Abigail Willard

ID: I10674

Name: Abigail Sherman 1 2 3 4 5

Sex: F

Birth: 1 DEC 1648 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts 1 6 4 5

Death: 1679 7 8

Reference Number: 682

Father: John Sherman b: BEF 4 JAN 1614 in Dedham, Essex, England

Mother: Mary Launce

Marriage 1 Samuel Willard b: 31 JAN 1640 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Married: 8 AUG 1664 in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts 9 10 4

Children

Abigail Willard b: 5 JUL 1665

Sources:

Title: Pioneers of Massachusetts

Author: Charles Henry Pope

Publication: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore 1977 & 1981

Note: There are TWO publications of this book so page numbers may not correspond, depending on the publication date.

Genealogical Records: Massachusetts Genealogical Records, 1600s-1800s, Pioneers of Massachusetts, Surnames @Genealogy.com, July 20, 2002. Author was Pastor First Church, Charlestown, Boston, Compiler of the Dorchester Pope Family, The Cheney Genealogy, Etc. The Allen County Library #Gc974.4 P81f

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Note: Toledo Public Library, Toledo, Ohio, Allen County Library (Fort Wayne, Indiana) & Genealogy.com

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Page: Page 412

Title: Groton During The Indian Wars

Author: Samuel A. Green, M.D.

Publication: Groton, Massachusetts, 1883

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Note: Allen County Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana

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Title: New England Marriages Prior to 1700

Author: Clarence Almon Torrey

Publication: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore 1987

Note: With an Introduction by Gary Boyd Roberts. Prepared for Publication by Elizabeth P. Bentley.

Toledo Public Library, Toledo, Ohio #929.74 Tor & Allen County Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana #G974 T63n

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Note: James A. Kimble personal library

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Page: Page 817

Text: "1/wf Abigail Sherman"

Title: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts

Author: Henry Bond, M.D.

Publication: N.E. Historic-Genealogical Society, Boston, 1860

Note: Actual title of the book is: 'Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, including Waltham and Weston; to which is appended The Early History of the Town. with Illustrations, Maps and Notes."

Also available at:

Allen County Libary #974.402 W31b

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The cover of the book reads: "Bond's Genealogies and History of Watertown. Second Edition"

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Page: Page 432

Title: New England Historical and Genealogical Register

Author: New England Historic Genealogical Society

Publication: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register

Note: www.NewEnglandAncestors.org - volumes up to #151

Personal library volumes 151 - current plus April & July 1906 and April 1931. An exceptional organization with an excellent web site. NOTE many of the references to New England Historical and Genealogical Register are labeled New England Historic Genealogical Society. There were too many to try to correct. The Register is produced by the Society.

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Page: Volume 24 - 1870 - Page 66

Title: New England Marriages Prior to 1700

Author: Clarence Almon Torrey

Publication: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore 1987

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Page: Page 817

Text: "1648"

Title: New England Marriages Prior to 1700

Author: Clarence Almon Torrey

Publication: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore 1987

Note: With an Introduction by Gary Boyd Roberts. Prepared for Publication by Elizabeth P. Bentley.

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Text: "1679"..."leaving 6 chil., and had 2 others, who d. in infancy."

Title: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts

Author: Henry Bond, M.D.

Publication: N.E. Historic-Genealogical Society, Boston, 1860

Note: Actual title of the book is: 'Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, including Waltham and Weston; to which is appended The Early History of the Town. with Illustrations, Maps and Notes."

Also available at:

Allen County Libary #974.402 W31b

Toledo Library #974.44 Bon

The cover of the book reads: "Bond's Genealogies and History of Watertown. Second Edition"

NOTE: All page references are from Volume ONE unless otherwise noted.

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Note: James A. Kimble personal library

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Page: Page 432

Text: "before 1685"

Title: Groton Records

Author: Jane Devlin

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Media: Internet

Title: New England Marriages Prior to 1700

Author: Clarence Almon Torrey

Publication: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore 1987

Note: With an Introduction by Gary Boyd Roberts. Prepared for Publication by Elizabeth P. Bentley.

Toledo Public Library, Toledo, Ohio #929.74 Tor & Allen County Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana #G974 T63n

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44. Samuel Symon WILLARD Rev. (Simon , Richard , Symon , Richard , William ) was born on Jan 31 1640 in Concord, , Massachusetts. He died on Sep 12 1707 in Boston, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts. He was buried about Sep 1707.

Samuel married (1) Abigail SHERMAN daughter of John SHERMAN Rev. and Mary LAUNCE on Aug 8 1664 in Groton, MA. Abigail was born on Feb 3 1647 in Watertown, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts. She died in 1678 in Groton, , Massachusetts.

They had the following children:

+ 88 F i Abigail WILLARD

 89 M ii Samuel WILLARD infant was born on Jan 25 1668. He died on Mar 17 1668.  

90 F iii Mary WILLARD was born on Oct 10 1669 in Groton, MA. She died on Aug 2 1723.
Mary married David MELVILLE on Jun 25 1696.
+ 91 M iv John WILLARD Major

 92 F v Elizabeth WILLARD was born on Feb 27 1675. She died after Mar 3 1722. She was buried on Apr 9 1722.  

+ 93 M vi Simon WILLARD

Samuel married (2) Eunice TYNG daughter of Edward TYNG and Mary (Tyng) on Jul 29 1679. Eunice was born on Mar 8 1655 in Boston, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts. She died on Jan 14 1720 in Boston, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts.

They had the following children:

 94 M vii Edward WILLARD child was born on Jul 6 1680 in Boston, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts. He died on Sep 18 1690 in Boston, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts.  

+ 95 M viii Josiah WILLARD

 96 F ix Eunice WILLARD child was born in Jan 1683.  

97 M x Richard WILLARD child was born in May 1684 in Boston, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts. He died on Jun 28 1697 in Boston, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts. The cause of death was drowning at 13.
98 M xi William WILLARD was born in Feb 1686. He was christened on Feb 14 1686. He died about 1717.
99 F xii Margaret WILLARD was born on Dec 3 1687 in Boston, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts. She died on Apr 10 1720.
Margaret married Thomas CHILD Capt. on Jun 13 1715.
100 M xiii Edward WILLARD child was born in Sep 1689.
101 F xiv Hannah WILLARD was born in Dec 1690 in Boston, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts. She died on Mar 29 1715.
Hannah married William LITTLE Judge on Jun 19 1712.
102 F xv Sarah WILLARD infant was born in Feb 1693 in Boston, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts. She died on Jul 27 1694.
103 F xvi Eunice WILLARD was born before Jun 16 1695 in Boston, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts. She was christened on Jun 16 1695. She died on Jul 26 1751.
104 F xvii Sarah WILLARD infant was born on Jun 10 1697. She died on Jul 23 1697.
105 M xviii Richard WILLARD was born in Sep 1699 in Boston, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts. He died before Aug 1717.

ID: I36

Name: Abigail Sherman

Sex: F

Birth: 3 FEB 1647 in Watertown Massachusetts

Death: Bef 1679

_IFLAGS: 0

Note: Willard Geneology, 1915; confirmed from Ancestor.com pedigree file.

Change Date: 25 OCT 2003 at 23:41:21

Father: John Sherman b: 1613

Mother: Mary Launce b: 1620 in England

Marriage 1 Samuel Willard b: 31 JAN 1639/1640 in Concord Middlesex Massachusetts

Married: 8 AUG 1664

Children

Abigail Willard b: 5 JUL 1665 in Groton Middlesex Massachusetts

Samuel Willard b: 25 JAN 1667/1668 in Groton Middlesex Massachusetts
Mary Willard b: 10 OCT 1669 in Groton Middlesex Massachusetts
John Willard b: 8 SEP 1673 in Groton Middlesex Massachusetts
Elizabeth Willard b: 27 DEC 1674/1675 in Groton Middlesex Massachusetts
Simon Willard b: 6 FEB 1676 in Groton Middlesex Massachusetts

Willard, Rev. Samuel [%28Sim.%29 b. Conc. 31 Jan. 1640, H. C. 1659, m. (1) Abigail Sherman (Rev. John) 8 Aug. 1664, (2) Eunice Tyng (Edw.) ab. 1679 who d. 14 June 1720, ord. Groton, 13 July 1664, min. Old South Ch., Bost., 31 Mar. 1678, d. 12 Sept. 1707, Gen.], opposed to witchcraft proceedings, 116; assisted at ordination of Rev. William Brattle, 282

Below is what is written about Abigail Sherman, the rest is of her family.--------------------------

names twelve other ch. Mary, the ch. of first w. m. a. 1658, Daniel

Allen; Abigail m. 8 Aug. 1661, Rev. Samuel Willard;

the rest-----------------------

Sherman, Abiah, Watertown, s. of Rev. John, freem. 1690, d. without issue, says Cothren. BENJAMIN, Stratford, s. of the first Samuel of the same, had, says Cothren, Job, Nathaniel, Enos, Benjamin, Samuel, Timothy, and James; but C. gives no date o either, nor tells the name of mo. nor d. of f. From more careful glean. I obt. some facts, as foll. He m. 1683, Rebecca Phippeny, perhaps d. of James of S. wh. d. 1739, and he d. 1741. BEZALEEL, Watertown, s. of Rev. John, prob. eldest, aft. leav. coll. as m. and Bond marks his d. bef. 1685, leav. childr. Perhaps his m. was in the East Indies, engag. in trade there, and mak. his resid. abroad, as I infer from let. of Rev. John Higginson to his s. Nathaniel, at Madras, Aug. 1697, ask. “what has bec. of Bezaleel S.'s w. and ch.” See 3 Mass. Hist. Coll. VII. 200. As no more is ever heard of him, I conject. that he was then d. at least in the Catal. 1698 of the Magn. he is among the stars. DANIEL, New Haven, br. of the preced. among the freem. in 1669, . 28 Sept. 1663, Abiah, or Abigail, [p.79] d. of Rev. Nicholas Streete, had Abigail, b. 5 Sept. 1665; ano. d. b. 1667, d. very soon; Daniel, 5 Sept. 1668; Mary, 28 Oct. 1670; John, Nov. 1673; Eliz. 20 Sept. 1676; Samuel, 27 Jan. 1679; Eunice, 10 Nov. 1682; was ens. of the milit. 1676, and there liv. a propr. 1685. DAVID, Stratford, youngest s. of the first Samuel (miscall. Daniel by Cothren), m. Mercy, perhaps d. of Jeremiah Judson, was one of the found. of ch. in Stratfield, now Bridgeport, in 1695, and deac. in it, and d. 1753. EDMUND, Watertown, br. or more prob. Mr. Judd thot. f. of Rev. John, a clothier; was one of the selectmen 1636, adm. freem. 25 May of that yr. went home, and liv. at Dedham, Eng. 1648, and 66, says Bond. EDMUND, Stratford, s. of the first Samuel, by w. Susanna, says Cothren, had Bezaleel, b. 11 Apr. 1676, wh. is error for 1 Jan. 1674; Sarah, bapt. Aug. 1678; Samuel, b. 8 Jan. 1679; Edmund, 20 Mar. 1680; and Matthew, 8 Jan. 1683; and d. in that yr. EDWARD, perhaps rather, Edmund, Wethrsfield 1636, is said to have foll. his s. Rev. John, to N. E. prob. the yr. preced. and was an orig. propr. of W. but gave his ld. to s. Samuel, being well advanc. in yrs. when he rem. to New Haven, was adm. freem. 29 Oct. 1640, and d. 1641. HENRY, Boston, perhaps, but I kn. nothing of him, exc. that in the inv. of John Mills, 1651, this man's name appears among debtors. JAMES, Sudbury, s. of Rev. John, there began to preach 1677, m. 1680, Mary, d. of Thomas Walker, had John, and Thomas, was very unhappy in his place, so as in July 1705 to be strip. of his functions, “deposed from his pastoral office,” is the exact phrase of 1 Mass. Hist. Coll. X. 87, but for the cause of such unusual proceed. I have less anxious. sought, than to learn how he went to Elizabethtown in N. J. and aft. to Salem, there d. 1718. See Mather's Hecatompolis. *JOHN, Watertown, prob. s. of Edmund, b. at Dedham, in Essex, 26 Dec. 1613, bapt. 4 Jan. foll. bred at Trinity Coll. tho. Mather (wh. so common. is wrong in minute matters), says Emanuel; but that is of far less importance than his elaborate error a. subscription, as by king James's rules exacted, bef. the University honors: “When his turn came to be a grad.” says the Magnalia, “he serious. consider. the subscript. requir. of him, and upon invincib. argum. bec. so dissatisf. therewithal, that, advis. with Mr. Rogers, Dr. Preston, and other emin. persons, wh. commend. his conscient. consider. counsel, he WENT AWAY under the persecut. charact. of a COLLEGE PURITAN.” Now I testify to the contra. for 12 July 1842, I saw at the Univ. of Cambridge, in the origin. the subscript. of John Sherman on tak. his A. B. 1629-30, and repeat. on commenc. A. M. 1633. It is needless to ask how such a fiction was impos. on the credulity of Mather, as it is prob. no answer can be found. The yr. aft. tak. his sec. degr. a. the end of Apr. 1634, S. emb. in the Elizabeth at Ipswich, where he had fam. [p.80] relat. and reach. Boston in June. At Watertown he resid. near a yr. and was dism with others from the ch. at W. 29 May 1635, says Bond, to form a new one on the Conn. riv. tho. we read in the Magn. “not many wks. at W. bef. he rem. upon mature adv. unto New Haven.” Now instead of not many wks. we know New Haven was not sett. until more than four yrs. after he arr. at W. Such is the perpetual laxity of narrative in the ecclesiast. histori. of N. E. Beside this, it was not to New Haven that he first went, but to Hartford and Wethersfield, where the attractions of Hooker or Smith were strong eno. and at the latter he obt. gr. of a house lot alongside of that giv. by Rev. Henry Smith to his s. Samuel. Prob. no work in the ch. was early desir. or at least gain. for he was releas. from serv. of watch and ward not until 1640 at May sess. of Gen. Ct. Soon aft. he sold to Thomas Bunce his Wethersfield lot, and rem. to Milford, join. the ch. there, yet acting only in civ. life, rep. 1643, and preach. for short season in 1645 for the early days of Branford. There he was desir. to sett. as their min. but no ch. was then gather. By first w. Mary (wh. d. says the ch. rec. at M. 8 Sept. 1644), he had, says Mather, six ch. wh. is liable to doubt (tho. we are igno. of the date of m. as well as the parents of w.) for it is not prob. that he was m. in Eng. nor in our country bef. 1638, then 24 yrs. old. Four ch. are ment. Mary, b. perhaps in 1639; Bezaleel, bapt. at M. 15 Nov. 1640, H. C. 1661; Daniel, 27 Mar. 1642; and Samuel, 14 Apr. 1644, wh. prob. d. soon. At New Haven he m. sec. w. Mary Launce, late in 1645, a maiden in the fam. of Gov. Eaton, and glad eno. must she have been to escape the perpetual trouble grow. from the unhap. temper of the w. of the Gov. full report of wh. is giv. in Appx. to the charm. Hist. Discours. of Rev. Dr. Bacon. By her he had Samuel, again, bapt. at N. H. 23 Aug. 1646, and next yr. he rem. to Watertown, wh. on req. obt. his dismis. from Milford ch. 8 Nov. 1647. With more than his usual exuberance of invent. Mather makes it “upon the d. of Phillips” (that was in July 1644), Watertown offer. a call and he accept. tho. he adds, “at the same time one of the chhs. at Boston used their endeav. to bec. the owner of so well talented a person, and sev. chhs. in London also by lett. much urged him to come over and help them.” If this be true (wh. is quite unlike.) for London, we kn. it must be false for B. since there was only one ch. many yrs. later, and in that Cotton and Wilson could wish or rec. no collea. Our sec. ch. where Mather was all his days a min. was not gather. bef. 5 June 1650, and could sett. no pastor bef. Nov. 1655. Stranger than such inexcusa. carelessn. however, is what he tells of this w. call her mo. d. of Darcy, Earl Rivers, one of the Popish Counsellors of Charles I. wh. had no d. that m. a Launce; and next, in mak. this w. bring “no less than twenty [p.81] ch. add. unto the number of six, wh. he had bef.” Authority for such improb. he design. his reader should infer, I suppose, from tell. in the begin. of the sentence, “by the d. of that Mr. Launce, wh. is yet liv. among us, Sherman had no less than, &c.” To this fable full credit was long giv. bec. it obt. the sober sanction of Hutch. I. 19, a relative of Mather, more than once misled by him. But in our day, a descend. of Sherman by this w. aft. bestow. large investigat. with adequate critical skill, puts the result, 1851, with “special wonder” in Geneal. Reg. V. 307, as not “establ. the Darcy lineage.” The writer refers to an emin. Eng. antiquary, wh. had been very slow to reject the tale even of Mather, or to distrust so judicious an auth. as Hutch. but pursu. the inq. long, and wrote me the issue, three yrs. later, “aft. all the attent. I have paid to Mr. Willard's point, there is no satisfacto. conclus. arr. at; and I am inclin. to think, that there was real. no particle of truth in the report wh. Mather had receiv. and has giv. circul. to.” Equal distrust is more natur. felt a. the number of ch. that led our ecclesiast. hist. to dilate in eight and twenty lines on “such a Polytokie,” ashe tersely or foolishly calls it. Suspicion arises from this fact, that exactly one less than half of the twenty-six ch. giv. to both ws. have never found a name either in rec. or benevol. tradit. See Bond, 432. Yet one more, Benjamin, was prob. lost from the rec. (by wearing out the paper) of b. 23 Apr. 1661, and d. 14 Oct. 1662. By the sec. w. wh. long outliv. him, d. 9 Mar. 1710, we see, then, ten ch. or at most eleven, instead of twenty, were b. and whence could the error arise? Aft. the b. of the first ch. the f. was always at Watertown, there as min. he would make rec. of bapt. of his own, as well as of others; but the rec. is lost, and we have to seek in town rec. for entry of births; and fortunate. his cous. of the same name was many yrs. the clk. Five only are thus found, Abigail, 3 Feb. 1648; Joanna, 3 Sept. 1652; Mary, 5 Mar. 1657; Grace, 10 Mar. 1659; and John, 17 Mar. 1660; but with more or less confidence, beside Benjamin, five more can be read in Bond (tho. the first two are count. by him as of first w.), James, bef. ment. Abiah, Eliz. Esther, and Mercy. Sometimes I have suspect. that the ch. of both contempo. Johns were count. for one by the informant of Mather, and very exact is the rec. of seven of capt. John, part. bef. part. aft. he bec. clk. and so by office bound to kn. bs. ds. and ms. No weight can be denied to such surmise from the fact of differ. names of the ws. of Rev. John and capt. John, for the prefix of respect in h. is less likely to be omit. than the bapt. name in w. With all his assidu. Bond could not satisfy hims. How Mather got this story of the fruitful vine, conject. would be various, if anyways reasona. The eldest d. of this sec. w. could not have told it to him, for she d. the yr. of Mather's bachelor's degr. 20 yrs. bef. his book [p.82] was writ. and her mo. (wh. was liv. aft. the light of the immortal author had shone upon the readers of Magnalia a dozen yrs.) could not be so monstrous. wrong in the tale of her own childr. But if she did give him these myths of her noble descent and prolific felicity, either she was insane, wh. he had not sanity eno. to discov. or she was irreverent. playing on his bottomless credulity. More prob. however, seems this solution, that much of what he had heard about Sherman was forgotten, and sev. stories turn. into one, and he tax. his fancy (that was always lively, especial. at a marvel), for some incidents, and confus. the whole. Sherman was adm. freem. of Mass. 1669, and was struck with fever and delirium in the pulpit of his s. at Sudbury where he preach. his last sermon, 5 July 1685 (as, in his diary, is told by Sewall), made his will 6 Aug. and d. two days aft. He made James excor. and (includ. two dec.) names twelve other ch. Mary, the ch. of first w. m. a. 1658, Daniel Allen; Abigail m. 8 Aug. 1661, Rev. Samuel Willard; Mary, of sec. w. m. 27 May 1679, Ellis Barron, jr; and Mercy m. 4 Apr. 1700, Samuel Barnard. *JOHN, Watertown, cous. of the preced. b. at Dedham, Co. Essex, freem. 17 May 1637, by w. Martha, d. of William Palmer (whose wid. hav. m. Roger Porter, by this means came the error, that she wh. m. S. was d. of Porter), had John, b. 2 Nov. 1638; Martha, 21 Feb. 1641; Mary, 25 Mar. 1643; Sarah, 17 Jan. 1648, d. at 19 yrs.; Eliz. 15 Mar. 1649; Joseph, 14 May 1650; and Grace, 20 Dec. 1653, acc. Bond; but Cothren, 680, omits Eliz. and makes Grace 1655. He was capt. selectman 1637, and oft. aft.; town clk. many yrs. from 1648, rep. 1651, 3, and 63, d. 25 Jan. 1691, aged 76. His wid. d. 7 Feb. 1701. Martha m. 26 Sept. 1661, Francis Bowman; Mary m. 18 Jan. 1667, Timothy Hawkins, jr. and d. 6 Nov. foll.; Eliz. m. 20 July 1681, Samuel Gaskell, or Gascoyne of Charlestown. JOHN, Watertown, eldest ch. of the preced. was k. as Bond says (but I presume only so bad. wound. as to d. soon) in the gr. Narraganset bat. with the Ind. 19 Dec. 1675, being of Mosely's comp. left. no issue, prob. never m. JOHN, Marshfield, s. prob. of the first William, m. at Boston, perhaps as sec. w. 25 Oct. 1677, Jane, d. of Walter Hatch, had sev. ch. by ea. w. it is thot. but dates or names are not seen. He may be the man, wh. took o. of fidel. at Dartmouth 1684. ‡*JOHN, Stratford, s. of the first Samuel of the same, was disting. in Conn. speaker of the ho. made an Assist. in 1713, for ten yrs.; by w. Eliz. had Ichabod; Hannah, bapt. July 1680; Samuel, Aug. 1682; Eliz. Oct. 1684; John, June 1687; Sarah, Jan. 1690; Mary, Mar. 1692; and Susanna, Nov. 1693. He rem. early, perhaps 1673, to Woodbury, where he was town clk. capt. and deac. and d. 13 Dec. 1730. His wid. d. 1 Oct. 1744. JOSEPH, Wethersfield 1639, or earlier, had Samuel, to wh. he gave his ld. at W. and rem. to [p.83] Stamford 1641, says Chapin, Hist. 163, 4. tho. Mr. Judd (wh. had bestow. much research on rec. of W., does not agree that the name of Samuel's f. was Joseph, for in the first two generat. he says there was no Joseph in Conn. and Hinman, 72, and prob. Chapin mistook Jo. (the perpet. abbreviat. for John) as Joseph. The fifth lot was, he is confid. set out to Edward, easi. read Edmund. *JOSEPH, Watertown, youngest s. of capt. John, a blacksmith, m. 18 Nov. 1673, Eliz. d. of Edward Winship of Cambridge, had John, b. 11 Jan. 1675; Edward, 2 Sept. 1677; Joseph, 8 Feb. 1680; Samuel, 28 Nov. 1681; but Cothren makes it 1682; Jonathan, 24 Feb. 1684; Ephraim, 16 Mar. 1685, d. soon; Ephraim, again, 20 Sept. 1686; Eliz. 15 July 1687, unless 1689 be the true yr.; William, 28 July 1692; Sarah, 2 June 1694; and Nathaniel, 19 Sept. 1696; and d. 20 Jan. 1731. William the youngest but one of these s. was a shoemak. at Newton, and m. at Watertown, 3 Sept. 1715, Mehitable Wellington, had as third s. Roger, b. 19 Apr. 1721 at N. forever to be honor. as one of the framers, with Franklin, of the Declarat. of Independ. and of the most sagacious men ever produc. by N. E. MATTHEW, Stratford, br. of Benjamin, had w. Hannah, and d. 1698, leav. David, b. 1692; and Hannah, perhaps more. NATHANIEL, Boston, perhaps s. of Samuel of the same, by w. Grace had Nathaniel, b. 19 Dec. 1659; and by w. Mary had Mary, 28 Mar. 1665. NATHANIEL, Stratford, br. of Matthew, m. 1680, Mary, perhaps d. of James Phippeny, and d. 1712. PELEG, Portsmouth, R. I. m. 25 July 1657, Eliz. d. of Thomas Lawton, had Thomas, b. 8 Aug. 1658; William, 3 Oct. 1659; Daniel, 15 June 1662; Mary, 11 Dec. 1664; Peleg, 8 Oct. 1666; Ann, 30 Apr. 1668; Eliz. 25 Nov. 1670; Samuel, 15 Oct. 1672; Eber, 20 Oct. 1674; John, 28 Oct. 1676; Benjamin, 15 July 1677; Sarah, 25 Jan. 1680; Isabel, 3 June 1683; and George, 18 Dec. 1687. *PHILIP, Roxbury, came in 1633, a single man, freem. 14 May 1634, first on the list aft. Gov. Haynes, m. Sarah Odding, d. of John Porter's w. by former h. went home early, but soon came again, and was led away, says the ch. rec. to familism by Porter, disarm. Nov. 1637, and banish. next yr. went to R. I. there sign. the compact of civil governm. Mar. 1638, was Secr. or Recorder of the Col. 1648, and was rep. 1656. See Callender, 30. As Secr. he was happy eno. to have a descend. in 1857, prob. in seventh generat. fill. the same post; but I can hardly indicate the line. He had Samson, and Samuel, perhaps more. PHILIP, Boston, “apprent. of John Blower,” but it will not easi. be learn. wh. was his f. He d. 12 Dec. 1655. RICHARD, Boston, merch. by w. Eliz. had Eliz. b. 1 Dec. 1635, had two ds. Ann, and Priscilla in Eng. of wh. the latter was m. two liv. here, Martha Brown, and Abigail Duncan; all wh. is learn. from his will of 7 Apr. pro. 31 July 1660, as [p.84] abstr. in Geneal. Reg. IX. 227, wh. ment. also, gr.ch. Mary, and Eliz. Spawle, wh. Bond read Sprawle, so that he must have had five ds. if not six. If it be very diffic. to find any thing of the fam. in other rec. his terrib. lawsuit against Capt. Keayne a. his w.'s sow, wh. much convuls. the col. and led to a radical change in its constitut. of governm. supplies the place abundant. as told in Winth. II. 69-72. He d. 30 May. SAMSON, Portsmouth, R. I. s. of Philip, m. 4 Mar. 1675, Isbel, d. of John Tripp, had Philip, b. 16 Jan. foll.; Sarah, 24 Sept. 1677; Alice, 12 Jan. 1680; Samson, 28Jan. 1682; Abiel, 15 Oct. 1684; and Job, 8 Nov. 1687. SAMUEL, Ipswich 1636, of importance eno. to be disarm. with only one more of that town, Nov. 1637, as danger. heretic, d. bef. 1660, leav. ch. Samuel, Nathaniel, and Mary Clark, but wh. was the w. is not seen. SAMUEL, Boston, husbandman, perhaps br. of Philip, by w. Grace had Philip, b. 31 Dec. 1637; Martha, 5 Sept. 1639; both bapt. 8 Mar. 1640; Nathaniel, 19 Dec. 1642; Jonathan, 11 Feb. 1644, a. 3 days old; and Philip, d. young. He had join. the ch. 1 Mar. and was adm. freem. 13 May 1640; and his w. join. the ch. 29 Aug. 1641; he d. early in 1645, and in 1652 the Gen. Ct. interfer. in admin. of his est. by the deacons of Boston ch. ‡SAMUEL, Stratford, br. of Rev. John, perhaps did not come so early as 1634, wh. Cothren, 60, assumes, but was aft. 1640 some yrs. at Wethersfield, there had houselot, giv. by his f.; was among first resid. at Stamford, and had sev. ch. b. there; was chos. an Assist. 1662, 3, 4, and aft. the union of the Cols. of Conn. and N. H. 1665-7, but tho. nominat. for 1668, he fail. of the elect. and is no more heard of, exc. in project. with others, 1672, settlem. of Woodbury. Cothren says he m. in Eng. Sarah Mitchell, and brot. her hither; but this is to the last degr. improb. for he brings him in 1634, then only 19 yrs. old at most, perhaps only 18, and in the mo. country very few so young were m. beside wh. he calls this w. sis. of Rev. Jonathan, wh. does not seem to have had such sis. at least we kn. that Richard Mather, a fellow-passeng. with Mitchell's f. in 1635, has no refer. to a d. then m. on our side of the water, and f. Mitchell in his will of 1646 names ds. only Susanna and Hannah, no Sarah; and beyond that, our Sherman tribe was from the E. part of Essex, while the Mitchells were of the W. Riding of Yorksh. on the edge of Lancash. opposite sides of the kingdom, between wh. two hundred and thirty yrs. ago intercourse was very rare. Reconciliat. of the principal fact (if it be true) may be gain. by a reasona. conject. that the m. tho. it could hard. have occur. in Eng. was some yrs. aft. com. of the parties hither. The dates of b. of their ch. give further evid. as Cothren hims. furnish. them, of his error, as the earliest is 1641, and the latest 1665, wh. is beyond the usual result of a m. in 1634. His roll, with slight corrections, is: Samuel, b. 19 Jan. [p.85] 1641; Theophilus, 28 Oct. 1643; Matthew, 21 Oct. 1645; Edmund, 4 Dec. 1647; John, 8 Feb. 1651; Sarah, 8 Feb. 1654; Nathaniel, 21 Mar. 1657; Benjamin, 29 Mar. 1662; and Daniel (wh. careful Mr. Judd made David) 15 Apr. 1665. Some ground for support of the tradit. of m. with the d. of Mitchell may appear in two of the names of these ch. Matthew and Sarah; but I must adhere to my conject. a. the time. When he d. might seem as hard to settle, as his date of m. Cothren tells, that he d. bef. Oct. 1684, but it was prob. fifteen yrs. later, at least we kn. that div. of his est. among heirs, whose lang. implies recent dec. of their ancest. was made Sept. 1700, and deeds by him as late as 1694 can be read. SAMUEL, Boston, s. perhaps, of Samuel of Ipswich, by w. Naomi had Nathaniel, b. 19 Dec. 1659; Samuel, 3 Oct. 1661, d. soon; and Samuel, again, 24 Apr. 1664. SAMUEL, Stratford, eldest s. of Samuel of the same, m. 19 June 1665, Mary, d. of Daniel Titterton, had Mary, b. 7 May 1666; Daniel, 23 Mar. 1669; Susanna, 22 July 1670; Sarah, bapt. May 1673; Grace, b. 8 July 1676; and Eliz. 1 Jan. 1679. He had sec. w. m. Aug. 1695, Abigail, d. of John Thompson, wid. of Nicholas Huse, wh. had been wid. of Jonathan Curtis, and d. Feb. 1719. His wid. d. 1731. SAMUEL, Portsmouth, R. I. s. of Philip, m. 3 Feb. 1681, Martha, d. of John Tripp, had Sarah, b. 10 Apr. 1682; Mary, 1 Dec. 1683; Mehitable, 18 Aug. 1685; Samuel, 12 June 1687; and Othniel, 29 Jan. 1690. Perhaps he had former w. Sarah, that d. at Marshfield July 1680. THEOPHILUS, Stratford 1669, was br. of the sec. Samuel of the same, and a man of distinct. d. early in 1712; but Cothren gives him no w. or ch. THOMAS, Ipswich 1638. WILLIAM, Plymouth 1632, may have come in 1629, for to one of the name was giv. by our Gov. and Comp. in London, liberty to bring in his kine from Northampton in fourteen days from 26 Feb. doubtless to be emb. in the fleet with Higginson. He m. 1639, Prudence Hill, whose f. is unkn. to me, was of Duxbury and Marshfield 1643, had prob. John, b. 1646, and William; but Winsor may have confus. f. and s. The f. d. or was bur. 25 Oct. 1679. WILLIAM, Marshfield, prob. s. of the preced. m. 25 Dec. 1667, not 26 Dec. 1677, both dates being giv. in Geneal. Reg. VI. 348, Desire, d. of Edward Dotey, had Hannah, b. 1668; Eliz. 1670, wh. d. young; William, 1672; Patience, 1674; and Experience, 1678; and d. perhaps, early in 1681. His wid. m. 24 Nov. of that yr. Israel Holmes, and next, Alexander Standish. WILLIAM, Portsmouth, R. I. s of Peleg, m. 12 May 1681, Martha, d. of William Wilbor, had William Thomas, Eleanor, Mary, Eliz. Peleg, Benjamin, Sarah, and Hannah. He m. it is said, sec. w. in 1697, Mercy, d. of Peregrine White. Most of fams. of this name in R. I. write it with a aft. e but in early days it was usual. [p.86] as now, sometimes Sharman. Of this name, twelve had, in 1834, been gr. at Yale, and two at Harv.

ID: I65935 Name: Abigail SHERMAN Sex: F Birth: 01 FEB 1648 in Watertown, Middlesex Co., MA 1 Death: BEF 1679 2

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Marriage 1 Samuel WILLARD b: 31 JAN 1640 in Concord, Middlesex Co., MA Married: 08 AUG 1664 in Groton, Middlesex Co., MA 1 Children

Abigail WILLARD b: 05 JUL 1665 in Groton, Middlesex Co., MA

Samuel WILLARD b: 25 JAN 1668 in Groton, Middlesex Co., MA

Mary WILLARD b: 10 OCT 1669 in Groton, Middlesex Co., MA

John WILLARD b: 08 SEP 1673 in Groton, Middlesex Co., MA

Elizabeth WILLARD b: 27 DEC 1674 in Groton, Middlesex Co., MA

Simon WILLARD b: 06 DEC 1676 in Boston, Suffolk Co., MA

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Text: died by 1678

ID: I27080

Name: Abigail Wright 1

Sex: F

Father: Samuel Wright

Mother: Mary Stevens b: 22 NOV 1672

Marriage 1 Samuel Willard b: ABT. 1705

Married: 29 OCT 1730

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Title: WILLARD GENEALOGY, SEQUEL TO WILLARD MEMOIR

Author: Materials gathered by Joseph Willard and Charles Wilkes Walker, Edited and completed by Charles Henry Pope

Publication: Printed for the Willard Family Assn., Boston, MA, 1915, Murray and Emery, Kendall Sq., Cambridge, MA, Digital Edition 2001 by Richard Bingham, Oceanport, NJ

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Mr. Willard was a great-grandson of Maj. Simon Willard who was one of the earliest settlers of Concord, Mass. 1635 , and for the succeeding forty years is well known in the annals of the Colony. Samuel , a son of Maj. Willard , born at Concord 1740 , was among the most eminent divines in New England ; the minister of Groton , afterwards of the Old South church in Boston , and acting president of Harvard Coll. for several years. His son John , father of our minister, took a collegiate degree 1690 , and settled as a merchant at Kingston , Jamaica, W. I. , where Samuel was born 1705 . The latter was early sent to Boston to be educated under the care of his uncle, Josiah Willard , secretary of the Colony, and graduated at Har. Coll. 1723 ; when he returned to Kingston with the intention of fixing his residence on the island. But he was so much shocked by the licentiousness and irreligion which prevailed there, that he came back to New England , and soon after commenced the study of divinity. Directly on his settlement at this place he married Abigail , daughter of Mr. Samuel Wright , of Rutland, Mass. , previously of Sudbury . Their children were the following: Samuel , who died in childhood; John , b. 28 Jan. 1733 ; William , b. Dec. 1734 ; Abigail , died in infancy; Joseph , b. 29 Dec. 1738 ; and Eunice , b. 1741 . On the death of Mr. Willard , the town voted £20 to his widow, to purchase a mourning dress, and £15 for a further donation. She was again married, Nov. 13, 1744 , to Rev. Richard Elvins , minister of the second parish in Scarboro ', who proved an excellent father to her promising children, yet of a tender age.