Samuel Richardson
Samuel Richardson was a Quaker. By an account printed in 1910 from Samuel W. Pennypacker's sketch of 1874, he was arrested at a Friends' meeting in London in 1670 and fined for refusing to promise to stay away from meetings.
He came to Pennsylvania from Spanish Town, Jamaica, with a certificate from the Friends there. A certificate of removal was the letter a Quaker meeting gave a member who moved away, vouching that he was in good standing. On 3 July 1686 he bought 5,880 acres in Pennsylvania and two lots on High Street in Philadelphia, for £340. In time he owned the whole north side of High Street from Second Street to the Delaware River. High Street was the town's main street, later renamed Market Street.
He sat on the provincial council, the body that governed Pennsylvania with the proprietor's governor. He lived on a plantation of 500 acres near Germantown, and from 1705 until his death he was an alderman of Philadelphia.
His first wife, Elliner, died at the Germantown plantation on 29 April 1703. About 1705 he married Elizabeth, who outlived him. His children were Joseph, who married Elizabeth Bevan in 1696 and lived at Olethgo on the Perkiomen; Mary, wife of the tanner William Hudson, later mayor of Philadelphia; Ann, wife first of Edward Lane of the Perkiomen and then of Edmund Cartledge of Conestoga; and Elizabeth, wife of Abraham Bickley.
He made his will on 6 June 1719 and died four days later, on 10 June, "at an advanced age."
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Cite: Heirology, "Samuel Richardson (d. 1719)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/samuel-richardson-1719-b64492.