Individual Details

Major Simon Willard

(1603/04 - 24 Apr 1676)

Maj. Simon and Mary (Sharpe) Willard Simon WILLARD - bap. Apr. 7, 1605, Horsmonden, Kent, England; d. Apr. 24, 1676, Charlestown, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts. His English Ancestry is uncertain. To America in 1634. Lived at Cambridge, Massachusetts 1634, Concord 1635, Lancaster 1660, Groton 1672, Salem 1676. Major WILLARD's military career is detailed in Soldiers in King Philip's War, by George M. Bodge (Leominster, Massachusetts: 1896), pages 120-126. Ancestor of of two officers of Harvard. When past age 70 he led 47 men thirty miles to route the Indians from an attack on Brookfield, Massachusetts. Married first about 1630, England; second about 1643, Concord, Massachusetts Elizabeth DUNSTER (d. about 1643), daughter of Henry; and third about 1645 Mary DUNSTER (b. Dec. 15, 1630; d. Dec. 28 1715, Sudbury, Massachusetts) cousin of Elizabeth and daughter of Robert DUNSTER and Mary GERRETT. He had no children by Elizabeth, and his ten youngest were by his third marriage. As the widow of Maj. WILLARD, Mary married second, on Jul. 19, 1680, Dea. Joseph NOYES

Events

Birth1603/04Horsmonden, Kent, England
Baptism7 Apr 1605
MarriageBef 1630/31Horsmonden, Kent, England - Mary Sharp
Residence1634Cambridge
Residence1635Concord
MarriageAbt 1650/51Possibly, Kent, England - Elizabeth Dunster
Marriage1651/52Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States - Mary Dunster
Residence1660Lancaster
Residence1672Groton, New London, Connecticut, United States
Residence1676Salem
Death24 Apr 1676Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Burial27 Apr 1676Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Title (Nobility)Major

Families

SpouseMary Sharp ( - 1654)
ChildMary Willard (1629 - 1648)
ChildElizabeth Willard (1631 - 1635)
ChildElizabeth Willard (1634 - 1689)
ChildJosiah Willard (1634 - 1673)
ChildDorothy Willard (1635 - )
ChildSamuel Willard (1639 - 1706)
ChildSarah Willard (1641 - 1677)
ChildAbovehope Willard (1645 - 1662)
ChildSimon Willard (1648 - 1730)
SpouseElizabeth Dunster ( - )
SpouseMary Dunster (1629 - )
ChildMary Willard (1652 - )
ChildHenry Willard (1654 - 1725)
ChildJohn Willard (1656 - 1725)
ChildDaniel Willard (1657 - 1707)
ChildJoseph Willard (1660 - 1720)
ChildHope Willard (1662 - )
ChildBenjamin Willard (1663 - 1731)
ChildHannah Willard (1666 - )
ChildJonathan Willard (1668 - 1705)
FatherRichard Willard (1582 - 1615)
MotherMargery Humphrie (1604 - )
SiblingCatherine Willard (1606 - )
SiblingMargery Willard ( - 1666)
SiblingEdward Willard ( - )
SiblingJohn Willard ( - )
SiblingGeorge Willard ( - )

Endnotes

1. Compiler: John Farmer, Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of new England (n.p: Carter, Andrews, & Company, Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1829, n.d), p.318.

2. Compiler: John Farmer, Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of new England (n.p: Carter, Andrews, & Company, Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1829, n.d), p.318.

3. Compiler: John Farmer, Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of new England (n.p: Carter, Andrews, & Company, Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1829, n.d), p.318.

4. Compiler: John Farmer, Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of new England (n.p: Carter, Andrews, & Company, Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1829, n.d), p.318.

5. Compiler: John Farmer, Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of new England (n.p: Carter, Andrews, & Company, Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1829, n.d), p.318.

6. Compiler: John Farmer, Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of new England (n.p: Carter, Andrews, & Company, Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1829, n.d), p.318.