THE RICHARDS FAMILY. 35 



Peter Richards was born in 1778, married, on November 25, 1800 

 Ann Channing Huntington, daughter of Brigadier General Jedediah 

 Huntington of Revolutionary fame, and raised a family of nine chil- 

 dren, who all married and made homes of their own in different States. 

 He was a merchant and resided in his native town until his last child 

 had married and left him. Then, owing partly to poor health and 

 partly to parental love, he gave up business and with his wife resided 

 alternately with those of his children who lived in New England, 

 chiefly with his eldest son whose family seems to have been especially 

 attractive. Thus it was that he came to Groton, of which place, how- 

 ever, I think he was never a legal resident. In time his children 

 came to feel the need of a central home, where the parents, now fast 

 aging, could cease from wandering; and they built a house in the 

 quiet and beautiful village of Washington, Connecticut, adjacent to 

 the home of the youngest daughter, whose husband. Rev. Ephraim 

 Lyman, was pastor of the Congregational Church of that place. Here 

 Peter Richards and his wife spent their last years, tenderly cared for 

 and cheered by the frequent visits of those dearest to them. And 

 here they passed quietly away, she on the 9th day of January 1857, 

 and he on June 17, 1863. 



The eldest child of Peter and Ann Channing (Huntington) Richards 

 was Henry Augustus Richards, of whom more later. The next was Dr. 

 VVoIcott Richards, a graduate of the Yale Medical School in 1825, who 

 practised medicine for many years in Cincinnati. He married twice 

 and in his later years lived in Roxbury and Waltham, Mass., and died 

 in New York City. The third child, Channing Richards, was a mer- 

 chant, married and lived in Cincinnati, and there died. The fourth 

 child, Ann Huntington Richards, married Rev. James Woods McLane, 

 a Presbyterian minister of New York City and Williamsburgh. The 

 fifth child was Eliza Richards who married James Haughton of Boston, 

 one of the most charming men I ever met. His firm, Haughton, 

 Sawyer & Co., was very prominent in the wholesale dry goods busi- 

 ness. The sixth child, Peter Richards, with a residence in- Brooklyn, 

 engaged in business in New York City for many years, then retired, 

 and ended his days in Geneva, N. Y. He married twice. The 

 seventh child was Hannah Dolbeare Richards, wife of Rev. Ephraim 

 Lyman of Washington, Conn. She, the last of her generation, is still 

 living — in Clifton Springs, N. Y. The eighth child was Rev. George 

 Richards. He was graduated at Yale in 1840, was a tutor there and 

 Fellow of the University, became pastor of the Winter Street Church 

 in Boston, then was settled at Bridgeport, Conn., and died at Litch- 



