The Old Holland Land Office

"The Holland Purchase Historical Society, of which Mrs. Dean Richmond is President...".

The Gaspee's Mission

Narragansett Bay

From the book, When we destroyed the Gaspee: a story of Narragansett Bay in 1772:

"This vessel [Gaspee] of the king's was, in the beginning of March, sent to Narragansett Bay by the commissioners of customs at Boston, to prevent the people from breaking the revenue laws, and to put an end to what those gentlemen of Massachusetts were pleased to say was an illicit trade carried on between Newport and Providence."

Also see Detour June 9, 2013 

Sanctfication, Graphic Scenes And Yazoo Stories

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Sanctification was a book written by Beverly Carradine, an ancestor of the Carradine family of actors.  There is a connection to the same Richmond family from whom I descend (we share John, the immigrant and John's son, Edward).

Other books include Graphic scenes and Yazoo Stories.

An Excerpt From One Of The Yazoo Stories (A Misunderstood Man)

Characters include Fred Stanley, Blanche Osmond and George Varley.

Life Work Of Mrs. Cora L. V. Richmond

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Here is more about the Richmond family Cora married into.

A Late Phoenix

A Late Phoenix by Catherine Aird, is an English mystery, "With undertones of war." "And overtones of murder."


The Serving Men poem by Rudyard Kipling was mentioned in the Aird book; I was not familiar with it before reading this novel.  Here's an excerpt and illustration:

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Another excerpt included a real person, Doctor Harley Crippen, who was born and raised in the United States though became infamous in England.

"He wouldn't have killed that girl."  "He was a doctor, Inspector."  "He was dedicated to saving life, not wasting it."  "...Sloan didn't argue; though a first-class medical training hadn't stopped those well-remembered doctors Harley Crippen, Buck Ruxton....from doing murder in their day."

A Late Phoenix was described in this blog.

Burning The Gaspee

A possible Richmond participant who helped to destroy the Gaspee.....

The Gaspee Organization makes the case that Barzillai Richmond (and his son and son-in-law)  participated in "the 1772 burning of the hated British revenue schooner, HMS Gaspee, by Rhode Island patriots as America's 'First Blow for Freedom'TM."


When we destroyed the Gaspee: a story of Narragansett Bay in 1772:

Frederick Douglass In Shadows Of Glory

Frederick Douglass, who married a Richmond descendant (Helen Pitts), is a character in the novel I'm reading, Shadows of Glory, by Owen Parry.

I share the earliest two American Richmond ancestors (Edward (2) and John (1)) with Helen Pitt Douglass.

Keokuk, Iowa, St. Louis, Missouri, And Mark Twain

From the Mark Twain Project:

The entry is a reference to Keokuk, Iowa, a town we visited in September 2010, as well as beautiful St. Louis, now with the addition of the Arch.

[ Daily Packet Service ] to Keokuk. The merchants—envied by all the untraveled town—made trips to the great city (of 30,000 souls).

Mississippi River at Keokuk, Iowa

 St. L papers had pictures of Planters House, and sometimes an engraved letter-head had a picture of the city front, with the boats sardined at the wharf and the modest spire of the little Cath Cathedral showing prominently; and at last when a minor citizen realized the dream of his life and traveled to St. Louis, he was thrilled to the marrow when he recognized the rank of boats and the spire and the Planters, and was amazed at the accuracy of the pictures and at the fact that the things were realities and not inventions of the imagination.

St. Louis

Mrs. Richmond & Edgar Allan Poe

Nancy (Heywood) Richmond, wife of Charles Richmond of Lowell, Massachusetts, may have inspired Edgar Allan Poe's "For Annie" and played a part in Landor's Cottage. 

Below is an excerpt describing Nancy's perception of Edgar Allan Poe as well as comments made by Nancy's brother, (Amos) Bardwell Heywood. 

Poe then arranged his card to spend time at the Richmonds, neighbors to whom Jane Locke hand introduced him. There he met Nancy Richmond, the twenty-eight-year-old wife of a successful paper manufacturer [Charles B. Richmond] "and mother of a three-year-old girl." (Silverman 346) Ms. Richmond also took an interest in Poe, describing him as "unlike any other person, I had ever known, that I could not think of him in the same way--he was incomparable--not to be measured by any ordinary standard." (Silverman) In the Richmond household Poe found audience for recitation of his unfortunate past. Bardwell Richmond [sic] [Amos Bardwell Heywood], Nancy's brother, was struck by Poe's account of the brotherly/sisterly affection in his and Virginia's relationship. Bardwell thought such a relationship unusual as a basis for matrimony.

Part of the Edgar Allan Poe poem "For Annie":

From Modern English prose:

Letters purported to be between A.(Annie, formerly Nancy) L. (Locke) Richmond and Edgar Allan Poe can be found here.

An Aide To General George Washington & Other Descendants of Thomas Baylies

Reminiscences of the Baylies and Richmond families (1875) by Mary Richmond Baylies Allen, is a story of her ancestors, Thomas & Esther (Sargent) Baylies, and others.

Mary, the daughter of Thomas and Esther, married Col. Ezra Richmond, who is a descendant of John Richmond and is noted in the Joshua Bailey Richmond book.

Details of the marriage of Thomas & Esther (Sergeant) Baylies

A prisoner of war during the Revolutionary War, Major Hodijah Baylies, was an aide-de-camp to General Benjamin Lincoln and after his release, was an aide to General George Washington. General Lincoln was appointed the first Secretary of War and Major Baylies married General Lincoln's daughter, Elizabeth.


Other intermarriages between the Richmond and Baylies families as noted in Mrs. Allen's book:

The Honorable Charles Pinckney Sumner In Print

A blog entry at "Richmonds & Connected Lineages," featured the Honorable Charles Pinckney Sumner, United States Senator from Massachusetts, who was physically attacked and beaten with a cane on the floor of the Senate by Rep. Preston Brooks of South Carolina in 1856. Sumner's great-grandmother was Hannah (Richmond) Jacobs, a descendant of John Richmond and John's son, Edward, who were also two of my ancestors. Hannah was a Mayflower descendant through Edward Richmond's son, Silvester, who married Elizabeth Rogers, a Mayflower decendant.

While researching, the Life and Times of Charles Pinckney Sumner, by Elias Nason, was found online.

Another publication, Memoirs and Letters of Charles Sumner, Vol. II, 1838-1845, by Edward Lillie Pierce (who donated Sumner-related documents to Harvard), Charles Sumner published in Boston in 1878 by Roberts Brothers, was also found.