Ancestry of
Sumner Sewall

58th Governor of Maine

Luther Richardson

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Sumner Sewall — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 28 
  • Father:
  • Josiah Richardson Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Eveleth   
  • Birth Date:
  • 24 Nov 1764 
  • Birth Location:
  • Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 5 Oct 1814 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Revolutionary Cemetery, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Persis Hemingway
  • Marriage Date:
  • Jun 1790 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Charles L. Richardson (Ahnentafel No:14 )

  • Notes: 

  • Vital records give Luther Richardson and Persis Hemenway as JUN 1770. This is obviously an error and should probably read 1790.

• Sources for Luther Richardson

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 06/25/2020).
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Sudbury, Vol. 1, p. 216, Marriage of Luther Richardson and Persis Hemenway in Framingham.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1907, Vol. 61, p. 123, Cemetery record for Luther Richardson.
  • ⁴ Hemingway, Patricia S., The Hemingways: Past and Present and Allied Families, Rev. Ed., Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc. (1988), 74.
  • ⁵ Locke, John Goodwin, Book of Lockes: A Genealogical and Historical Record of the Descendants of William Locke, of Woburn, Boston and Cambridge: James Munroe and Company (1853), 137.
  • ⁶ 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), 254, 317.