Notes for Thomas
Goldsmith Richardson
In later years he
worked as a farmer in Fulton township, Rock County, Wisc.
His farmhouse, originally two houses were joined together in 1906,
remained standing until the early 1980's. Often
the site of Richardson-Price family reunions in years after Thomas G.
Richardson's death, six generations of his family eventually lived at the home.
On March 14, 1860, the
Rock County Board of Supervisors granted him a license to operate a ferry across
the Rock River at Newville. For
every rider on a horse, he could charge eight cents. Every foot passenger paid three cents.
The only known portrait
shows a rocky-faced, burly, glowering man, with bushy eyebrows shadowing
smoldering eyes.
Family tradition suggests he had already served in the Mexican-American war and visited California by 1854 or 1855, when he arrived in Rock County, settling on a 60-acre farm near Lake Koshkonog in 1860. ...compiled by M.S.