Maj. Simon Willard

• Not the husband of Elizabeth Dunster
• His half brother, George Willard, also emigrated to America.

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Simon Willard migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See The Great Migration (Series 2), by R. C. Anderson, vol. 7, p. 413)

Maj. Simon Willard

• Birth: April 1605 in Horsemonden, Kent, England
• Baptism: 7 April 1605 Horsemonden, Kent, England
• Death: 24 April 1676 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts
• Burial: likely at Phipps Street Burying Ground, founded in 1630 in Charlestown, which is now a neighborhood in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.
• Parents: Richard Willard b: in Horsemonden, Kent, England & his 2nd wife, Margery Humphries
• Spouses: 1) Mary Sharpey 2) Mary (unknown). The widow Mary Willard married Joseph Noyes second as his 2nd wife.

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Biography

Profile last updated 25 March 2024

Simon Willard moved from England to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1634: at the time he was a major in the English army. He is considered a key historical figure in the history of Concord, Massachusetts.

The Willard Memoir [Joseph Willard], Soldiers in King Philip’s War [George M. Bodge], History of Cambridge [Paige], History of Concord [Shattuck], History of Groton [Butler], New England Historical and Genealogical Register, all give interesting accounts of Major Simon Willard, "one of the finest types of a Puritan," living in New England in the middle of the seventeenth century [1634-76].

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Willard-10

NOTE: Disputed Spouses: Simon Willard did not marry Elizabeth Dunster; there is nothing to support a marriage to Mary Dunster.

Robert Charles Anderson (2011) found Simon Willard had married twice.[1] His first wife was Mary Sharpe; she was the mother of his oldest children. His second wife was Mary _____; she was the mother of his youngest children, and his widow; her birth and parentage are unknown. She married (2) at Sudbury, 14 July 1680 to Joseph Noyes.[2] See Research Notes.

Please do not attach Elizabeth Dunster or Mary Dunster as the spouse of Simon Willard.

Birth

Major Simon Willard was born at Horsmonden, Kent, England to Richard Willard. He was baptized there April 7, 1605.[3][4]

Marriages

Simon's first marriage occurred before his migration to New England, and was recorded at the parish of Marden, next to Horsmonden, "Simon Willard and Mary Sharpe wee married the 13 day [Oct 1628]."[5][6] Note the actual record says Sharpie.[7]

Simon's widow was also named Mary, but the long span of childbearing 1629-1669, necessitates a second wife. Simon married by 1653 Mary ______.[8] Widow Mary Willard married second, Joseph Noyes at Sudbury, Massachusetts on July 14, 1680.[9] She died there on December 28, 1715.[9]

Immigration

He arrived in New England in 1634.[10] Elizabeth Bacon testified that she, Samuell Greenhill and his wife "came over from old England" in 1634. She remembered also that Mr. Willard and Mr. Pantry and Mr. Crayfoote, were also on board.[11]

Massachusetts

Over his lifetime in Massachusetts, Simon Willard, lived in several Massachusetts towns: Cambridge, Concord 1636, Lancaster 1659, Groton about 1671 and Charlestown 1676.[8] He was an innkeeper, soldier, magistrate, surveyor, and furtrader.

• Innkeeper: 12 March 1637/8, Lt. Willard was "allowed to sell wine and strong water" at Concord.[12]
• Furtrader: 2 June 1641, the court ordered "that no person within this jurisdiction shall trade in furs or wampam with any Indians," And the court appointed Lt. Willard, and others giving them the freedom "to trade with the Indians all manner of commodities, except guns, powder, shot & weapons, for which they shall give into the treasury the twentieth part of all furs by them so traded"[13] 19 Oct 1658, the "committee betrusted to agree with such as presented to carry along the trade of furs" contracted with Willard and three others "for the trade of Merremacke"[14]
• Surveyor: Simon Willard on many occasions was asked to determine the boundaries between towns in the Colony and sometimes between Massachusetts Bay and other colonies. In 1652, Capt Symond Willard and Capt. Edward Johnson were appointed to procure a professional surveyor, and then go with him to find the point farthest north on the Merimacke River.[15]
• Massachusetts Bay Colony Assistant at least one term each year between 1654 and 1675/6.[15]
• Deputy for Concord to Massachusetts Bay General Court in the years between 1636 and 1653[15]
• Comptroller of the House of Deputies 1650[15]
• Massachusetts Bay Assessor 14 June 1642[15]
• Several committees: to "draw certain bills for positive laws as against lying, Sabbath breaking, swearing, drunkenness &c;" to value livestock; and others.[15]
• Commissioner to end small causes at Concord[15]
• Clerk of the writs.[15]
• 6 May 1657. He and two other were empowered to as a committee to determine differences among the inhabitants and manage the affairs of the town of Lancaster[15]
• Appointed to keep County Courts in Hampton & Salisbury 23 May 1666,[15] and in Dover and Yorkshire 12 May 1675.[15]

Military Career

Simon Willard, no doubt served in the Concord train band from it's first formation in Concord, and on 13 Oct 1636 "Sergeant Willard appointed to exercise the military company at Concord"[16] Six months later, 9 Mar 1636/7, "Symon Wellard" was appointed Lieutenant of the train band in Concord.[17] He rose steadily in rank. 6 May 1646 he was chosen Captain,[18] and was a Major by 3 May 1654.[19] Simon acted as Commander-in-Chief of the Expedition of the United Colonies against Ninigret, 1655.[20] At the age of 75, the Major led the relief at the Battle of Brookfield (part of King Philips War). He remained there and at Hadley for a few weeks[21] Then returning to his own farm at Nonacoicus in Groton, he spent the next few months organizing defenses in Lancaster, Groton, Chelmsford and Dunstable. Groton was destroyed 13 Mar 1675/6 and Willard withdrew to Charlestown, where his family had gone previously. Major Willard remained active in military and civil affairs until a few days before his death, 24 April 1676[22]

Property

Simon Willard had 100 acres (4 Aug 1634) and a house (8 Feb 1635/6) in Cambridge, which he sold by 1638.[23] The Colony granted him 500 acres, where he chose to have it, for his service to the Colony (6 May 1657). He chose a spot between Lancaster and Groten[24] He made other land transactions including a 1000 acre deed to his son in law, Robert Blood.[8] His undated inventory contained many parcels of land in the area in which he lived.[8]

Death and Burial

Simon became ill from a severe cold, the illness having spread through the colony, taking many lives.[25] "Major Simon Willard, sometime of Groaten, d. in Charlstown, Apr. 24 & bur. 27, 1676"[26][27] He is likely buried at the Phipps Street Burying Ground, founded in 1630 in Charlestown. He is listed by Henry Nourse as one of the Lancaster residents who died during the abandonment of Lancaster. (Early Records of Lancaster, page 324)

Family

Simon Willard married twice and was the father of 17 children--nine by first wife, Mary (Sharpe) Willard, and eight by second wife, Mary (_____) Willard.

Note: According to the Willard Memorial, the Rev. Dr. Willard left a list of Simon's children. Anderson has chosen to not list two of these children, probably because they didn't marry, have progeny, or were not listed in the probate records, so therefore have no civil or church records. They are included on this list.

By first wife, Mary Sharp (1605-1649):

1. Mary Willard, b. say 1629 m. Joshua Edmonds by 1649[28]
2. Josiah Willard, b. say 1631 m. Hannah Hosmer 20 March 1656/7[28]
3. Elizabeth Willard (1632-1633) Included in the Willard Memorial
4. Elizabeth Willard, b. say 1633; m. Concord 8 April 1653 Robert Blood[28]
5. Dorothy Willard, ~1638 Included in Willard Memorial
6. Samuel Willard, January 31, 1639/40 [shown as "Symon"][29][28] - September 12, 1707. Reverend Samuel Willard (1640-1707), a Colonial clergyman who was the minister at Boston's Third Church and acting president of Harvard College.
7. Sarah Willard, June 27, 1642; m. Nathaniel Howard[28] died January 22, 1678
8. Abovehope Willard, daughter, bpt 30 8m. 164? [1645?] (30 Oct )[29]; died Lancaster 23 Dec 1663[28]
9. Simon Willard, November 23, 1649 [29][28] - June 23, 1731

By second wife, Mary _______:

1. Mary Willard born on September 7, 1653. [29]
2. Henry (Henary) Willard, June 4, 1655 [29] - 1701
3. John Willard, Feb. 12, 1656 [29] - August 27, 1726
4. Daniel Willard, Dec. 26, 1658 [29] - August 23, 1708
5. Joseph Willard, b. Lancaster 4 Jan 1660/1[28]
6. Benjamin Willard, about 1664 ; d. 16 Jun 1732[28]
7. Hannah Willard, 6 Oct 1666[28] - before 1743
8. Jonathan Willard, b. 14 Dec 1669; m. Mary Brown

Research Notes

First wife, Mary Sharpe. In 2005, Leslie Mahler published the details of Simon's first marriage, at Marden, Kent, England, 13 Oct 1628 to Mary Sharpe ("New Information on Massachusetts Bay Colonists from Kent, England," The American Genealogist 80 (2005), 23-26).[30][31]

No Elizabeth Dunster marriage; no third marriage. Anderson (2011) argues against the several secondary sources claiming Simon had three wives. He further argues against a wife Elizabeth Dunster, saying there is absolutely no documentation to support such a wife.[32]

Second wife, Mary _____. Anderson (2011) reports about Simon's second marriage to Mary _____, writing, "There are no other contemporaneous records that identify the mother of Simon Willard's younger children ... [He] must have had two wives because his children were born over the span of about forty years,"[33] As to her further identity, Anderson (2011) writes,[34]

We suggest the possibility that these three women, the second wife of Simon Willard, the second wife of Henry Dunster, and the third wife of Joseph Hills, were sisters. Based on what we know about them in New England, all three would have been born in the late 1620s, or early 1630s. Further research on this problem should proceed from our knowledge that the third wife of Joseph Hills was widow of Hugh Atkinson of Kendal, Westmoreland.

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Biographical notes

From http://www.accessgenealogy.com/massachusetts/simon-willard-genealog...

The infant town of Concord probably owed more to Major Willard than to any other single person. He was its chief selectman; for eighteen years he was its clerk; for fifteen years its deputy to the General Court. From the beginning he was the military commander, and with two others made the legal tribunal before which all cases, between man and man, of small importance were tried. He was possibly the most influential man in the county. All through his later life he held the office of assistant. In Massachusetts, in the seventeenth century, an assistant was a person with high and varied duties. In the General Court he was a senator. To the Governor he was a councilor. In the administration of law he was a member of the only Supreme Judicial Court of the period. To all these honors and labors Simon Willard was called for twenty-two successive years, and just as he died received the largest vote given for any one for his twenty-third term. In 1641 to him and two others was given the whole charge of trade with the Indians. In 1655 he was promoted to the command of all the military force of Middlesex County. He settled innumerable cases of boundaries of land, and in one case that of the bounds between Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

In July, 1658, the selectmen of Lancaster, feeling the need of a ruling mind, thought “meet to order a letter of invitation to be sent to Major Simon Willard to come and inhabit among us.” A similar invitation in a previous year had been declined. But eight months before this last call Mr. Bulkeley had died: this may have weakened his affection for Concord. He accepted the invitation, and sold his farm. For twelve years he was the controlling mind in Lancaster. Then he moved to Groton, where his son was minister. There King Philip’s War found him. At seventy, with all the fire and vigor of youth, he took command of the Middlesex soldiers. He it was who, with his troopers and friendly Indians, rescued Capt. Thomas Wheeler and Lieut. Simon Davis, in their last extremity, at Brookfield. March 14, 1676, while absent from home, his house at Groton, with sixty-five others, was burned. One month later he died in his new home at Charlestown. “He was a noble specimen of a noble race. Weighty in judgment, versatile, trusty, of kindly temper, of indomitable industry, he filled well almost every conceivable post.”

Major Simon Willard d. April 0-4, 1676. His funeral was one of great pomp: it was on Thursday, the 27th of April. There was a military escort “of several hundred soldiers, consisting of three companies of foot, under the command of Captains Still, Cutler, and Holbrook; and three companies of horse, under command of Captains Brattle, Prentice, and Henchman, the last being commander of the whole.” (Willard Memoir.)

The following data is extracted from One Line of Descendants from Dolar Davis and Richard Everett.

The Willard Memoir [Joseph Willard], Soldiers in King Philip's War [George M. Bodge], History of Cambridge [Paige], History of Concord [Shattuck], History of Groton [Butler], New England Historical and Genealogical Register, all give interesting accounts of Major Simon Willard, one of the finest types of a Puritan, living in New England in the middle of the seventeenth century [1634-76].

Simon1 Willard was b. at Horsmonden, County Kent, England; bap. April 17, 1605. He was the son of Richard Willard by wife Margery, and brother of Margery [Willard] Davis, who married, in England, DOLAR DAMS. The family name in England is very old. It may be found in the Domesday Book.

Simon Willard m., in England, Mary, dau. of Henry and Jane [Ffielde] Sharpe, who was the mother of nine children. She was b. at Horsmonden; bap. Oct. 16, 1614; she d. at Newtowne [Cambridge]. He m. second Elizabeth Dunster, who d. in six months; m. third Mary Dunster, sister of Henry Dunster, first president of Harvard College. He mentions in his will "my sister Willard, and all her children." Mary [Dunster] Willard was living when her brother Henry's will was probated. She was the mother of eight children, by Willard, born between 1649-66. She m. second, July 14, 1680, Dea. John Noyes of Sudbury, Mass., and d. in that town, Dec., 1715.

Simon Willard was living in Cambridge [New Town] 1634. His house was on the south-east corner of what is now Winthrop and Dunster Streets. He moved to Concord in 1635.

In the summer of 1635 Rev. Peter Bulkeley, " a man of great learning, of large heart, of noble family, possessed of wealth, and distinguished as a divine, arrived in Cambridge, and to him Willard attached himself with affectionate regard." This alliance with Bulkeley shows that Willard had no disposition to follow the Hooker congregation to Hartford, and that his mind was so constructed as not to become a recipient of those somewhat mystical dogmas which became rife the following year in the Antinomian controversy.

In describing this emigration from Cambridge to Concord in 1635, Johnson in his Wonder Working Providence [second edition, p. 5] says, "The band of Concord is led by Capt. Simon Willard, being a Kentish souldier."

Again quoting from Johnson:

"Of the laborious worke Christs people have in planting this wildernesse set forth in the building of the Towne of Concord being the first inland Towne.

. . . "Upon some enquiry of the Indians who lived to the North-west of the Bay, one Captain Simon Willard being acquainted with them by way of Trade became a chief instrument in erecting this Town, the land they purchase of the Indians, and with much difficulties traveling through unknown woods and watery scrampes [swampes] they discover the fitness of the place, sometimes passing through Thickets, where their hands are forced to make way for their bodies passage, and their feet clambering over crossed Trees, which when they missed they sunk into an uncertain bottom in water, they wade up to the knees, tumbling sometimes higher, sometimes lower, wearied with this toile they at the end meet with a scorching plain; . . . lying in the open air, while the watery clouds pour down all the night season, and sometimes the driving snow disolving on their backs, they keep their wet clothes warm with a continued fire, till the renewed morning give fresh opportunity of further travel; after they have thus found out a place of abode, they burrow themselves into the earth for their first shelter." (Ibid., pp. 112-113.)

And thus was established by Rev. Peter Bulkeley and Major Simon Willard "the first inland Towne."

Johnson, an Englishman, was contemporary with these times. He was in this country, and his descriptions are from personal observations.

"A beautifully rounded little eminence, following the triangle made by the junction of Sudbury and Assabet Rivers with the woodlands, meadows, and arable land attached to it, made a tract of about four hundred acres, bounded chiefly by the two branches of the Concord River; in the second division of the lands, two hundred and twenty-eight years ago, it fell to the lot of Major Simon Willard." (Rev. Grindall Reynolds, D. D.)

The infant town of Concord probably owed more to Major Willard than to any other single person. He was its chief selectman; for eighteen years he was its clerk; for fifteen years its deputy to the General Court. From the beginning he was the military commander, and with two others made the legal tribunal before which all cases, between man and man, of small importance were tried. He was possibly the most influential man in the county. All through his later life he held the office of assistant. In Massachusetts, in the seventeenth century, an assistant was a person with high and varied duties. In the General Court he was a senator. To the Governor he was a councilor. In the administration of law he was a member of the only Supreme Judicial Court of the period. To all these honors and labors Simon Willard was called for twenty-two successive years, and just as he died received the largest vote given for any one for his twenty-third term. In 1641 to him and two others was given the whole charge of trade with the Indians. In 1655 he was promoted to the command of all the military force of Middlesex County. He settled innumerable cases of boundaries of land, and in one case that of the bounds between Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

In July, 1658, the selectmen of Lancaster, feeling the need of a ruling mind, thought "meet to order a letter of invitation to be sent to Major Simon Willard to come and inhabit among us." A similar invitation in a previous year had been declined. But eight months before this last call Mr. Bulkeley had died: this may have weakened his affection for Concord. He accepted the invitation, and sold his farm. For twelve years he was the controlling mind in Lancaster. Then he moved to Groton, where his son was minister. There King Philip's War found him. At seventy, with all the fire and vigor of youth, he took command of the Middlesex soldiers. He it was who, with his troopers and friendly Indians, rescued Capt. Thomas Wheeler and Lieut. Simon Davis, in their last extremity, at Brookfield. March 14, 1676, while absent from home, his house at Groton, with sixty-five others, was burned. One month later he died in his new home at Charlestown. "He was a noble specimen of a noble race. Weighty in judgment, versatile, trusty, of kindly temper, of indomitable industry, he filled well almost every conceivable post."

Major Simon Willard d. April 0-4, 1676. His funeral was one of great pomp: it was on Thursday, the 27th of April. There was a military escort "of several hundred soldiers, consisting of three companies of foot, under the command of Captains Still, Cutler, and Holbrook; and three companies of horse, under command of Captains Brattle, Prentice, and Henchman, the last being commander of the whole." (Willard Memoir.)

Henry2 Willard, by wife Mary Dunster, b. at Concord, June 4, 1655; m. first, July 18, 1675, Mary Lakin, dau. of William Lakin of Groton. She d. 1688. He m. second, 1689, Dorcas Cutler, who survived her husband and became the wife of Benjamin Bellows of Lancaster.

Henry Willard had a large estate. At one time he occupied one of the garrison houses in Lancaster. He d. Aug. 27, 1701.

His children, some of whom were men of note, speak well for the character of Henry Willard. Josiah3 Willard, b. at Lancaster, 1693; m., 1715, Hannah Wilder.

She was b.1690, the grand-dau. of Thomas1 Wilder, b. in England, who m. at Charlestown, 1640, Anna Eames; removed to Lancaster, July 1, 1659; "a leading citizen and public officer until his death, Oct. 23, 1667." John2 Wilder m. Hannah --, was a farmer in Lancaster, and father of Hannah [Wilder] Willard.

Col. Josiah Willard was the commander of Fort Dummer [Brattleboro, Vt.]. He was one of the settlers and principal officers in Lunenburg, Mass. He died on a journey from home, Dec. 8, 1750. "He was the grandson of the renowned Major Simon Willard; and was a gentleman of superior natural powers . . . . His death is a great loss to the public, considering his usefulness in many respects, particularly on the western frontiers." The Secretary of State wrote to the son Josiah4 Willard, "I heartily join with you and your family, in the mourning for the death of your father, esteeming it a great public loss." . . . (Willard Memoirs.) His wid. Hannah [Wilder] Willard was living in 1751.

Josiah4 Willard, b. at Lunenburg, Mass., Jan. 21, 1715; bap. at Lancaster, Aug. 6, 1721; m. at Groton, Nov. 23, 1'739., Hannah Hubbard.

Mr. Willard passed many years of his life on the frontiers. He succeeded his father in command at Fort Dummer, and was made lieutenant-colonel. Afterwards he was made colonel. He was in active service in the lines in the campaign of 1755, and was stationed with his regiment at Fort Edward in the same year. His father was one of the grantees of Winchester from Massachusetts in 1733. A church was organized in 1736, and Rev. Joseph Ashley, a grad. Yale Coll., was ordained as minister; but the church was broken up and the town deserted of inhabitants on account of the Indian Wars.

But it was reorganized under a charter obtained by the son Col. Josiah Willard and his brothers in '753. A new boundary line had been established, placing the town in the jurisdiction of New Hampshire. Col. Willard became the most important man in the town, holding all the offices of any trust or importance. In 1771 he was chosen the first representative of the town in the New Hampshire Legislature. He d. Nov. 19, 1786; his wid. Hannah [Hubbard] Willard d. Aug. 15, 1'791.

Eunice5 Willard, b. at Winchester, March, 1745; m., 1765, Rev. Micah Lawrence, who was the next minister of Winchester after Rev. Joseph Ashley. Their dau. Eunice Lawrence m. John s Wait; and they were the parents of Sarah Gilbert [Wait] Davis, the wife of William6 Davis.

Source: One Line of Descendants from Dolar Davis and Richard Everett

SIMON, Cambridge, s. of vol. 4, p. 555 Richard of Horsemonden, Co. Kent, where he was bapt. 7 Apr. 1605, came 1634, arr. in May, with w. Mary, d. of Henry Sharpe of Horsemonden, bapt. 16 Oct. 1614; and d. Mary; rem. next yr. to the new settlem. of Concord, where prob. this d. soon d. aft. m. with Joshua Edmunds, and b. of her first ch. 16 Feb. 1650. At Cambridge or Concord, he had Elizabeth whose date of b. is not found, wh. m. 8 Apr. 1653, Robert Blood; Josiah, whose date is also unkn.; Samuel, in recorder's rec. at Boston, call. Simon, b. 31 Jan. 1640; Sarah, 27 June or 24 July 1642, wh. m. 2 July 1666, Nathaniel Howard of Charlestown, and d. 22 Jan. 1678; Abovehope, 30 Oct. 1646, d. at 17 yrs. unm.; Simon, 23 Nov. 1649; Mary, again, 7 or 27 Sept. 1653, wh. m. 22 Jan. 1672, Cyprian Stevens; Henry, 4 June 1655; John, 12 Jan. or Feb. 1657; Daniel, 29 Dec. 1658; but of these the last four were b. of a sec. w. Elizabeth Dunster, sis. of the presid. of the coll. or third w. Mary Dunster, a niece of the presid. for the dates of m. are not giv. But bef. the b. of his next ch. he rem. to Lancaster, there had Joseph, 4 Jan. 1661; Benjamin, 1665; Hannah, 6 Oct. 1666, wh. m. 23 May 1693, capt. Thomas Brintnall of Sudbury, and was the last surv. ch. of her f.; and Jonathan, 14 Dec. 1669; beside two others, Elizabeth and Dorothy, wh. both d. young. I suppose he must have had some acquaint. in Eng. with milit. duty, for he was made lieut. here so early as 1637, capt. 1646, and maj. the highest rank at that time, in 1655; and was rep. 1636-49, chos.

Assist. 1657 to his d. 24 Apr. 1676. Bef. the Ind. destr. Groton in 1676, to wh. he had rem. a few yrs. earlier, he had estab. his retreat at Salem, but d. at Charlestown, during the sess. of the Ct. of Assist. For his serv. the governm. had many yrs. bef. made him a gr. of 1,000 acres, wh. he had never taken up, but had giv. to his d. Elizabeth on her m. but his wid. Mary was compel. to petition for it in the yr. of his d. SIMON, Salem, third s. of the preced. m. a. 1679, Martha, d. of Richard Jacob of Ipswich, where he liv. some time, had at I. Jacob, b. perhaps 17 Sept. 1680; but at S. Josiah, 24 May 1682; Martha, 27 Jan. 1684; Simon, 4 Nov. 1685, d. under 2 yrs.; and Richard 26 or 29 Jan. 1687; was freem. 1680, capt. in the E. war with the Ind. 1689, and deac. (had sec. w. 30 Apr. 1702, Elizabeth wid. of John Walley, perhaps, but the Geneal, 371, ignores this sec. w.) and late in July 1722 took ano. w. Priscilla Buttolph, and d. 21 June 1731. THOMAS, Northampton 1668, br. of Nathaniel of the same, and subject to the same maledict. See Weller. Farmer notes in 1834, that gr. of this name at Harv. were 23; at Yale, 2; at other N. E. coll. 11. In ea. of the seven generat. from maj. Simon are one or more s. of the coll. to our times.

References

1. NEHGS "Register," Vol 13, pg. 78
2. "Gen. Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England," James Savage, 1860-1862
3. "The Willard Genealogy," Charles Henry Pope, 1915.
4. Title: Paine Ancestry, The Family of Robert Treat Paine Author: Sarah Cushing Paine, ed. Charles Henry Pope Publication: Boston: 1912 Repository: Note: NEHGS Library Call Number: Media: Book Page: pg. 79
5. NEHGS "Register," Vol 3, pg. 282
6. Willard Family Association of America, Inc. https://www.facebook.com/groups/954276744597953/
7. Simon initially settled in Cambridge, so immigration field now shows Cambridge, Massachusetts Bay Colony. See Banks, Planters of the Commonwealth, pg 109; Winthrop said they had enjoyed a 'short passage.' Of the 'store' of passengers less than a score is known," including Simon Willard, Mrs. Mary Willard, Mary Willard of Horsmonden, county Kent, and they settled in Cambridge".
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phipps_Street_Burying_Ground The Phipps Street Burying Ground is a historic cemetery on Phipps Street in Charlestown, now a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.
9. Anderson & Sanborn & Sanborn, Great Migration T-Y, Simon Willard's entry spans pages 413 to 427, with pages 424-426 detailing the conclusion Simon had only two wives, and that his 2nd was the sister of President Henry Dunster's 2nd wife, maiden names unknown.
10. Henry E. Noyes and Harriette E. Noyes, Genealogical record of some of the Noyes descendants of James Nicholas and Peter Noyes, 2 vols. (1904), 2:42. Page 46. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=yale.39002007828065&seq=60 (Described erroneously as a Dunster) “[Joseph Noyes] married, second, Mrs. Mary (Dunster) Willard, 1680.”

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2. Citing "GM 2:5:282-86 [James Noyes]," Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VII, T-Y (2011), 413-427 in particular, 421; database and digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
3. England & Wales Christening Records, 1530-1906 Publication: Ancestry.com. England & Wales Christening Records, 1530-1906 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008: Horsemonden, Kent, England; Date Range: 1558 - 1732; Film Number: 992521
4. Willard, Joseph, Willard Memoir; or Life and Times of Major Simon Willard, Boston; Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1858. Baptism p.40.
5. "The Marriage of Simon Willard and Mary Sharpe of Concord, Massachusetts." The American Genealogist 80:25
6. "England Marriages, 1538–1973 ", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NNZ7-WVH : 12 March 2020), Simon Willard, 1628.
7. link to record at FindMyPast (requires subscription)
8. Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VII, T-Y. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011. Online: Great Migration 1634-1635, T-Y. AmericanAncestors.org ($) pp. 413-427
9. Vital Records of Sudbury, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, NEHGS, Boston, Massachusetts, 1903. p. 286 : 318
10. Filby, P. William, ed. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2010.
11. Anderson: citing CT Arch, Private Controversies, Series 1, 2:8
12. Anderson citing Mass Bay Colony Record 1:221
13. Anderson: citing Massachusetts Bay Colony Records [MBCR] 1:322/3, 2:117, Lechford 434/5
14. Anderson: citing MBCR 4:1:354
15. Anderson: citing assorted Massachusetts Bary Colony Records
16. John Winthrop, The History of New England from 1630 to 1649, James Savage, ed., 2 volumes (Boston 1826). p. 346
17. Shurtleff, Nathaniel. Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England Vol. 1. (William White, Boston, 1853-) p. 191
18. Shurtleff, Nathaniel. Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England (William White, Boston, 1853-) Vol. 2 p. 146 Vol 3. 62/3
19. Shurtleff, Nathaniel. Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England (William White, Boston, 1853-) Vol 3 p. 339
20. Anderson citing PCR 10:130-33, 144-49, 434-37; WP 6:449, 453-54, 458-59, 463; MBCR 3: 359, 4:1:206, 217; Hutchinson Papers 1: 295-300; RWCorr 403-7, 416-17; Bodge 22-23]
21. Anderson citing Bodge 102-26 George Madison Bodge, Soldiers in King Philip's War Being a Critical Account of that War with A Concise History of the Indian Wars of New England From 1620-­1677 (Leominster, Massachusetts, 1896; rpt. Baltimore 1967)
22. Anderson citing [Willard Memoir 241-84
23. Anderson citing CaTR 8, 18; CaBOP 10, 15
24. Anderson citing MBCR 3:430, 4:1:304, 4:1:337, 4:1:411/2, MLR 7:371-72
25. Willard, Frances Elizabeth. Quoting Increase Mather in: Glimpses of Fifty Years: The Autobiography of an American Woman, Woman's Temperance Publication Association, H. J. Smith & Company, 1889 Ancestry: Appendix p. 2-3
26. Vital Records of Charlestown Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Vol. 1. p. 97. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1984.
27. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 Publication: Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
28. Anderson pp 421-423
29. Tolman, George compiler. Concord, Massachusetts Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1635-1850, Printed by the Town, T. Todd Printer, Beacon Press, Boston, Massachusetts, 1891 Samuel/Symon p. 3; Sarah p. 3; Aborvehope and Simon p. 5; Mary, Henary, John p. 8; Daniel p. 9 at Archive.org
30. Leslie Mahler, "New Information on Massachusetts Bay Colonists from Kent, England," The American Genealogist 80 (2005), 23-26, in particular, p. 25; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
31. The American Genealogist, 80:25
32. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VII, T-Y (2011), 413-427 in particular, 426; database and digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
33. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VII, T-Y (2011), 413-427 in particular, 426; database and digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
34. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VII, T-Y (2011), 413-427 in particular, 426; database and digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
35. Abbreviations for the works cited by Anderson
36. Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VII, T-Y. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011. Online: Great Migration 1634-1635, T-Y. AmericanAncestors.org ($)
37. Willard, Joseph , Willard Memoir; or Life and Times of Major Simon Willard, Boston; Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1858 See also:
38. Cutter, William Richard. New England Families Genealogical and Memorial. New York, USA: n.p., 1915.
39. Hager, Lucie Caroline,. Boxborough: a New England town and its people. Philadelphia: J.W. Lewis & Co., 1891, c1890.
40. [Lancaster Vital Records], Birth, Marriage and Death Register, Church Records and Epitaphs of Lancaster, Massachusetts 1643 - 1850. Transcriptions of the "Tan Book," published by The Town of Lancaster, Lancaster, MA 1890, and edited by Henry S. Nourse, A.M. Pages 10, 11, and 13.
41. Middlesex County, Massachusetts Probate Index, 1648-1870 Publication: Flint, James, comp. Middlesex County, Massachusetts Probate Index, 1648-1870 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2000.
42. Palfrey, John Gorham, History of New England, Boston, MA, USA: Little, Brown, and Company, 1888-1890.
43. Vital Records of Concord Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849, Volume I, pages 3,5,8 and 9.
44. Walcott, Charles H., Concord in the colonial period: being a history of the town of Concord, Massachusetts, from the earliest settlement to the overthrow of the Andros government, Note: 1989 microform edition lacks map. Includes index. Bibliography: p. [xi]-xii.
45. Watertown's Military History. Boston, MA, USA: David Clapp and Son, 1907.
46. Wikipedia.com entry for Simon Willard
47. John Ware Willard, Simon Willard and His Clocks, Dover 1968 edition
48. Joseph Willard and Charles Wilkes Willard, edited and completed by Charles Henry Pope, Willard Genealogy, Sequel to Willard Memoir, Boston, Mass., Printed for The Willard Family Association, 1915, by the Murray and Emery Company, Cambridge, MA
49. Flint, James, comp Middlesex County, Massachusetts Probate Index, 1648-1870 (The Generations Network, Inc., Provo, UT, USA, 2000) record dated 1677
50. Willard, Joseph, Esq., Johnson, Willard, and Sheafe, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass., 1850) Vol. 4, Page 305-6
51. Joseph Gardner Bartlett, "Genealogical Research in England: Dunster, Willard, and Hills," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 61 (1907):186-189; digital images, Hathi Trust (accessed 2021). [1].