1Findagrave, http://www.findagrave.com/, p.88107246, internet. "Birth: Jun. 6, 1700
Lancaster
Worcester County
Massachusetts, USA
Death: Mar. 1, 1782
Josiah Wilder's first wife was Prudence Keyes who, along with several children, came to a tragic end in a fire.
After a time, the intention of his marriage to Meriam was published in Lancaster MA on 3/30/1744 and on 3/31/1744 in Stow MA, the home of Meriam Gates.
Family links:
Parents:
John Wilder (1673 - 1756)
Sarah White Wilder (1680 - 1719)
Spouses:
Prudence Keyes Wilder (____ - 1739)
Meriam Gates Wilder (1711 - 1786)
Children:
Martha Wilder (____ - 1739)*
Josiah Wilder (____ - 1739)*
Sarah Wilder (____ - 1739)*
Rufus Wilder (____ - 1739)*
Asa Wilder (1730 - 1786)*
Josiah Wilder (1750 - 1826)*
Martha Wilder Stone (1756 - 1846)*
Siblings:
Jonas Wilder (1699 - 1796)*
Josiah Wilder (1700 - 1782)
Jonathan Wilder (1710 - 1794)*
John Wilder (1713 - 1793)*
William Wilder (1717 - 1807)*
*Calculated relationship
Burial:
Unknown
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1Findagrave, http://www.findagrave.com/, p.21426956, internet. "Birth: unknown
Death: Jan. 23, 1739
Family links:
Spouse:
Josiah Wilder (1700 - 1782)*
Children:
Sarah Wilder (____ - 1739)*
Rufus Wilder (____ - 1739)*
Martha Wilder (____ - 1739)*
Josiah Wilder (____ - 1739)*
Asa Wilder (1730 - 1786)*
*Calculated relationship
Inscription:
Here Lies Ye Body of
Mrs. Prudance Wilder
Ye Wife Of Mr. Josiah Wilder,
Aged 33 Years, 1 Month
With 4 of Their Children,
All between 12 and 2 years of Age,
Viz: Rufus, Martha, Josiah and Sarah.
All died by fire, January ye 23d 1739.
Burial:
Old Common Burial Ground
Lancaster
Worcester County
Massachusetts, USA
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Originally Created by: Shanna Nicole
Record added: Sep 08, 2007
Find A Grave Memorial# 21426956."
1Almira Larkin White, Genealogy of the Descendants of John White of Wenham and Lancaster, Massachusetts. 1638-1900
Haverhill, Mass., Chase Brothers Printers. 1900.
1Almira Larkin White, Genealogy of the Descendants of John White of Wenham and Lancaster, Massachusetts. 1638-1900
Haverhill, Mass., Chase Brothers Printers. 1900, p. 67.
1Ancestry.com.
1Marvin, Abijah Perkins, History of the town of Lancaster, Massachusetts: from the first settlement to the present time, 1643-1879, Internet Archive. "Thomas Wilder, or Wyellder, of Charlestown, 1639, joined the churcch on the thirtieth of March, 1640, and was admitted freeman, June 2, 1641. Besidess his daughters he had four sons, Thomas, John, Nathaniel and Ebenezzer."
1Rootsweb, http://www.rootsweb.com. "Information below from: http://pharmacy.isu.edu/~cady/genealogy/PS07/PS07_234.HTM
Notes for Nathaniel Wilder Lt
From History of Town of Lancaster by Rev. Ahijah Marvin. He was a lieut. in the Indian wars. His house in Lancaster was one of 2 garrisons. At the first onset of an attack he was killed while in the yard. In 1686 he relieved Cyprian Stevens who was licensed to retail wine, beer, aile, cyder, rum ect The Court ordered the town to pay Nathaniel Wilder for the 16 wolves that he had killed in 1684/5. In 1688 Nathaniel Wilder was paid 40 shillings for killing two wolves and an Indian was paid 10 shillings for killing one wolf. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Nathaniel Wilder of Lancaster was perhaps the youngest son of Thomas Wilder of Charleston Was perhaps the soldier under sentance of death in 1676 who had showed his hatred for some Indians.in the King Philip;s war. An Indian had surrendered and was murdered by Nathaniel Wilder and Daniel Hoar.They were sentanced to hang but were discharged by the General Court on payment of cost which was 10 lbs each His youth was his excuse He had been driven to Sudbury by the Indian war in which Lancaster was destroyed. There he and Mary had three children. then went back to Lancaster where he may have had more children before he was killed by Indians in July 1704. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Archive records which lists the source of the Wilder Family by M.H. Wilder Pg
15.16.77.145.146 Marriage Lancaster Town Records Middlesx Register pg 14 Death Lancaster Town records Pg 17 Killed by assault by Indians and French July 31, 1704,
Lieutenant Nathaniel Wilder aged 54 years. ----------------------------------------------------------------
From The Book of the Wilders FHL 929273 W645 wi Vol 1; Thomas line pg 2 " in the time of the Indian attacks upon their settlement an Indian who had surrendered to the people, was treacherously murdered by this young Nathaniel Wilder and David Hoar, who were tried , condemned and sentanced to be hung in Oct.1676, acknowledging the justice of their conviction and asking for pardon. Their request was granted, on the condition that they paid 10 pounds each, half to be given to the Indian who had prosecuted them, and also that they pay the expenses of their imprisonment and trial, which was done and they were set at liberty. Nathaniel was a brave and active, useful citizen and a Captain in the malitia He was killed by an Indian near the gate of his garrison. on the 10 th day of August 1704 early in the morning the day of the first onset. He was shot in the thigh of which he died the same day. The Indians killed five of his cattle, six oxen, five cows,three calves, sixteen sheep, twelve swine and burnt his barn and 12 loads of good English hay ----------------------------------------------------------------- In 1686, Nathaniel Wilder of Lancaster was licenced " for retailing of Wine, Beer,Ale and Cider, Rum ect" He continued to be the only inn keeper until his wife, Mary, retained the business. ---------------------------------------------------------------- BIRTH ARCHIVE RECORD which lists sources as the Wilder Family by H.M. Wilder pgs 15.15.77.145. 146 Marriage Lancaster Town records Middlesex Register pg 14 FHL 974.43/L3 v 2B Death from Lancaster Town Records pg 17, killed by assult of French and Indians, July 31, 1704 Lieutenant Nathaniel Wilder, aged 54 years. -----------------------------------------------------------------From HISTORY OF THE PRAYING INDIANS by Gookin. The victums were two squaws, wives of two of our Indian soldiers, the one named Andrew Pittine, the Captain of the Indians, and the other, his sister and one young woman, and three children whereof one was a nursing infant, and all the children of Thomas Speen. The scene of the murders was at a place about four miles from Watertown, Mass. The women were missed by their friends and after a long search the bodies were found not far from one another cruely murdered, some shot through the head, others their brains beat out with hatchets. The four murderers were seized tried and condemned and two of the four were executed and the other two pardoned by the general court. Nathaniel Wilder was one of the two pardoned. ----------------------------------------------------------------
Not only was he killed by Indians on his own place but the Indians killed 6 oxen, 5 cows, 3 calves, 16 sheep, twelve swine and burned his barn together with 12 loads of good English hay. Of his children Oliver, Jonathan, Ephraim and Nathaniel were captured by the Indians.
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From THE STORY OF COLONIAL LANCASTER by Marion Fuller Safford
Daniel Govle was one of four English soldiers who, in August, had surprised and murdered three Indian women and three children near Hurtelbury Hill in Concord With him was Stephen Goble , Daniel Hoar and Nathaniel Wilder: the last being one of the most promising young men of Lancaster. the stern hand od the law reached them and the four were sentenced to death. The victims in this case were two squaws, wifes of two Christian Indian soldiers, the one named Captain od the Indian Company and the other his sister. Their bodies were found not far from one another some shot others their brains beat out with hatchetss. At the trial it was proven that Nathaniel Wilder and Daniel Hoar were guilty of " being present and seeing the act done and consenting " yet did not take part in the murders. For them the sentence of death was remitted upon paying prison charges and heavy fines of 10 pounds apiece - half to the two witnesses and half to the two Indians who prosecuted the white men.
The Goble brothers were the ring leaders in the attack and were hanged the same day with the captive Indian chiefs who had planned and carried out the destruction of Lancaster.-
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From EARLY RECORDS OF LANCASTER, MASS.1643 " July ye 31 st of 1704 ye Indians besett the town in several places and particularly Lieutenant Nathaniel Wilders garrison where early in ye morning one of ye Indians shott him in the thigh of which wound he dyed ye same day, and ye Indians killed of his cattell six oxen five cowes 3 calves sixteen sheep 12 swine and burnt his barn and about 12 loads of good English hay."."
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1Almira Larkin White, Genealogy of the Descendants of John White of Wenham and Lancaster, Massachusetts. 1638-1900
Haverhill, Mass., Chase Brothers Printers. 1900, p,33. "Capt. John White was a cooper and blacksmith by trade. he was with Capt. Lovell at the killing of the ten Indians. ...Febreuary 1724."2Almira Larkin White, Genealogy of the Descendants of John White of Wenham and Lancaster, Massachusetts. 1638-1900
p.33.
1Almira Larkin White, Genealogy of the Descendants of John White of Wenham and Lancaster, Massachusetts. 1638-1900
Haverhill, Mass., Chase Brothers Printers. 1900, p. 33.2Almira Larkin White, Genealogy of the Descendants of John White of Wenham and Lancaster, Massachusetts. 1638-1900
p.33.
1Almira Larkin White, Genealogy of the Descendants of John White of Wenham and Lancaster, Massachusetts. 1638-1900
Haverhill, Mass., Chase Brothers Printers. 1900.
1Almira Larkin White, Genealogy of the Descendants of John White of Wenham and Lancaster, Massachusetts. 1638-1900
Haverhill, Mass., Chase Brothers Printers. 1900, p. 30.
1Almira Larkin White, Genealogy of the Descendants of John White of Wenham and Lancaster, Massachusetts. 1638-1900
Haverhill, Mass., Chase Brothers Printers. 1900, p. 30.2Ancestry.com, Jones Family Tree; glennoco1.
1John Blankenbaker, Germanna History, http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~george/johnsgermnotes/germhis1.html, p.30.
2Ancestry.com, Jones Family Tree; glennoco1.
1Marvin, Abijah Perkins, History of the town of Lancaster, Massachusetts: from the first settlement to the present time, 1643-1879, Internet Archive, p. 104.
2Early Records of Lancaster Massachusetts 1643-1725, The, 1884; W. J. Coulter, p. 105, internet. (II) Thomas Sawyer, son of Thomas Sawyer (1), was born in Lancaster, Massachusetts, July 2, 1649, the first white child born there. His capture by the Indians forms one of the most familiar stories of the colonial period in Massachusetts. He was a man of fifty-five when the event took place, and was living in the garrison as described above. Queen Anne's war was making the lives of the colonists unsafe especially on the frontier. Indians made frequent attacks and massacred men, women and children. On October 16, 1705, Thomas Sawyer, Jr., his son Elias, and John Bigelow, of Marlboro, were at work in his saw mill when they were surprises and captured by Indians. The Indians took their captives back to Canada, and turned Bigelow and young Sawyer over to the French to ransom. The Indians kept the other Thomas Sawyer to put to death by torture. Sawyer proposed to the French governor that he should build a saw mill on the Chamblay river in consideration of saving his life from the Indians and giving the three captives their freedom. The French needed the mill and were glad of the opportunity. But the Indians had to be reckoned with. They insisted on burning Thomas Sawyer at the stake. They knew him and knew he was a brave man, not afraid of torture and death. The crafty French governor defeated their purpose by a resort to the church. When Sawyer was tied to the stake a French friar appeared with a key in his hand, and so terrible did he paint the tortures of purgatory, the key of which he told them he had in his hand ready to unlock, that they gave up their victim. Indians fear the unseen more than real dangers, and doubtless the friar took care not to specify just what he would do in case the auto-de-fe was carried on. Sawyer built the mill successfully, the first in Canada, it is said. He and Bigelow came home after seven or eight months of captivity. Elias Sawyer was kept a year longer to run the mill and teach others to run it. The captives were well treated after the French found them useful to them.
1Almira Larkin White, Genealogy of the Descendants of John White of Wenham and Lancaster, Massachusetts. 1638-1900
Haverhill, Mass., Chase Brothers Printers. 1900, p. 27.
1Almira Larkin White, Genealogy of the Descendants of John White of Wenham and Lancaster, Massachusetts. 1638-1900
Haverhill, Mass., Chase Brothers Printers. 1900, p.18, 27.2Early Records of Lancaster Massachusetts 1643-1725, The, 1884; W. J. Coulter, internet. (II) Thomas Sawyer, son of Thomas Sawyer (1), was born in Lancaster, Massachusetts, July 2, 1649, the first white child born there. His capture by the Indians forms one of the most familiar stories of the colonial period in Massachusetts. He was a man of fifty-five when the event took place, and was living in the garrison as described above. Queen Anne's war was making the lives of the colonists unsafe especially on the frontier. Indians made frequent attacks and massacred men, women and children. On October 16, 1705, Thomas Sawyer, Jr., his son Elias, and John Bigelow, of Marlboro, were at work in his saw mill when they were surprises and captured by Indians. The Indians took their captives back to Canada, and turned Bigelow and young Sawyer over to the French to ransom. The Indians kept the other Thomas Sawyer to put to death by torture. Sawyer proposed to the French governor that he should build a saw mill on the Chamblay river in consideration of saving his life from the Indians and giving the three captives their freedom. The French needed the mill and were glad of the opportunity. But the Indians had to be reckoned with. They insisted on burning Thomas Sawyer at the stake. They knew him and knew he was a brave man, not afraid of torture and death. The crafty French governor defeated their purpose by a resort to the church. When Sawyer was tied to the stake a French friar appeared with a key in his hand, and so terrible did he paint the tortures of purgatory, the key of which he told them he had in his hand ready to unlock, that they gave up their victim. Indians fear the unseen more than real dangers, and doubtless the friar took care not to specify just what he would do in case the auto-de-fe was carried on. Sawyer built the mill successfully, the first in Canada, it is said. He and Bigelow came home after seven or eight months of captivity. Elias Sawyer was kept a year longer to run the mill and teach others to run it. The captives were well treated after the French found them useful to them.
1Ward, Andrew Henshaw, A. M., Genealogical History of the Rice Family: Descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice, Boston: C. Benjamin Richardson. 1858, p. 6.
1Ward, Andrew Henshaw, A. M., Genealogical History of the Rice Family: Descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice, Boston: C. Benjamin Richardson. 1858, p. 6.