Boston records (Woburn), as we have seen, seem to extol Ezekiel.
Theopolis according to his will, must have been a financial success.
The Stafford Street records, I was informed by Mrs. Larned, who now lives on the old homestead, were kept in their family from the beginning until lately, when they became such a source of annoyance from ancestor seekers, like myself, that they sent them to the recorder's office at Stafford Springs.
At the recorder's office at Stafford Springs I found that John Richardson from Medford came to Stafford Street in 1726, this, though meager, acts as the official connecting link between Woburn and Stafford.
Another scrap I found was that Paul Richardson had taken land adjoining his brother, John Richardson, this identifies both John and Paul.
Regarding Gershom, the other one of the three brothers, I found this:
"Gershom Richardson, son of Gershom and Abigail, born in 1761."
This would make the elder Gershom Richardson contemporary with John and Paul.
E. Y. Fisk, an early settler, told me that a part of the early church records have been burned.