| 词条 | Simon Willard (first generation) |
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He moved to Lancaster in 1660, and in 1672 moved to Groton. On the dispersion of the inhabitants of Groton by King Philip's War (1676), in which he served as major of militia, he settled in Salem. During the war, at 70 years of age, he was the Chief Military Officer of Middlesex County, Massachusetts and repelled a Nipmuc force that had laid siege to Brookfield. He became a magistrate, and died aged 71, on 24 April 1676, in Charlestown, Massachusetts, while holding court there.[4] He was one of the thirteen heads of families in Concord that signed Reverend Peter Bulkeley's 1643 petition to Governor John Endecott in support of Ambrose Martin. One of his seventeen children was Reverend Samuel Willard, the second minister of the Old South Church, or Old South Meetinghouse in Boston, Massachusetts and acting president of Harvard College. Around 1692 he used his influence to publicly condemn the Witch Trials at Salem, and was considered important in swaying public opinion to end them.[5] One of Simon Willard's descendants was the celebrated U.S. clockmaker Simon Willard. The [https://web.archive.org/web/20130620153143/http://willard.colonial.net/ Willard Elementary School] in Concord, Massachusetts is named after Simon Willard. The World War II Liberty ship 0743 Simon Willard, which was built by Alabama Drydock & Shipbuilding Company, Mobile, Alabama, was also named after him. Notes1. ^Willard at accessgenealogy.com 2. ^Simon Willard’s Life In Concord {{webarchive|url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20100615093456/http://willardfamilyassn.org/SWConcord.htm |date=2010-06-15 }} 3. ^Willard notes at jacksonweb.org 4. ^1 {{Appletons|wstitle=Willard, Simon (settler)|display=Willard, Simon, settler|year=1889|inline=1}} 5. ^Willard Memoir, p. 357 References
Further readingA letter from Major Simon Willard to the commissioners of the United Colonies in 1654 is contained in Thomas Hutchinson's Collection of Original Papers relative to the History of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay (Boston, 1769). Joseph Willard wrote a Life (Boston, 1858). {{DEFAULTSORT:Willard, Simon (first generation)}} 9 : People of colonial Massachusetts|Colonial American and Indian wars|King Philip's War|American military personnel|People from Groton, Massachusetts|Members of the Massachusetts General Court|Kingdom of England emigrants to the Thirteen Colonies|1605 births|1676 deaths |
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