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Richmond Town Records Collection Richmond, RI Records, 1800-1907 Size: 2.5 linear feet Catalog number: MSS 215 Processed by: Karen Eberhart, March 2002 ©Rhode Island Historical Society Manuscripts Division |
Historical note:
The town of Richmond is located in Washington County in southwestern RI and was incorporated in 1747. It was originally part of Charlestown.
Scope and content:
The collection includes birth and death certificates for the people of Richmond and the surrounding villages, voting lists, justice of the peace records, and school district records.
Provenance:
The provenance for the voting lists, birth/death certificates and tax valuation records is not known. The materials were brought together as one collection in the 1980s.
Inventory:
Birth/Death certificates for Richmond and the surrounding villages arranged according to the date of death. A few of the earliest dates were recorded many years after the date of death.
Box 1, folder 1. Return of a Birth, 1894
Box 1, folder 2. Return of a Death, 1815 (1), 1832 (1), 1852-1857, 1859-1863, 1866 (1)
Box 1, folder 3. Return of a Death, 1875 (1), 1877-1880
Box 1, folder 4-8. Return of a Death, 1881-1898
Box 2, folder 1-3. Return of a Death, 1899-1907
Dates of birth and death for the "black", "copper", and "collard" people in Richmond:
Dates of birth:
12/7/1894 4/23/1894 11/27/1894
Dates of death:
6/2/1877 1/17/1880 9/10/1879 10/1880 2/26/1881 10/15/1881
5/21/1885 12/14/1886 11/15/1887 11/26/1887 3/18/1888 7/2/1888
11/1/1888 8/6/1891 10/14/1891 5/21/1894 7/31/1894 10/9/1894
12/19/1894 8/17/1897 9/17/1898 4/2/1899 6/9/1899 6/8/1900
3/13/1900 6/11/1901 1/1/1903 4/1/1903 4/29/1903 8/21/1903
8/22/1903 4/1/1904 4/1/1904 (2) 4/25/1904 9/30/1904 10/22/1904
10/28/1904 2/5/1905 3/17/1905 10/26/1905 11/19/1905
Box 3, folder 1. John Stanton's records as Justice of the Peace for the Town of Richmond, 1800-1806, 1818-1822. Includes a listing of the births of the 8 Stanton children, 1785-1810 and what appears to be a listing of people from Richmond and surrounding towns who bought a Bible in 1815.
Box 3, folder 2. Return of the names of the delinquents in the Second Company of Militia, September 3, 1810
Box 3, folder 3. Schedule of the Valuation of the Real and Personal Estate of the Town of Richmond, 1822
Box 3, folder 4. Copy of a Valuation Bill of the Town of Richmond . . .with the said Town of Richmond Proportion of the State Tax ordered by the General Assembly in it session held in June, 1822
Box 3, folder 5. Copy of an Estimate or Valuation Bill of the Town of Richmond . . .with the said Towns Proportion of the State Tax ordered by the General Assembly at their Session held in June, 1823
Box 3. folder 6. School District #3 - Plot surveyed by [Q.?] York on March 11, 1839; Minutes of the school district meetings, 1844-1850.
Box 3, folder 7. Return of the Public School in District #8, 1839.
Box 3, folder 8. Instructions for election of Representatives in Congress, 1848
Box 3 Oversize Voting Lists - 1868, 1874, 1876-1882, 1884-1906
Subjects:
Birth certificates - Richmond, RI - 1894
Death certificates - Richmond, RI - 1815-1907
Justice of the peace - Richmond, RI
Stanton, John
Schools - Richmond, RI
Tax list - Richmond, RI - 1822-1823
Voting registers - Richmond, RI
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