January 12, 1841, it was set off as the town of Richmond. Among the first-comers to the town were Thomas and T. Perry James and Robert Sherman, from Richmond, Rhode Island, and their influence, just then, was sufficient to place another Richmond in the field of American geography.

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[Source: Beckwith's History of Walworth County, p. 384.]