The Richards of Connecticut. The early ancestor, Thomas Richards, was born ca. 1600, and died ca. 1639. His wife's name is not known. They were parents of the following children: Mary (b. ca. 1629), who married Joseph Peck 1669. They lived in Milford, Conn.; John (b. 1631), who married Lydia Stocking; Dea. Thomas (1634-1715), who moved to Newark, N.J. in 1666; Samuel (1635-1662), who died at New Haven, Conn.; and Obidiah (b. ca. 1637, d. 1702), who...