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Simon Willard

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Willard married three times.

By way of his second and third marriages, in 1651 to Elizabeth Dunster, and in 1652 to Mary Dunster, Willard was a brother-in-law of Henry Dunster, the inaugural President of Harvard College.

Elizabeth, baptized April 26, 1619, came to New England between 1641 and 1651. She married 1651, as his second wife, Maj. Simon Willard of Concord, Massachusetts, and died, without issue, about six months after her marriage. Maj. Simon Willard by his first wife, Mary Sharpe (whom he married in England about 1631), had nine children, the last, Simon, born November 23, 1649, soon after which time she died. After the death of his second wife, Elizabeth Dunster, sister of President Dunster, as above stated, he married (3) in the latter part of 1652, Mary Dunster, who had come to New England in the summer of that year, and by her he had eight children, beginning with Mary, born in Concord September 7, 1653.

The third wife was either:

  The Mary Dunster baptized at Bury, December 5, 1630, daughter of Robert, and niece of President Dunster, or else she was  The Mary Dunster baptized in Bury, October 25, 1629, daughter of Henry Dunster (No. 5) and second cousin of President Dunster.

And although President Dunster in his will speaks of Mary (Dunster) Willard as "sister Willard," he so termed her because her husband, Maj. Willard, was his brother-in-law by previous marriage to Elizabeth Dunster, his sister. Mary (Dunster) Willard, widow of Maj. Simon, married (2) July 14, 1680, Deacon Joseph Noyes of Sudbury, and died in December 1715.

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General Society of Colonial Wars
Notable heirs who have affiliated themselves with General Society of Colonial Wars, include:


 * Willard Bartlett???

References linked to notes






  






 * ; (book);  (Chapter 6).




 * The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough, Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner (1867; pg. 442)





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 * History of Harvard, Massachusetts












 * (vols. 51–148); ISBN 0-8808-2038-1 (vols. 51–148); ;.


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 * ; (Vol. 6);  (Vol. 1–6).








 * Joseph Willard wrote a Life (Boston, 1858).



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