John Heywood Decon
- Born: 5 Apr 1662, Concord, Massachusettes 152,559
- Marriage: Sarah Blodgett on 7 Jan 1687 in Concord, Massachusettes 95,624
- Died: 2 Jan 1718, Concord, Massachusettes at age 55 559,524
 General Notes:
~Concord, Massachusetts Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1635-1850, printed by the town, page 10
Deacon John Heywood and I share the same Birthday. the 5th of April.
Noted events in his life were:
• Death.
John Heywood died on 2 Jan 1717 from an epidemic that swept Concord. He was a Deacon of the Church. He kept an ordinary, or inn, probably the same one as his father. The land on what is now Thoreau Street, was in the hands of the Heywood Family until the early 1800s.
• Background Information. 524
Deacon John Heywood was the third child of John Heywood the emigrant. John, Jr. was born in Concord, Massachusetts, 5 Apr 1662, where he also settled and lived. He died there 2 Jan 1718. In 1676, he was a constable. He was keeper of an ordinary at Concord in his later years. He married a woman named Sarah, and their children were:
• Sarah
• Thomas, b. 16 Jul 1686
• Samuel, b. 11 Oct 1687; m. Elizabeth Hubbard, 1710, was deacon and town officer; d. 28 1750. Elizabeth and Samuel had thirteen children.
• Edmund, b. 31 Jul 1689
• Josiah, b. 15 Nov 1601
• Daniel, b. 15 Apr 1694, moved to Worcester and is the ancestor of a large number of Worcester family; married Hannah, daughter of Obiadiah Ward, another pioneer at Worcester; he lived and kept an inn on the side of the Bay State House, and his son and grandson maintained the same tavern for over a hundred years
• Eleazer, b. 3 Aug 1696
• Nathan, b. 24 Sep 1698
• Sarah, b. 18 Jan 1700/01
• John, b. 14 Mar 1703, settle in Lunenburg
• Mary, b. 23 Mar 1704
• Phinehas, b. 18 Jul 1707, settled in Shrewbury; m. Elizabeth Moore; d. 6 Mar 1776
• Benjamin, b. 24 Oct 1709
Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County ..., p. 429
Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine, pp. 383-384
• From the Concord Registers - Book I. 623
"[Febr]uary ye 20th 1717/18
Whereas ye hand of God [hath]
come forth against ye Inh[abitants of]
Concord in a very awfull [manner]
sending a very malignent [& fatal]
distemper amongst us wh[hereby there]
hath ben a considerable n[umber of]
persons, of men women [& children]
of all Qualities Sexts & ages [that]
hath ben removed from am[ong us]
be death, most of whom has ben [very]
suden & unexpected so that from [the]
last day of november last past until
ye day of ye date above written hath
been removed not less then 27 person
Where upon I Thomas Brown senior of ye
aforesaid Thown thought meet to record
a cattalogue of ye names of ye persons
as near in order as I can which are as
followeth.
"Jmprimis Samuell Stratton who deceased november ye 30th
next to him dyed mary parling
Next to her dyeth Nathaniel Buss
next dyed mrs Sarah Wilson
next to her dyed Samuell Wheeler
next died decon dakins daughter
next dyed Abigail ye wife of George Wheeler
next cyed my daughter Elizabeth Hartwell
next dyed mrs. Stow aged above ninty
next dyed Decon John Heywood
next dyed my grandson viz. Thomas Hartwel
next dyed widow Sarah Shepherd
next dyed ye daughter of Samuell Stratton
next dyed widow Abigail Hosmer
next dyed mrs. Sarah Woddis widow
nexted dyed William Hunts childe, an only son
next dyed mr. Peter Wright
next dyed mrs. Elizebeth Rogers
next dyed William Russell
next John Shavaly a young man dyed
next John Smely dyed
next mrs Mary Davis Widow dyed
next dyed ye son of Samuell prescot an Jnfant
next dyed Widow Adams
next dyed Hanah ye wife of Henry Sparks
next dyed Paul Rice
Febru: 20th at night 1717/8 dyed mrs. Rebecca Prescott wife to Jonathan Prescott
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~Concord, Massachusetts : births, marriages, and deaths, 1635-1850, pg. 29
John married Sarah Blodgett, daughter of Samuel Blodgett and Ruth Eggleston, on 7 Jan 1687 in Concord, Massachusettes 95.,624 (Sarah Blodgett was born on 17 Feb 1668 in Woburn, Massachusetts 624.)
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