Grayson family

Notes

Rev. Samuel Willard

Received MA from Harvard in 1659.
Vice President of Harvard, was acting president in all but title 1701-1707.
(see Harvard University History of the Presidency:
http://www.harvard.edu/history/presidents/leverett

Pastor of Old South Church (Third Church), Boston from 1678. A book of his sermons, A Compleat Body of Divinity, was published posthumously and was the largest book printed in New England at the time.  See
http://www.puritansermons.com/willard/willindx.htm

He "strenuously opposed" the Salem witch trials.  (wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Willard)

Baptized Ben Franklin.
Willard Geneology, 1915.
Buried in the Old Granary Burying Ground, Boston, MA, but I cannot find his stone -- many of the stones are too worn to read.

Rumor is that he died after cutting himself eating oysters.

Edward Willard

Willard Geneology, 1915

BIRTH: Also shown as Born 1689

DEATH: Also shown as Died d young

Josiah Willard

Willard Geneology, 1915

Eunice Willard

Willard Geneology, 1915

Richard Willard

drowned. Willard Geneology, 1915

William Willard

merchant at Jamaica, then London. Left large estate to siblings & parents; Willard Geneology, 1915

Margaret Willard

Willard Geneology, 1915

Hannah Willard

Willard Geneology, 1915

Sarah Willard

Willard Geneology, 1915

Eunice Willard

Willard Geneology, 1915

Richard Willard

Willard Geneology, 1915

Maj. Simon Willard

Commander in Chief of the British forces against the Indians.  There is a plaque in Canterbury Catherdral.Willard Geneology, 1915.

Birth date from http://www.maineancestry.com/family%20tree/FTMOUT/d0002/g0000084.html#I3958

Mary Sharpe

Willard Geneology, 1915

Josiah Willard

Source: http://www.uftree.com/UFT/WebPages/FrankVanderbilt/JOSIAH/d0/i0000176.htm#s1

Mary Willard

http://www.maineancestry.com/family%20tree/FTMOUT/d0010/g0000083.html#I3954

Elizabeth Willard

http://www.maineancestry.com/family%20tree/FTMOUT/d0011/g0000083.html#I3955

Rev. Samuel Willard

Received MA from Harvard in 1659.
Vice President of Harvard, was acting president in all but title 1701-1707.
(see Harvard University History of the Presidency:
http://www.harvard.edu/history/presidents/leverett

Pastor of Old South Church (Third Church), Boston from 1678. A book of his sermons, A Compleat Body of Divinity, was published posthumously and was the largest book printed in New England at the time.  See
http://www.puritansermons.com/willard/willindx.htm

He "strenuously opposed" the Salem witch trials.  (wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Willard)

Baptized Ben Franklin.
Willard Geneology, 1915.
Buried in the Old Granary Burying Ground, Boston, MA, but I cannot find his stone -- many of the stones are too worn to read.

Rumor is that he died after cutting himself eating oysters.

Abigail Sherman

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

Abigail Willard

Willard Geneology, 1915

Samuel Willard

Willard Geneology, 1915

Mary Willard

Willard Geneology, 1915

John Willard

Willard Geneology, 1915.

Elizabeth Willard

Willard Geneology, 1915

Rev. John Sherman

Willard Geneology, 1915; confirmed and got dates from  Ancestor.com pedigree file.

Mary Launce

Willard Geneology, 1915;  confirmed and got dates from   WFT db=netscend, which traces her line back to the royal families of Europe, including the Plantagenet kings of England, kings of Italy, France, Portugal, Charlemagne and William the Conqueror. .

John Walley Jr.

Source: Willard Genealogy, Sequel to Willard Memoir.
Joseph Willard and Charles Wilkes Walker, 1915, Boston, MA.

Elizabeth Alden

inherited John Alden House

Richard Willard

other children: Robert, Alexander, George, Richard, Andrew, Simon, Thomas, William, Alice, Agnes; Willard Geneology, 1915

Birth and death from http://www.maineancestry.com/family%20tree/FTMOUT/d0002/g0000084.html#I3958

Margery Humphrie

http://www.maineancestry.com/family%20tree/FTMOUT/d0002/g0000084.html#I3958

Elizabeth Willard

http://www.maineancestry.com/family%20tree/FTMOUT/d0002/g0000016.html#I3945

Mary Willard

http://www.maineancestry.com/family%20tree/FTMOUT/d0002/g0000016.html#I3945

Margery Willard

http://www.maineancestry.com/family%20tree/FTMOUT/d0001/g0000087.html#I3935

Catherine Willard

http://www.maineancestry.com/family%20tree/FTMOUT/d0002/g0000087.html#I3936

Simon Willard

In trade at Boston; Willard Geneology, 1915.

Elizabeth Alden

inherited John Alden House