Henry
Willard
IV
Born in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Ancestors 
Son of Henry Willard III
and Abigail (Fairbanks) Willard
Brother of
Abigail Willard, Annis Willard, Thomas Willard, Jacob Willard, Silas Willard, John Willard, Oliver Willard and Timothy Willard
Husband of
Phebe (Atherton) Willard
— married
19 Feb 1752 in Massachusetts Bay Colony
Descendants 
Father of
Phebe (Willard) Peirce, John Willard, Mary Willard, Abigail (Willard) Bates, Sarah Willard, Lydia Willard, Jacob Willard and Henry Willard
Died
at age 46
in Harvard, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Profile last modified
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Biography
Henry Willard, son of Henry and Abigail (Fairbank) was born in Lancaster, Massachusetts on May 11, 1727.[1] [2]
Henry, Jr. Willard and Phebe Atherton married in Harvard, Massachusetts on 19 Feb 1752. [3]
He resided in the part of Groton which was incorporated as Pepperell, in 1756, and later. He sold land in "Monadnock number four in Cheshire county," N. H., in 1771, and bought some land in Rindge, New Hampshire. He removed to Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire, in 1771, and then to Charlestown, New Hampshire in 1773. [4]
Henry Willard "of advanced years" died on Jan 6, 1774 in Harvard, Massachusetts. [5]
Sources
- ↑ Lancaster - Births - Massachusetts Vital Records
- ↑ "Find a Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVKD-VJN3 : 7 March 2024), Henry Willard, ; Burial, Leominster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America, Evergreen Cemetery; citing record ID 44598222, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
- ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH7D-X4V : 10 November 2020), Henry, Jr. Willard, 19 Feb 1752; citing Marriage, Harvard, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009632.
- ↑ Book: Willard Genealogy, Sequel to Willard Memoir, by Joseph Willard and Charles Wilkes Walker, Edited and Completed by Charles Henry Pope, Published in Boston, 1915, Page 96
- ↑ Harvard - Deaths - Massachusetts Vital Records
See also:
- North America Family Histories
- US Revolutionary War records
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The purpose of this "Comment" is just to say, that there might be a different death date for this Willard - one that is after the Civil War. Further research and sources are appreciated. And that he lived in New Hampshire, it might be a place of death. Thanks!
edited by Alice Campanella