Pane-Joyce Genealogy
Abigail Johnson (23561) & Timothy Richardson (41985)
43351. Ebenezer Richardson. Born on 31 Mar 1718 in Woburn, MA.124

Ebenezer first married Rebecca Richardson, second Rebecca’s sister Kezia (Richardson) Henshaw, widow of Thomas Henshaw.

From The Richardson Memorial, pages 242–244:279
    That Ebenezer Richardson married this Rebecca Fowle, daugher of John and Elizabeth (Prescott) Fowle, of Woburn, though much older than himself, is rendered certain by a law-suit. (See court files.) She died about 1783. [?]
    On the twenty-second day of February, 1770, this man, then residing in Boston, made himself unpleasantly notorious. The British Parliament, in June, 1767, passed an act imposing duties
on glass, paper, painters’ colors, and tea, imported into the colonies. As Englishmen in England paid no duty on these articles, it was thought that Englishmen in America were entitled to the same privilege. The act being therefore regarded as a direct invasion of the liberties of the colonies, the merchants of Boston, in the October following, entered into an agreement not to import or sell any of the above-named articles. In this measure they were sustained by the citizens of Boston in town-meeting assembled. The movement had the sympathy and encouragement of the province in general, and of New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, South Carolina, and the other colonies. They also had encouragement and sympathy from several of the leading statesmen in England.
    A strict adherence to the non-importation agreement was considered essential to the liberties of America ; but there were four merchants of Boston, who, after entering into it, determined no longer to abide by it. For this conduct, they were, at a town-meeting held October, 1769, by name declared enemies to their country, and as deserving to be treated as such. Their names are still on the Boston records as infamous. Thus they found themselves exposed, in no ordinary degree, to the public scorn. Even the boys in the streets, as they passed their doors, pointed at them with words of contempt. Their names were John Bernard, Theophilus Lillie, John Mein, James McMasters & Co. I regret to say two women, Anne and Elizabeth Cummings, were involved in the same infamy. John Bernard was a son of Francis Bernard, the late governor. Thomas and Elisha Hutchinson, sons of the lieutenant governor, were also of the number. To give the greater effect to this proscription, posts were by the boys planted before their doors, with a hand affixed pointing at them in derision.
    One of these men, Theophilus Lillie, having been thus assailed, Ebenezer Richardson, a neighbor and confederate of his, endeavored to persuade a teamster, who was passings to drive his cart against the post to break it down; the teamster refused. A crowd soon gathered; the boys chased Richardson to his house — it was at the north end of Boston, not fjir off^ bricks and stones were thrown at the windows. Richardson, provoked, fired at random into the crowd of boys, dangerously wounding one of them, Samuel Gore, and mortally wounding another, Christopher Schneider, a poor German boy, eleven or twelve years of age, who died the next morning. This was on Feb. 22, 1770.
    The excitement was intense. The funeral of the boy was attended by “all the friends of liberty;” the coffin was covered with appropriate inscriptions; five hundred children, in couples, walked in front of the bier; six of the boy’s playmates held thepall; his relatives followed; after them came thirteen hundred inhabitants on foot; chaises and chariots closed the procession. Boston seldom, if ever, witnessed a more impressive spectacle. The first blood had been shed; the first martyr to libeity had fallen. Thoughtful persons asked, “Where will this end?”
    The affray at John Gray’s ropewalk, March 2d, on Atkinson Street, soon followed, and the “Boston Massacre,” March 5, 1770, soon added to the general excitement, and prepared the people for a forcible and bloody resistance of the wrongs they were suffering.
    Richardson, on the 20th of April following, was tried on a charge of murder. A verdict of guilty was rendered. It was murder and nothing else. Richardson, though provoked, was not at all endangered. The chief justice, Thomas Hutchinson, refused to pronounce sentence, being strongly committed to the oppressive measures of the British ministry. Richardson, after lying in prison two years, was, on application to the king, pardoned and set at liberty.
    To reward Richardson for the service he had thus rendered to the minions of arbitrary power, one of the ships from London brought to him in April, 1773, an appointment as an officer of the customs in Philadelphia.
    Richardson’s business in Boston, at least a part of it, was to give information to the board of customs, of merchants or others who imported or sold articles on which duties had been imposed by Act of Parliament. Consequently he and his like were extremely obnoxious to the people. It was therefore prudent for him, after his release from prison, to get out of the way as soon as possible ; for there was an intention to give him a coat of tar and feathers. Happily his case, so far as I know, is wholly singular in the Richardson family.
Ebenezer first married Rebecca Fowle (19993) , daughter of Capt. John Fowle (7256) (12 Mar 1671[/2]-13 Jun 1744) & Elizabeth Prescott (27 Nov 1678-14 May 1753). Born on 21 Nov 1706 in Woburn, MA.124 Rebecca died by 6 Nov 1782.256

Rebecca first married Phineas Richardson, second Ebenezer Richardson. She was the second cousin once removed of Phineas and second cousin twice removed of Ebenezer; all three were descendants of Thomas and Katherine Richardson.
Their children include:
39369i.
Rebecca Richardson (4 Aug 1741-)
39370ii.
Lucy Richardson (18 Jan 1744-)
39371iii.
Ebenezer Richardson (16 Jun 1746-1808)
On 15 May 1754 when Ebenezer was 36, he second married Kezia Fowle (20001) , daughter of Capt. John Fowle (7256) (12 Mar 1671[/2]-13 Jun 1744) & Elizabeth Prescott (27 Nov 1678-14 May 1753), in Boston, MA. Born on 22 Sep 1718 in Woburn, MA.124

Kezia first married Thomas Henshaw, second Ebenezer Richardson as his second wife.
43352. Abigail Richardson. Born on 17 Apr 1720 in Woburn, MA.124 Abigail died in Woburn, MA, on 14 Aug 1720.124
43353. Abiathar Richardson. Born on 15 Aug 1722 in Woburn, MA.279 Abiathar died aft 1743.279
43354. Abigail Richardson. Born ca 1723 in Woburn, MA. Abigail died in Hollis, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire in 1812.
On 7 Mar 1739 Abigail married Capt. Joshua Wright (25041) , son of Dea. Josiah Wright (10 Mar 1673-22 Jan 1747) & Ruth Carter (9800) (18 Oct 1681-31 Jan 1774), in Woburn, MA. Born on 9 May 1716 in Woburn, MA. Joshua died in West Dunstable, MA, on 5 Aug 1776; he was 60.164

Joshua, from Woburn, removed to West Dunstable where he served as selectman.164
Their children include:
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Ruth Wright (13 Feb 1761-11 Feb 1825)
43355. Zeli Richardson. Born ca 1730 in Woburn, MA.279 Zeli died aft 1743.279
43356. Keziah Richardson. Born ca 1733.
18 Oct 1751 (Int.) Keziah married Lieut. Daniel Bryant (46648) , son of Joseph Bryant (28096) (25 Mar 1708-1779) & Sarah Gould (29 Aug 1706-), in Stoneham, MA.327 Born on 4 Apr 1731 in Stoneham, MA. Daniel died in Stoneham, MA, on 9 Mar 1779; he was 47.327
Their children include:
56764i.
Sarah Bryant (8 Dec 1752-)
43357. John Richardson. Born 1 Jan 1735/6.279 John died aft 1759.279
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