Francis Willoughby Willard

Francis Willoughby WILLARD (Joseph , Joseph , Samuel , Josiah , Simon , Richard , Symon , Richard , William ) was born in 1751. He died in 1794. 

Francis married Deborah BLOOD in 1772.

They had the following children:

 1320 M i James Willoughby WILLARD was born on Apr 4 1775 in Acworth, NH. He died in 1852 in Jackson Furnace, Ohio.  

       James married Lydia WILLARD daughter of Capt. Jonathan WILLARD 3rd and Katherine STEVENS. Lydia was born on Apr 19 1783. She died in Painsville, Ohio.  

Francis Willoughby Willard

Born: 14 Jul 1751

Charlestown, Sullivan, New Hampshire, USA

Died: 1794

Charlestown, Sullivan, New Hampshire, USA

Spouse

Deborah Blood

Born: 1 Oct 1753 in Charlestown, Sullivan, New Hampshire, USA

Died:

Marriage: 30 Dec 1772 in Charlestown, Sullivan, New Hampshire, USA View Info

Children Sex Birth

Elias Willard M 15 Aug 1773 in Acworth, Sullivan, New Hampshire, USA

James Willoughby Willard M 15 Apr 1775 in Acworth, Sullivan, New Hampshire, USA

Filena Willard F 19 Nov 1777

Roswell Willard M 12 Sep 1779 in Acworth, Sullivan, New Hampshire, USA

Amanda Willard F 1783

Salmon Willard M 13 May 1786 in Charlestown, [county], New Hampshire, USA

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Subject: [VTGEN] Joseph Willard & Susanna (Lynde) Willard

Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 23:17:47 EST

Subject: Joseph Willard & Susanna (Lynde) Willard, Rutland, MA & NH

Source: History of Charlestown, NH by Rev. Henry H. Saunderson 1876

p.627

Joseph Willard was the son of Rev. Joseph Willard and his wife, Susanna

(Lynde) Willard and was a posthumous child and not born till about

three month after the tragic death of his father, which occurred in

Rutland, Massachusetts, at the time that Phineas Stevens, then a youth

of sixteen with his younger brothers, were taken prisoner by the

Indians and carried to Canada.

Reverend Mr. Willard was born at Saybrook, CT and graduated at Yale

College then located at Saybrook in 1714 and received the degree of

M.A., then the highest given at Harvard College in 1723. He was first

settled in Sunderland, whence he removed to Rutland where he was soon

to be installed, when his death from the manner in which it occurred

sent a thrill of horror through New England.

The following account is from Whiting's History of Worcester County.

"As Deacon Joseph Stephens and four of his sons were making hay on

the meadows at Rutland, on the 14th of August 1723, they were surprized

by five Indians. The father escaped in the bushes. Two of the sons

were slain and two, Phineas and Isaac Stevens were made prisoners.

Two of the five Indians waylaid a Mr. Davis and son, who that afternoon

were making hay in the meadow, not far off; but weary of waiting, they

were returning to the others and met Mr. Willard on their way, who was

armed, he having been on a hunting excursion. One of the Indians guns

missed fire, the others did no execution. Mr. Willard returned the fire and

wounded one of them, it is said mortally. The other closed in

with Mr. Willard who would have been more than a match for him, had

not the other three come to his assistance, and it was some considerable time

before they killed him.

On the death of this excellent man, Lieut. Governor Dummer in a becoming

spirit wrote to the Governor of Canada as follows: "I have a

right to complain that Mr. Willard, who had never been quilty of the

facts charged upon Mr. Ralle, who applied himself solely to the preach-

ing of the gospel, was by the Indians you sent to attack Rutland,

assaulted, slain and scalped and his scalp carried in triumph to Quebec".

"It was not the Indians, however" adds the historian, "that were chiefly to

blame in this matter, but the rulers of the French Nation

who invited the savage by a premium offered for every trophy of vict-

ory."

The widow of Rev. Joseph Willard, Susanna (Lynde) Willard, married sometime

after the death of her husband, to Rev. Andrew Gardner, into

whose family her children, William and Joseph Willard were received and

in connection with whom they were brought up.

Joseph Willard m. Huldah, dau of Lieut. Moses and Susanna (Hastings)

Willard and settled in Charlestown. Their children were:

1. Francis Willoughby Willard b. July 14, 1751; m. Deborah Blood in

1772. Their children were:

1. Elias Willard

2. James Willard

3. Roswell Willard

4. Philena Willard

Francis Willoughby Willard died in Charlestown or on the edge of

Langdon.

2. Susanna Willard b. Feb 5, 1753; died 16th same month.

3. William Willard b. March 13, 1754 died April 1, 1825 aged 71 yrs.

He m. Elizabeth Shepley of Groton, MA b. June 5, 1759; d. 1851.

Their children were:

1. Minda Willard b. 1782; d. aged 31 yrs.

2. Edi Willard, a daughter, b. 1784.

3. Isabella Willard b. Mar 31, 1787 m. Joel Lawrence of Groton

MA

4. Betsy Willard b. Jan 21, 1791 m. Levi Albee

5. Mary Willard b. 1796.

6. Hannah Willard b. June 25, 1801 m. Jan 25, 1820 Luther

Locke b. Dec 6, 1796. Their children:

1. Luther F. Locke b. Nov 3, 1820 grad at Middlebury

College 1845 and at Medical College, Cambridge 1849,

physician & dentist in Nashua, NH.

2. Dean Jewett Locke b. Dec 6, 1796, grad Med. College

at Cambridge, became a physician in CA.

3. Elmer Hall Locke b. Dec 24, 1825 educ. at Rensselaer

Inst. in N.Y. and went to CA in 1851.

4. George Shepley Locke b. Oct 30, 1830 went to CA 1852.

4. Susanna Willard b. April 15, 1756.

5. James Willard b. Mar 8, 1758; d. Sept 29, 1760.

6. Samuel Willard b. April 16, 1760; killed by the Indians June 8th

1760 (see p. 88 end of report).

7. Joseph Willard b. Nov 22, 1763 m. a Mrs. Pierce and had 6 children,

lived and died at Langdon.

8. Samuel Willard 2nd b. Nov 28, 1763 (town records)

Samuel & Joseph were probably twins, a mistake having been made in

the setting down the day of the birth of one of them.

Samuel Willard m. (1) Abigail _____who had two children and died.

1. Samuel Willard Jr. b. Jan 15, 1784

2. Jotham Willard b. Oct 23, 1785

Samuel Willard after Abigail died, m. (2) Joanna Putnam b. 1763.

3. Antonio Willard b. Oct 8, 1787 m. Betsey____and had:

1. Alpha Gardner Willard b. 1808

2. Mary Ann Willard b. 1810

4. Abigail Willard b. 1789 m. 1809 Benjamin Huestis of West-

moreland.

5. Alvarez Willard b. 1791 m. Lydia Albee 1816.

1. Frederick Willard b. 1819

6. Laura Willard b. 1793

7. Polly Willard b. 1795

8. Ephraim Willard b. 1797 m. Nov 30, 1825 Sophronia Boutell

9. Cynthia Willard b. 1800 m. 1823 Samuel Smith of Putney, VT

9. Waitstill Willard son of Joseph & Hulda (Willard) Willard; m.

Susan Minard.

Waistill Willard was a very religious man and though not an ordained minister

often used to preach in private houses and school houses, in

places and districts where they would not otherwise have had the mini-

strations of the gospel. He was born in Charlestown but lived many

years in Langdon. The children of Waitstill & Susan (Minard) Willard

were:

1. Susan Willard died early.

2. Joseph Willard

3. George Willard b. Sept 1, 1805 m. Oct 25, 1827 Orinda

Young Wolfe b. 1807, of Rockingham, VT dau of John & Lucy

(Baker) Wolfe. Their children were:

1. Eleanor O. Willard b. 1829 m. 1860 Henry W. Sabin and

settled in Westminster, VT.

1. Emily Orinda Sabin

2. Susan A. Sabin d. 1872

3. Willard C. Sabin

2. Sarah Ann Willard b. 1832 m. 1850 Lemuel Rogers.

3. Hugh Henry Willard b. 1834 d. 1855.

4. Lucia Willard b. 1836 d. 1848

5. Abel Wolfe Willard b. 1839 d. 1844

6. George F. Willard b. 1843 m. 1867 Sarah C. Parks

dau of Darius & Elizabeth (Shurtleff) Parks.

1. Eva L. Willard b. 1871 d. 1873

2. Harry W. Willard b. 1874

7. Susan Arabella Willard b. 1845; d. 1850.

8. Abel Willard b. 1848 d. 1862

9. Haskell Willard b. 1853.

The family with the exception of Mrs. Sabine and Mrs. Rogers

were all in Colorado in the vicinity of Denver in 1875.

4. Betsy Willard, died in Canada

5. Charlotte Willard

6. Belinda Willard

7. Frank Willard

8. Eleanor Willard

9. Susan Willard

Joseph Willard the progenitor of the above families, with his wife and

children were taken by the Indians on June 7th 1760 and carried to

Canada. The place is still shown on the hill to the east of where his

cottage stood, where the party who took them prisoners halted, while a

portion of them returned to the house for provisions to sustain them

on their way. They were conducted by the old route up Black River to

the Green Mountains and thence to Otter Creed and Lake Champlain. They

returned to Charlestown after the surrender of Montreal. Mr. Willard

died in Charlestown after a brief illness in 1799 and was buried on the

12th of September of that year.

p.629

Joseph Willard was under Col. Josiah Willard at Fort Dummer from Feb.

12th to July 1st, 1748. He was also a member of Capt. Phineas Steven's

company at Fort No. 4, in 1750

p.88 History of Charlestown, NH

During the time Goffe had his headquarters at Charlestown, N.H., and

his regiment was employed in clearing the road between Charlestown and

the mountains, the trails of the Indians were occasionally seen in the

adjacent woods, but they were too few to make, under the circumstances,

any general attack.

Before this regiment, however, had reached Charlestown they had made an

incursion and carried off Mr. Joseph Willard and his wife and five

children. They were taken at their homestead on the edge of the Great

Meadow, a short distance from the present (1876) residence of Mr. Peter

A. Evans, on the 7th of June 1760.

Considering Samuel, the youngest, who was an infant, somewhat burden-

some to them, the Indians took him aside the next day and beat out his

brains against a tree. The family was taken to Canada, their journey

through the wilderness occupying fourteen days. They remained in

captivity till the surrender of Montreal, into which city they had

been taken a few days previous to its capitulation, when, with other

prisoners they were of course released. This was the last incursion

of the Indians on the frontiers of New England, and the bloody scene which

has so long been opened is now closed. The eastern Indians soon

agreed on articles of peace and acknowledged themselves subjects of the

Crown of England. Notwithstanding, the war still continued in Europe,

and a few provincial troops were raised in 1761/62, New England was still

exempted from further hostilities and, on the tenth of February,

1763, a general peace was signed in Paris, and soon after ratified by the

belligerent powers of Europe, by which Canada and all other northern French

settlements passed quietly under the jurisdiction of the British Crown.

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Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth

1. ID: I23724
2. Name: Francis Willoughby Willard
3. Sex: M
4. Birth: 14 JUL 1751 in Charlestown, NH
5. Note:

   He resided at Acworth, N. H., a number of years, but retu rn ed to C ha rl es to wn, where he died. His estate was administer ed on by h is wido w, D ebo ra h, a nd his brother Samuel, May 27, 1794.

   Source:

   WILLARD GENEALOGY, SEQUEL TO WILLARD MEMORIAL

   MATERIALS GATHERED CHIEFLY BY JOSEPH WILLARD

   AND CHARLES WILKES WALKER

   EDITED AND COMPLETED BY CHARLES HENRY POPE

   PRINTED FOR THE WILLARD FAMILY ASSOCIATION, BOSTON, MASS., 1915*

   Digital Edition © 2001 by Richard Bingham

   Oceanport, New Jersey

   ISBN 1-930968-20-5

   Copyright, 1915

   By THE WILLARD FAMILY ASSOCIATION

   Murray and Emery Company

   Kendall Square

   Cambridge

Father: Joseph Willard b: NOV 1723 in Rutland

Mother: Huldah Willard b: 27 MAY 1732

Marriage 1 Deborah Blood b: in Charlestown, NH

   * Married: 30 DEC 1772

Children

  1. Has Children James Willoughby Willard

  2. Has No Children Amanda Willard

  3. Has No Children Elias Willard b: 15 AUG 1773

  4. Has No Children Filena Willard b: 19 NOV 1777

  5. Has Children Roswell Willard b: 12 SEP 1779 in Charlestown, NH

  6. Has Children Salmon Willard b: 13 MAY 1786 in Charlestown, NH

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F. Willoughby Willard mentioned in the record of F. Willoughby Willard and Deborah Blood Name: F. Willoughby Willard Event Type: Marriage Event Date: 30 Dec 1772 Spouse's Name: Deborah Blood Clerk's Jurisdiction Place: Acworth, Sullivan County, New Hampshire GS Film number: 1001318 , Digital Folder Number: 4243235 , Image Number: 1871