36Made freeman 2 May 1658; removed to Woburn; one of the founders of the church there.

Lieutentant John Richardson, eldest son of Samuel and Joanna; baptized in Charlestown, Nov. 12, 1639, and doubtless born there; married, first, when short of nineteen years old, Oct. 22, 1659, Elizabeth Badon, born Jan 4, 1641-2, daughter of Michael Bacon, one of the original inhabitants of Woburn. Second at Cambridge, Oct. 28, 1672 (*) Mary Pierson, daughter of Bartholomew.

(*)Rev. Mr. Sewall, in his “History of Woburn,” p. 634, says that Lieut. John Richardson married Mary Pierson Oct. 28, 1673, one year after the date in the text, and the Cambridge record gives the same date, which Mr. Sewall had evidently copied. The same error crept into Bond’s “Watertown Genealogies,” p. 910. Mr. Sewall says also that their son Pierson was born Sept. 29, 1674. I follow the Woburn record and the transcript made by Mr. Sewall for the town. If Pierson was born “22d of 7th month, 1673,” as on the Woburn record, his parents, if honest people, must have been married in 1672.