Hi Deborah, On your Willards, I would suggest you write Frank Vanderbilt, he has been very helpful with my Willard line. Also visit the following website. many Willards & others.. http://www.microserve.net/~rduffalo/family.html#wright ----------------------- Frank E. Vanderbilt Sr., has been compiling a genealogy of the Willard family for some time. If you have any family records that would supplement this work, please email him at [email protected] or write to 10206 Chatterton, Houston, TX 77043-3333 bill - William Ayer 407 Katahdin Drive Lexington, MA 02421 781-862-5295 978-945-4776 (Fax) [email protected] - --------------------------------------- > -----Original Message----- > From: Deborah Hutchins [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 11:08 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [VTCALEDO] WILLARDS OF SHEFFIELD/WHEELOCK/SUTTON > > > Hi everyone, > > Is anyone working on the Willards? > > Reuben Willard married Abigail Nelson, the daughter of Samuel Nelson and > his wife Abigail Tasker in or around Barnstead, NH in 1806. He is in > Barnstead in the 1810 census. Presumably he died around 1818/19, when > Abigail moved lst to Wheelock and then to Sheffield, where she had family, > and her youngest child is reported as being born about 1818. > > Among their children were sons Samuel (b.1808), Paul and Richard. (I'm > descended from Samuel who married Margaret Gray (dau. of Henry--and that's > another story.) > > For years I'd assumed that Reuben was the son of another Reuben Willard(I) > of the Lancaster, MA area and his wife Catherine Parkhurst. Now it > appears that their son Reuben (II) is someone else entirely, and MY Reuben > appears to have just magically appeared, married, fathered 6 children and > disappeared in the margin of less than 15 years! How he got to Barnstead > to meet Abigail is unknown, since there are no Willard families in the > general area of Barnstead according to the 1790 & 1810 Census records. > > I made a trip from California to VT for a family reunion in July, but due > to family illnesses got ONLY 1 HOUR of genealogy in, and that in the > Cobleigh Library where I saw the Mathewson papers on the Willards. He > hadn't been able to trace/place Reuben either. > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions, comments or ideas. > > Deborah > > Deborah J. Hutchins > Main Library-Current Periodicals/Microforms > University of California, Irvine > (949) 824-7056 > > - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. > ------------------ > attributed to Edmund Burke > > ______________________________