BIRTH
Stephen was born the son of Edward Richards [1678] and Mary Head who had emigrated from England. Stephen was born in the Dorcester County region of Maryland, the youngest of five sons.
ON THE FRONTIER
His father Edward moved the family first to an area known as Quaker Bottom which was near the Gunpowder Meeting [of Quakers] locale [modern-day Cockeysville] ca 1729. Edward joined his first-born son Benjamin [1710] and Isaac Wright in beginning a Quaker meeting ca 1739 on land named "Spring Garden" that Edward had patented in 1730, and also "Rattlesnake Ridge". This land and surrounding gradually populated and resulted in the town of Hampstead Maryland. Stephen's sister Mary married Christopher Vaughan who laid-out the lots for the town in 1786.
PIPE CREEK SETTLEMENT
Stephen, his older brothers Daniel [1719] and Matthew [1711]; later moved about 22 miles west of his father's home to a location called the Pipe Creek settlement. The settlement was growing, and the Quakers/Friends were gathering in William Farquhar's home there. This gathering of Friends would become known as the Pipe Creek Meeting. Much later it would become the town of Union Bridge.
A hand-written statement in Stephen's father Edward Richards' Bible records: "April 10 1742 Stephen Richards house was burnt." No other information given. Stephen would only have been 14 years old, if his birth date of 1728 is correct. This may be reason to doubt his birth date.
Frederick County was "born" of portions of Cecil and Baltimore Counties in 1748.
LAND PURCHASE
In 1749, Stephen had surveyed for purchase "Spring Garden" near present-day Libertytown, about five and one-half miles south west of Union Bridge. [from "Pioneers of Old Monocacy: The Early Settlement of Frederick County Maryland" By Grace L. Tracey & John Philip Dern.]
SOME DOCUMENTATION
Stephen's name appears as a witness on his father-in-law Cornelius Carmack's will along with John Justice and John Gregg. Will probated November 14, 1749 in Frederick Maryland.
Stephen's name appears on a pettition for the building of the "old Liberty Road" that ran through Libertytown MD.
"This petition [signed 1749] thus marked the beginning of the Liberty Road, Maryland State Route 26, from Mt. Pleasant to Taylorsville [Burnt House Woods]… But the large number of others signing this petition shows how rapidly after 1743 the settlement grew. These included Joseph WOOD of Linganore… John PHILLIPS… John HOWARD, son of Gideon, and Philip HOWARD…Stephen RICHARDS…"
LAND SALE:
"This Indenture made the Ninteeth Day of June in the Year of Our Lord one-thousand Seven-hundred and fifty-five:
John Carmack [Stephen and Daniel's brother-in-law], Stephen Richards, and Daniel Richards sold to Basil Dorsey of Ann Arundel County for the sum of Twelve pounds Current Money of Maryland Tract or Parcell of Land called "Hopsons Choice" lying and being in Frederick County containing and laid out for twenty-five acres of land."
Frederick County MD Land Records pg 47
555-557. Francis Simpson recorded 2 Oct 1754, made same date between Stephen Richards, for 60 pS GB, sells part of tract called "Spring Garden," containing 600 acres (adj. in part of William Carmack). Signed: Stephen Richards. Elizabeth released dower right. Receipt. AF paid.
MARRIAGE
Stephen married Mary Elizabeth Carmack ca1748 [unverifed date], the daughter of Cornelius Carmack [1681] and Guien Corem. Cornelius farmed near [what would become] Libertytown, and supplied three daughters to wed the Richards brothers!
Stephen and Mary Elizabeth's child:
1. Stephen Jr. [?]
In 1756, Stephen Richards and a Stephen Richards Jr. signed a pettition together, along with relative John Carmack, from the All Saint's Parish in Frederick County Maryland. from the book: "Calendar of Maryland State Papers--the Black Books" by the State of Maryland.
FRENCH & INDIAN WAR:
Stephen's name appeared on General John Middaugh's muster roll during the French and Indian War 1757, next to his brother Daniel's.
20 November 1765: A copper mining co-partnership was made between Stephen Richards and John Stevenson to raise copper ore from a tract called "Spring Garden". Witnessed by Upton Sheredine and Christopher Carman.
From HISTORY OF WESTERN MARYLAND; J. Thomas Scharf; Louis H. Everts; Philadelphia, PA; 1882.
If the above date is true, it indicates Stephen lived past the date of 1764, or that his son Stephen Jr. was the one named. There was re-survey of 478 acres of "Spring Garden" done and documentation of it dated 1767 and 1774.
AN EARLY DEATH
Stephen died at age 36, his brother Matthew at age 40. I wonder why.
HISTORICAL NOTE: In 1782, John Young renamed his property "Duke's Woods" to "Liberty Town" in the fervor that followed the Revolutionary War victory. Thus the name of the town was born.
LINEAGE:
Edward Richards [1678] Manchester, Lancashire England/Maryland
Stephen was born the son of Edward Richards [1678] and Mary Head who had emigrated from England. Stephen was born in the Dorcester County region of Maryland, the youngest of five sons.
ON THE FRONTIER
His father Edward moved the family first to an area known as Quaker Bottom which was near the Gunpowder Meeting [of Quakers] locale [modern-day Cockeysville] ca 1729. Edward joined his first-born son Benjamin [1710] and Isaac Wright in beginning a Quaker meeting ca 1739 on land named "Spring Garden" that Edward had patented in 1730, and also "Rattlesnake Ridge". This land and surrounding gradually populated and resulted in the town of Hampstead Maryland. Stephen's sister Mary married Christopher Vaughan who laid-out the lots for the town in 1786.
PIPE CREEK SETTLEMENT
Stephen, his older brothers Daniel [1719] and Matthew [1711]; later moved about 22 miles west of his father's home to a location called the Pipe Creek settlement. The settlement was growing, and the Quakers/Friends were gathering in William Farquhar's home there. This gathering of Friends would become known as the Pipe Creek Meeting. Much later it would become the town of Union Bridge.
A hand-written statement in Stephen's father Edward Richards' Bible records: "April 10 1742 Stephen Richards house was burnt." No other information given. Stephen would only have been 14 years old, if his birth date of 1728 is correct. This may be reason to doubt his birth date.
Frederick County was "born" of portions of Cecil and Baltimore Counties in 1748.
LAND PURCHASE
In 1749, Stephen had surveyed for purchase "Spring Garden" near present-day Libertytown, about five and one-half miles south west of Union Bridge. [from "Pioneers of Old Monocacy: The Early Settlement of Frederick County Maryland" By Grace L. Tracey & John Philip Dern.]
SOME DOCUMENTATION
Stephen's name appears as a witness on his father-in-law Cornelius Carmack's will along with John Justice and John Gregg. Will probated November 14, 1749 in Frederick Maryland.
Stephen's name appears on a pettition for the building of the "old Liberty Road" that ran through Libertytown MD.
"This petition [signed 1749] thus marked the beginning of the Liberty Road, Maryland State Route 26, from Mt. Pleasant to Taylorsville [Burnt House Woods]… But the large number of others signing this petition shows how rapidly after 1743 the settlement grew. These included Joseph WOOD of Linganore… John PHILLIPS… John HOWARD, son of Gideon, and Philip HOWARD…Stephen RICHARDS…"
LAND SALE:
"This Indenture made the Ninteeth Day of June in the Year of Our Lord one-thousand Seven-hundred and fifty-five:
John Carmack [Stephen and Daniel's brother-in-law], Stephen Richards, and Daniel Richards sold to Basil Dorsey of Ann Arundel County for the sum of Twelve pounds Current Money of Maryland Tract or Parcell of Land called "Hopsons Choice" lying and being in Frederick County containing and laid out for twenty-five acres of land."
Frederick County MD Land Records pg 47
555-557. Francis Simpson recorded 2 Oct 1754, made same date between Stephen Richards, for 60 pS GB, sells part of tract called "Spring Garden," containing 600 acres (adj. in part of William Carmack). Signed: Stephen Richards. Elizabeth released dower right. Receipt. AF paid.
MARRIAGE
Stephen married Mary Elizabeth Carmack ca1748 [unverifed date], the daughter of Cornelius Carmack [1681] and Guien Corem. Cornelius farmed near [what would become] Libertytown, and supplied three daughters to wed the Richards brothers!
Stephen and Mary Elizabeth's child:
1. Stephen Jr. [?]
In 1756, Stephen Richards and a Stephen Richards Jr. signed a pettition together, along with relative John Carmack, from the All Saint's Parish in Frederick County Maryland. from the book: "Calendar of Maryland State Papers--the Black Books" by the State of Maryland.
FRENCH & INDIAN WAR:
Stephen's name appeared on General John Middaugh's muster roll during the French and Indian War 1757, next to his brother Daniel's.
20 November 1765: A copper mining co-partnership was made between Stephen Richards and John Stevenson to raise copper ore from a tract called "Spring Garden". Witnessed by Upton Sheredine and Christopher Carman.
From HISTORY OF WESTERN MARYLAND; J. Thomas Scharf; Louis H. Everts; Philadelphia, PA; 1882.
If the above date is true, it indicates Stephen lived past the date of 1764, or that his son Stephen Jr. was the one named. There was re-survey of 478 acres of "Spring Garden" done and documentation of it dated 1767 and 1774.
AN EARLY DEATH
Stephen died at age 36, his brother Matthew at age 40. I wonder why.
HISTORICAL NOTE: In 1782, John Young renamed his property "Duke's Woods" to "Liberty Town" in the fervor that followed the Revolutionary War victory. Thus the name of the town was born.
LINEAGE:
Edward Richards [1678] Manchester, Lancashire England/Maryland
BIRTH
Stephen was born the son of Edward Richards [1678] and Mary Head who had emigrated from England. Stephen was born in the Dorcester County region of Maryland, the youngest of five sons.
ON THE FRONTIER
His father Edward moved the family first to an area known as Quaker Bottom which was near the Gunpowder Meeting [of Quakers] locale [modern-day Cockeysville] ca 1729. Edward joined his first-born son Benjamin [1710] and Isaac Wright in beginning a Quaker meeting ca 1739 on land named "Spring Garden" that Edward had patented in 1730, and also "Rattlesnake Ridge". This land and surrounding gradually populated and resulted in the town of Hampstead Maryland. Stephen's sister Mary married Christopher Vaughan who laid-out the lots for the town in 1786.
PIPE CREEK SETTLEMENT
Stephen, his older brothers Daniel [1719] and Matthew [1711]; later moved about 22 miles west of his father's home to a location called the Pipe Creek settlement. The settlement was growing, and the Quakers/Friends were gathering in William Farquhar's home there. This gathering of Friends would become known as the Pipe Creek Meeting. Much later it would become the town of Union Bridge.
A hand-written statement in Stephen's father Edward Richards' Bible records: "April 10 1742 Stephen Richards house was burnt." No other information given. Stephen would only have been 14 years old, if his birth date of 1728 is correct. This may be reason to doubt his birth date.
Frederick County was "born" of portions of Cecil and Baltimore Counties in 1748.
LAND PURCHASE
In 1749, Stephen had surveyed for purchase "Spring Garden" near present-day Libertytown, about five and one-half miles south west of Union Bridge. [from "Pioneers of Old Monocacy: The Early Settlement of Frederick County Maryland" By Grace L. Tracey & John Philip Dern.]
SOME DOCUMENTATION
Stephen's name appears as a witness on his father-in-law Cornelius Carmack's will along with John Justice and John Gregg. Will probated November 14, 1749 in Frederick Maryland.
Stephen's name appears on a pettition for the building of the "old Liberty Road" that ran through Libertytown MD.
"This petition [signed 1749] thus marked the beginning of the Liberty Road, Maryland State Route 26, from Mt. Pleasant to Taylorsville [Burnt House Woods]… But the large number of others signing this petition shows how rapidly after 1743 the settlement grew. These included Joseph WOOD of Linganore… John PHILLIPS… John HOWARD, son of Gideon, and Philip HOWARD…Stephen RICHARDS…"
LAND SALE:
"This Indenture made the Ninteeth Day of June in the Year of Our Lord one-thousand Seven-hundred and fifty-five:
John Carmack [Stephen and Daniel's brother-in-law], Stephen Richards, and Daniel Richards sold to Basil Dorsey of Ann Arundel County for the sum of Twelve pounds Current Money of Maryland Tract or Parcell of Land called "Hopsons Choice" lying and being in Frederick County containing and laid out for twenty-five acres of land."
Frederick County MD Land Records pg 47
555-557. Francis Simpson recorded 2 Oct 1754, made same date between Stephen Richards, for 60 pS GB, sells part of tract called "Spring Garden," containing 600 acres (adj. in part of William Carmack). Signed: Stephen Richards. Elizabeth released dower right. Receipt. AF paid.
MARRIAGE
Stephen married Mary Elizabeth Carmack ca1748 [unverifed date], the daughter of Cornelius Carmack [1681] and Guien Corem. Cornelius farmed near [what would become] Libertytown, and supplied three daughters to wed the Richards brothers!
Stephen and Mary Elizabeth's child:
1. Stephen Jr. [?]
In 1756, Stephen Richards and a Stephen Richards Jr. signed a pettition together, along with relative John Carmack, from the All Saint's Parish in Frederick County Maryland. from the book: "Calendar of Maryland State Papers--the Black Books" by the State of Maryland.
FRENCH & INDIAN WAR:
Stephen's name appeared on General John Middaugh's muster roll during the French and Indian War 1757, next to his brother Daniel's.
20 November 1765: A copper mining co-partnership was made between Stephen Richards and John Stevenson to raise copper ore from a tract called "Spring Garden". Witnessed by Upton Sheredine and Christopher Carman.
From HISTORY OF WESTERN MARYLAND; J. Thomas Scharf; Louis H. Everts; Philadelphia, PA; 1882.
If the above date is true, it indicates Stephen lived past the date of 1764, or that his son Stephen Jr. was the one named. There was re-survey of 478 acres of "Spring Garden" done and documentation of it dated 1767 and 1774.
AN EARLY DEATH
Stephen died at age 36, his brother Matthew at age 40. I wonder why.
HISTORICAL NOTE: In 1782, John Young renamed his property "Duke's Woods" to "Liberty Town" in the fervor that followed the Revolutionary War victory. Thus the name of the town was born.
LINEAGE:
Edward Richards [1678] Manchester, Lancashire England/Maryland
Stephen was born the son of Edward Richards [1678] and Mary Head who had emigrated from England. Stephen was born in the Dorcester County region of Maryland, the youngest of five sons.
ON THE FRONTIER
His father Edward moved the family first to an area known as Quaker Bottom which was near the Gunpowder Meeting [of Quakers] locale [modern-day Cockeysville] ca 1729. Edward joined his first-born son Benjamin [1710] and Isaac Wright in beginning a Quaker meeting ca 1739 on land named "Spring Garden" that Edward had patented in 1730, and also "Rattlesnake Ridge". This land and surrounding gradually populated and resulted in the town of Hampstead Maryland. Stephen's sister Mary married Christopher Vaughan who laid-out the lots for the town in 1786.
PIPE CREEK SETTLEMENT
Stephen, his older brothers Daniel [1719] and Matthew [1711]; later moved about 22 miles west of his father's home to a location called the Pipe Creek settlement. The settlement was growing, and the Quakers/Friends were gathering in William Farquhar's home there. This gathering of Friends would become known as the Pipe Creek Meeting. Much later it would become the town of Union Bridge.
A hand-written statement in Stephen's father Edward Richards' Bible records: "April 10 1742 Stephen Richards house was burnt." No other information given. Stephen would only have been 14 years old, if his birth date of 1728 is correct. This may be reason to doubt his birth date.
Frederick County was "born" of portions of Cecil and Baltimore Counties in 1748.
LAND PURCHASE
In 1749, Stephen had surveyed for purchase "Spring Garden" near present-day Libertytown, about five and one-half miles south west of Union Bridge. [from "Pioneers of Old Monocacy: The Early Settlement of Frederick County Maryland" By Grace L. Tracey & John Philip Dern.]
SOME DOCUMENTATION
Stephen's name appears as a witness on his father-in-law Cornelius Carmack's will along with John Justice and John Gregg. Will probated November 14, 1749 in Frederick Maryland.
Stephen's name appears on a pettition for the building of the "old Liberty Road" that ran through Libertytown MD.
"This petition [signed 1749] thus marked the beginning of the Liberty Road, Maryland State Route 26, from Mt. Pleasant to Taylorsville [Burnt House Woods]… But the large number of others signing this petition shows how rapidly after 1743 the settlement grew. These included Joseph WOOD of Linganore… John PHILLIPS… John HOWARD, son of Gideon, and Philip HOWARD…Stephen RICHARDS…"
LAND SALE:
"This Indenture made the Ninteeth Day of June in the Year of Our Lord one-thousand Seven-hundred and fifty-five:
John Carmack [Stephen and Daniel's brother-in-law], Stephen Richards, and Daniel Richards sold to Basil Dorsey of Ann Arundel County for the sum of Twelve pounds Current Money of Maryland Tract or Parcell of Land called "Hopsons Choice" lying and being in Frederick County containing and laid out for twenty-five acres of land."
Frederick County MD Land Records pg 47
555-557. Francis Simpson recorded 2 Oct 1754, made same date between Stephen Richards, for 60 pS GB, sells part of tract called "Spring Garden," containing 600 acres (adj. in part of William Carmack). Signed: Stephen Richards. Elizabeth released dower right. Receipt. AF paid.
MARRIAGE
Stephen married Mary Elizabeth Carmack ca1748 [unverifed date], the daughter of Cornelius Carmack [1681] and Guien Corem. Cornelius farmed near [what would become] Libertytown, and supplied three daughters to wed the Richards brothers!
Stephen and Mary Elizabeth's child:
1. Stephen Jr. [?]
In 1756, Stephen Richards and a Stephen Richards Jr. signed a pettition together, along with relative John Carmack, from the All Saint's Parish in Frederick County Maryland. from the book: "Calendar of Maryland State Papers--the Black Books" by the State of Maryland.
FRENCH & INDIAN WAR:
Stephen's name appeared on General John Middaugh's muster roll during the French and Indian War 1757, next to his brother Daniel's.
20 November 1765: A copper mining co-partnership was made between Stephen Richards and John Stevenson to raise copper ore from a tract called "Spring Garden". Witnessed by Upton Sheredine and Christopher Carman.
From HISTORY OF WESTERN MARYLAND; J. Thomas Scharf; Louis H. Everts; Philadelphia, PA; 1882.
If the above date is true, it indicates Stephen lived past the date of 1764, or that his son Stephen Jr. was the one named. There was re-survey of 478 acres of "Spring Garden" done and documentation of it dated 1767 and 1774.
AN EARLY DEATH
Stephen died at age 36, his brother Matthew at age 40. I wonder why.
HISTORICAL NOTE: In 1782, John Young renamed his property "Duke's Woods" to "Liberty Town" in the fervor that followed the Revolutionary War victory. Thus the name of the town was born.
LINEAGE:
Edward Richards [1678] Manchester, Lancashire England/Maryland
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