Mills-Martin Family Records - Person Sheet
Mills-Martin Family Records - Person Sheet
NameMary DUNSTER 2106, p 817
Birthbef 25 Oct 1629, Bury, Lancashire, England3566, p 1
Birth16302291, p 5
Memobased on baptism date
Baptism15 Dec 1630, Bury, Lancashire, England2291, p 5,3566 Age: 1
Death28 Dec 1715, Charlestown, Middlesex, Massachusetts2291, p 7; date only,3567, date only,3571 Age: 86
Memoage 85 at death
Death28 Dec 1715, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts3566 Age: 86
FatherRobert DUNSTER (~1605-1644)
MotherMary GERRETT
Individual Notes
• Cousin of Elizabeth [Dunster, Simon’s second wife].2291, p 4

• After the death of Major Willard the widow Mary petitioneed to the court for help, speaking of the special need of “six of her younger children,” which may imply that she was mother of more than six.2291, p 8
Spouses
Birth16052289, p 1218
Baptism7 Apr 1605, Horsmonden, Kent, England2291, p 4,3566 Age: 1
MemoSt. Margaret’s Church
RemovalMay 1634, Charlestown, Middlesex, Massachusetts2289, p 1218; states 1635,2291, p 6 Age: 30
Memofrom Horsmonden, England
Death24 Apr 1676, Charlestown, Middlesex, Massachusetts2106, p 817; year only,2291,3567, date only Age: 72
Burial27 Apr 1676, Charlestown, Middlesex, Massachusetts3568
FlagsEarliest Immigrant
FatherRichard WILLARD (~1564-1617)
MotherMargery HUMPHRIE (-1608)
Individual Notes
• Major Simon Willard, elder of the two brothers who founded the American Willard Family, was born at Horsmonden in the county of Kent, England, and baptized in the parish church there April 7, 1605.2291, p 4a

• A man of note in the history of the Massachusetts Colony.3263, p 289

• A Kentish solder, and an Early Pioneer in the Settlement of the British Colony of New England, America, 1634. He was made Commander-in-Chief of the British Forces against the Hostile Indian Tribes. He was distinguished in the military legislative and judicial service of the American commonwealth until his death, aged 72.
Of Simon Willard’s ancestors one was Provost of Canterbury 1218, and another was Baron of Cinque Ports 1377.
-- Tablet in the Crypt of Canterbury Cathedral2291, p 4b

• By his first and third wives, it is believed, Major Willard had seventeen children. The town clerks failed to record the death of either the first or second wife or the marriage of either the second or third.2291, p 7
Marriageabt 1652, Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts2106, p 817; date only,3568,3571
ChildrenHenry (1655-1726)
 Benjamin (1664-1732)
2Dea. Joseph NOYES2106, p 817
Residenceof Sudbury2291, p 7
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