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Joshua Richardson, a Quaker from Queen's County, Ireland, arrived circa 1880 (1780) with his wife and family and settled on Lot 3. Broken Front, which he purchased from Elizabeth Hulet, heiress of Smith, in l824. The children were as follows: James, Robert, John, William, Joshua, Eliza, (Mrs. Fothergill), Caroline, (Mrs. Geo. McGillvray), and Mary, (Mrs. Rowe). Son James married Elizabeth Valentine, and their children were as follows: Ann, Sarah, Joshua, Kate, Lizzie, Emma, William V., Mary Ann, Caroline, Louisa, Charlotte, and James T. This enormous family prospered and by the 1870's when the Ontario County Atlas was printe, they owned over a thousand acres of the most fertile portion of the lakefront and lived in charming, beautifully furnished houses. They were active on Township Council, supported the Quaker meetings, sent their children to boarding schools in the States in the early days and latterly to Pickering College. Unlike many of the earlier Loyalist settlers from the United States, they were educated people as the marriage certificate shown would indicate. They all wrote a good hand and their needlework, etc., was of the highest standard. The home of James Richardson, a large stone house, "The Willows", shown below, was destroyed when the shell filling plant took over the lovely farms of Ajax in 1940-42. (Picture 1, top left) Eliza Richardson 1814 - 1903 (Picture 2, top right) James Richardson 1804 - 1871. (Picture 3, bottom left) "The Willows", built in 1845, destroyed in Ajax in 1941, when property was taken over by the Federal Government. (Picture 4, bottom right) Home of Miss Elicabeth Richardson and her nephew, Harold and family, Kingston Road, East Pickering Village.