Ancestry of
Bill Richardson

30th Governor of New Mexico

William Everett Richardson

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• • Great-grandfather of Bill Richardson — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 8 
  • Father:
  • Peter R. Richardson 
  • Mother:
  • Mehitable Spencer Prentiss   
  • Birth Date:
  • 21 Feb 1825 
  • Birth Location:
  • Princeton, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 23 May 1902 
  • Death Location:
  • Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Forest Hills Cemetery and Crematory, Jamaica Plain, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Vesta Hodsdon
  • Marriage Date:
  • 20 Aug 1862 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  William Blaney Richardson (Ahnentafel No:4 )

  • Notes: 

  • Civil War veteran - Union

• Sources for William Everett Richardson

  • ¹ Federal Census, MA, Suffolk County, 1880, Boston, E.D. 653, p. 6, Image 6 of 34.
  • ² Federal Census, MA, Suffolk County, 1870, Boston Ward 8, p. 87, Image 87 of 285.
  • ³ Federal Census, MA, Middlesex County, 1900, Cambridge Ward 1, E.D. 678, Sheet 7B, Image 14 of 36.
  • ⁴ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 08/21/2020).
  • ⁵ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Birth record for son William Blaney Richardson.
  • ⁶ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Marriage record for William E Richardson and Vesta Hodsdon.
  • ⁷ The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts), 24 MAY 1902, p. 3, Obituary for William Everett Richardson.
  • ⁸ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, S.A.R. #11501, Membership application for Francis Allen Richardson.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 145.
  • ¹⁰ Vinton, John Adams, The Richardson Memorial: Comprising a Full History and Genealogy of the Posterity of the Three Brothers . . ., Portland, Maine: Brown Thurston and Co. (1876), 679.