards: on Jan 31st day in the year ---- 1740
6: Born to Joseph Richards & Mary his wife a Son Named
John Richards: on Dec 10th day in the year ---- 1742
7: Born to Joseph Richards & Mary his wife a Daughter Named
Hannah Richards: on Jan 24th day in the year ---- 1744
8: Born to Joseph Richards & Mary his wife a Daughter Named
Esther Richards: on Feb 25th day in the year ---- 1746

Born to Mary Richards ???? Son Named
Isaac Buck Reputed by her to be a Son
of Isaac Buck on Sep 27 1757

The source citation for this record is:

Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), "Southborough Births, Marriages and Deaths," page 66 (image 114 of 1007), list of children of Joseph and Mary Richards, 1730-1746.

Amazingly, three of the eight children were born on February 25th, and also amazingly Mary Richards and her son born out of wedlock were born on September 27th. 

Joseph and Mary (Bowden) Richards are my 6th great-grandparents, and Mary Richards is my 5th great-grandmother.  The out-of-wedlock son of Mary Richards, named Isaac Buck, is my 4th great-grandfather.

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