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MAJ Simon Willard
Cenotaph

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MAJ Simon Willard Veteran

Birth
Horsmonden, Tunbridge Wells Borough, Kent, England
Death
24 Apr 1676 (aged 72)
Charlestown, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Cenotaph
Canterbury, City of Canterbury, Kent, England Add to Map
Memorial ID
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The profile photo is not the same as for his son Samuel. Two entirely different etchings.

*Please note that this is the CENOTAPH (NON BURIAL TRIBUTE MONUMENT) for Major Simon Willard at Canterbury Cathedral in Canterbury, England, NOT his burial location in the United States. *Please do not confuse him with Simon Willard the clockmaker, burial Memorial # 13606676, who was born more than 100 years later. Burial Memorial Find a Grave #224458339: Actual burial here

Simon Willard migrated to this country in 1634. He was a magistrate, soldier, innkeeper, surveyor, and fur trader. He married (1) October 13 1628 in England Mary Sharpe as found in records on My Heritage marriage Record. By 1653 after the death of his first wife, he married Mary Unknown who married Joseph Noyes.

Children of Simon
i. Mary – b. about 1629
ii. Josiah - b. about 1631
iii. Elizabeth - b. about 1633
iv. Samuel - b. 31 Jan 1639/40
v. Sarah - b. 27 Jun. or 24 Jul. 1642
vi. Abovehope - b. 30 Oct. 164[?]
vii. Simon - b. 23 Nov. 1649

Children of Simon and Mary (Dunster) Willard (she m. (2) Joseph Noyes)
viii. Mary - b. 7 Sep. 1653
ix. Henry - b. 4 Jun. 1655
x. John - b. 12 Feb. 1656[/7?]
xi. Daniel - b. 26 Dec. 26 1658
xii. Joseph - b. 4 Jan. 1660[/1?]
xiii. Benjamin - b. about 1664
xiv. Hannah - b. 6 Oct. 1666
xv. Jonathan - b. 14 Dec. 1669

Source: The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635 Vol VII, p413-427, Robert Charles Anderson
The profile photo is not the same as for his son Samuel. Two entirely different etchings.

*Please note that this is the CENOTAPH (NON BURIAL TRIBUTE MONUMENT) for Major Simon Willard at Canterbury Cathedral in Canterbury, England, NOT his burial location in the United States. *Please do not confuse him with Simon Willard the clockmaker, burial Memorial # 13606676, who was born more than 100 years later. Burial Memorial Find a Grave #224458339: Actual burial here

Simon Willard migrated to this country in 1634. He was a magistrate, soldier, innkeeper, surveyor, and fur trader. He married (1) October 13 1628 in England Mary Sharpe as found in records on My Heritage marriage Record. By 1653 after the death of his first wife, he married Mary Unknown who married Joseph Noyes.

Children of Simon
i. Mary – b. about 1629
ii. Josiah - b. about 1631
iii. Elizabeth - b. about 1633
iv. Samuel - b. 31 Jan 1639/40
v. Sarah - b. 27 Jun. or 24 Jul. 1642
vi. Abovehope - b. 30 Oct. 164[?]
vii. Simon - b. 23 Nov. 1649

Children of Simon and Mary (Dunster) Willard (she m. (2) Joseph Noyes)
viii. Mary - b. 7 Sep. 1653
ix. Henry - b. 4 Jun. 1655
x. John - b. 12 Feb. 1656[/7?]
xi. Daniel - b. 26 Dec. 26 1658
xii. Joseph - b. 4 Jan. 1660[/1?]
xiii. Benjamin - b. about 1664
xiv. Hannah - b. 6 Oct. 1666
xv. Jonathan - b. 14 Dec. 1669

Source: The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635 Vol VII, p413-427, Robert Charles Anderson


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