Following from "Richmonds in America---a Short synthesis written by R. Walton on the early Richmonds in America":
"Jonathan was born 10 December 1786 in New Braintree, MA. He was the oldest child of his father's (Sylvester Richmond) second marriage (to Elizabeth Gardner). He and his brothers had to work hard on the farm. His father believed in education, but Jonathan only went through the 8th grade. He met Hannah Harriet Duncan of Hardwick through his sister Catharine. Jonathan was very excited about the prospect of exploring the country west of New Braintree. He had met people who had been as far as Albany and Syracuse, New York. They told him of the rich, fertile soil of the valley of the Mohawk River where there was talk of building a canal to encourage further migration to the west. He was only 17 years old when he convinced Hannah Duncan to marry him and go with him west. They discovered the trails were not the best but felt themselves fortunate to be on horseback. There were the mountains of Western MA to cross, then the Hudson River before they got to the Mohawk River near Albany and Troy, NY. They picked the Augusta area to settle in. By 1820 they were in Onondaga, NY. When they first arrived in Onondaga, they bought some land and little by little built a house and started to grow many different crops as well as having cows and chickens. Amaziah, Sylvester and John helped to make their father's farm successful. Jonathan probably had a tough life. He got married young and never seemed to do well financially, but I can't help but wonder why one of his sons, who all became prosperous farmers, could not have given their parents proper care in their old age and decent burials. Jonathan died on January 3, 1861 and was buried in an unmarked grave in Woodlawn Cemetery in Elmira, New York."
(Additional sentence: "Perhaps one reason I never found out when or where Hannah Harriet died and was buried is because she too is in some unmarked grave.")
"Jonathan was born 10 December 1786 in New Braintree, MA. He was the oldest child of his father's (Sylvester Richmond) second marriage (to Elizabeth Gardner). He and his brothers had to work hard on the farm. His father believed in education, but Jonathan only went through the 8th grade. He met Hannah Harriet Duncan of Hardwick through his sister Catharine. Jonathan was very excited about the prospect of exploring the country west of New Braintree. He had met people who had been as far as Albany and Syracuse, New York. They told him of the rich, fertile soil of the valley of the Mohawk River where there was talk of building a canal to encourage further migration to the west. He was only 17 years old when he convinced Hannah Duncan to marry him and go with him west. They discovered the trails were not the best but felt themselves fortunate to be on horseback. There were the mountains of Western MA to cross, then the Hudson River before they got to the Mohawk River near Albany and Troy, NY. They picked the Augusta area to settle in. By 1820 they were in Onondaga, NY. When they first arrived in Onondaga, they bought some land and little by little built a house and started to grow many different crops as well as having cows and chickens. Amaziah, Sylvester and John helped to make their father's farm successful. Jonathan probably had a tough life. He got married young and never seemed to do well financially, but I can't help but wonder why one of his sons, who all became prosperous farmers, could not have given their parents proper care in their old age and decent burials. Jonathan died on January 3, 1861 and was buried in an unmarked grave in Woodlawn Cemetery in Elmira, New York."
(Additional sentence: "Perhaps one reason I never found out when or where Hannah Harriet died and was buried is because she too is in some unmarked grave.")
Following from "Richmonds in America---a Short synthesis written by R. Walton on the early Richmonds in America":
"Jonathan was born 10 December 1786 in New Braintree, MA. He was the oldest child of his father's (Sylvester Richmond) second marriage (to Elizabeth Gardner). He and his brothers had to work hard on the farm. His father believed in education, but Jonathan only went through the 8th grade. He met Hannah Harriet Duncan of Hardwick through his sister Catharine. Jonathan was very excited about the prospect of exploring the country west of New Braintree. He had met people who had been as far as Albany and Syracuse, New York. They told him of the rich, fertile soil of the valley of the Mohawk River where there was talk of building a canal to encourage further migration to the west. He was only 17 years old when he convinced Hannah Duncan to marry him and go with him west. They discovered the trails were not the best but felt themselves fortunate to be on horseback. There were the mountains of Western MA to cross, then the Hudson River before they got to the Mohawk River near Albany and Troy, NY. They picked the Augusta area to settle in. By 1820 they were in Onondaga, NY. When they first arrived in Onondaga, they bought some land and little by little built a house and started to grow many different crops as well as having cows and chickens. Amaziah, Sylvester and John helped to make their father's farm successful. Jonathan probably had a tough life. He got married young and never seemed to do well financially, but I can't help but wonder why one of his sons, who all became prosperous farmers, could not have given their parents proper care in their old age and decent burials. Jonathan died on January 3, 1861 and was buried in an unmarked grave in Woodlawn Cemetery in Elmira, New York."
(Additional sentence: "Perhaps one reason I never found out when or where Hannah Harriet died and was buried is because she too is in some unmarked grave.")
"Jonathan was born 10 December 1786 in New Braintree, MA. He was the oldest child of his father's (Sylvester Richmond) second marriage (to Elizabeth Gardner). He and his brothers had to work hard on the farm. His father believed in education, but Jonathan only went through the 8th grade. He met Hannah Harriet Duncan of Hardwick through his sister Catharine. Jonathan was very excited about the prospect of exploring the country west of New Braintree. He had met people who had been as far as Albany and Syracuse, New York. They told him of the rich, fertile soil of the valley of the Mohawk River where there was talk of building a canal to encourage further migration to the west. He was only 17 years old when he convinced Hannah Duncan to marry him and go with him west. They discovered the trails were not the best but felt themselves fortunate to be on horseback. There were the mountains of Western MA to cross, then the Hudson River before they got to the Mohawk River near Albany and Troy, NY. They picked the Augusta area to settle in. By 1820 they were in Onondaga, NY. When they first arrived in Onondaga, they bought some land and little by little built a house and started to grow many different crops as well as having cows and chickens. Amaziah, Sylvester and John helped to make their father's farm successful. Jonathan probably had a tough life. He got married young and never seemed to do well financially, but I can't help but wonder why one of his sons, who all became prosperous farmers, could not have given their parents proper care in their old age and decent burials. Jonathan died on January 3, 1861 and was buried in an unmarked grave in Woodlawn Cemetery in Elmira, New York."
(Additional sentence: "Perhaps one reason I never found out when or where Hannah Harriet died and was buried is because she too is in some unmarked grave.")
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