Capt. William Putnam Richardson

1785 - 1826  (41 years)

• Name	William Putnam Richardson  [1]
  Prefix	Capt.
  Born	5 May 1785	Salem, Essex, MA, USA   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	5 Sep 1826  [1]
  Alt. Death	6 Sep 1826	Salem, Essex, MA, USA   [2]
  Buried	Salem, Essex, MA, USA, Harmony Grove Cemetery   [3, 4]
  	Harmony Grove Cemetery
  Notes	CAPT. WILLIAM PUTNAM RICHARD SON (Nathaniel, Joshua, Joshua, Nathaniel, Thomas), brother of the preceding, and youngest son of Nathaniel and Eunice (Putnam) Richardson, of Salem; born there, May 5, 1785; married, Aug. 6, 1807, DEBORAH LANG, born Sept. 23, 1785, daughter of Edward and Rachel (Ward) Lang. He was a shipmaster in the East India trade, and afterwards a merchant in Salem. He was, at the date of his death, president of the American Insurance Company in that town. While following the seas, he visited some of the islands in the Pacific Ocean, and performed an important service to the cause of philology, which is acknowledged in the following passage copied from the journal of the American Oriental Society, vol.i. No. 1, p. 52, Boston, 1843: "Among the other islands, our countrymen first furnished a valuable vocabulary of the Fiji language, which supplied an important deficiency in the known vocabularies of the Polynesian family of languages." The ensuing note then follows: "This vocabulary was collected in the year 1811, by the late William P. Richardson, Esq., of Salem, and is made the subject of a particular notice, and acknowledgment of the late eminent philologist, Baron William Von Humboldt, to whom it was communicated about twenty years ago, in his great work entitled, Ueber die Kaui, Sprache auf der Imael Java; - that is, On the Kaui, or Oriental language of the Island of Java, 3 vols., 4to., Berlin, 1836-1839. See vol. ii. p. 29." William Putnam Richardson died Sept. 5, 1826, aged 41 years, and 4 months. His widow Deborah died March 4, 1845, aged 59 years and 5 months. Their remains were deposited in Harmony Grove Cemetery, Salem. [The Richardson Memorial, pages 631-632] Note difference in spelling of childrens' names:  Caroline Sovina and Augustus Ilsley. [History and Genealogy of the Perley Family, page 55.] ------------------------- William Putnam Richardson (poor photo of headstone or memorial) May 5, 1785, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA Sep. 6, 1826, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA Merchant mariner. President of the American Insurance Company. He compiled a vocabulary of Fijian languages while following his career as a ship's master. Husband of Deborah Lang. Son of Nathaniel and Eunice Putnam Richardson. Family links: Parents:   Nathaniel Richardson (1742 - 1796)   Eunice Putnam Richardson (1751 - 1846) Spouse:  Deborah Lang Richardson (1785 - 1845) Children:   Augusta Ilsley Richardson (1810 - 1811)* Siblings:   Jesse Richardson (1776 - 1814)*   Israel Richardson (1782 - 1867)*   William Putnam Richardson (1785 - 1826) *Calculated relationship Burial: Harmony Grove Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA, Plot: Anemone Path Created by: Bob on Gallows Hill Record added: May 30, 2009 Find A Grave Memorial# 37713186 http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=37713186 22 Jan 2017 [FindAGrave] [1, 4, 5]
  Person ID	I1100	AC-Family
  Last Modified	22 Jan 2017

  
  

  Father	Nathaniel Richardson,   b. 20 Mar 1741/42, Woburn, Middlesex, MA, USA ,   d. 25 Jan 1796, Salem, Essex, MA, USA  (Age 53 years)
  Mother	Eunice Putnam,   b. 29 Mar 1751, Danvers, Essex, MA, USA ,   d. 26 Nov 1846, Salem, Essex, MA, USA  (Age 95 years)
  Married	Sep 1771	Middleton, Essex, MA, USA   [6]
  Family ID	F540	Family Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family / Spouse	Deborah Lang,   b. 23 Sep 1785, Salem, Essex, MA, USA ,   d. 4 Mar 1845, Salem, Essex, MA, USA  (Age 59 years)
  Married	6 Aug 1807  [7]
  Children	+ 1. Ellen Octavia Richardson,   b. 25 Apr 1808, Salem, Essex, MA, USA ,   d. 27 Apr 1876, Brooklyn, Kings, NY, USA  (Age 68 years)   2. Sarah Lang Richardson,   b. 8 May 1809,   d. 9 Nov 1843, Chicago, Cook, IL, USA  (Age 34 years)   3. Augusta Ilsley Richardson,   b. 11 Nov 1810, Salem, Essex, MA, USA ,   d. 7 Feb 1811, Salem, Essex, MA, USA  (Age 0 years)   4. Dr. William Putnam Richardson,   b. 15 Aug 1815, Salem, Essex, MA, USA ,   d. 27 Mar 1857, , Kendall County, IL, USA  (Age 41 years)   5. Edward Symmes Lang Richardson,   b. 28 Feb 1816, Salem, Essex, MA, USA ,   d. 7 Mar 1903, Aurora, Kane, IL, USA  (Age 87 years)   6. Eliza Anne Richardson,   b. 4 Mar 1817, Salem, Essex, MA, USA ,   d. 26 Jun 1896, North Andover, Essex, MA, USA  (Age 79 years) + 7. Charles Frederick Richardson,   b. 11 Apr 1818, Salem, Essex, MA, USA ,   d. 24 May 1853, Naausay Township, Kendall, IL, USA  (Age 35 years) + 8. Caroline Louisa Richardson,   b. 25 Apr 1819, Northbridge, Worcester, MA, USA ,   d. 15 Sep 1882, Northbridge, Worcester, MA, USA  (Age 63 years)   9. Nathaniel Putnam Richardson,   b. 6 Apr 1824,   d. 26 Nov 1825  (Age 1 years)
  Last Modified	13 Feb 2011
  Family ID	F488	Family Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 5 May 1785 - Salem, Essex, MA, USA Alt. Death - 6 Sep 1826 - Salem, Essex, MA, USA Buried - - Salem, Essex, MA, USA, Harmony Grove Cemetery  = Link to Google Earth
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• Sources

  [S228] Surname / Richardson: Richardson Memorial, John Adams Vinton, (Portland, Maine: Brown Thurston & Co., 1876.), http://www.archive.org/details/richardsonmemori00vint., 631-632. [S446] Internet: Find A Grave, Jim Tipton, (Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/.), (http://www.findagrave.com/ : accessed 22 Jan 2017); Find A Grave Memorial# 37713039; Created by: Bob on Gallows Hill. [S228] Surname / Richardson: Richardson Memorial, John Adams Vinton, (Portland, Maine: Brown Thurston & Co., 1876.), http://www.archive.org/details/richardsonmemori00vint., 632. [S446] Internet: Find A Grave, Jim Tipton, (Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/.), (http://www.findagrave.com/ : accessed 22 Jan 2017); Find A Grave Memorial# 37713186; Created by: Bob on Gallows Hill. [S225] Surname / Perely: Perley Family, Martin van Buren Perley, editor, (Salem, Mass.: Martin van Buren Perley, 1906.), http://books.google.com., 55. [S228] Surname / Richardson: Richardson Memorial, John Adams Vinton, (Portland, Maine: Brown Thurston & Co., 1876.), http://www.archive.org/details/richardsonmemori00vint., 577-578. [S228] Surname / Richardson: Richardson Memorial, John Adams Vinton, (Portland, Maine: Brown Thurston & Co., 1876.), http://www.archive.org/details/richardsonmemori00vint., 631.