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In Massachusetts Archives, xxx, 134-5, is the following petition of Steven Day, giving his own estimate of his labors in behalf of Lancaster in its infancy :
To the Honoured Generall Court now sitting at Boston :
The humble Petition of Steven Day: In most humble wise sheweth ; That whereas yor Petition' was one of the first undertakers for the Planta- tion now called Lancaster, & for the furtherance of the Planting thereof at great expences of time & estate with both English & Indians, for the gaining of a placidi entertainment with the one, & helping on the other, as is well known to the Inhabitants of that place, as allso in part to my neighbors who were eye witnesses of my continued burthen, either by being absent from my ffamily, which was then more considerable than (through Gods Providence to me) now it is: or by entertaining both English & Indians at my own house from day to day for some yeares to- gether : yet so it hath hapned, that although many others have increased their estates & comforts, by acquiring to themselues great Accomodations (by reason of divine Providence obstructing my personall residence there) I have failed of such personall Accommodations in that place : And after all my Labor & expence of time, strength & estate, although through Gods blessing on my endeavors I have a Town & a Church of God there sctled, to behold as the birth of my Labor which I esteem a greater Reward from God, then my own particular advancement: yet cannot rejoyce in any Lands therein acquired to me or mine. Now so it is, that the Sagamore of that Plantation [Matthew] ( his ingenuity somewhat exceeding others of the barbarous Natives,) remembring my former kindnesses, hath by Deed of Gift giuen & granted vnto me & my heires for ever, all his Right in a certain Tract of Planting Land, by him there for a long time pos- sessed :
My humble request therefore is for this favo! That a Committee of meet
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ANNALS OF LANCASTER,
persons appointed by this honoured Court may be impowered to bound out the said Land vnto me, according to the intent of the Law deterinin- ing the Indians Right: with such an addition of Meadow as may happen to fall within the Planting Lands: And that the same may be Legally setled on me & mine by the Authority of this honoured Court.
And yor Petiont shall ever pray &c.
Endorsements I The Committee haueing posed this Peticon: do Judge meet that 2 or 3 meet persons be impowered to veiw & bound to ye Peticioner, what shall appeare to be granted him by the Indians according to ye true intent of ye law setling the Indians right, and yt some small accomodacion of meadow be added thereto not exceeding 40 acc"-
21-3-1667
THOMAS DANFORTH EDWARD COLLINS HENRY BARTHOLOMEW
2. The deputyes doc not approue of the returne of the comittee in answer to this petition, but doe Judge meete to graunt the petr libertie to procure of the sd Indians by sale or otherwise to the quantitie of one hundred & fifty Acors of vpland, & this Court doth also graunt to the petr twenty Acors of meaddow where he can find it free from former graunts & all wth refference to the Consent of or Honored Magists. hereto.
24 - 3 - 1667- Consented to by y? magist>
WILLIAM TORREY Cleric
Stephen Day died before the close of the year 1667.
The papers from the case of "Administrator of Steven Days Estate, vs John Roper," found in Middlesex Court Files, give some facts in our local history not set down in town records :
To the Marshall General or his Deputy or to the Constable of Lancaster or his Deputy --
You are hereby required in his Majesties name to attach the goods or in want thereof the person of John Roper Sent of Lancaster and take bond of him to the value of two hundred and fifty pounds with sufficient surety or suretyes for his appearance att the next County Court holden att Cambridge upon the first day of October next, There and then to answer the complaint of William Bordman of Cambridge in an action of the case for denying of the said Bordman full and true possession of house and Lands that is att present in the possession of said Roper in the town of Lancaster which sometime was in the hands of Solomon Johnson Sent now of Marlborough and after that in the hand of Mr Stephen Day of Cambridge which house and lands with the appurtenances and priveledges
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MASSACHUSETTS. 1643-1725.
thereto belonging doth by due and true right belong unto the said William Bordman with all due Damages about the same and hereof you are to make a true return under yor hand and not to fayle. Dated this 26 of July 1667 By the Court. SAMUEL GREEN
[ Endorsed.]
I have attached the possessions of John Ropper and taken security, by the consent of the Plaintiff, his own Bond.
EDWARD MITCHELL Marshall
Verdict. In the case depending betweene William Bordman & John Roper we find for the defendent. Costs of Court.
Accompanying above is a copy of the town's grant of 1653, and this certificate :
This may certify any man vnto whom these prsents may com. that about 9 years ago Mr Day of Cambridge laying claim to a lot somtime in the possession of Goodman Johnson of Marlborough, the Town was willing he should possess prouided he would subscribe to the orders of the Town which he readily consented to, and subscribed his hand to our Town book, wherin was this Act of the Town vpon Record. That euery one bound themselues to build, plant land and inhabit within one whole year after this acceptance of their lots or els to loose all their charges and Lots and pay ;ib to the Town, and herevnto Mr Day subscribed his hand the 15th ist month 1653. But he neuer came to inhabit, nor do anything about building or breaking Land vnto this day nor bear any publick charg, but about 6 or 7 years ago goodman Roper who somtime liued at Charles- town, desired to com to liue among vs, and had a liking to that Lot being Mr Day had forfeited it by his not keeping covenant wth ye Town. Yet notwithstanding the Town had so much respect to Mr. Day that they allowed him that goodman Roper should pay to Mr Day what buildings, fencing &c might be worth which both Mr Day and goodman Roper con- sented vnto. They made choise of vs whose hands are subscribed to jvdg betwixt them what it may be worth that is to say the building and fencing as aforsaid, and it was judged that goodman Roper should pay 15" to Mr Day.
Lancaster this 9: 8 month : 1662. Witnesses JOHN PRESCOTT RALPH HOUGHTON
Sworne in Court 1 : 8th : 1667 by ye ptys subscribed as attests THOMAS DANFORTH Re
The lott in question was that upon the east end of which the George Hill school- house now stands.
BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS
IN
LANCASTER FAMILIES,
1645-1700.
A YELLOW and torn leaf from original records, in the hand-writing of Ralph Houghton, was, in 1826, dis- covered by Josiah Flagg, town clerk, among the papers of Captain Hezekiah Gates, and has been carefully preserved. It contains the dates and names of fifty births in Lancaster previous to 1666. The returns of the two earliest clerks of the writs, Ralph Houghton and Cyprian Stevens, scem, however, to have been regularly made to the Middlesex Court, and as found in the Middlesex Registry, have been printed in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, XVI, 352-9, and XVII, 70. Ten years had elapsed, however, from the founding of the first homes on the Nash- away, before Ralph Houghton was made clerk of the writs and began his returns ; and for dates previous to 1656 he must have relied upon family memorials and individual recollections. Errors and omissions for that period there- fore doubtless exist. If records were kept between 1686 and 1700, no trace of them has been found. The first book of such records in the town archives contains a dis- orderly mass of material, its dates covering the eighteenth century, Of its three hundred and sixty pages one-third are devoted to "marriage intentions." The death roll is especially scant, having but three dates earlier than 1718. The birth records are at first by families, and in some cases
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may be complete from 1700. The book bears evidence of having been begun by John Houghton, but probably not before 1718, if so soon, the earlier births being gathered from family records. The following chronologically ar- ranged lists embrace those of the Middlesex Registry, and such other births, marriages and deaths in Lancaster fami- lies to A. D. 1700, as have been ascertained from various sources. When copied from an original record the orthog- raphy of the recorder has been retained.
BIRTHS.
The first birth noted by Ralph Houghton is that of Joseph Waters in 1647. It is quite possible that earlier births than this were unrecorded, for in previous pages it has been shown that the Prescott and Waters families were here in 1645 and 1646, and to each a son was added during those years, the place and exact date of whose birth have not been discovered. In a deposition Nov. 6, 1683, Jona- than Prescott is called "about thirty-eight," and in another of 1670,"twenty-three years old." The list of the Waters fam- ily, on a preceding page, shows so remarkable a regularity of periodic increase as almost to prove that a child was born here in 1645, or brought into the wilderness at an ex- ceeding tender age. Perhaps Adam Waters was the first white child born in Lancaster, and Jonathan Prescott the second.
--
A. D. Month. Day. 1645? -- --
Name. Adam Waters.
1646? -
Jonathan Prescott.
Parents. Lawrence and Ann (Linton) . [not recorded ]. John and Mary (Platts). [not re- corded ]. Lawrence and Ann, John and Mary. [not recorded].
1647 1648
2
20 Joseph Waters. Jonas Prescott. § Jacob Waters. Rachell Waters. S
Lawrence and Ann.
1649 I
1649 5 Thomas Sawyer.
1650
16 Ephraim Sawyer.
Thomas and Marie ( Prescott). Thomas and Marie.
-
314
ANNALS OF LANCASTER,
A. D. Month. Day.
Name.
Parents.
1651
3
26
Daniel Hudson.
1651
11
14
Samuell Waters.
1652
11
4
Marie Sawyer.
1653 1
1653 4
JI
Marie Houghton.
1653 7 7
1654 3
1654 3
13
James Atherton.
James and Hanna.
1654
8
28
Edmund and Elizabeth ( Howe).
1655
J
13
Joshua Sawyer.
1655
2
28 John Houghton.
1655
9
4
Marie More.
1655
~1655 II
1655
20
John Smith.
Richard and Johanna (Quarlls) .
1655
11
27
Ephram Waters.
Lawrence and Ann.
1656
3
I
Sarah Hudson.
Daniel and Johanna.
1657
I
22
James Sawyer.
Thomas and Marie.
1657
5
1
Joseph Houghton.
Ralph and Jane.
1657 1657 1657
5 6
15 26
Frances Smith.
Richard and Johanna.
9
27
Elizabeth Moore ..
John and Ann.
1657
Henrie and Elizabeth ( White).
1657
11
10
Hanna Atherton.
James and Hanna.
1657
II
15
Marie Rowlandson.
Joseph and Marie ( White).
1657
II 26
Marie Davis.
Samuell and Marie ( Waters).
1658
4
21 Nathaniell Josllin.
Nathaniell and Sara.
1658
II
II Elizabeth Hudson.
Daniel and Johanna.
1658
22 William Kerley.
Henrie and Elizabeth.
1659 1659
4
20
Marie Fairbanke.
Jonas and Lidia (Prescott).
1659
5
31
John Bennit.
George and Lidia (Kibbie).
1659
S
Experience Houghton. Ralph and Jane.
1659
9
Icabod Rogers.
Jerimiah and Bia.
1660
2
Lidia More.
John and Ann.
1660
5
:5 Sara Josllin.
Nathaniell and Sara.
1660
Joseph Willard.
Simon and Marie ( Dunster).
1660
6 Johanna Hudson.
Daniel and Johanna.
1600
II
17 Marie Atherton.
James and Hanna.
166:
Į
7
Joseph Rowlandson.
Joseph and Marie.
1661
2
3 Noah Beman.
Gamaliell and Sara ( Clark).
¥66
2
6
Josua Fairbanke.
Jonas and Lidia.
Marie Hudson. Smith.
Marsa Parker. ?
Ester Parker.
Thomas and Marie. Ralph and Jane.
John and Ann (Smith).
Edmund and Elizabeth.
John and Martha (Prescott).
17
Twins Rugg.
James and Hanna.
1656
13 Joshua Atherton.
- Josliin.
Nathaniell and Sara (King).
Henrie Kerley.
--
20 Caleb Sawyer.
Thomas and Marie.
2
6
Debora Parker.
Daniel and Joanna. Lawrence and Ann. Thomas and Marie. Lawrence and Ann. Ralph and Jane. Daniel and Joanna.
Johanna Waters.
26
23
Richard and Marie.
315
MASSACHUSETTS. 1643-1725.
A. D. Month. Day.
Name.
Parents.
1661
2
6
John Sawyer.
Thomas and Marie.
1661 6
19
Mary Bennitt.
George and Lidia.
1661
20 Waitestill Sumner.
Roger and Mary ( Yostin).
1661 12 17 Sarah Houghton.
Ralph and Jane.
1662
I
4
Dorathy Josllin.
Nathaniel and Sarah.
1662
I
IO
John Hudson.
Daniel and Joanna.
1662
2
7 John More.
John and Ann.
1662
4
4 John Rugg.
John and Hannah (Prescott).
1662
8
3
Hittabel Rogers.
Jeremiah and Abiah.
1662
IO
8
Rachell Courser.
Arklous and Rachell (Roper).
1663
2
18
Thankefull Beaman.
1663
5
2
John Rigby.
1 663
5
8 Hannah Kerley.
1663
5
26
Joseph Josllin.
Abram and Beatrix.
1663
5
31
Barrachia Lewis.
John and Hannah.
1663
8
4
Jehosephat Rogers.
Jeremiah and Bia.
1663
9
15
Grace Fairbanke.
Jonas and Lydia.
3663
9
25 Jacob Wheeler.
Richard and Sarah (Prescott).
1663
II
5
Elizabeth Sawyer.
Thomas and Mary.
1664
2
17 Samuell Allin.
Daniell and Marie ( Wilder).
1664
4
12 William Hudson.
Daniel and Joanna.
1664
5
Mercy Rugg.
John and Hannah.
1664
5
15
Abigail Houghton.
Ralph and Jane.
1664
6
3
Simon Courser.
Archelaus and Rachel.
1654
7
28
John Divoll.
John and Hannah ( White).
1664
8
20
Joseph Moore.
John and Ann.
1664
II
2
Zebediah Wheeler.
Richard and Sarah.
1665
?
?
Benjamin Willard.
Simon and Mary.
1665
5
17
Steeven Gates.
Steeven and Sarah ( Woodward)
1665 July
22
Samuell Benit.
George and Lidia.
1665
6
5
Mary Sumner.
Roger and Mary.
1665
6
8 Rebecca Lewis.
John and Hannah.
1665
6
12
Mary Rowlandson.
Joseph and Mary.
1665
9
12 Josiah Whetcomb.
Josiah and Rebecca ( Waters).
1665
IO
3
Beatrix Houghton.
John and Beatrix.
1665
12
22
Peter Joslin.
Nathaniel and Sarah.
1666
5
6
Abiah Rogers.
Jeremiah and Abiah.
1666
5
13
Bethia Lewis.
John and Hannah.
1666
5
17 Ann Moore.
John and Ann.
1666
- -
Deborah Sawyer.
Thomas and Mary.
1666 7
15
Thomas Rugg.
John and Hannah.
1666
8
6
Hannah Willard.
Simon and Mary.
1666
8
6 Elizabeth Atherton.
James and Hannah.
1666
8
7 Jonathan Fairbank
Jonas and Lidia.
Gamaliell and Sarah. John and Elizabeth. Henry and Elizabeth.
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316
ANNALS OF LANCASTER,
A. D. Month. Day.
Name.
1666 8 14
Mary Kerley.
1666 IO
Marie Joslin.
1666 13 7
Elnathan Allen,
1666 I ] 7 Josiah Whetcomb.
1666 12
Sarah Wheeler.
1667 Jany 6 Bathsheba Rogers.
1667 April 28 John Wedge.
1667 May 26 Mehittable Beaman.
1667 June 7 Elizabeth Joslin.
1667 June
12 Hannab Divoll.
John and Hannah.
1667 Aug. 3 1667 Sept. 7 Abigail Hudson.
1667 Oct. 16 Hannah Houghton. Anne Hudson.
1668 Jan. 1
1668 Jan. 21
Patience Lewis.
David Whitcomb.
Josiah and Rebecca.
1668 Feb. 28
Hazadiah Fairbank :. George Bennett.
Jonas and Lidia.
1668 March 26
1668 April II
Jaazoniab Sumner.
1668 May 12
Mary Wedge.
1668 May 25
Benjamin Houghton.
John and Beatrix.
John and Mary (Hillard).
1668 Sept.
17
Hannah Whetcomb.
Jonathan and Hannah.
1668 Dec. 15 Joseph Rugg.
John and Hannah.
1669 Feb. 2 Mary Prescott.
John and Sarah (Hayward).
1669 Feb. 20
Thomas Allen.
Daniel and Mary.
1669 Feb. 26 Jonathan Whitcomb.
1669 March
28
Joseph Kerley.
Henry and Elizabeth. Jacob and Hannah (Hayward).
1669 May 19
Jonathan Moore.
John and Ann.
1669 May 24
Elizabeth Wheeler.
Richard and Sarah.
James and Hannah.
1669 Sept. 15
Sarah Rowlandson.
Joseph and Mary.
1669 Sept. 27
Josiah Divoll.
John and Hannah.
1669 Nov.
28
John Farrah.
John and Mary.
1669 Dec. 14 Jonathan Willard
Simon and Mary.
1670
I
30 Joshua Wedge.
Thomas and Deborah.
1670
3
17
William and Elizabeth.
1670 6
16 George Farrah.
Jacob and Hannah.
1670
24 Jonathan Kettle,
John and Elizabeth ( Ward).
1670 9 24 Nathaniel Sawyer.
1670 11
2 Hannah Rugg.
1670
8 Jabez Fairbank.
Thomas and Mary. John and Hannah. Jonas and Lidia.
Parents. Henry and Elizabeth. Abram and Beatrix. Daniel and Mary. Josiah and Rebecca. Richard and Sarah. Jeremiah and Abiah. Thomas and Deborah.
Gamaliel and Sarah. Nathaniel and Sarah.
Archelaus and Rachel.
Daniel and Joanna.
Ralph and Jane. Daniel and Joanna. John and Hannnh.
1668 Feb. 20
1668 June 18
Mary Farrar.
Jonathan and Hannalı.
1669 March 29
Jacob Farrar.
1669 June I Deborah Atherton.
Mary Courser. Lincorne.
Archelaus and Rachel.
1670 5
Simon Courser.
George and Lidia. Roger and Mary. Thomas and Deborah.
317
MASSACHUSETTS. 1643-1725.
A. D. Month. Day. Maria Moore.
Name.
Parents.
John and Ann.
1671
2
29
Samuel Wheeler
Richard and Sarah. Jonathan and Dorothy.
1671 3
15
Nathaniel Hudson.
1671
4
20
John Lewis.
Daniel and Joanna. John and Hannah. Jonathan and Hannah.
Benjamin and Hannah.
1671
S
9
12 Rebecca Whetcomb.
Josiah and Rebecca.
1671
9
16 Hannah McLond.
Mordecai and Lidia (Lewis).
1671
9
26 Israel Rogers.
Jeremiah and Abiah.
1671
IO
27 Mary Whetcomb.
1671
11
30 Mary Sawyer.
1672
I
5
William Bennett. William Divoll
John and Hannah.
1672
2
10
Jonathan Prescott.
1672
2
18 Joseph Atherton.
James and Hannah.
1672
3
1.4 Rebecca Joslin
Nathaniel and Sarah.
1672
10
Martha Kerley.
Henry and Elizabeth.
1672
4
27
Ruth Whitcomb.
John and Mary.
1672
5 6
30 6
Sarah Houghton. John Farrar.
Jacob and Hannah.
1672
6
26 William Lincorne.
William and Elizabeth.
1672
9
22 Mary Steevens.
Cyprian and Mary ( Willard.)
1672
9
24 John Prescott.
John and Sarah.
1672 1672
12 13
John Houghton.
John Jr. and Mary (Farrar).
1673
I
12
Abigail Allen.
Benjamin and Mary.
1673
Į
23
Samuel Waters
Samuel and Mary ( Hudson).
1673
3
6 Jonas Fairbank.
Jonas and Lidia.
1673
3
16
Rebecca Ruge.
John and Hannah
1673
5
II
John Wilder.
John and Hannah.
1673
6
10 Martha Sawyer.
Thomas and Mary.
1673
2
Susanna Rogers.
Jeremiah and Abiah.
1673
? William Lewis.
John and Hannah.
1673
26 William Sumner.
Roger and Mary.
1673
12
26 Elizabeth Lincorne.
William and Elizabeth.
1674
I
8
Johanna Whitcomb. Jacob Houghton.
Josiah and Rebecca. John Jr. and Mary.
1674
3
9
Beatrix Joslin.
Abraham Jr. and Ann.
1674
6
7 Lidia Bennett.
George and Lidia.
1674 ?
Sarah Whitcomb. ?
John and Mary.
1671
1 10
1671 3
2
Twins Prescott.
1671 6
29
1671 7 10
Hannah Whetcomb. Benjamin Allen. Hannah Allen. Rebecca Sumner.
Roger and Mary
1671 9
Job and Mary. Thomas Jr. and Sarah.
George and Lidia.
1672
8
Jonathan and Dorothy.
John and Beatrix.
1672
26 Priscilla Roper.
Ephriam and Priscilla.
1674 2 1674 3
17
5 Abigail Whitcomb.
Jonathan and Hannah.
318
ANNALS OF LANCASTER,
Born in Lancaster Families during Exile after the Massacre.
A. D. Month. Day.
1675 - -
1676 1
2
Thomas Wilder.
1677 August 13
Simon Stevens.
1677 April 16
Ephraim Wilder.
1678 9
15
David Rugg.
1678 9
27 Elizabeth Prescott.
1679 2
5
Priscilla Roper.
1679 Oct. 31
Hannah Wilder.
1679 2 12
Mary Wilder.
1680 10
12 Jonathan Rugg.
16So Feb.
1 4
Elizabeth Wilder. James Wilder ..
1681
7 Ruth Roper.
1681
Elizabeth Steevens.
1681
---
James Wilder.
John and Hannah, in Charles- town. Cyprian and Mary.
Births in Lancaster after the Re-settlement.
A D. Month. Day.
Name.
Parents. Joseph and Elizabeth.
1679 August II
Elizabeth Waters.
Sarah White.
Josiah and Mary (Lewis).
168o. Oct. 21 1681 Sept. 16 Hezekiah Whitcomb. Josiah and Rebecca.
1681 Jan. 25
Sarab Beman.
John and Priscilla.
1682 April ?
Joseph Waters.
Joseph and Elizabeth.
1682 April 20
Jonathan Wilder.
Nathaniel and Mary.
1682 July 2 Jonas Houghton.
Jonas and Mary ( Burbeen).
1682 July 6 Ebenezer Prescott.
1682 Sept. 15 Josiah White.
John and Sarah. Josiah and Mary.
1683 Jan. 17 Martha Waters.
Joseph and Elizabeth.
1683 Jan. 19 John Hinds.
1683 Jan. 24 John Houghton.
John and Mary ( Butler) . Jons and Mary. Abraham and Tabitha.
1683 March 3 Abigail Wheeler.
1683 June 23 Ebenezer Wilder.
John and Hannah. Thomas and Mary.
1683 July 5 Joseph Wilder.
1683 Nov. 3 Hannah Houghton.
Robert and Esther.
1683 Dec. 26 Deborah Whitcomb.
1634 Feb. 27 James Atherton.
Josiah and Rebecca. James and Abigail (Waters).
Parents. Nathaniel and Mary (Sawyer). John and Hannah, in Charles- town. Cyprian and Mary, in Boston. Nathaniel and Mary, in Sud- bury. Jobn and Hannah, in Concord. John Jr. and Sarah, in Concord. Ephraim and Hannah (Goble). in Concord.
John and Hannah. Nathaniel and Mary, in Sudbury. Jobn and Hannah, in Concord. Nathaniel and Mary, in Sudbury. Thomas and Mary ( Houghton). Ephraim and Hannah, in Concord Cyprian and Mary.
1680
1682 /3 ---
Joseph Steevens.
Name. Nathaniel Wilder.
MASSACHUSETTS. 1643-1725.
A. 1). Month. Day.
Name.
1684 Feb. 29
Gamaliel Beman.
Parents. John and Priscilla. John and Mary.
1684 May S
Anna Houghton.
1684 May 12 John Whitcomb.
Jonathan and Hannah.
Josiah and Mary.
1684 Nov. 22
Experience Wheeler
Isaac and Experience.
1685 Jan. 22 Sarah Wilder.
Thomas and Mary.
1685 Feb. 20 Jonathan Houghton.
John and Mary.
1685 April 20 Jonathan Wilder.
Nathaniel and Mary.
1685 Sept. 3 Beatrix Houghton.
Robert and Esther.
1686 July 24
John Wheeler.
Isaac and Experience.
1686 Dec. S Peter Joslin.
Peter and Sarah.
1786 - Dorothy Wilder. -
1687 March 30
Edward Sawyer.
Nathaniel and Mary. John and Mary (Ball).
After this date the records of Lancaster births, in Mid- dlesex Registry, abruptly cease. The following have been gathered from various sources supposed trustworthy :
A. D. Month. Day.
1686 - - 1687 - - 1688 March 13
165S - -
1688 -
1689 March 27 1689 April 18
1689
1690 Jan. 27
1690 May 31
1690 1691
1692 -
1693 March 26
1693 June 20
1693 1693
1694 March 28
1694 -
1605 May Mary Wheelock. Jonathan Willard. --
1695 -
1700 Jane 6 Josiah Wilder.
Name. Hezekiah Willard. Elizabeth Wilder. Abigail Whitcomb. Nathaniel Wilder. Joseph Willard. Thankful White. Abigail Houghton. Anna Wilder. Elizabeth Phelps. Samuel Willard. Anna Wilder. Mary Wilder. Mary Goss. James Willard Hooker Osgood. Amos Sawyer. John Goss. Josiah Willard. Hannah Whitcomb. Oliver Wilder.
Parents. Henry and Mary. Thomas and Mary. Josiah and Rebecca. Nathaniel and Mary. Henry and Mary. Josiah and Mary. Robert and Esther. Thomas and Mary. Edward and Ruth. Henry and Dorcas. John and Hannah. Thomas and Mary. Philip and Mary. Henry and Dorcas. Hooker and Dorothy. Nathaniel and Mary. Philip and Mary. Henry and Dorcas. Josiah and Mary. Nathaniel and Mary. Joseph and Elizabeth. Henry and Dorcas. John and Sarah.
319
1684 Sept. 29 John White. 5 Isaac Wheeler.
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· ANNALS OF LANCASTER,
MARRIAGES.
Under date May 26, 1658, the following order is found in Massachusetts Records :
Itt is ordered that Mr John Tincker shall & is heerby impowred to marry George Bennett & Lyddia Kibby & . . who are published according to lawe.
Before this authority was conferred upon Master Tinker, Lancaster couples wishing to be joined in wedlock were compelled to seek a magistrate elsewhere. In 1660, Major Simon Willard became a permanent resident in Lancaster, and by virtue of his office as Assistant, solemnized mar- riages.
A. D. Month. Day.
1648 .1654
Names. Thomas Sawyer and Mary Prescott. John Rugg and Martha Prescott.
165- 6 2 Richard Smith and widow Joanna Quarlls, in Boston
1654 November 2 Henry Kerley and Elizabeth White, in Sudbury.
1654 November 16
John Moore and Ann Smith, in Sudbury. Joseph Rowlandson and Mary White. Nathaniel Joslin and Sarah King of Marlborough.
1656
1656
Roger Sumner and Mary Joslin. Samuel Davis and Mary Waters.
1658 April
5
John Maynard and Mary Gates, in Sudbury.
1658 3
2S
Jonas Fairbanke and Lidia Prescott, in Lancaster.
1658 1
13 George Bennett and Lidia Kibby.
1658 6
2
Richard Wheeler and Sarah Prescott.
1659 3
3[
William Kerley Sen. and Brichett Rowlandson.
1660 May
4 John Rugg and Hannah Prescott.
1661 ? 1662 August
3º
John Rigby and Elizabeth
1663
23
John Deaall [Divoll] and Hannah White.
1664 3 16 William Kerley Sen. and Rebeccah Joslin, widow.
1661 II
4
Josiah Whetcombe and Rebeccah Waters.
1667 June
30
John Farrar and Mary -.
1667 November 25
Jonathan Whetcombe and Hannah ----.
1668 June 25 Thomas Wilder and Mary Houghton.
1668 November
Jacob Farrah Jr. and Hannah Hayward.
16:6
1656
? Archelaus Courser and Rachel Roper. [Not in Lancaster Records.]
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MASSACHUSETTS. 1643-1725.
A. D. Month.
Day.
Names. .
1668 November
II
John Prescott, Jr., and Sarah ----..
1669 May
19
Job Whitcombe and Mary ----
1669 June
22 Reuben Luxford and Margaret
1669 September 14 Henry Maze and Ales
1670
6
3 Jonathan Prescott and Dorothy
1670
8
II
Thomas Sawyer, Jr., and Sarah
1670 II
13 Mordecai Mackload and Lidca Lewis.
1671
I
16
John Whitcomb and Mary
1671
9
16
Benjamin Bosworth and widow Beatrice Joslin.
1671
II
22
Cyprian Steevens and Mary Willard.
1671
IT
22
John Houghton, Jr., and Mary Farrar.
1672
I
2]
Samuel Waters and Mary Hudson.
1672
5
17
1672
9
14
Jonas Prescott and Mary Loker.
1672
9
21
Thomas Sawyer, Jr , and Hannah
1672
9
29
Abram Joscelyn and Ann -
1672
10
Jeremiah Rogers, Jr., and Dorcas ----.
1673
24
Nathaniel Wilder and Mary Sawyer. Daniel Hudson, Jr., and Mary Maynard of Sudbury.
1676/7 2
1677 November
18 Henry Kerley and Elizabeth How at Charlestown: 20 Ephraim Roper and widow Hannah Goble of Concord.
1678 February 1678
4
James Sawyer and Mary Marble.
Joshua Sawyer and Sarah Potter, in Woburn.
1679 5
3 George Hewes and widow Lydia Bennett, at Concord
16St February
15 Jonas Houghton and Mary Berbeane of Woburn.
1681/2 February
9 John Hinds and widow Mary Butler.
1683 September
20
John Pope and Beatrix Houghton. Nathaniel Wilson and Thankful Beaman.
1633 1684 june 1688
6 James Atherton and Abigail Hudson. Jonathan Fairbank and Mary Hayward.
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