1. Major Simon¹ Willard; baptized 7 April 1605 at St. Margaret's Church, Horsmonden, Kent Co., England;^1,2 married Mary Sharpe, daughter of Henry Sharpe and Jane Feylde, before 1634 at England (1st wife of Simon Willard);² married Elizabeth Dunster at Massachusetts (2nd wife of Simon Willard; died within a year of the marriage);³ married Mary Dunster at Massachusetts (3rd wife of Simon Willard);³ died 25 April 1676 at Charlestown, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, at age 71 of an "epidemic cold."⁴

He can be found as WFA Genealogy #1 in the 1915 Willard Genealogy. Deciding which children belong to which wife has been problematic; further information is needed. See the argument for the present distribution given on pages 363 and 364 in the Willard Memoir.^5,3

Mary Sharpe was baptized on 16 October 1614 at St. Margaret's Church, Horsmonden, Kent Co., England.^6,7

The child of Major Simon¹ Willard and Mary Sharpe that is the focus here:

• + 2. i. Rev. Samuel² Willard, born 31 January 1639/40 Concord, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts; married Abigail Sherman; marriedEunice Tyng.

 

 

Mary Dunster was baptized on 5 December 1630 at Bury Parish, Lancashire Co., England.⁸ She married Deacon Joseph Noyes on 14 July 1680 Joseph was "of Sudbury," Middlesex Co., Massachusetts.⁴ She died on 28 December 1715 at age 85.⁴