Col Sol R to Henry Ireton, Lord Deputy 1650 [-1], March 4. Crock an Pill; near Bristol. -Have shipped 80 men commanded by Maj Poole. Though I have received of the state 185l to conduct my company to shipping I could give no account of it. I durst not come near my men till my peace was procured and they on board. I cannot stir hence till money comes, I am like to be devided among brewers, bakers and cheesemongers yet I hope to be at Milford ten days before any party of men can reach it. (See Commons' Journals vi 564 [N VIII., 43.] The calendar of State Papers (Domestic) Published London 1876 page 515 List of Recognizaces to the Council of State has the folowing entry: April 7 1650 Solomon Richards, gent Address: St Andrews Holborn, sum £800: Condition "To produce a certificate within three months of having transported 1,200 men to Ireland." There are also references to him on pages 83, 84, 98 and 99 of the same volume 1659 Governor of Wexford. 1678 Michaelmas - collector of revenue: Wexford (ref Irish Ancestor 1974 p73) 1682 Subscribed to the Virginia Company. WO register Commissions 1688: "29 Sept 1688 Solomon Richards, Colonel of a regiment of Foot to be raised for HM's service" Musgrave's Obituary gives date of death of Solomon Richards of 17th Foot as 27 Sept 1688 - this is two days before the date of his commission to raise the 17th foot. Betham's sketch pedigree dated about 1829 gives his wife as Sibella Kavanagh, daughter of Bryan Kavanagh of Borris Co Carlow. Bryan did have two daughters but neither were called Sibella. I don't kniow where Betham got this from but I'm sure it was one of several mistakes Hore History of the town and county of Wexford Page 588: He was a Colonel in Cromwell's armies and in charge of the recruits for the Irish service, which he brought over to Ireland from Milford in 1649. His expenses were £1067. Dec 25 1652: Appointed Commissioner of Revenue at Clonmel 1654: on Transplantation Committee April 1655 Governor of Clonmel 1658 Governor of Wexford Town 1659 JP for Co Wexford One of three officers appointed to certify which Irishmen were in Gaol for not transplanting. Quotation from State Papers of Ireland 1647 - 1660: Solomon Richards: Commission dated 16 July 1659. Lt Col to the Lieut General's (Ludlow's) regt of foot. In a letter from General Ludlow to Sir Arthur Hazlerigg MP (? July 1659) "...those who are most anxious for the restitution of Parliament are .......Colonel Richards of Wexford...." (Notes made by F.A.Richards circa 1946) From papers held at the Historic Manuscripts Commission ref 31267 1654: Map by George Griffin alias Johnson of the lands of Little Mooretown, Wadingstowne, Harperstowne, and Newtowne in the parishes of Ballynegallogh, and Ballycornick and ??orostowne, Co Wexford, the estate of Col Solomon Richards 563 a 5r a4p. Profitable 8a unprofitable scale 40p to 1". Shows Harperstowne House, several cottages, a wood on the lands of Newtowne, and townland boundaries, all in colour. Endorsed in a later hand "Newtowne is in this map but no more of the lands in Sander's hands. Hore Vol 5 Page 429 (re Harperstown] says: In 1664 or thereabouts (the petition is not dated], Colonel Solomon Richards, a distinguished Parliamentarian officer and member of the Council of War, was taken up and imprisoned as "supposed to be disaffecgted to the Government, but nothing being "made out against him, he was set at liberty on giving bonds of £1,000 not to depart "from Harperstown his then place of abode, or beyond 4 miles from it, without "license." Richards, being thus virtually a prisoner at Harperstown, further petitions for permission to go on to Wexford and reside there with his family, more especially as he had become bound (he says] to leave the above house and land to the ancient proprieter [Wm. Hore, Esq.] on next May Day under a penalty of £500. His grant of 3000 acres in Co Wexford was confirmed by the Act of Settlement by patent dated 18 Dec anno 18 and 19 Charles II. From George Griffiths: The History of the County of Wexford to 1877. footnote to page 57. This is a list of the lands granted to Col Solomon Richards. From the Records of Grants of Lands and other Hereditaments under the Acts of Settlement and Explanation, we have that to Solomon Richards Esq., was assigned in Siggins-Haggard, 142 acres ; Aghfad and Ballytartan, 430 acres; part of Barnestowne, 15 acres; Ballyneclough, 85 acres; Ballyvologue, 114, in the barony of Shilmalier; part of Coolidine, 27a. 1r. 24p, ; in Clonmore, 126a. 1r 22p., barony of Ballaghkeene; Tomeene-McTerry, 170 acres ; Garryfelime, 95 acres ; Ballydamore, 184 acres ; Ballymortagh, 135acres; Ballynesimma,170acres or 107; Raheene, 156 acres, in the Barony of Scarawalsh; Newtowne, 155a. 2r. 14p. in the Barony of Bargy, at a rent of £40 11s 11 1/2d, which was afterwards reduced to £34 1s. by patent dated the 15th April, and inrolled the 26th May, 1679. There was a Thomas Richards who also obtained lands under same Acts. Quote form Patrick Macrory's "Seige of Derry" (1980) April 10th 1689 - Col Solomon sailed with his regiment from Liverpool on the first attempt to relieve the seige of Derry. The expedition was a failure as its leaders had, on the advice of the Governor, Colonel Lundy, turned round and gone straight home. Both Col Cunningham, the commanding officer and Col Solomon, his second in command were summoned to appear before a Parliamentary Committee and were dismissed the service. Letter from Col Solomon (Letter in the British Library found by Rick Valentine 1999) "the Rt. Honble. the Earle of Shrewsbury his Majesty's princpall Secretary of State, Whitehall." Here is the text: "Chester, April 27, 1689 "My Lord "Bee pleased that I acquaint your Lordship, that since my return from Ireland, (with which I doubt not butt Coll. Cunningham hath acquained your Lordship) I am Ordered by the Major Generall, to quarter in Chester, where there is another regement butt noe other Collonell beside mee. I have in garison many runaways--boath of my owne Regement and of the other. Therefore Humbly request, (if yr. L.ship think fitt) that a com.sion for Marshall Law, according to The Late Act, many be sent speedely, unto "My Lord "Yr. Lordships most humb. & faythfull Servntt "S. Richards" Betham Intestates and Marriage Licences 1691 to 1698 Page 28 Includes: 83 Solomon Richards of Wexford to Elizabeth Griffith of Corn Market Dublin Taylor prinal Cred Date 26 April 1693. The census of Ireland 1659 lists at Harpers Towne 28 people with Tituladoes Names as Sollomon Richards Esq, Sollomon Richards seor gent/

Source for Baptism 0380325. This is a guess that she is the Rodye Wyllson daughter of Samwell Wyllson baptized on this day. Two other IGI references with guessed dates of birth give her mother's name as Anne see films 447938 and 1761184. She died in childbirth. Solomon was married to Abigail Goddard by Aug 1647. She was not married at St Olave, Old Jewery (March 24 2001)