Eleanor Richardson
Second wife of Josiah Converse, whom she married at Leicester, Massachusetts, in 1732, and probably the mother of Col. Israel Converse among their thirteen children, most born at Stafford, Connecticut, including triplets in 1752. Born at Woburn about 1714, probably a daughter of Nathaniel Richardson and Abigail Reed, she was widowed in 1775 and died at Stafford in 1785.
Life
- c. 1714BornWoburn, Massachusetts
"born in Woburn, about 1714" (Richardson Memorial, which elsewhere lists her as "Place of birth uncertain"). Her descendant Ella Browne's DAR line has "(1712-85)."
- 1732Married Josiah Converse27 Dec 1732, Leicester, Massachusetts
The Leicester town record as indexed by FamilySearch and cited on WikiTree; the Richardson Memorial has "1732, in Leicester"; Ella Browne (1903) has 27 Dec 1731; Kith and Kin has 27 Dec 1732 "at Woburn."
compiledprobableSources
- WikiTree profiles: the Chapin, Munn, Hitchcock, Sheldon, Whiting, Pynchon, Cummings, Kendall and Converse ancestors of Ella (Chapin) Browne
- John Adams Vinton, The Richardson Memorial (Portland, 1876)
- American Monthly Magazine (Daughters of the American Revolution), vol. 22, no. 4 (April 1903): Genealogical Notes and Queries, answers signed "E. P. C. B."
- W. M. Dixon, Kith and Kin: Dixon and Allied Families (Los Angeles, 1922)
- 1785
Family
- Father
- Nathaniel Richardson
Of Woburn and Leicester, one of the thirty-seven grantees of the east half of Leicester in 1724/5; he died intestate late in 1728 (Richardson Memorial). Not researched further.
- Mother
- Abigail Reed
"dau. of Nathaniel and Abigail (Reed) Richardson" (Kith and Kin); the widow Abigail died in 1759 (Richardson Memorial). Not researched further.
- Spouse
- Josiah Conversecompiledprobable
Sources
- John Adams Vinton, The Richardson Memorial (Portland, 1876)
- W. M. Dixon, Kith and Kin: Dixon and Allied Families (Los Angeles, 1922)
- William Gedney Wallbridge, Descendants of Henry Wallbridge, Who Married Anna Amos, December 25th, 1688, at Preston, Conn. (Litchfield, Conn., 1898)
- DAR Lineage Book, vol. 33 (1900), no. 32031: Mrs. Ella Persis Chapin Browne
- American Monthly Magazine (Daughters of the American Revolution), vol. 22, no. 4 (April 1903): Genealogical Notes and Queries, answers signed "E. P. C. B."
- WikiTree profiles: the Chapin, Munn, Hitchcock, Sheldon, Whiting, Pynchon, Cummings, Kendall and Converse ancestors of Ella (Chapin) Browne
1 child
Pedigree
Notes
Mother of Col. Israel Converse. A daughter of Nathaniel Richardson of Woburn, who moved to the new town of Leicester and died there in 1728, she was born about 1714 and married Josiah Converse at Leicester in December 1732, as his second wife (source). Their first two daughters were born at Leicester, the rest of their thirteen children at Stafford, Connecticut, where the town records list them as “the chi. of Josiah and Eleanor Converse” (source). She bore triplets there on 22 Apr 1752, when she was nearly forty, and her last child, Joseph, in December 1754. She was widowed in 1775 and died at Stafford on 6 Aug 1785 (source).
Research: research/hatten/Browne_Chapin_Cumins.md.