Grayson-Livingstone Family Tree
Notes
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
Elder Joseph BRIDGHAM
Elmer G. Bridgham:
"Joseph Bridgham, fourth son of Henry Bridgham and Elizabeth
Harding Bridgham, was born January 17, 1651....
Joseph was a tanner by trade. In 1678 he was made a freeman.
He became quite prominent. He served as selectman, town clerk,
and in the General Court. Under the law at that time a town at
a distance from Boston might elect a man nearer Boston to repre-
sent it in the General Court. Joseph Bridgham represented North-
ampton in 1690 and again in 1697. He and Copp were ordained el-
ders of the First Chruch of Boston. He joined the Ancient &
Honorable Artillary Company in 1674. He was often moderator of
the Boston town meeting and often served on various town com-
mittees. Rev. Cotton Mather officiated at his wedding with
Mercy Wensley, April 17, 1700. His will dated January 3, 1708
was probated in Suffolk County. In it he bequeated twenty
pounds to be spent by the deacons of the church for plate for the
communion table. The first Church in Boston still his this plate.
It consists of three communion cups made by Jeremiah Dunner.
"The gift of Joseph Bridgham." These cups are kept at the Boston
Art Museum on Huntington Avenue for exhibition purposes. They
are in a case marked, "First Church Silver." First Church in
Boston, Berkley and Marlborough Streets. He died January 10, 1708.
Samuel Sewell wrote to Thomas Cookerill in New York as follows,
"I am in pain foe the loss of my good friend, Mr. Bridgham. He
was a publick Spirited Man, very pious and charitable to the
poor; and will be much missed. We have a Treacherous mortal
Fever with which he was seis'd on Friday and died the Wednesday
following." "My worthy friend, Mr. Bridgham is buried; Bearers
Mr. Cook, Col. Hutchinson, Elder Cop, Deacon John Marion, Deacon
Isaiah Tay, Deacon Thomas Hubbard. Is buried in the Col. burying
place. Went up by Mr. Dudley's House into King Street, and up
between the Town-House and Mr. Phillips. He was a Righteous,
Mercyful, publick Spririted man, bery useful in the Town." He
was born January 17, 1651. Sewell Papers Vol. 2, page 248. He was
married three times. I think he had children only by his
last wife, Mercy Wensley. He lies buried in King's Chapel burying
ground in Tremont Street, Boston. A plain stone marks his grave.
Of Joseph Bridgham and Mercy Wensley were born five children,
but it seems four of them died young.
Mercy WENSLEY
Joseph's 3rd wife. (New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Clarence Torrey