This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Caswell Caswells Richardson Rundlett Ritza Wiley Behner Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/iQB.2ACE/330.2.1 Message Board Post: You mention Caswells, I show a house built in Northwood by a Joseph Caswell, Revolutionary Soldier for Northwood, settled on Blue Hill in Strafford. Sometime after 1824 tow of his sons, Stephen Caswell (born 1789 died 1862) and Isaac Caswell, came to live on the hill above Long Pond (south of my wife's grandparent's house). These brothers lived in this house (no longer standing since 1892) and built a house across the street. The house across the street was built abt 1840 by Stephen Caswell. Stephen and his wife Lydia had several chilrden including Adaline and Eliza. Adaline married the John Richardson listed below. My wife's family lives on the property in Northwood known as Northern Acres. The homestead was settled sometime in 1812 when John Rundlet (died 1812) built the first house (near the top of Richardson's Hill). There is a cemetary there with quite a few Richardson's buried there. John Rundlett married a Betsey (died abt 1838). They had at least one daughter Mary who inherited the property along with her husband Edward Richardson. Mary & Edward had a son John. John married the neighbor's daughter across the street Adaline Casell (daughter of Stephen and Lydia Caswell who built house in 1840). They had a son Daniel Webster Richardson (died 1917). Daniel had no children. My wife's grandparent Geraldine "Gerry" Ritza bought the house and property in 1933, known as at Northern Acres. Geraldine was married twice before she married Robert Wiley, who has one son Robert Lynn MacGruder Wiley, my wife Kathryn's father. Above excerpt compiled by family information and Guide to the History and Old Dwelling Places of Northwood Author: Joann Bailey 2nd edition published 1992 Not sure if any of these Richardson's are related. Scott Behner Long Pond (Off Jenness Pond Road) Northwood, New Hampshire