The William Hayward Lineage

William^l was of Braintree, Mass., in 1648. Owing to the confusion with Howard and Haward, considerable uncertainty exists regarding the first two generations. That given here is furnished me by Mr. S. P. Sharples, the well-known genealogist. William married Margery (according to Savage, Margery Thayer) and was drowned in 1659. He had several children.

William², probably the son of William^l and Margery, was of Swanzey and married Sarah ______. His oldest daughter was Margery.

Jonathan³, son of William² and Sarah, according to Ballou, was of Swanzey and came to Milford when yet a minor as far back as 1692. He probably owned several hundred acres. He married (1) Trial Rockwood, daughter of the first John Rockwood of Mendon. She was born in 1676 or 1677. He married (2) Grace ______.

Jonathan⁴, second child of Jonathan³ and Trial, was born April 8, 1699. He married Lydia Albee on Jan. 22, 1717, and died Nov. 24, 1750. His widow died in Douglas, Oct. 3, 1776.

Rebecca⁵, ninth child of Jonathan⁴ and Lydia, was born in Milford, Mass., June 9, 1739. She married Boyce Kimball in Hopkinton on Dec. 4, 1755. She died July 23, 1790.

Ballou's History of Milford, pp. 805-6.

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