Career
He served as a Captain in the Connecticut Militia during the American Revolutionary War. He was the son of Samuel Richards and Elizabeth Latham. He began life as a clerk, becoming afterward a soldier and sailor.
He was present, in arms, at the Battle of Norwalk, and the Invasion of Danbury.
Richards" wife Ruth Hanford, was a daughter of Samuel Hanford, a granddaughter of Eleazer Hanford, and a great-granddaughter of Review Thomas Hanford, of Norwalk.
Ruth Hanford"s mother was a daughter of Moses Comstock.
