John Hayward, III

Descendant of Mayflower passengers Resolved White, White, William White, Susanna (Winslow) White.

About 1706 Brookfield town gave a grant to John Hayward, Jr. of 40 acres of land and 15 acres of meadow, also 70 acres joining the first lot and 24 acres of meadow 'for his encouragement to build a grist mill in Brookfield, on the condition he maintain the mill and supply the town for 25 years. He built the mill on Mill Brook. In 1710 the mill dam broke, the town voted money to repair it. But the mill was the subject of much contention. In 1713, John Hayward, Jr. falling short of his first contract with the town referring to the corn mill was allowed a larger grant, he could move the mill to a better stream, and all men in town over age 16 were to give him 1 day's work. On 19 May 1714, John Hayward having built the mill but not being able to carry on the business transferred it and all his lands to a kinsman Ebenezer Prescott of Lancaster and returned to Concord. (History of North Brookfield, Massachusetts, By J.H. Temple, 1887)

On 12 Feb. 1712 his father deeded the remainder of his dwelling house, barn and land in Concord "to said John to provide for me and my wife Anna...and to pay my daughter Judith Goss...my daughter Mercy Browne...my daughter Anna Allen...and my daughter Sarah Allen...." In 1714, he returned to Concord; there he was a millwright. He and wife Susanna mortgaged property. 25 March 1715, John both sold his own house and deeded to John Willard, his brother-in-law, of Concord his corn mill and saw mill, if Willard would "support and care for my father John Hayward", and after his death, "pay my sisters Judith Goss, Marcy Brown, Anna Allen, and Sarah Allen". The mortgage was paid by the hands of John Willard on 8 May 1717

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