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     He was born on 31 January 1640.¹ He was the son of Major Simon Willard and Mary Dunster.¹ He married Abigail Sherman.¹ He married Eunice Tyng.¹

     She was born between 27 June 1642 and 24 July 1642.¹ She was the daughter of Major Simon Willard and Mary Dunster.¹ She married Nathaniel Howard.¹

     He was born on 23 November 1649.¹ He was the son of Major Simon Willard and Mary Dunster.¹ He married Martha Jacob.¹ He married Priscilla Buttolph.¹

     He was baptized on 7 April 1605 at Horsemonden, County Kent, England, although there is no record of him in his birthplace.¹ He was the son of Richard Willard and Joan (?).¹

Major Simon Willard married Mary Sharpe, daughter of Henry Sharpe and Jane Feylde; they apparently married in England and had at least one child before coming to this country, and by this wife he had several other children.¹

Major Simon Willard married Elizabeth Dunster, sister of Henry Dunster,the first President of Harvard College. She died within the year.¹ He then married Mary Dunster.¹

Major Simon Willard died on 24 April 1676 at Groton, Middlesex Co., MA. In the progress of King Philip's War, the town of Groton was attacked and the savages burned Major Willard's barn in March 1676, so that he had uncertain dwelling places for himself and his family from that time forward. In the following month he was in Charlestown, probably resting from his tremendous labors (he was now over 70) when he was seized with an "epidemic cold," and died.¹
     

His father had provided that he be apprenticed to some trade. It is probable that he served in the army before leaving England as he was appointed to drill soldiers in America very soon after his arrival, and he was called " Kentish Soldier" by a contemporary historian., Mr. Samuel Johnson. .¹

Major Simon Willard immigrated in May 1634 to Boston, MA; in "The Planters of the Commonwealth" by Charles S. Banks (1930), page 109, it says "The ships Clement, Job, Reformation, True Love, Elizabeth Bonadventure, Sea Flower, Planter and Neptune" .... "bound for New England and now lying in the River of Thames" .... were held by order of the Privy Council on February 22, "until further order" (1634). On Feb. 28 they were released under bond of 100 pounds to conform to certain "articles". It is probable that most of them came into Boston harbor during the week of May 12 to 17, "with stores of passengers and cattle". Winthrop says they had enjoyed a "short passage". Of this "store" of passengers less than a score are known. Of these were Simon Willard, Mrs. Mary Willard, and Mary Willard of Horsemonden, Kent.¹

On 4 August 1634 Simon Willard had a grant of land in Cambridge, Mass. where he resided for a year; and on 25 Aug. 1635 he sold that property and joined others in founding the plantation of Concord. They bought their lands from the Indians in 1636 and maintained good relations with them for long years.¹

On 1 July 1657, Simon Willard, Thomas Henchman, ensign Thomas Wheeler and Thomas Brenton were granted exclusive right to trade with the Indians on the Merrimac River for which they paid 25 pounds. (History Chelmsford 82).¹

In 1659 Simon Willard sold his Concord homestead and removed to Lancaster; after some twelve years he again moved to Groton and built a house and other buildings and enjoyed greatly the fourth home he had made.¹

By his first and third wives Simon Willard had seventeen children. The town clerks failed to record the deaths of the first and second wives, and the dates of marriage of the second and third.¹

In his book, "Mayflower," Nathaniel Philbrick tells of an incident early in King Philip's War, after the initial skirmishes in the vicinity of Plymouth Colony:

"The war in Massachusetts [Bay Colony] had begun in earnest on August 2 with the Nipmuck's attack on the town of Brookfield, one of the most isolated settlements in the colony. Set in the midst of the wilderness between Boston and those along the Connecticut River, Brookfield possessed just twenty houses and was a day's journey from its nearest neighbor, Springfield. As happened with frightening frequency in the months ahead, the fighting began with an ambush. A diplomatic delegation from Boston, hoping to establish peace with the Nipmucks, was suddenly attacked from a hillside overlooking the forest path. Eight English, including three residents of Brookfield, were killed, with just a handful of survivors managing to ride back to town. Soon after their arrival, several hundred Nipmucks descended on Brookfield, and one of the most legendary sieges in the history of New England was underway."

"For two days, eighty people, most of them women and children, gathered in the home of Sergeant John Ayres, one of those killed in the ambush. When the Indians were not burning the rest of the town to the ground, they were firing on the house with guns and flaming arrows, forcing the English to chop holes through the roof and walls so that they could douse the fires. At one point, the Nipmucks loaded a cart full of flaming rags and pushed it up against the side of the house. If not for a sudden shower of rain, the garrison would surely have become an inferno. Finally, on the night of August 3, fifty troopers under the command of Major Simon Willard came to the rescue, and the Nipmucks were dispersed."²

The public service of Major Willard as recorded in the 1627 Register of Massachusetts Society of Colonial Dames, page 489, as "Deputy to the General Court for Concord, 1636-1642, 1644, 1645, 1646, and 1649-1653; Assistant, 1654-1675; Lieutenant 1637 and Captain 1646 of First Company of Concord; Major of Middlesex County Regiment 1654; Commander-in-Chief of the Expedition against Ninigret, 1654; Commander of Middlesex County Troop in King Philip's War, 1675-76."¹

     He was the son of Richard Willard.¹ He married Elizabeth (?). His estate was probated on 26 February 1584.¹
     Symon Willard left a will on 6 February 1584 at Gowthurst, County Kent, England, UK.¹

     He is the son of Symon Willard and Elizabeth (?).¹

     She is the daughter of Symon Willard and Elizabeth (?).¹ She married Thomas Bolde.¹

     He is the son of King Christian IX, of Denmark and Louise of Hesse-Cassel. He married Olga Constantinovna.

     He was born circa 1170.¹ He was the son of (?) Henry II, King of England and Ida de Toeni.¹ He married (?) Ela of Salisbury before September 1197.¹ He died on 7 March 1225 at Salisbury Castle, Wiltshire, England.¹

     He was born circa 925. He was the son of Ebles Mancer The Bastard and Emliane (?). He married Gerloc Adele of Normandy, daughter of Hrólf Ganger and Poppa. He died on 3 April 963.
     

Count of Poitou.

     He was the son of Hrólf Ganger and Poppa. He married Sprota (?). He died in 942.
     

Duke of Normans.

     He was the son of (?) Robert I, Duke of Normandy and (?) Herleve of Falaise.¹ He married Matilda of Flanders (?). He died on 9 September 1087 at Rouen, France. He was buried at St. Stephens, Caen.
     

King of England, 1066-1087.

     

Isobell William married John Ralton, son of John Railtonne, on 8 October 1714 at Kirkintilloch, Dumbartonshire, Scotland; the marriage was recorded in the old parish register as follows:

Sept. 11, 1714 John Ralton in this parish and Isobell William in the parish of Campsie, had their purpose of marriage three severall sabbaths orderly proclaimed, and nothing objected against the same, they were married the 8th. October."¹

     He married Helen Graham, daughter of George Edward Graham and Marion Mason.

     She married Carlisle Haines, son of Solomon Haines and Rebecca Sharp, on 26 June 1798 at Culpeper Co., VA.¹

     He is the son of (?) Williams and Helen Graham.

     She is the daughter of Noah Albert Williams Jr and Shirley Mae Thompson.

     He is the son of William Kenton Williams and Verneda Ruth Thompson.

     He married Olive Wadsworth, daughter of Benjamin Wadsworth and Olive Sharpley, in 1799.

     He is the son of (?) Williams and Helen Graham.

     She was the daughter of Roger Williams and Mary (?).¹ She married Resolved Waterman, son of Richard Waterman Sr. and Bethiah Rice, circa 1659.¹

     He married Shirley Mae Thompson, daughter of Fred Edward Thompson and Viola May Turner, on 12 August 1948 at Wenatchee, Washington.¹

     He married Mary (?).¹

     He is the son of William Kenton Williams and Verneda Ruth Thompson.

     He married Verneda Ruth Thompson, daughter of Fred Edward Thompson and Viola May Turner, on 3 June 1954.

     He is the son of William Kenton Williams and Verneda Ruth Thompson.

     She married William Shaver, son of Edward H. Shaver and Sarah Yochum, on 29 October 1868 at Ralls Co., MO.¹

     She married John Pollard before 1670.

     She was born on 30 September 1874.¹ She married Ernest Arthur Brooks, son of Orville L. Brooks and Mary A. Paul, on 13 August 1897 at Paris Hill, New York.¹

     He married Myrtle Ethel Ralston, daughter of Hector Ralston and Mary Ann Whaley, on 28 March 1914 at Seattle, Washington.