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Ezekiel Richarson was born 1601 in England to Thomas Richardson (1565-1634) and Catherine Duxford (c1570-) and died 21 October 1647 Woburn, North America of unspecified causes.


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He was born in 1601 in Tring, Hertfordshire, England and died on 21 Oct 1647 in Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony. He arrived with the Winthrop Fleet in 1630 in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony and married in 1632 in New England to Susanna Unknown (1639-1681).

In 1633 he was appointed by the Massachusetts Bay Court to be Constable of Charlestown and on 2 Sep 1634 he was chosen to be Deputy or Representative from Charlestown to the Massachusetts General Court.

On 10 Feb 1634/35 he was chosen as one of the first people of the Selectmen of Charlestown and was again in 1637, 1638 and 1639. He was one of the followers of Ann Hutchinson and John Wheelwright in the Antinomian Controversy of 1637, a member of the Boston Church and one of the signers of the Remonstrance in Mr. Wheelwright's favor which was presented to the Massachusetts General Court. Around the same time aquirea large amount of land called "Misticke Side" or "Malden" as well as his brothers did.

On 15 May 1640 he was one of the founders and chosen a Surveyor of Woburn, Massachusetts along with Edward Johnson (-), Edward Convers (-) and a few others. Richardson with the same people was chosen to be commissioner or agent of the First Church of Woburn.

On 13 Apr 1644 at the first election of town officers, he was chosen Selectmen of Woburn and was also in 1645, 1646 and 1647; he was also appointed in 1644 to "End Small Causes." It is also said the he was the first colonists of the name Ezekiel in New England.

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