Colonel Josiah Willard Sr.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14797757/josiah-willard 126. Josiah WILLARD Sr.- Col. (Henry2 , Simon , Richard , Symon , Richard , William ) was born in 1693. He died on Dec 8 1750.

Josiah married Hannah WILDER daughter of John WILDER and Hannah (Wilder) in 1715. Hannah was born in 1694. She died in 1772.

They had the following children:

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ID: I760

Name: Col. Josiah WILLARD +

Surname: Willard

Given Name: Col. Josiah

Suffix: +

Sex: M

Birth: ABT. 1693 in Lancaster, Worcester, MA

Death: 8 Dec 1750 in Dunstable, Middlesex, MA

Burial: Little's Station Cemetery, Nashua, Hillsborough, NH

_UID: C1C95236B91BCC4D88490E1118AE55F60085

Change Date: 10 Aug 2003 at 21:33:03

Father: Henry WILLARD I + b: 4 Jun 1655 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Mother: Dorthy (Dorcus) BELL b: BET. 1660 - 1661 in Charlestown, Suffolk, MA

Marriage 1 Hannah WILDER + b: BEF. 31 OCT 1680 in Lancaster, Worcester, MA

Married: 1715 in Lancaster, Worcester, MA

Children

Col. Josiah WILLARD + b: 21 Jan 1716 in Lunenburg, Worcester, MA

Abigail WILLARD b: 4 Jul 1718

Susanna WILLARD b: 9 Jul 1720

Lois WILLARD b: 16 Dec 1722

Nathan WILLARD b: 28 May 1726 in Lunenburg, Worcester, MA

Prudence WILLARD b: 30 Sep 1727 in Lunenburg, Worcester, MA

Oliver WILLARD b: 6 Mar 1730 in Lunenburg, Worcester, MA

Sampson WILLARD b: 27 Jun 1732

Wilder WILLARD b: 30 Jun 1735 in Lunenburg, Worcester, MA

Name: Col. Josiah Willard

Sex: M

Birth: CA 1693 in Lancaster, Worcester, MA

Death: 8 DEC 1750

Note:

Commander of Ft. Dummer, built 1724. In 1733 he and others were granted a

township, called Arlington, MA, which embraced the area now belonging to

Hinsdale and Winchester. Led soldiers during the Indian War of 1746.

Father: Henry Willard b: 4 JUN 1655 in Concord, Middlesex, MA

Mother: Dorcas Bell b: 1659-60

Marriage 1 Hannah Wilder

Children

Lt. Col. Josiah Willard b: 21 JAN 1715 in Lunenburg, MA

ID: I2311

Name: Josiah WILLARD

Surname: WILLARD

Given Name: Josiah

Sex: M

Birth: 1693 in , Lancaster, Worcester, Ma

Death: 8 Dec 1750 in Fort Dummer, Windsor, Vt

Ancestral File #: 9N3D-JD

Change Date: 4 Aug 2001 at 05:43:56

Father: Henry WILLARD b: 4 Jun 1655 in Concord, , Massachusetts, USA

Mother: Dorothy CUTLER b: 1655/1660 in Groton, Middlesex, Ma

Marriage 1 Hannah WILDER

Married: 1715 in , Lancaster, Worcester Co., Massachusetts

Sealing Spouse: 29 Nov 1960

Sources:

Repository:

Name: Family History Library

Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA

Title: Ancestral File (R)

Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Publication: Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998

Repository:

Name: Family History Library

Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA

Title: Ancestral File (TM)

Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Publication: June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998

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ID: I6030

Name: Josiah WILLARD

Sex: M

Birth: Abt 1693 in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts

Death: 8 DEC 1750 in Dunstable, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Burial: Little's Station Cemetery, Nashua, Hillsborough, New Hampshire

IDNO: F>2.200>2+3

Event: Rank Colonel

Note:

1 BIRT

2 DATE ABT. 1693

2 PLAC Lancaster, Worcester, MA

He was one of the first settlers of Lunenburg; a captain in frontier service against the Indian enemy; became a colonel and was commander of Fort Dummer (at Brattleboro, Vt.). Distinguished himself in strong protection of the exposed settlements. was described as "faithful, vigilant, careful." He was an original proprietor in "the township on the East side of Connecticut River above Northfield, commonly called Arlington," and sold a tract there May 31, 1735.

Sources:

Ancestry of Bob and Mary Beth Wheeler on WorldConnect.RootsWeb.com Entries: 67491 Updated: Sat Jul 20 11:46:07 2002 Contact: Mary Beth Wheeler at mb@thewheelers.com Home Page: Ancestry of Bob and Mary Beth Wheeler

Note:

"Here lyes interred ye body of Josiah Willard, Captain of Fort Dummer, formerly of Lancaster, Lunenburg, and Winchester, and Colonel of Regiment of foot, who died here December ye 8, Anno Domini, 1750, in ye 58 year of his age" [from Little's Station Cemetery, Nashua, NH, on border with Dunstable, MA: [http://members.tripod.com/DANRUTH/LittleStationCem.html].

"Willard Genealogy," Charles Henry Pope, 1915 & "Willard Memoir," Joseph Willard, 1858.

Title: The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, MA, 1629-1818

Author: Thomas Bellows Wyman

Publication: Boston: 1879

Repository:

Note: Morristown Free Public Library, Morristown, NJ

Call Number:

Media: Book

Page: pg. 1032

"Willard Genealogy," Charles Henry Pope, 1915 & "Willard Memoir," Joseph Willard, 1858 & Little's Station Cemetery, Nashua, NH, on border with Dunstable, MA: tationCem.html.

Little's Station Cemetery, Nashua, NH, on border with Dunstable, MA: [http://members.tripod.com/DANRUTH/LittleStationCem.html].

"Willard Memoir," Joseph Willard, 1858.

Title: The Birth, Marriage & Death Register of Lancaster, Masachusetts, 1643-1850

Author: Henry S. Nourse

Publication: Clinton, MA: 1890; reproduced on CD by Search & ReSearch Publishing Corporation, Wheat Ridge, CO

Repository:

Call Number:

Media: Book

Page: pg. 452

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Change Date: 14 NOV 2004 at 20:08:23

Father: Henry WILLARD b: 4 JUN 1655 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Mother: Dorothy (Dorcas) BELL b: 1660/1661 in Prob Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts

Marriage 1 Spouse Unknown

Married: 1715 in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts

Sources:

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

Abbrev: WILLARD GENEALOGY, SEQUEL TO WILLARD MEMOIR

Note:

Source Media Type: Electronic

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GEORGE, Scituate 1638, younger br. of major Simon, and s. of Richard of Horsmonden, Co. Kent, where he was bapt. Dec. 1614, heavily fined in 1641, for erroneous opinions, had Deborah and Daniel, both bapt. 14 Sept. 1645; and Joshua, 2 Nov. foll. rem. soon aft. perhaps to Maryland. Deborah m. Paul Sears, and, it is said, descend, are num. HENRY, Groton, fourth s. of major Simon, m. 18 July 1674, Mary Lakin, d. of John of the same, had Henry, b. 11 Apr. 1675; Simon, 8 Oct. 1678; Mary, 3 Aug. 1680; John, 3 Sept. 1682; Hezekiah; Joseph, a. 1686; and Sarah; but it must not be thot. that all these exc. the first, were b. at G. or any one other town, in those yrs. of Ind. incurs. At Lancaster he liv. in the latter part of his life, but L. as well as G. was more than once destr. by the enemy. By sec. w. Dorcas Cutler, sis. perhaps, of the w. of his br. Daniel, he had Samuel, 31 May 1690, a man of distinct. wh. command. a regim. at the capt. of Louisburg, 1745,; James; Josiah, a. 1693; Abigail; Jonathan, a. 1696; Susanna; and Tabitha, wh. d. soon; and he d. 1701. His wid. m. 1704, Benjamin Bellows.

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1. ID: I00236
2. Name: Josiah Willard 1
3. Sex: M
4. Birth: ABT. 1693 in Lancaster, Worcester, MA
5. Birth: ABT. 1693 in Lancaster, Worcester, MA
6. Death: 8 DEC 1750 in Dunstable, Middlesex, MA
7. Change Date: 27 AUG 2000
8. Event: Rank Colonel
9. Burial: Little's Station Cemetery, Nashua, Hillsborough, NH
10. Reference Number: 1221
11. Note:

   He was one of the first settlers of Lunenburg; a capta in in fr on ti er s er vi ce against the Indian enemy; became a colonel a nd was c om ma nd er of Fo rt Du mmer (at Brattleboro, Vt.). Distinguish ed him se lf in st ro ng protec ti on of the exposed settlements. was desc rib ed as " faithfu l, vi gilant, ca ref ul." He was an original propri et or in "the to wnsh ip on t he East si de of Co nnecticut River above No rth field, common ly cal led Arli ngton," a nd sold a t ract there May 3 1, 173 5.

   Sources:

   Ancestry of Bob and Mary Beth Wheeler on WorldConnect.Root sW eb .c om En tr ie s: 67491 Updated: Sat Jul 20 11:46:07 2002 Co nt ac t: Ma ry Be th Whe el er at mb@thewheelers.com Home Page: Ance st ry of B ob and Ma ry Be th Wheel er

   Note:

   "Here lyes interred ye body of Josiah Willard, Capta in of Fo rt D um me r, f or merly of Lancaster, Lunenburg, and Wincheste r, and C ol on el of Re gi me nt of foot, who died here December ye 8, An no D om in i, 1 75 0, in ye 58 ye ar of his age" [from Little's Station Ce met er y, Nas hu a, N H, on border wi th Dunstable, MA: [http://members.tr ipod .co m/DANRU TH/ Littl eStationCem.html ].

   "Willard Genealogy," Charles Henry Pope, 1915 & "Willa rd Me mo ir ," Jo se ph W illard, 1858.

   Title: The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, MA, 1629-1818

   Author: Thomas Bellows Wyman

   Publication: Boston: 1879

   Repository:

   Note: Morristown Free Public Library, Morristown, NJ

   Call Number:

   Media: Book

   Page: pg. 1032

   "Willard Genealogy," Charles Henry Pope, 1915 & "Willa rd Me mo ir ," Jo se ph W illard, 1858 & Little's Station Cemetery, Nas hu a, N H, on bo rd er wi th Dunst able, MA: [http://members.tripod.com/DA NRU TH/Li ttleS tat ion Cem.ht ml].

   Little's Station Cemetery, Nashua, NH, on border with Duns ta bl e, M A: [ ht tp ://members.tripod.com/DANRUTH/LittleStationCem.html] .

   "Willard Memoir," Joseph Willard, 1858.

   Title: The Birth, Marriage & Death Register of Lancaster, M as ac hu se tt s, 16 43-1850

   Author: Henry S. Nourse

   Publication: Clinton, MA: 1890; reproduced on CD by Se ar ch & Re Se ar ch Pu bl ishing Corporation, Wheat Ridge, CO

   Repository:

   Call Number:

   Media: Book

   Page: pg. 452

   Sources:

   The Nobility Lines on Ancestry.com

   Entries: 34701 Updated: Thu Aug 22 05:01:24 2002 Co nt ac t: Ma rv in H ar old Kale at marvinkale@yahoo.com

Father: Henry Willard I b: 4 JUN 1655 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Mother: Dorothy (Dorcas) Bell b: BET. 1660 - 1661 in Charlestown, Suffolk, MA?

Marriage 1 Hannah Wilder b: BEF. 31 OCT 1680 in Lancaster, Worcester, MA

   * Married: 1715 in Lancaster, Worcester, MA

Children

  1. Has Children Josiah Willard b: 21 JAN 1715/16 in Lunenburg, Worcester, MA

  2. Has No Children Abigail Willard b: 4 JUL 1718

  3. Has No Children Susanna Willard b: 9 JUL 1720

  4. Has Children Lois Willard b: 16 DEC 1722

  5. Has Children Nathan Willard b: 28 MAY 1726 in Lunenburg, Worcester, MA

  6. Has No Children Prudence Willard b: 30 SEP 1727 in Lunenburg, Worcester, MA

  7. Has Children Oliver Willard b: 6 MAR 1729/30 in Lunenburg, Worcester, MA

  8. Has No Children Sampson Willard b: 27 JUN 1732

  9. Has Children Wilder Willard b: 30 JUN 1735 in Lunenburg, Worcester, MA

Sources:

  1. 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

     Repository:

     Media: Electronic 

Arriving at Brattleboro

Added by emilymae13 on 11 Dec 2006

But here our interest centers on a vigorous young man who left his home in Stoughton, and made the hard journey across the country, and over the hills, to the same objective point (Brattleboro). The history of Brattleboro tells us that "Lemuel Dickerman when a boy was a bound apprentice to learn shoemaking in Massachusetts, but left his employer and traveled on foot to Brattleboro." Here he obtained employment on the farm of Dr. Henry Wells, a man of large estate, and of no little eminence as a physician. From him, it is said that Dr. Dickerman learned his profession, and "became so accomplished that he assisted him in practice, until so many patients preferred the young doctor, that the old one sold out and went to Montague, Mass."

"Dr. Dickerman was the second established physician in Brattleboro and the longest in practice. With but one exception, no physician in the place has lived so many years, and few, if any have had a more successful career...

The accuracy and quickness of perception for which he was noted, and also a proclivity for the healing art, seem to have been hereditary in his posterity to the third generation. his son, Dr. John Locke Dickerman, was an established physician here about forty years; and his two sons, William and Lemuel, have been members of the same profession in Eastern Massachusetts."

His wife, Lucinda Arms, was of an excellent family. Her father was Major John Arms, officer of a regiment stationed at Brattleboro in 1766; and her mother was Susanna Willard, a daughter of Colonel Josiah Willard, who held command at Fort Drummer, as early as 1740. The children of Dr. Dickerman are thus inheritors from the military chiefs who held this fronteir post in the Indian wars and preceded the actual settlers. This accounts for the recurrence of the names of Willard and Arms. It may account, also, in part, for the heroic spirit shown in some, of whose lives we are here allowed a glimpse.

Exact Search Results - Dunstable, Massachusetts: Town History 1873

Here lyes interred ye body of Josiah Willard , Captain of Fort Dummer, formerly of Lancaster , Lunenburg , and Winchester , and Colonel of Regiment of foot, who died here December ye 8, Anno Domini, 1750 , in ye 58 year of his age.