Guild Genealogy

A LINE FROM JOHN1 GUILD OF DEDHAM
TO WRENTHAM, MASSACHUSETTS, AND BEYOND

Helen Schatvet Ullmann, CGSM, FASG
Acton, Massachusetts, 2009
1. JOHN1 GUILD was born in England, perhaps about 1616. According to research
by John Charles Gile, he may possibly have been baptised at Ilketshall, St.
Margaret, Suffolk, England, on 30 November 1609, son of Richard and probably
Margery (Jorden) Gylde.[1] He died at Dedham, Massachusetts, on 4 October
1682.[2] He married at Dedham on 24 June 1645 ELIZABETH CROOKE,[3] who died
at Dedham on 31 August 1669.[4] Elizabeth was probably (but not certainly) the
daughter of Roger and Sarah (___) Crooke of Hammersmith, Middlesex County,
England, baptized at St. Clement Danes on 19 July 1618.[ 5] Elizabeths sister
Rebecca lived at Roxbury, Massachusetts, and Elizabeth transferred her church
membership from Roxbury to Dedham after her marriage (see below). However,
while Roger Crooke gave daughters Mary, Rebecca, and Ruth the lease of a house
in his undated will (proved 2 March 1638[/9]), he did not mention a daughter
Elizabeth.[ 6] Possibly Elizabeth had gone to New England.
John is said to have came to America in 1636 with his brother Samuel and
sister Ann.[ 7] An Ann Guild married at Dedham on 16 March 1638[/9?] James
Allen, and they had children there from 1639 through 1648.[8] Since she was
1
John Charles Gile, The GuileGileGuiles Genealogy: Descendants of Samuel Guile. . .

Haverhill, Massachusetts (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1997), xv.
2
Don Gleason Hill, ed., The Record of Births, Marriages and Deaths and Intentions of
Marriage in the Town of Dedham, Volumes 1 & 2 . . . 1635-1845 (Dedham, 1886), 16.
3
Hill, Dedham Births, Marriages and Deaths, 126.
4
5
Leslie Mahler, The English Origin of Rebecca Crooke, Wife of Peter Gardner of Roxbury,
Massachusetts, Register 159 (2005):40-42 at 42.
6
Mahler, Rebecca Crooke, Register, 159:41.
7
Charles Burleigh, Genealogy and History of the Guild, Guile and Gile Family (Portland,
Maine: B. Thurston & Co., 1887), 25; Almira Torrey Blake Fenno-Gendrot, Ancestry and Allied
Families of Nathan Blake 3rd and Susan (Torrey) Blake (Boston: A. T. Blake, 1916), 17, which
quotes word for word from Burleigh, then summarizes the probate record. The first to say this was
probably Calvin Guild in his Genealogy of the Descendants of John Guild, Dedham, Massachusetts
(Providence: Providence Press Co., 1867), 3. This last is the origin of the common myth that they
came from Scotland.
8
Hill, Dedham Births, Marriages and Deaths, 126 (marriage), 14 (births); Robert Brand
Hanson, Vital Records of Dedham, Massachusetts, 1635-1845, Revised and Expanded Edition
John Guild of Dedham, Massachusetts
definitely at Dedham, it seems reasonable to hypothesize that she was Johns

sister, or at least a relative. If so, it also seems reasonable to believe that she and
John were in New England by the fall of 1637. But as Gile observes, there is no
passenger list for the Hector for May 1636, the ship on which all three supposedly
arrived. And Gile does not include an Ann on the list of children baptised at
Ilketshall.[9]
Samuel, however, his name usually spelled Guile, lived at Newbury and
Haverhill. Calvin Guild says that he was admitted a freeman in 1642, but did not
long remain in Dedham.[ 10] Yet there is no evidence that he was admitted
freeman as a resident of Dedham. In fact, John Charles Giles very recent study of
his family, quoting from Charles Burleighs genealogy of the Samuel Guile
family, says that in 1640 he was one of the twelve who settled Pentucket, now
known as Haverhill. He was made a Freeman by the General Court in 1642. . . .,
on 18 May.[11] It may well be that John and Samuel were brothers as Gile believes.
John was admitted to the church at Dedham on 17 July 1640.[ 12] His wife
Elizabeth was admitted to the church at Dedham on 10 June 1649 from the church
at Roxbury.[13] There were many Elizabeths in the church at Roxbury before 1649,
but none surnamed Crooke or anything resembling it.[14] However, a Rebecca
Crooke married at Roxbury on 9 May 1646 Peter Gardner[15] and was on the list of
church members there as Goodwife (Rebecca) Gardiner, wife of Peter
Gardiner.[16]
In 1640 John bought twelve acres of upland on which he built a house that
was occupied by himself and descendants for more than two hundred years.[ 17]
Johns house was on East Street in Dedham.[18] He was made a freeman on 10
(Camden, Maine: Picton Press, 1997), 223 (marriage), 3 (births and baptisms). Hanson has converted
months and years (but not the days) to New Style.
9
Gile, Descendants of Samuel Guile, x, xv.
10
Calvin Guild, John Guild, 3.
11
Gile, Descendants of Samuel Guile, ix, 5.
12
Don Gleason Hill, ed., A Memorial Volume: The Records of Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths
and Admissions to the Church and Dismissals Therefrom. . . 1638-1845 (Dedham: Dedham
Transcript, 1888), 23; Hanson, Vital Records of Dedham, 633.
13
Hill, A Memorial Volume. . . Admissions to the Church, 31. Hanson, Vital Records of
Dedham, 633. Burleigh, Guild, 25, erroneously gives the date as 4 July 1649.
14
Walter Eliot Thwing, History of the First Church in Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1630-1904
(Boston: W. A. Butterfield, 1908), 45-58.
15
Vital Records of Roxbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem, Mass.: Essex
Institute, 19251926), 2:94.
16
Thwing, History of the First Church, 58.
17
Burleigh, Guild, 25.
18
Calvin Guild, Guild, Guile and Gile Family, 4; Mrs. George F. Fisher, Capt. Joseph Guild,
Dedham Historical Register 7 (1896):43.
May 1643.[19] Besides a grant of three roods and twelve rods, he had other grants
in Dedham and owned land in Wrentham, Medfield and Natick.[20]
He never held any office, and the town records show his attendance at town
meeting but once in several years, and then on an occasion of considerable
excitement in relation to making alterations and additions to the meetinghouse.[ 21]
However, he was among those signing on 1 January 1644[/5?], saying they would
support a free school in Dedham, the first free school in New England.[22]
Johns will, dated 3 October 1682, gave his three children, Samuel, John and
Elizabeth all his wearing apparell. Elizabeth also received two cows, his bed and
chest and its contents, his land lying near the Falls, in the dividend called Natick
Dividend. . . and one booke of Mr. Burroughs, called Gospel Conversation. John
was given all his land in Wrentham, a lot in Meadfield Dividend, his looms,
four sleays and one wheel wth ye blades as well as a book called Sound
Believer. His houselot went to son Samuel, plus land on Wigwam Plain,
meadows at Fowle Meadows, eight acres at Ragged Plaine and all common rights
in lands. Witnessed by Nathaniel Sterns and Thomas Metcalf, it was proved on 3
November 1682. His inventory, dated 4 November 1682, totalled 153 11s.
Johns autograph appears at the end of Burleighs transcription.[ 23]
Children of John and Elizabeth (Crooke) Guild, born at Dedham:
i. JOHN2 GUILD, born 22 Aug. 1646;[24] baptized 16 [sic] Aug. 1646;[25] must have
died by 1649.
ii. SAMUEL GUILD, born 7 Nov. 1647;[ 26] died at Dedham 1 Jan. 1730;[27] married at
Dedham 29 Nov. 1676 MARY WOODCOCK,[28] daughter of John and Sarah
19
Rev. Lucius R. Paige, List of Freemen, Register 3 (1849):190, as John Guile; Burleigh,
Guild, 25.
20
21
22
Rev. Carlos Slafter, The First Free School in Massachusetts Supported by a Tax, Register
22 (1868):165.
23
Suffolk County Probate, #1251, 6:389 (will), 9:100 (inventory); Burleigh, Guild, 25-26.
24
25
Hill, Records of Baptisms. . ., 29.
26
27
Burleigh, Guild, 26, surely taken from Calvin Guild, Descendants of John Guild, 7. Calvin
was Samuel's great-grandson, so may well have had family records. However, the dates of birth
which he gives are apparently a misreading of Old Style dates, the months given numerically. But he
gives the death date as 1 Jan. 1730, not 1 March, and other death dates in his record give the months
correctly. Perhaps the records he used spelled the months out in the death records. The diary of Rev.
Samuel Dexter of Dedham as transcribed in the Register 14 (1860):203, notes on 6 Jan. 1729/30 the
late death of an Ancient, worthy & serviceable Gentmn Capt. Samll Guild aged 83. A note
identifying Samuel contained information from his great-grandson, Caleb Guild. This death date is
not found in either Hills or Hansons Dedham vital or church records.
28
2. iii.
iv.
v.
vi.
29
(Curtis?) Woodcock of Dedham and Attleborough, Mass.[29] Woodcocks

Garrison was a well-known place of rendezvous in the great Indian war, and
was probably for some years the only house, excepting its immediate
neighbors, on the Bay Road, between Rehoboth and Dedham. It was near
Ten Mile Hill in what is now North Attleborough or Plainville.[ 30] Capt.
Samuel Guild administered and agreed as an heir in the estate of his father
John Woodcock of Attleborough, 1701-04.[31]
JOHN GUILD, born 29 Nov. 1649;[ 32] baptized 2 Dec. 1649;[33] married SARAH
FISHER.
ELIAZUR GUILD, born 30 Nov. 1653; died 30 June 1655.[ 34]
EBENEZER GUILD, born 21 Dec. 1657;[35] baptized 20 [sic] Dec. 1657;[36] died 21
April 1661.[37]
ELIZABETH GUILD, born 18 Jan. 1660[/1];[ 38] baptized 24 Feb. 1660[/1];[39] died
at Rehoboth, Mass., 21 Oct. 1740; married at Rehoboth 17 Nov. 1680
GEORGE ROBINSON, born Rehoboth 21 Feb. 1656, son of George and Joanna
(Ingraham) Robinson,[40] died at Attleborough 22 Sept. 1724.[41] On 26 Feb.
1714/5 George Robertson (a common variant of Robinson) of Attleburgh,
weaver, and wife Elizabeth, sold for a valuable sum sixteen acres in Needham,
Mass., in the Natick Dividend [thus the land she had inherited from her father].
Elizabeth acknowledged the deed on 14 Dec. 1730.[ 42] In his will dated 16
Sept. 1724 (proved 20 Oct. 1724) he called himself a weaver and named his
wife Elizabeth and children.[ 43]
Edith Bartlett Sumner, Descendants of Thomas Farr of Harpswell, Maine, and Ninety Allied
Families (Los Angeles: American Offset Print, 1959), 322-23.
30
John Daggett, A Sketch of the History of Attleborough (Boston: S. Usher, 1894), 91.
31
H. L. Peter Rounds, Abstracts of Bristol County, Massachusetts, Probate Records 16871745 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987), 24, 31; However, Calvin Guild, Burleigh,
and others mistakenly say she was the daughter of Samuel and Ann (Herring) Woodcock of
Dedham, born 9 March 1631-2 [sic] (Calvin Guild, Descendants of John Guild, 8; Burleigh, Guild,
26).
32
33
34
Hill, Dedham Births, Marriages and Deaths, 5, 129.
35
36
37
38
39
40
James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rehoboth, 1642-1896 (Providence; Narragansett Historical
Publishing Co., 1897), 322 (marriages of both Georges), 730 (birth of George, Jr., the date published
in New Style [next child born April 1657]), 871 (Elizabeth's death). Attleborough was taken off of
Rehoboth in 1694.
41
Vital Records of Attleborough, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem: Essex
Institute, 1934), 713.
42
Suffolk County Deeds, 45:237.
43
Bristol County Probate, file and records at 4:417, 443, 447.
vii. BENJAMIN GUILD, born 25 May 1664;[44] must have died before his fathers will.
2. JOHN2 GUILD, (John1), son of John and Elizabeth (Crooke) Guild, was born at
Dedham, Massachusetts, on 29 November 1649. He was baptized there on 2
December 1649. He died on 24 January 1722/3 in his 72nd year and was buried at
the Centre Cemetery in Wrentham, Massachusetts.[45] He married at Dedham on
22 May 1677 SARAH FISHER[46] who was born at Dedham on 27 October 1658,
daughter of Anthony and Joane (Faxon) Fisher.[47] She was living on 11 January
1714/5 but probably not on 6 February 1717 (see below).
Wrentham was established as a town in 1673. John moved there, perhaps
about 1681,[ 48] and inherited in 1682 all my [the fathers] land lying in
Wrentham, as well upland as meadow, as also my lott near Meadfield.[ 49] In 1685
he was one of the first five selectman elected when the town was finally organized
after having been abandoned during King Philips War.[ 50]
John Guild was one of the ten men who organized the Original
Congregational Church of Wrentham on 3 April 1692,[ 51] and he was elected
deacon on 7 December 1707.[52]
John was a witness to the purchase of land from the Indians at Lancaster in
1701.[ 53] On 31 January 1706 John Guile and Sarah his wife of Wrentham were
among the heirs of Anthony Fisher selling a dwelling house and three acres of
land in Dedham to William Avery, Jr., of Dedham, blacksmith.[ 54]
Wrentham Proprietors Records have not been searched for land grants to John
Guild. On 31 December 1714 John Guild of Wrentham, husbandman, and Sarah
his wife mortgaged to the trustees of the Province of Massachusetts Bay for 50
their sixty acres of land with a dwelling house in Wrentham. It was discharged on
29 December 1721.[ 55] Then on 6 February 1717 John Guild Senr of Wrentham,
44

Vital Records of Wrentham, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston: NEHGS, 1910), 2:455.
46
47
Hill, Dedham Births, Marriages and Deaths, 7 (birth), 126 (parents marriage); Burleigh,
Guild, 27.
48
Calvin Guild, Descendants of John Guild, 93; Burleigh, Guild, 27.
49
urleighs transcription of the will of John1 Guild (Burleigh, Guild, 25).
50
Jordan D. Fiore, Wrentham 16731973, A History (Wrentham, Mass.: The Town, 1973),
24.
51
Minnie Douglas Bennett, The History of the Original Congregational Church of Wrentham,
Massachusetts (Wrentham, Mass.: The Original Congregational Church, 1992), 5.
52
Calvin Guild, Descendants of John Guild, 94; Burleigh, Guild, 27.
53
54
Suffolk County Deeds, 76:235, acknowledged at different times, by John Guild on 8 Sept.
1713, and not recorded until 3 July 1749.
55
45
for parental love, etc., gave to his son John Guild sixty acres, including the
burying place, and many other pieces of land, including his dwelling house and
barn, excepting the east end of the house during his lifetime,[ 56] which implies that
his wife Sarah was no longer living.
Children of John and Sarah (Fisher) Guild, the first two born at Dedham, the rest at
Wrentham:[ 57]
i. BETHIAH3 GUILD, born 4 Oct. 1678;[ 58] living at Attleborough, Mass., 15 April
1735;[ 59] married at Wrentham 7 Jan. 1702/3 Samuel Lean or Sears,[60] but he
was actually named SAMUEL LANE.[ 61] No children of a Samuel Lean or Sears
with wife Bethia(h) appear in online databases such as FamilySearch and
WorldConnect, but Samuel Lane and wife Bethiah had at least three children at
Dorchester, Mass., in 1707, 1711, and 1713.[ 62] Samuel was born at Hingham,
Mass., 16 March 1677/8, son of John and Mehitable (Hobart) Lane,[63] and
died at Attleborough, Mass., 7 or 17 Dec. 1726, leaving a widow Bethiah as
well as sons John and Ebenezer who all agreed on the division of the real
estate on 15 April 1735.[ 64] See this authors article on this family in The
American Genealogist, vol. 83 (2009).
ii. SARAH GUILD, born 30 Oct. 1680;[ 65] died at Wrentham 7 Dec. 1682.[66]
iii. SARAH GUILD, born 2 June 1683;[ 67] died 30 July 1757 in her 75th year, as
widow Sarah Perry, said to be formerly wife of Capt. Robert Blake; buried in
the Centre Cemetery at Wrentham;[68] married (1) at Wrentham 7 Jan. 1702/3
56
Suffolk County Deeds, 66:113, recorded 16 June 1743.

Calvin Guild, Descendants of John Guild, 94, again renders some months of the Dedham
birthdates incorrectly.
58
59
Rounds, Abstracts of Bristol County Probate, 1:239.
60
Vital Records of Wrentham, 2:309, says Samuel Lean and the only available record on
microfilm, an apparently 19th-century transcript [FHL 0,886,859], also says Samuel Lean; Calvin
Guild, Descendants of John Guild, 94, and Burleigh, Guild, 27, say Samuel Sears, probably taking
it from A Register of Marriages in the Town of Wrentham, Register 4 (1850):85, a different
transcription than that on microfilm, that says Sears.
61
See Jacob Chapman and James Hill Fitts, Lane Genealogies, 2 vols. (Exeter, N.H.: NewsLetter Press, 1891, 1897), 2:24, which gives Samuels wifes name as BETHIA ____.
62
Dorchester Births, Marriages and Deaths to the End of 1825 (Boston: Rockwell &
Churchill, 1890), 53, 57, 59.
63
Reuben Hersey, Vital Records of Hingham, Massachusetts, ca. 16391844, Mss 901, R.
Stanton Avery Special Collections, New England Historic Genealogical Society. Chapman and
Fitts, Lane Genealogies, 2:24, says born 15 March, baptized 16 March, 16778.
64
Vital Records of Attleborough, 691, says 7 Dec.; Rounds, Abstracts of Bristol County
Probate, 1:144 (17 Dec.), 239 (agreement of heirs); Bristol County Probate, file of Samuel Lane.
65
Hill, Dedham Births, Marriages and Deaths, 16, 20.
66
Vital Records of Wrentham, 2:456.
67
Burleigh, Guild, 27, says 3 June, Vital Records of Wrentham, 1:106, says 2 June.
68
57
ROBERT BLAKE, the same day her sister Bethiah married.[69] Capt. Robert
Blake, born ca. 1675, son of John and Bridget (___) Blake,[ 70] died at
Wrentham 4 Oct. 1735 in his 60th year and was buried in the Centre Cemetery
there.[71] Sarah married (2) at Wrentham 30 March 1738 NATHANAEL
PERRY.[72] This cannot be Nathaniel Perry of Rehoboth, eldest son of
Nathaniel and Sarah (Carpenter) Perry, born there 2 April 1691, died there 13
Aug. 1768.[ 73] He m., int. at Rehoboth 25 Oct. 1714, Patience Butterworth, so
she would be the widow Patience who died at Rehoboth 27 Nov. 1771.[ 74] In
1749 the court provided a guardian for him, calling him non compos mentis. At
one point he was violent, having stabbed his wife, and he was chained. But the
records never name her. He was still living as of 5 Aug. 1760, when an
account refers to son Anthony taking care. . . of his Mother in the Time of her
Sickness.[ 75] If Sarah died as a widow in 1757, and Nathaniel of Rehoboth left
a widow Patience, this is not the right Nathaniel. Nor can he be the Nathaniel
Perry of Easton, Mass., who sold land with his wife Mehetabel on 9 Sept.
1740,[ 76] unless the date of his marriage to Sarah is wrong.
iv. ELIZABETH GUILD, born 7 July 1685;[ 77] died Canterbury, Conn., 14 Nov.
1762;[ 78] married at Wrentham 25 May 1710 WILLIAM PUFFER,[79] born
Dedham, Mass., 17 July 1686, son of Richard and Ruth (Everard or Everett)
Puffer, died probably Medway in 1754.[ 80]
v. JOANNA GUILD, born 4 Nov. 1687[/8];[ 81] married at Wrentham 12 May 1715
SAMUEL KINGSBURY of Dedham,[82] born at Dedham 4 Nov. 1690, son of
Eleazer and Esther (Judson) Kingsbury,[83] died at Walpole on the Plain[84] 1
June 1744, called Deacon.[85]
69

Fenno-Gendrot, Nathan Blake 3rd and Susan (Torrey) Blake, 10, 2224.
71
72
73
Arnold, Vital Record of Rehoboth, 715 (birth), 301 (parents marriage), 865 (death).
74
Arnold, Vital Record of Rehoboth, 489 (intentions), 865 (death).
75
Rounds, Abstracts of Bristol County Probate, 2:81, 132, 138, 181 (mentioning his house in
Cumberland), 26566.
76
77
78
Charles Nutt, Descendants of George Puffer of Braintree, Mass. (Worcester, Mass.: the
author, 1915), 30.
79
Vital Records of Wrentham, 2:309. Burleigh, Guild, 27, says 17 May.
80
Nutt, Descendants of George Puffer, 24, 30, which says William died in 1754 at Medway,
but that is not in Medway vital records and no probate is found in Suffolk County.
81
Vital Records of Wrentham, 1:105, says 16, [168-]. Register 4 (1850):83, births from the
town records, says Novr 4, 1687. Burleigh, Guild, 27, says 1687. The 19th century transcript says
only 16, but from the context it should be 1687/8.
82
Vital Records of Wrentham, 2:309; Burleigh, Guild, 27, says 17 May.
83
Burleigh, Guild, 27; Hill, Dedham Births, Marriages and Deaths, 17 (parents marriage), 23
(birth).
70
vi. JOHN GUILD, born 7 Oct. 1690;[ 86] died at Wrentham 28 Jan. 1762 in his 72nd
year;[87] married (1) at Wrentham 21 June 1711 MERCY FOSTER,[88] born
Salem, Mass., 15 July 1689,[ 89] died 3 May 1730 in her 42d year and was
buried at the Centre Cemetery in Wrentham,[90] daughter of John and Mary
(Stuard) Foster;[91] married (2) at Wrentham 22 March 1731/2 PHEBE MAN,[92]
born 16 Feb. 1705/6, daughter of Theodore and Abigail (Hawes) Man.[93] She
died at Wrentham, called widow of John, 11 May 1790 in her 47th y. and
was buried in the Centre Cemetery there where the gravestone says May 7,
1790 in her 85th y.,[94] which is much more likely.
3. vii. JOSIAH GUILD, born 14 July 1694;[ 95] married DEBORAH ____.
viii. JUDITH GUILD, born 19 Sept. 1697;[ 96] died 22 Nov. 1774 in her 77th year; buried
Oakland Cemetery on Glebe St. in Taunton;[97] married at Wrentham 16 June
1720 NATHANIEL BRIGGS,[98] born at Taunton about 1698, died 14 Aug. 1773
or 1775 in his 75th year, buried at Oakland Cemetery there.[99]
ix. EBENEZER GUILD, born 9 Sept. 1700; baptized as Eleazer 13 Oct. 1700;[ 100]
died at Wrentham 3 Sept. 1701.[101]
3. JOSIAH3 GUILD (John2-1), son of John and Sarah (Fisher) Guild, was born at
Wrentham, Massachusetts, on 14 July 1694. He died at Keene, Cheshire County,
84
James A. Dupee, Walpole, Massachusetts: Family Names in the Assessment Roll from
1761 to 1778, Register, 36 (1882):365.
85
Vital Records of Walpole, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston: NEHGS, 1902), 206.
86
87
88
89
Vital Records of Salem to the End of the Year 1849, 6 vols. (Salem, Mass.: Essex Institute,
19161925), 1:318.
90
91
Burleigh, Guild, 35, says only John Foster. Frederick Clifton Pierce, Foster Genealogy
(Chicago: W. B. Conkey Co., 1899), 69799, includes documents. Marys brother John lived in
Attleborough.
92
93
Burleigh, Guild, 35; George W. Messinger, Man or Mann Genealogy, Register 13
(1859):326; Vital Records of Wrentham, 1:138, (birth, spelled Febe), 2:336 (parents marriage).
94
95
96
97
Vital Records of Taunton, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston: NEHGS, 1929), 3:35.
98
99
Vital Records of Taunton, 3:36, which contains three entries for him, two giving the year as
1773 and one as 1775.
100
101
New Hampshire, on 23 March 1774 at age 80.[102] He married about 1715

DEBORAH ____. She was born probably in 16991700 as she died at Keene on 20
July 1762 age 62.[103] In any case, since her last child was born in 1738, she could
hardly be born earlier than about 1695, and, given the birth of the first child in
1716, she was surely not born after 1702.
Josiah and Deborah named a child Richard, a name that does not appear
earlier in the Guild family, so Deborah may be the daughter of a man named
Richard. A search of numerous sources identified four such Deborahs:
1. Deborah Garrett, born at Scituate, Massachusetts, on 22 February 1697/8, married
at Scituate 11 Nov. 1735 John Field.[ 104]
2. Deborah Thayer, baptized at Braintree, Massachusetts, on 11 April 1697, married
13 January 1717/8 Joseph Faxon.[ 105]
3. Deborah Lord, born at Lyme, Connecticut, about 1698, married at Lyme 23 Dec.
1729 Nathan Jewett.[ 106]
4. Deborah Collicott, daughter of Richard3 and Ann (Palmer) Collicott, born at
Boston on 4 March 1695 [1694/5].[ 107]
The last, Deborah Collicut, seems a likely possibility. Although no marriage

record appears for Richard and Ann, they were summoned to the Suffolk County
Court of General Sessions of the Peace in October 1694, Ann being about five
months gone with child. On 8 October her father, John Palmer of Boston,
fisherman, posted bond for her appearance at the court in January 1694/5. Both
Ann and Richard said he had promised to marry her, Ann making her mark P on
her testimony.[ 108] That Deborah was called daughter of Richard and Ann on her
birth record implies that the marriage did occur. However, Richard had died
102
Frank H. Whitcomb, Vital Statistics of Keene, N.H. (Keene, N.H.: Sentinel Printing, 1905),
186.
103
Whitcomb, Vital Statistics of Keene, 186. Keene records on microfilm include only a
transcript which clearly gives her age as 62.
104
Vital Records of Scituate, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850, 2 vols. (Boston: NEHGS,
1909), 162 (birth), 130 (marriage). The will of Richard Garrett, dated 14 Nov. 1727, names
daughter Deborah with no surname (Plymouth County Probate, docket #8451, 9:15).
105
Waldo Chamberlain Sprague, Genealogies of the Families of Braintree, Mass., 1640
1850, CD-ROM (Boston: NEHGS, 2001), reference number 4623.
106
Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Records, citing Lyme L-2:422, Nathan a resident
of Rowley, Mass.; Frederic Clarke Jewett, History and Genealogy of the Jewetts of America
(Rowley, Mass., 1908), 1:104.
107
[Ninth] Report of the Record Commissioners Containing Boston Births, Baptisms,
Marriages and Deaths, 1630-1699 (1883; repr. Boston: Municipal Printing Office, 1908), 221. For
Anns maiden name, see below. Richard3 was named as a grandson in the will of Richard1
Collicutt of Boston (Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New
England, 1620-1633, 3 vols. [Boston: NEHGS, 1995], 1:442).
108
Suffolk County Court Files, #4121, 4162.
10
before 15 November 1697 when the sheriff summoned Anne Collicot of Boston,
widow, to again appear at the Court of General Sessions of the Peace in January
on a complaint of Elizabeth Plaisted and her daughter to answer for
lasciviousness acted at her house in Boston upon her own bed.[ 109] Unfortunately
probate records for John and his wife Elizabeth (Alger) Palmer do not identify a
daughter Ann.[ 110] Ann Collicutt married James Hill at Boston on 12 October
1738.[ 111]
Deborahs father, Richard3 Collicott, was born at Boston on 29 October 1673,
the son of Preserved2 and Deborah (Dowse) Collicott, and grandson of Richard1
and Thomasin (___) Collicutt.[ 112] Deborah Collicotts great-grandfather, Richard1
Collicott, had owned land in Dorchester that Nathaniel Man sold on 21 October
1706 to Josiahs cousin, Samuel Guild, and that Samuel in turn sold to Josiahs
brother-in-law Samuel Lane on 13 March 1717.[ 113] Nathaniel Man had apparently
acquired it through his wife, Elizabeth3 George,[ 114] as Richard1 and Thomasin
Collicott sold half of the farm to John George on 31 May 1675, and his widow
Thomasin sold the other half to Thomas George on 25 December 1691.[ 115] This
George family was close to the Lane-Guild family. On 29 March 1705 Richard2
(Nicholas1) George, brother of a John and father of another John and Thomas,
who had died,[ 116] sold his own sixty acres in the same neighborhood to Samuel
Lane for 100 and his commitment to care for Richard and his wife.[ 117] However,
although the land involved was close to the Wrentham line, none of the above
connections are enough to conclude that Deborah Collicott was the wife of Josiah
Guild.
109
Suffolk County Court Files, #4431.

Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby and Walter Goodwin Davis, Genealogical
Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire (1928-39; repr. Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co.,
1979), 52526, discusses the family of John and Elizabeth, mentioning the court action involving
Richard and Ann, without concluding that Ann belongs in the family.
111
[Twenty-Eighth] Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston, Containing
the Boston Marriages from 1700 to 1751 (Boston: Municipal Printing Office, 1898), 206.
112
[Ninth] Report . . . Boston Births, Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths, 127; Robert Charles
Anderson, The Great Migration Begins, 1:443.
113
Suffolk County Deeds, 33:135 (Guild to Lane); 40:63 (Man to Guild, recorded 10 Sept.
1726).
114
Keith H. George, George Genealogy (Kingman, Ariz.: the author, 1991), 661. Elizabeth
was the daughter of Joshua2 (Nicholas1) George.
115
116
George, George Genealogy, 65759.
117
110
11
Deborah Guild was admitted to the church at Wrentham on 12 October 1718.

Josiah and Deborah were dismissed from the church at Wrentham to the church at
Keene on 24 May 1761.[118]
On 11 August 1722 Josiah Guild and his wife Deborah, of Wrentham, sold to
Daniel Laurence of Attleborough for 160 two tracts of land and one cow
common right in Wrentham. One was an 87-acre piece with a dwelling house at
the upper end of Dirty Pond brook and the other seven acres on the road between
Medfield and Wrentham.[ 119] On 23 August 1722 John and Josiah Guild of
Wrentham, yeomen, bought for 60 from the Dorchester Proprietors 84 acres in
Dorchester New Grant on both sides of Hudsons Brook, another piece of land at
Great Bottom and a gore of land between those parcels.[120] On 13 March 1726/7
Josiah Guild of Wrentham, husbandman, sold 13 acres on Great Mill Pond to
John Whiting, Jr., of Wrentham. The deed was witnessed by Jonathan Whitney
and Robert Ware, and it was not recorded until 22 February 1771![121]
On 29 November 1742 Josiah Guild of Wrentham, husbandman, sold to
Beriah Man of Wrentham, tanner, for 6-10, a cedar swamp in Stoughton, a
quarter part of Searls right in the Dead Swamp, 1 acres and 20 poles. This was
witnessed by Benjamin Man and Josiah Guild, who must have been his son.[ 122]
On 3 December 1748 Josiah Guild of Wrentham, yeoman, bought 187 acres
of land that had been in Dorchester but was then in Stoughton. It was in the 63rd
lot in the 25th division in Additional Lots in the right of Mr. Mather, undivided
with Mr. George Lyon. He also bought seventeen acres thirty rods in the 27th
range by Burnt Meadow and Great Meadow, the whole of lot 20, also a 20-acre
piece of cedar swamp in a part of Stoughton that had been annexed to Wrentham
as well as a right in some saw mills, a three-quarters right and half of a quarter
right.[ 123] On 15 March 1749 Josiah was of Wrentham when he gave twenty acres
in Stoughton near Hucheson brook, bounding on his own land, to his son
Richard of Wrentham, cordwainer. His soon-to-be son-in-law John Harris and son
James Guild witnessed.[124]
On 7 February 1751 Josiah was of Stoughton when he sold Richard another
piece, seven acres in Stoughton, for 5-12. Witnesses were James Guild and
[another son-in-law] Robert Worsley, the latter signing with his mark.[ 125] On 17
118
Records of the Original Church of Christ in Wrentham, at the church offices, searched by the
author in 1999, 9, 200. Josiah's admission was not noted.
119
Suffolk County Deeds, 53:229, recorded 22 Feb. 1736.
120
Suffolk County Deeds, 40:308, recorded 4 April 1727.
121
122
Suffolk County Deeds, 68:121, recorded 11 May 1744.
123
124
125
12
June 1751 Josiah was of Stoughton, yeoman, when he and his wife Deborah sold
for 200 to Lemuel Kellock of Wrentham, sadler, seven pieces of land. The first
named was twenty acres in Wrentham along with his dwelling house, barn and
shop. One of the witnesses was James Guild.[126]
On 8 June 1753 Josiah signed what is called the Stoughton petition.[ 127] On
28 December 1753, part of Stoughton was annexed to Wrentham.[ 128]
On 26 October 1754 Josiah was again of Wrentham when he sold [gave] for a
valuable consideration to John Guild of Wrentham, presumably his brother,
twenty acres at Grate Brook, formerly Dorchester and Stoughton but now
Wrentham, bounding on the saw mill dam and ranging with the dam to the way
leading from Richard Guilds to Cobbs mill and on said way to John Guilds
land.[ 129] Probably this was part of the land Josiah and John had bought together
back in 1722.
Finally, on 8 December 1760 Josiah Guild of Wrentham, yeoman, and
Deborah his wife sold for 240 to [another soon-to-be son-in-law] Joseph Man of
the same, 150 acres in the 63rd lot in the 25th division, land in Wrentham,
formerly in Dorchester, in the right of Mr. Mather and George Lyon, on Hutsons
brook. Their son Dan Guild and Ebenezer Fisher witnessed.[ 130] As noted above,
they were dismissed from the church in Wrentham in May of 1761 on their way to
Keene.
Josiah had a strong tie to Keene, as his brother John was a proprietor of
Keene. At a meeting in Concord, Massachusetts, on 26 June 1734, John drew lot
#41.[ 131] Cheshire County deeds include records only for Johns sons Joseph Guild,
who died there on 24 September 1744 at age 31, and Benjamin Guild.[132] There
are no deeds for Josiah and Deborah.
Children of Josiah and Deborah (___) Guild, born at Wrentham.[ 133]
4
i. MARY4 GUILD, born 10 April 1716; married URIAH WILLSON.

ii. DEBORAH GUILD, born 25 Jan. 1718/9; married at Wrentham 18 Jan. 1749/50
JOHN HARRIS, born Wrentham 6 May 1726, baptized there 14 July 1728, of
126

Massachusetts State Archives, 116:389.
128
William Francis Galvin, Historical Data Relating to Counties, Cities and Towns in
Massachusetts, 5th edition (Boston: NEHGS, 1997), 111, 131.
129
130
131
Gazetteer of Cheshire County, N.H., 1736-1885, Part First, Hamilton Child, ed. (Syracuse,
N.Y.: Journal Office, 1885), 225.
132
Whitcomb, Vital Statistics of Keene, 186; index of Cheshire County Deeds.
133
Vital Records of Wrentham, 1:104-06.
127
iii.
iv.
v.
vi.
7 vii.
viii.
ix.
x.
13
Hardwick, Mass., as of 14 April 1788, son of Nicholas4 (Nicholas3, Thomas21)

and Hannah (Blake) Harris,[134] ancestors of the author.
SARAH GUILD, born 9 Dec. 1720; married ROBERT WORSLEY.
JOSIAH GUILD, baptized at the Congregational Church in Wrentham 3 Nov.
1723; died at Wrentham 1 Feb. 1745/6.[135]
RICHARD GUILD, born 14 Oct. 1726; married HANNAH HODGES.
BETHIAH GUILD, born 18 March 1728/9; died at Wrentham 17 Aug. 1798 in her
70th year;[136] married at Wrentham 30 April 1762 JOSEPH MAN.[137] Since
Bethiah died in Wrentham, her husband was almost certainly the son of
Nathaniel and Elizabeth (George) Man, born Wrentham 13 Aug. 1717 and died
there 28 March 1807 in his 90th year.[ 138] Another Joseph Man, born Wrentham
22 April 1715, son of William and Bethia (Rocket) Man, would be the man
who died 25 April 1799 at age 84, buried Church of England Cemetery,
Hebron, Conn.,[ 139] having married there 27 Nov. 1740 Hannah Gilbert.[ 140]
JAMES GUILD, born 1 Jan. 1730/1; married ESTHER WORSLEY.
DAVID GUILD, born 10 Nov. 1734; died at Wrentham 18 Nov. 1734.[141]
MARGARET GUILD, born 28 March 1736; died at Medway 14 May 1756 in her
21st year;[142] thus certainly did not marry, as Burleigh claims, at age 13 in
1749 Joshua Clapp of Walpole, N.H., born 7 Sept. 1729, and have three
children.[143]
DAN GUILD, born 18 Aug. 1738; married (1) SARAH POND; married (2) LYDIA
; married (3) SARAH FLETCHER.
4. MARY4 GUILD (Josiah3, John2-1), was born at Wrentham, Massachusetts, on 10

April 1716. She died at Keene, New Hampshire, on 2 January 1777 at age 61 of
smallpox.[144] She married at Wrentham on 23 March 1737/8 URIAH WILLSON,[145]
born at Wrentham 14 November 1712, son of Michael and Sarah (Bumpas)
134
Vital Records of Wrentham, 2:309. See Helen Schatvet Ullmann, CG, Nicholas and Hannah
(Blake) Harris of Wrentham, Massachusetts, The Genealogist 15 (2001): 20119 at 205; 16
(2002):99122 at 99101.
135
136
137
138
Vital Records of Wrentham, 1:139 (birth), 2:336 (parents marriage), 2:472 (death).
139
Charles R. Hale, Charles R. Hale Collection [of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper
Notices of Marriages and Deaths], (1933-34), at the Connecticut State Library, Hebron, 41.
140
Vital Records of Wrentham, 1:139; Barbour Collection of Vital Records, citing Hebron
Vital Records, 1:32; Rev. Joel Mann, Genealogy of the Mann Family (n.p.: the author, 1873), 8,
says this was the son of Nathaniel.
141
142
Vital Records of Wrentham, 2:456, under the name Margeret Guild.
143
144
Whitcomb, Vital Statistics of Keene, 245.
145
Vital Records of Wrentham, 2:310, 400.
14
Willson.[146] He died at Keene on 6 November 1794 at age 80 years and about 9

months.[147] Old Uriah Willson married second at Keene 11 November 1779
Rhobie Thurber of Swansey.[ 148]
In 1790 at Keene, Uriah Willson had only one female in his household.[ 149]
Walter J. Corbin, copying from the Ward genealogy, gives Uriah and Mary an
additional child, Guild Willson, who is said to have married at Belchertown,
Massachusetts, in June 1780 Ruth Ward, born Belchertown 21 April 1761,
daughter of John and Abigail (Heath) Ward.[ 150] Guild Willson was evidently not
related to the large Willson family of Belchertown.[ 151] However, there was a Gile
Wilson or Willson born at Stafford, Connecticut, 20 December 1758, son of
Samuel and Lydia (Johnson) Wil(l)son.[ 152] He was a soldier in the Revolution
from the town of Greenwich, Massachusetts, from 17 August to 29 November
1777,[ 153] and is said to have gone to Hebron, New York, after 1785 and by 1786
was in Belcher, New York, then known as Black Creek,[ 154] a postal village in the
Town of Hebron, Washington County. In 1790 at Hebron, Gile Willson had one
male over 16, two under, and four females. He was listed between James Willson
2d and Samuel Willson,[ 155] names which do not appear in the Willson family of
Belchertown but are the names of other sons of Samuel and Lydia (Johnson)
Willson of Stafford.[ 156] Thus Guild Willson was not a son of Uriah and Mary
(Guild) Willson.
Children of Uriah and Mary4 (Guild) Willson, the first six born at Wrentham:[157]
i. SARAH5 WILLSON, born 9 June 1739.
ii. BETTEY WILLSON, born 19 March 1741.
146
Vital Records of Wrentham, 1:227, his parents' marriage at 2:400.

148
Whitcomb, Vital Statistics of Keene, 99; called old Uriah in Lois K. Stabler, ed., Very Poor
and of a Lo Make: The Journal of Abner Sanger (Portsmouth, N.H.: P. E. Randall, 1986), 269.
149
1790 U.S. Census, Keene, Cheshire Co., N.H., roll 5, p. 130.
150
Walter J. Corbin, The Corbin Collection: Volume I: Records of Hampshire County,
Massachusetts, CD-ROM (Boston: NEHGS, 2003), Belchertown, ref. 548/460, says Guild was
son of Uriah and Mary; Charles Martyn, The William Ward Genealogy (New York: Artemas
Ward, 1925), 187, says he was son of Uriah and Mary (Guild) Wilson.
151
Frederick R. Willson, Some Descendants of the Belchertown, Mass., Willsons, (1990),
in the R. Stanton Avery Collection at the New England Historic Genealogical Society, mss 285.
152
Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Records, citing Stafford Vital Records, 2:9 (birth),
1:24 (parents marriage).
153
Martyn, William Ward Genealogy, 187; Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of
the Revolution, 17 vols. (Boston: Wright and Potter, 18961908), 17:536.
154
Martyn, William Ward Genealogy, 187.
155
1790 U.S. Census, Hebron, Washington Co., N.Y., roll 6, p. 207.
156
Barbour Collection, citing Stafford Vital Records, 2:2 (James), 2:11 (Samuel).
157
Vital Records of Wrentham, 1:226-27.
147
15
iii. DEBORAH WILLSON, born 6 May 1743; died Wrentham 6 May 1743.[158]
iv. JOSEPH WILLSON, born 21 April 1745; married ca. 1765 (1) MARY WOODS,
born Groton, Mass., 16 March 1738, daughter of Samuel and Patience (Bigelow)
Woods,[ 159] died Keene 19 June 1776 age 38;[ 160] married (2) Lancaster, Mass.,
2 June 1777 Mrs. SARAH WILDER,[ 161] died Keene 12 May 1813.[ 162] Joseph
Willson of Keene, gentleman, made a will on 20 May 1811, proved 20 March
1816. He named his wife Sarah and children Joel, Abijah, Joseph, Ephraim,
and son Abel, who had had his share, was to have only $1.[ 163]
Children of Joseph5 and Mary (Woods) Willson, born Keene:[164]
1. Joel6 Willson, born 29 July 1766; perhaps married Keene 25 May 1791
Mary Howlett.[165]
2. Abijah Willson, born 28 June 1768; died Keene 31 May 1854 age 85 years
11 months;[ 166] married (1) ca. 1790 Phebe ___,[ 167] born ca. 1767, died
Keene 20 June 1840 age 73;[ 168] married (2) Rebecca ___, born ca. 1778,
died Keene 22 Oct. 1852 age 74.[ 169]
3. Joseph Willson, born 11 June 1770.
4. Ephraim Willson, born 31 Aug. 1772; died Keene 30 or 31 March 1827
age 54 years;[ 170] married by 1794 Sally ___.[ 171]
5. Samuel Willson, born 29 Aug. 1774; died Keene 21 Aug. 1777, age 3
years wanting 9 days.[ 172]
Children of Joseph and Sarah (Wilder) Willson, born Keene:[173]
6. Molley Willson, born 30 May 1778; died Keene 15 Nov. 1805 age 27
years 5 months 15 days.[ 174]
158

Henry Ernest Woods, The Woods Family of Groton, Mass., Register 64 (1910):3443, et
seq., at 36. Vital Records of Groton, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem, Mass.:
Essex Institute, 1926), 1:263 (birth), 2:189 (parents marriage).
160
Whitcomb, Vital Statistics of Keene, 245, says 19 Jan., but Stabler, Journal of Abner Sanger,
102, says she was buried 20 June, died yesterday or Wed.
161
Henry Stedman Nourse, The Birth, Marriage and Death Register . . . of Lancaster,
Massachusetts, 16431850 (Clinton, Mass.: W. J. Coulter, 1890), 126, Joseph Willson said to be
of Keene.
162
Whitcomb, Vital Statistics of Keene, 245, says wife of Joseph Willson.
163
Cheshire County Probate, 7:419.
164
165
166
167
First child born 5 June 1791 (Whitcomb, Vital Statistics of Keene, 71).
168
169
170
Whitcomb, Vital Statistics of Keene, 246 (30 March from town records, 31 March from
church records).
171
Child born 15 April 1794 (Whitcomb, Vital Statistics of Keene, 71).
172
173
174
159
16
7. Oliver Willson, born 17 Aug. 1780; died Keene 8 Jan. 1795, age 14 y., 4
solar m. 21 d.[ 175]
8. Sally Willson, born 1 May 1782.
9. Abel Willson, born 7 April 1786; was of Constable, N.Y., when he
married Keene 5 Oct. 1812 Lucinda Shurtleff of Keene.[ 176]
5
v. DAVID WILLSON, born 12 April 1748; died Keene 5 Dec. 1818 age 71 or 72
[sic];[ 177] married Keene 24 June 1771 ELIZABETH ROCKWOOD, born
Winchester, N.H., 22 Oct. 1742, daughter of Nathaniel and Margaret (Phipps)
Rockwood;[ 178] died Keene 13 March 1775 age 33.[ 179] He married (2) Keene
19 Nov. 1778 SUSANNA ALEXANDER of Winchester,[ 180] who died Keene 3
Dec. 1786.[181] He married (3) Keene 18 Oct. 1787 ELEANOR (___)
CHAPMAN,[ 182] born ca. 1744, died Keene 26 Aug. 1828 age 84.[ 183] In his will
dated 6 Sept. 1816, David Willson of Keene, gentleman, named wife Eleanor,
daughters Susannah Woodward, Sabra Emerson, and Becce Willson, giving
Sabra the debt he held with her husband, John Emerson. Jabez Davis of Keene,
blacksmith, was to be executor.[184]
Children of David5 and Elizabeth (Rockwood) Willson, born Keene:[ 185]
1. Susanna6 Willson, born 20 March 1772; married Keene 15 Nov. 1798
Solomon Woodward of Keene.[ 186]
2. Sabra Willson, born 19 Aug. 1773; married Keene 12 Nov. 1795 John
Emerson of Keene.[ 187]
3. Asa Willson, born 26 Feb. 1775; died Keene 23 March 1775, age 25
days.[ 188]
Children of David and Susanna (Alexander) Willson, born Keene:[189]
4. Ruth Willson, born 19 Nov. 1780; must have died by 1816.
5. Becca Willson, born 1 June 1781.
vi. JERUSHA WILLSON, born 9 June 1751; died at Keene 23 Dec. 1776 age 25 of
smallpox, about ten days before her mother died of the same.[190]
175

177
Whitcomb, Vital Statistics of Keene, 245, age 72, from town records, age 71, from First
Church records.
178
New Hampshire State Vital Records (birth); Vital Records of Wrentham, 2:366 (parents
marriage).
179
180
181
182
183
Whitcomb, Vital Statistics of Keene, 246, of old age.
184
Cheshire County Probate, 77:3, no date of probate available.
185
186
187
188
189
176
17
vii. ?URIAH WILLSON, born 1753.[191]

viii. CHLOE WILLSON, born at Keene 4 May 1755;[192] died Keene 23 Oct. 1812 age
61 [sic];[193] married at Keene 19 Aug. 1773 JONATHAN WHEELER,[194] died
Keene 11 May 1811.[ 195]
ix. ASA WILLSON, born at Keene 28 March 1758; died there 12 June 1767 age
10.[ 196]
x. MICHAEL WILLSON, born at Keene 28 May 1762; died there 6 June 1762.[197]
5. SARAH4 GUILD (Josiah3, John2-1), was born at Wrentham, Massachusetts, on 9

December 1720. She died, probably in childbirth, about 12 May 1757,[198] having
married at Wrentham 10 October 1749 ROBERT WORSLEY.[199] He was born,[ 200]
perhaps at Dedham, Massachusetts, in the early 1720s, as he must have been the
son of Robert and Rebecca (Mackintosh) Worsley of Dedham and Walpole,
Massachusetts.[ 201] Robert Woorsley and his second wife, Sarah Morse,
190

Ancestral File at FamilySearch.org. Although he may have been born in Wrentham just
before the move to Keene, and thus not recorded, and there is a gap where he would fit, no
contemporary record of this son has been found. Perhaps he did not exist.
192
193
194
195
196
Whitcomb, Vital Statistics of Keene, 71, 245.
197
198
Vital Records of Walpole, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston: NEHGS, 1902), 82
(births).
199
200
There was evidently a family tradition that this Robert was born in England, and after his
parents died when he was eight years old, his uncle, desiring to obtain the family property himself,
put Robert on board a vessel, in care of the captain, with orders to leave him in Boston . . . He m.
a Scotch lady (Charles A. Bemis, History of the Town of Marlborough, Cheshire County, New
Hampshire [Boston: George H. Ellis, 1881], 70910). There may be truth in the tradition, but it
would refer to his father, who married a woman with a very Scottish name (see the next note).
201
Robert Worsley married Rebecca Mackintosh at Dedham 3 April 1718 (Hill, Dedham
Births, Marriages and Deaths, 43). Robert and Joseph Worsley and John Guild were among the
creditors of the estate of Robert Worsley late of Walpole, housewright, who left a widow Rebecca.
But letters of administration were granted to Rebeckah Bullard of Dedham, widow, on 12 June
1752. The estate was insolvent, so no childrens names appear, but a warrant to set off to Rebecca
Worsley, widow of Robert, a third of the real estate was issued on 10 December 1753. According
to the account, the real estate was sold to Solomon Bullard. Rebecca Bullards account included
1 2s for letters of guardianship for the children (Suffolk County Probate, docket #10080, 46:247,
48:337; 49:442; 50:37778, 38688). But although the Suffolk County Probate docket index lists
guardianships in 1753 for Ann, Benjamin, Esther, and Samuel of Walpole, apparently no
documents have survived (docket #10604, 10626, 10627, and 10628). There are very few land
records for Worsleys in Suffolk County. The only deed for Roberts father was when he and
191
18
registered their intentions to marry at Walpole on 19 November 1758[202] and

married at Wrentham on 5 December 1758.[203]
Robert Worsley witnessed one of Josiah Guilds 1751 deeds.[ 204] On 14
January 1769 Robert was living in Wrentham when he took into his home Sarah,
my daughter . . . which was born in this town and her last place of residence was
in Walpole.[ 205]
In 1790 at Marlborough[?], Cheshire County, New Hampshire, a Robert
Worsley, who was over 16, had two males under 16 and five females in his
household.[ 206] In 1810 at Marlborough, Robt Worsley had two males under 10,
two 1626, himself over 45, three females 1626 and one over 45.[ 207] A younger
Robert Worsley was at Dublin, New Hampshire, age 2645 in 1810 and age 50
60 in 1840.[ 208] These were probably the son and grandson of Robert and Sarah
(Guild) Worsley.
Children of Robert and Sarah4 (Guild) Worsley:
i. SARAH5 WORSLEY, born Wrentham 4 Oct. 1750;[209] died Walpole, Mass., ca.
1785;[ 210] married Walpole 13 May 1773 THOMAS NASON, JR.,[ 211] as his
second wife. He was born Ipswich, Mass., ca. 1735, son of Thomas and Sarah
(Perkins) Nason,[212] baptized there 29 April 1739.[ 213] He died before 14 Nov.
1786 when administration proceedings on his estate began in Suffolk Co.[ 214]
ii. ROBERT WORSLEY, born Walpole 24 Oct. 1752;[215] died 9 April 1827, probably
at Marlborough, N.H.;[ 216] married Swanzey, N.H., 26 May 1777 ABIGAIL
Rebecca sold four acres of land in Walpole on 11 December 1749 (Suffolk County Deeds,
79:253).
202
Vital Records of Walpole, 187.
203
204
205
Esther L. Friend, Notifications and Warnings Out: Strangers Taken into Wrentham,
Massachusetts, between 1732 and 1812, New England Historical and Genealogical Register 141
(1987):179202 at 200.
206
1790 U.S. Census, Marlborough[?], Cheshire Co., N.H., roll 5, p. 130. Although it is
indexed as Marlborough at Ancestry.com, the page contains a great many names beginning with
W., and the town name does not appear. This may be a list for many towns in Cheshire County.
207
1810 U.S. Census, Marlborough, Cheshire Co., N.H., roll 23, p. 72.
208
1810 U.S. Census, Dublin, Cheshire Co., N.H., roll 23, p. 33; 1840 Dublin, roll 234, p. 21.
209
210
William Blake Trask, Memoir of Rev. Elias Nason, M.A., Register 43 (1889):21, of
consumption.
211
212
Douglas W. Chase, Descendants of Willoughby Nason of Ipswich, Massachusetts (Acton,
Mass.: the author, 2006), 46.
213
Trask, Memoir of Rev. Elias Nason, Register 43 (1889):21.
214
Chase, Willoughby Nason, 4647, citing Suffolk County Probate, docket #18788.
215
19
WHEELER,[ 217] born 26 May 1748,[ 218] a New Style date. Her birth was
recorded at Groton, Mass., as 15 May 1748, daughter of Abraham and Hannah
(Woods) Wheeler.[ 219] Robert went to the Boston area after the Lexington
Alarm in 1775 and enlisted. Later he went up the Kennebec River to Canada
with Arnold, was at Ticonderoga in 1776, and in 1777 fought in the Battle at
Bennington, Vt.[ 220]
On 20 Sept. 1778 Robert Worsley of Marlborough purchased six acres in
the southwest corner of lot #69 for 24s as highest bidder.[ 221] On 5 Oct. 1779 he
purchased 100 acres in lot #48 there.[222] When he sold [mortgaged?] his part of
lot #69 on 18 March 1789, he was called housewright.[ 223] He is often
mentioned in the Journal of Abner Sanger, who lived at Dublin, N.H., in the
1790s.[ 224] On 13 March 1792 he purchased the north half of lot #47 and on 2
June 1801 sold it to Robert, Jr.[225] On 31 Jan. 1811 Jesse Worsley of
Marlborough purchased from his parents for $1000 lot #48 and the six acres at
the southwest corner of lot #69 in Marlborough, agreeing to supply Robert and
Abigail with a list of specific items annually, plus nursing and doctrine
[doctoring] and the southwest chamber in the house.[ 226] On 15 April 1827
Robert Worsley of Dublin petitioned for administration on his fathers estate,
and dower was ordered set off to Abigail on 5 May 1827.[ 227]
Children of Robert5 and Abigail (Wheeler) Worsley, born
Marlborough:[ 228]
1. Robert6 Worsley, born 15 June 1778; died Dublin 23 Sept. 1858;[ 229]
married (1) Keene 21 March 1805 Rebecca Crossfield,[ 230] born 21 Jan.
1785, died 28 May 1815,[ 231] daughter of James Crossfield of Keene;[232]
216
Revolutionary War pension, Robert and Abigail Worsley, W6482.

Revolutionary War pension, Robert and Abigail Worsley, W6482. Abigail remembered the
marriage was on her 29th birthday, 26 May, but she noted that Swanzey records say 28 May.
218
Revolutionary War pension, Robert and Abigail Worsley, W6482. Her declaration on 1
May 1838 says she would be age 90 on the 26th of May inst.
219
Vital Records of Groton, 1:249; Hannahs maiden name from Woods, The Woods Family
of Groton, Mass., Register 64 (1910):36.
220
Revolutionary War pension, Robert and Abigail Worsley, W6482.
221
Cheshire County Deeds, 8:2.
222
223
224
Stabler, Journal of Abner Sanger, passim.
225
Cheshire County Deeds, 26:178; 47:186.
226
227
Cheshire County Probate, 45:109, 146, 299; 46:11.
228
Bemis, History of Marlborough, 710; the first two births in New Hampshire State Vital
Records.
229
L. W. Leonard and Josiah L. Seward, History of Dublin, N.H. (Dublin: The Town, 1920),
949, q.v. for more information on their family.
230
231
Leonard and Seward, History of Dublin, 949.
217
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married (2) Ruth Fletcher,[ 233] born ca. 1789, died 6 June 1866 age 77,
buried Hill Road Cemetery, Marlborough.[ 234] On 3 Dec. 1805, Robert
Worsley, potter, of Dublin, sold half of the land in lot #47 in
Marlborough.[ 235] In 1850 at Dublin, Robert was 71, a farmer, with Ruth
61 and Rebecca 27.[236]
2. Arathusa Worsley, born 1 Sept. 1779.
3. Abigail Worsley, born 2 March 1782.
4. Hannah Worsley, born 12 Oct. 1783.
5. Sally Worsley, born 5 Aug. 1785.
6. Esther Worsley, born 3 April 1787.
7. Jesse Worsley, born 8 Jan. 1790.
iii. ESTHER WORSLEY, born Walpole 20 Feb. 1755.[237]
iv. JOSIAH WORSLEY, born Walpole 12 May 1757.[ 238]
6. RICHARD4 GUILD (Josiah3, John2-1), son of Josiah and Deborah (___) Guild,
was born at Wrentham, Massachusetts, on 14 October 1726. He died at Wrentham
on 26 May 1802 in his 76th year.[239] He married at Norton, Massachusetts, on 3
December 1761 HANNAH HODGES of Norton,[240] born at Norton 16 December
1730, daughter of Nathan and Experience (Williams) Hodges.[241] She died on 14
March 1816.[ 242]
As noted above, on 15 March 1749 Josiah Guild gave twenty acres in
Stoughton near Hucheson brook, bounding on his own land, to his son Richard
232
On 8 February 1813 Robert and Rebecca Worsley of Dublin and other heirs of James
Crossfield sold a farm in Roxbury, N.H. (Cheshire County Deeds, 62:419).
233
Leonard and Seward, History of Dublin, 949.
234
Gravestone Inscriptions from Marlboro, N.H., on the Hill Road from Chesham to
Marlboro, in Cemeteries from the NEHGS Mss. Collections, online at NewEnglandAncestors.org.
235
236
1850 U.S. Census, Dublin, Cheshire Co., Mass., roll 428, p. 268.
237
238
239
Vital Records of Wrentham, 2:456; Revolutionary War Pension, Richard Guild, B.L.Wt.
18377-160-55, page from a Bible record.
240
Vital Records of Wrentham, 2:310; Vital Records of Norton, 252, called Hannah 2d. But
there are marriages for another Hannah 2d and Hannah 3d, both in 1753.
241
Burleigh, Guild, 59, provides her birth date but not parents; Vital Records of Norton, 75, but
this also has the birth of another Hannah on 2 Jan. 1737/8 to Edmund and Mary Hodges. Almon D.
Hodges, Jr., Genealogical Record of the Hodges Family of New England (Boston: Frank H. Hodges,
1896), 80, 110, treats her as daughter of Nathan and Experience and lists her children with Richard
Guild.
242
Revolutionary War Pension of Zillah, widow of the son Richard Guild, B.L.Wt. 18377-16055, page from a Bible record.
21
of Wrentham, cordwainer.[243] On 7 February 1751 Josiah sold Richard another

piece, seven acres in Stoughton, for 5-12.[244]
Note that part of Stoughton was annexed to Wrentham in 1753.[ 245] On 3
March 1760 Richard Guild of Wrentham, cordwainer, purchased eight acres there,
abutting the west side of his own land.[ 246]
Norfolk County was formed in 1793, but there are no probates for Richard or
Hannah there. On 29 September 1797 Richard Guild of Wrentham, for parental
good will, gave to his son Lanson of Wrentham, cordwainer, half of all his home
farm and buildings and half of a cedar swamp near Shepards Pond. The other half
was to also be Lansons after the death of Richard and his wife Hannah.[ 247]
Children of Richard and Hannah (Hodges) Guild, born in Wrentham:
i. RICHARD5 GUILD, born 17 Oct. 1762;[248] died Chester, Vt., 20 Oct. 1819[249] age
57, buried Brookside Cemetery, Chester;[ 250] married Wrentham 7 March 1793
ZILLAH TURNER,[251] born Medfield 7 March 1773, daughter of Samuel and
Ruth (Smith) Turner,[ 252] died Chester 3 Nov. 1860 age 87, buried with
Richard.[ 253]
This was the Richard Guild who served in the Revolution from Wrentham
in Capt. Samuel Fishers company, mostly serving in Rhode Island 1779
1781.[ 254] On 14 March 1807 Richard and his wife Zillah sold for $1000 to
Robert Blake land and buildings in Wrentham.[ 255] In 1810 Richard was at
Chester, Windsor Co., Vt., and in 1850 and 1860 Zillah was listed there, age
77 and 87 respectively.[ 256] On 20 Dec. 1819 Cephas L. Rockwood was
243

245
Galvin, Historical Data, 131.
246
247
Norfolk County Deeds, 26:206.
248
Vital Records of Wrentham, 1:106; Revolutionary War Pension, Richard Guild, B.L.Wt.
18377-160-55, page from a Bible record.
249
Revolutionary War Pension, Richard Guild, B.L.Wt. 18377-160-55, Zillahs deposition 25
April 1855 and page from a Bible record.
250
Vermont State Vital Records, the card out of order in the L. Guilds on microfilm.
251
Burleigh, Guild, 59, 101; Revolutionary War Pension, Richard Guild, B.L.Wt. 18377-16055, Zillahs deposition 25 April 1855 and page from a Bible record.
252
Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston: NEHGS, 1903), 99
(birth), 179 (parents marriage); Revolutionary War Pension, Richard Guild, B.L.Wt. 18377-16055, page from a Bible record; Edmund Dana Barbour, Descendants of Captain George Barbour of
Medfield, 7 vols., typescript at the New England Historic Genealogical Society (Boston, 1907),
1:20.
253
Vermont State Vital Records.
254
Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors, 6:941.
255
Norfolk County Deeds, 51:133, recorded 8 May 1815.
256
1810 U.S. Census, Chester, Windsor Co., Vt., roll 65, p. 445; 1850 Chester, roll 931, p.
337; 1860 Chester, roll 1328, p. 98.
244
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appointed administrator on Richards estate at Zillahs request. The inventory

was extensive, including 86 acres of land, a horse, cows, fourteen sheep, a hog
and two shoats [young pigs], and thirteen geese as well as farm produce and
implements, shoemakers tools, a loom, and household implements.
Nevertheless there was a long list of creditors and commissioners were
appointed. A third of the real estate was set off to Zillah and the rest sold on 26
March 1821, along with the reversion of the widows dower. No children were
mentioned.[ 257] On 25 April 1855 Zillah Guild, age 82, deposed, seeking a
pension based on Richards service in Capt. Samuel Fishers company. She
said she had lived at Chester for 47 years and supplied a family record.[ 258]
Children of Richard and Zillah (Turner) Guild, born in Wrentham:[ 259]
1. Julia6 Guild, born 10 April 1794; died Cavendish, Vt., 3 Oct. 1875 age 81
years 5 months 22 days.[ 260] She would be the Juda Guild, female, age
56, living with Zillah at Chester in 1850[ 261] and Julia, age 66, weaver,
with Zillah, age 87, in 1860 at Chester.[ 262]
2. James Guild, born 14 Feb. 1798; died 1 April 1798.
3. Hiram Guild, born 19 Aug. 1799; died 27 Nov. 1819.
4. Laban Guild, twin, born 22 Sept. 1801; died Chester 28 Sept. 1868 age 67
years 6 days, buried Brookside Cemetery there;[ 263] married (1) Chester
27 Jan. 1828 Alma W. Houghton,[264] born 6 May 1807,[ 265] died Chester
29 July 1829 age 22, buried Brookside Cemetery;[ 266] married (2)
Chester 30 Dec. 1830[ 267] Sabra D. Wightman, born Chester 17 Nov.
1806,[ 268] died Chester 18 July 1869 age 62 years 8 months 1 day,
daughter of George and Esther Wightman.[ 269] In 1840 at Chester, Laban
257
Windsor County, Vermont, Probate, 8:456469.

Revolutionary War pension file, Richard and Zillah Guild, B.L.Wt. 18377-160-55.
259
Vital Records of Wrentham, 1:105 (births), 2:455 (death of James). The birth dates and time
of day are in the family record in the pension file, apparently all recorded at the same time,
probably from another record (since the times of death are so precise); deaths of Richard in 1802
and Hiram in 1819 are in a different hand.
260
Vermont State Vital Records, daughter of Richard and Zilla but said to have been born in
Waltham, Mass., a simple error.
261
1850 U.S. Census, Chester, Windsor Co., Vt., roll 931, p. 337.
262
263
Vermont State Vital Records (two cards), consumption of lungs, son of Richard and Zillah
(Turner), born Wrentham, Mass.
264
Vermont State Vital Records, from Chester town records, 6:514.
265
Margaret C. Guild Lambert, Descendants of John Guild and Elizabeth Crooke of Dedham,
MA., Circa 16362006 (Scarborough, Ont.: the author, 2006), 162.
266
Vermont State Vital Records, from Chester town records, 6:460, called wife of Laban
Guild.
267
268
Lambert, Descendants of John Guild, 162.
269
Vermont State Vital Records, from Chester town records, 6:277, cancer.
258
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had a male under 10, two 1016, himself and a female age 3040.[ 270]
Not found in 1850, in 1860 at Chester, Laban was 57, a farmer, with
Sabra, 53, born Vt.[271]
5. Galen Guild, twin, born 22 Sept. 1801; buried probably Robbins Family
Plot, Riverside Cemetery, Oshkosh, WI, Block 18, Lot 18;[ 272] married
at Danube, Herkimer Co., N.Y., 27 June 1824, Elizabeth Betsey
Sickles,[ 273] born probably Montgomery Co., N.Y., ca. 1810, died
perhaps Little Falls, Herkimer Co., N.Y., 18 Aug. 1866 [sic].[ 274] In
1830 a Galen Guild was at Salisbury, Herkimer Co., N.Y., age 2030,
with a male and a female under 5, a female 510, one 1015 and one
2030.[ 275] In 1850 at Little Falls, Galen Guild was age 46, a papermaker
born N.H. [sic], with Elizabeth 40, Sarah 16, Emily C. 13, and Winfield
Scott Guild, 8, all born N.Y.[ 276] In 1860 at Little Falls he was alone, age
60, papermaker, born N.Y.[ 277] He must be the Galon Gall, age 69,
born Mass., living at Oshkosh, Wisc., in 1870 in the household of John
and Emily C. Barr.[ 278]
ii. LUCINDA GUILD, born 8 Oct. 1765;[279] died Chester, Vt., 18 or 22 Feb. 1841;[ 280]
married Wrentham 26 May 1790 SAMUEL TURNER,[ 281] born Medfield 14
Sept. 1761, brother of Zillah[ 282] who married Lucindas brother Richard, died
Chester 1 April 1841.[ 283]
iii. ALANSON LANSON GUILD, born 4 July 1769;[ 284] died Chester, Vt., 19 Oct.
1844 age 75, buried Brookside Cemetery there;[ 285] married Wrentham 7 Feb.
1799 KETURAH TURNER,[286] born Medfield 13 Aug. 1770, sister of Zillah who
270
272
Lambert, Descendants of John Guild, 80; Pedigree Resource File on FamilySearch.org.
Discussion of this burial, found via Google.com, suggests that according to cemetery records, he is
probably buried there but has no gravestone.
273
Herkimer County NY Marriages from Universalist Sources, 18231878, online at
http://www.herkimer.nygenweb.net/vitals/herkuniversalistmars1.html, citing Gospel Inquirer,
Little Falls, 24 July 1824, by Rev. George B. Lisher.
274
New.FamilySearch.org.
275
1830 U.S. Census, Salisbury, Herkimer Co., N.Y., roll 91, p. 71.
276
1850 U.S. Census, Little Falls, Herkimer Co., N.Y., roll 512, p. 208.
277
1860 U.S. Census, Little Falls, Herkimer Co., N.Y., roll 759, p. 570.
278
1870 U.S. Census, 3rd Ward, Oshkosh, Winnebago Co., Wisc., roll 1746, p. 278.
279
280
Barbour, Descendants of Captain George Barbour, 1:20 says 22 Feb.; Vermont State
Vital Records, from Chester records, 6:429, says 18 Feb.
281
Burleigh, Guild, 59; Vital Records of Wrentham, 2:310.
282
Vital Records of Medfield, 99; Barbour, Descendants of Captain George Barbour, 1:20.
283
Vermont State Vital Records, from Chester records, 6:429.
284
Vital Records of Wrentham, 1:105, called Lanson.
285
Vermont State Vital Records, called Alanson.
286
Burleigh, Guild, 59; Vital Records of Wrentham, 2:310, called Lamson.
271
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married Lansons brother Richard,[ 287] died Chester 6 March 1836 age 66,
buried with Lanson.[ 288] On 18 March 1807, Lanson and his wife Katurah
by three deeds sold what was apparently all their holdings in Wrentham.[ 289] In
1810 at Chester, Lanson Guild had two males under 10, one 1016, himself
over 45, a female 1626 and one 2645,[290] which fits the family well,
including probably a female servant. In 1830 at Chester, Lanson Guild was age
6070 with a female 1520 and one 5060.[291]
Children of Alanson and Keturah (Turner) Guild, born Wrentham:[ 292]
1. Herman6 Guild, born 1 Sept. 1800; died Chester 15 Dec. 1889;[ 293]
married (1) Rockingham, Vt., 23 Feb. 1819 Huldah Knight,[ 294] born
Rockingham June 1800, daughter of Joel and Hannah (Ayers)
Knight,[295] died 7 Sept. 1831 age 30, buried Brookside Cemetery in
Chester;[296] married (2) Chester 2 Oct. 1832 Susannah Thompson,[ 297]
born Chester 1 Sept. 1807, died there 26 May 1889 at age 81.[ 298] In
1830 at Chester Harmond Guild had a male under 10, one 1016,
himself and a female 2030 and two females 510.[ 299] This would be
the Hamond Guild at Chester in 1840, males 1 0 1 0 1 1 (3040) 0 0 0
1 (7080 [Lanson?]) and females 0 0 0 2 1 1 (3040).[ 300]
2. Luther Guild, born 23 July 1803; died Medfield, Mass., 9 Aug. 1873 age
70 years 15 days;[ 301] married (1) Chester 28 March 1824 Sophia
Gilson,[ 302] born Springfield, Vt., 1 Dec. 1802,[ 303] died Chester 21 Aug.
1840 age 38, buried Brookside Cemetery in Chester;[ 304] married (2)
287
Vital Records of Medfield, 98; Barbour, Descendants of Captain George Barbour, 1:20.
289
Norfolk County Deeds, 29:37, 42, 252.
290
291
292
293
Vermont State Vital Records, farmer, born Wrentham, Mass., the cause of death illegible
on the faint microfilm and the age hard to read.
294
Vermont State Vital Records, from Rockingham records, Heman of Chester.
295
Vermont State Vital Records, which names her parents; Lambert, Descendants of John
Guild, 81.
296
Vermont State Vital Records, from her gravestone, Huldah Knight Guild, wife of
Herman.
297
Vermont State Vital Records, citing Chester Vital Records, 6:467.
298
Vermont State Vital Records, faint on microfilm, cause illegible; Lambert, Descendants of
John Guild, 81. Herman Mason Guild, son of Herman and Susannah, died Chester 16 or 17 Aug.
1847 age 5, buried Brookside Cemetery there (two cards in Vermont State Vital Records).
299
1830 U.S. Census, Chester, Windsor Co., Vt., roll 187, p. 110A.
300
301
Massachusetts Vital Records from 1841, 247:309, cholera morbus, son of Alanson and
Keturah.
302
303
304
Vermont State Vital Records, two cards, from her gravestone.
288
25
Medfield, Mass., 5 May 1844 Olive Clark,[305] born Medfield, Mass. 27

July 1815, daughter of David and Olive (Smith) Clark,[ 306] died
Medfield 5 April 1898 age 82 years 8 months 10 days.[ 307] In 1830 at
Chester, Luther and a female were 2030 with a female under 5 and one
510.[ 308] In 1840 at Chester, listed four names below Hamond, Luther
had males 0 1 0 0 0 1 (3040) and females 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 (6070
[Keturah?].[ 309] In 1850 at Medfield, Luther was 46, farmer, with Olive,
35, both born Mass., Luther A. 17, born Vt., James N. Clark 12, Maria
Smith 7, and Priscilla Hammond 73, all born Mass.[ 310]
3. Horace Guild, born 21 Sept. 1806; died after 1880 in Massena, St.
Lawrence Co., N.Y.;[ 311] married (1) Emeline Green, born Chester;
married (2) before 1850 Augusta Hyde, born Massena.[ 312] In 1850 at
Massena, Horace was 43, a pedlar born in Mass., and August A. 37,
born N.Y.[ 313]
7. JAMES4 GUILD (Josiah3, John2-1) was born at Wrentham, Massachusetts, on 1

January 1730/1. While he apparently moved to Woodstock, Connecticut, he died
in military service, probably in New Jersey, on 15 September 1778.[ 314] He
married at Walpole, Massachusetts, on 19 December 1754 ESTHER WORSLEY,[315]
who was surely a sister of the Robert Worsley who married James sister Sarah
(Robert and Sarah named a child Esther). A guardian was appointed for Esther
Worsley of Walpole in 1753, shortly after her fathers probate, but no documents
are extant.[ 316]
James and Esther had children in Keene, New Hampshire, in 1759, 1762, and
1764, then moved to one of the adjoining towns.[ 317] However, the town of
Woodstock, Connecticut, granted James 30 for articles supplied to him or his
305
Massachusetts Vital Records from 1841, 13:92, Luther age 42, widower, Olive single, age
28, both of Medfield, their parents named.
306
Vital Records of Medfield, 37 (birth), 127 (parents marriage).
307
Massachusetts Vital Records from 1841, 482:543, hemiplegia, born Medfield, daughter of
David and Olive (Smith) Clark.
308
309
310
1850 U.S. Census, Medfield, Norfolk Co., Mass., roll 331, p. 352.
311
In 1880 at Massena, St. Lawrence Co., N.Y., roll 925, ED 222, p. 407 C, Horris Guild
was 73, farmer, born Mass., with wife Augusta 62, born N.Y.
312
313
1850 U.S. Census, Massena, St. Lawrence Co., N.Y., roll 591, p. 374.
314
Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the I. War of the Revolution. II War of 1812. III.
Mexican War (Hartford, Conn.: Case, Lockwood and Brainard, 1889), 234.
315
316
Suffolk County Probate, docket index reference to #10627.
317
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family,[ 318] he having enlisted on 5 April 1777 in Paul Brighams Company, 8th
Connecticut Regiment. His son Richard enlisted in that company on 29 April.[ 319]
James evidently owned no land in Woodstock.
Children of James and Esther (Worsley) Guild:[ 320]
9
i. MARGARET5 GUILD, born Keene 15 July 1759.

ii. RICHARD GUILD, born Keene 22 Jan. 1762; (1) ORPHA SOPHIA WILBUR;
MARRIED (2) ELEANOR RICE (KNIGHT) ALDRICH.
iii. JOHN GUILD, born Keene 3 Dec. 1764.
iv. JOAB GUILD, born N.H. 7 Aug. 1769; died Woodstock, Conn., 31 March
1861;[ 321] married Woodstock 7[ 322] or 22 Dec. 1796 BELINDA BURLEIGH,
born 11 Feb. 1772, died 3 April 1862, daughter of John and Persis (Harwood)
Burleigh.[ 323] In 1850 at Woodstock, Joab was age 81, born N.H., blind and
with only one leg. Belinda was 78, born Conn., and Joseph P. Butler, 37, born
Conn., was a painter and glazier.[ 324]
8. DAN4 GUILD (Josiah3, John2-1) was born at Wrentham, Massachusetts, on 18

August 1738. He died at Swanzey, New Hampshire, in early 1795.[325] He married
(1) at Wrentham 22 December 1760 SARAH POND,[326] who died at Keene, New
Hampshire, on 25 April 1775 at age 38.[327] She was probably the daughter of
David and Sarah (Richardson) Pond born at Wrentham on 27 July 1731.[ 328] Dan
married (2), probably in 1776, LYDIA , who died at Keene on 30 June or 1
318
Lists and Returns of Connecticut Men in the Revolution, 17751783, vol. 12 of Collections
of the Connecticut Historical Society (Hartford, Conn.: Connecticut Historical Society, 1909), 86;
Connecticut State Archives, Revolutionary War, Series I, 30:43, which lists James as dead.
319
Record of Connecticut Men in the Revolution, 234. Paul Brigham was of Coventry, Conn.
(ibid., 230).
320
All birthdates in Burleigh, Guild, 59; the first three in Whitcomb, Vital Statistics of Keene,
32.
321
Burleigh, Guild, 102; Clarence Winthrop Bowen, The History of Woodstock, Connecticut,
Genealogies of Woodstock Families, 8 vols. (Norwood, Mass.: Plimpton Press and Worcester,
Mass.: American Antiquarian Society, 1926-1943), 6:533.
322
Commemorative Biographical Record of Tolland and Windham Counties, Connecticut, 1
vol. in 2 (Chicago, Ill.: J. H. Beers, 1903), 439. This says he was born at Keene, which is doubtful,
and gives much information on Joabs descendants.
323
Bowen, Woodstock, 6:533.
324
1850 U.S. Census, Woodstock, Windham Co., Conn., roll 51, p. 248.
325
Burleigh, Guild, 59. His will was proved on 9 April 1795 (see below).
326
327
328
Vital Records of Wrentham, 1:169 (birth); Vital Records of Medway, 246 (parents
marriage).
27
July 1783 at age 36.[329] Dan married (3) probably in early 1784 SARAH
FLETCHER,[330] born, perhaps at New Ipswich, New Hampshire, 27 September
1756, daughter of Thomas and Esther (Hoar) Fletcher.[ 331] She is said to have
married (2) 10 January 1797 John Thompson, Sr.[332]
Abner Sanger often mentioned Dan and his son Sim in his journal at Keene
in the 1770s.[ 333] In 1773 Dan Guild was corporal of a foot company at
Keene.[ 334] On 4 January 1775, he was one of five men in Keene chosen to be a
Committee of Inspection, and on 14 March 1776 he signed the Association
oath.[ 335] From 29 June to 11 July 1777 he was sergeant in Capt. Davis Howletts
company that marched from Keene to Fort Ticonderoga.[ 336] He was jailer and
high sheriff of Cheshire County and in 1785 purchased a pew in the new
meetinghouse at Keene.[337] In 1790 at Swanzey, Dan had two males over 16, three
under, and three females.[ 338]
Dan Guild of Swanzey made a will on 7 Dec. 1794 (proved 9 April 1795) in
which he named wife Sarah, children Simeon, Lydia Adams, wife of Asahel
Graves, John, Fanny, Dan, Thomas, and Rufus. Brother-in-law Josiah Fletcher of
New Ipswich, N.H., was to be guardian for the two youngest children, Thomas
and Rufus. Wife Sarah and friend Calvin Frink of Swansey, Esq., were to be
executors.[ 339]
329
Whitcomb, Vital Statistics of Keene, 186. See three different entries.

331
Charles Henry Chandler, History of New Ipswich, New Hampshire (Fitchburg, Mass.:
Sentinel Printing Co., 1914), 411. Her brother Josiah, of New Ipswich, named in Dan Guilds
probate, was born 13 June 1758 (ibid.). However, their births were not among those recorded at
New Ipswich, born 1760 to 1771 (New Hampshire Town Records Series, New Ipswich, 1:392).
Thomas Fletcher of New Ipswich, gentleman, made his will 4 Nov. 1788 naming wife Esther and
children Josiah, Thomas, Benjamin, Sarah, Abigail, and Anna, but no married names for the
daughters. It was proved 18 June 1811 (Hillsborough County Probate, 17:293). Sarahs and
Josiahs births were not found in a search of the statewide New Hampshire vital records.
332
Burleigh, Guild, 59; not found in New Hampshire State Vital Records.
333
Stabler, Journal of Abner Sanger, passim.
334
D. Hamilton Hurd, History of Cheshire and Sullivan Counties, New Hampshire
(Philadelphia: J. W. Lewis & Co., 1886), 42.
335
Hurd, History of Cheshire and Sullivan Counties, 35, 37.
336
Rolls of The Soldiers in the Revolutionary War, vol. 2 of War Rolls, vol. 54 of New
Hampshire State Papers, (Concord, N.H.: Parsons S. Cogswell, 1886), 61.
337
Burleigh, Guild, 59; S. G. Griffin, A History of the Town of Keene (Keene: Sentinel Printing
Co., 1904), 148, 161, 169, 200, 204, 242, 246, 250, 253, 276, 672.
338
1790 U.S. Census, Swanzey, Cheshire Co., N.H., roll 5, p. 121.
339
Cheshire County Probate, 3:378 (will); 4:70 (final settlement 8 April 1801).
330
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Children of Dan and Sarah (Pond) Guild:

i. SIMEON5 GUILD, born Keene 21 Sept. 1761;[340] married Swanzey 15 Oct. 1786
LYDIA CLAUSON, both being of Keene.[ 341] He is said to have settled on the
Delaware River below Philadelphia.[342] He has not been found in the 1790
1810 censuses.
ii. SARAH GUILD, born Keene 14 July 1763.[ 343] Probably she was the Sally Guild
who died at Keene on 6 May 1786[344] as she was not named in her fathers
will.
iii. LYDIA ADAMS GUILD, born Keene 6 Feb. 1767;[ 345] married Swanzey 26 April
1789 as his second wife, ASAHEL GRAVES of Swanzey,[346] born Swanzey 25
Aug. 1761, son of Joshua and Lydia (Woodcock) Graves,[ 347] died Covington,
Tioga Co., Penn.[348]
iv. JOHN GUILD, born Keene 16 March 1769;[349] married (1) Swanzey 11 Dec. 1791
HEPSIBAH GRAVES,[350] born Swanzey 26 March 1768, daughter of Joshua and
Lydia (Woodcock) Graves.[ 351] John married (2) 13 March 1834 HANNAH
YOUNG of Guilford, Vt.[352]
v. ?FANNY GUILD, born perhaps 6 May 1773,[ 353] but see Fanny below.
vi. JOSIAH GUILD, born Keene 24 March 1775;[ 354] died before 7 Dec. 1794.[ 355]
Children of Dan and Lydia () Guild:
vii. IVORY GUILD, born Keene 23 Jan. 1777;[356] died at age 5 at Keene 2 or 3 Jan.
1782.[357]
340

New Hampshire State Vital Records, by Calvin Frink, J.P.
342
343
344
345
346
New Hampshire State Vital Records.
347
Kenneth Vance Graves, Thomas Graves, 1654 Settler of Hartford, Connecticut, and
Hatfield, Massachusetts, and His Descendants (Wrentham, Mass.: Family History Publications,
1985), 54.
348
Graves Family Association website, maintained by Kenneth Vance Graves,
http://www.gravesfa.org/gen168.htm.
349
350
New Hampshire State Vital Records, by C. Frink, J.P.
351
Graves,
Thomas
Graves,
54;
Graves
Family
Association
website,
http://www.gravesfa.org/gen168.htm.
352
Benjamin Read, History of Swanzey, New Hampshire (Salem, Mass.: Salem Press, 1892),
351. Burleigh, Guild, 103, suggests he had a second wife but does not name her.
353
Burleigh, Guild, 59; not in Whitcomb, Vital Statistics of Keene.
354
355
He was not named in his fathers will of that date.
356
341
29
viii. FANNY GUILD, born Keene 3 May 1778.[358] Same as #v.?

ix. DAN GUILD, born Keene 24 June 1780;[359] He is said to have moved to Cortland
Co., N.Y., about 1826.[360] Not identified in 18001840, but in 1850 at
Saratoga, N.Y., a Dan Guild was age 69, a farmer, born N.H., with Margaret
50 and Sarah E. 16, both born N.Y.[ 361]
x. DAVID GUILD, born Keene 26 Dec. 1782;[ 362] died at age 9 days at Keene 4 or 6
Jan. 1783.[363]
Children of Dan and Sarah (Fletcher) Guild:
xi. Stillborn child, died Keene 16 Oct. 1784.[364]
xii. THOMAS GUILD, born Swanzey 24 July 1786;[365] died Coventry, Orleans Co.,
Vt., 30 Sept. 1869 age 83 years 2 months 6 days, a farmer, buried Otis
Cemetery, Coventry;[ 366] married KEZIAH FORRISTALL of Troy, N.H.,[367]
born Fitzwilliam, N.H., 17 Sept 1782, daughter of Joseph and Hannah
(Mellen) Forristall,[368] died Coventry 11 May 1843 age 60.[ 369] Thomas and
Keziah moved from Swanzey to Coventry in 1808. When Mr. Guild came
here he brought a back-load of boots and shoes to sell, and was probably the
first dealer in town.[370] He was a justice of the peace at Coventry.[ 371]
xiii. ESTHER GUILD, born Swanzey 4 or 11 April 1788;[ 372] died before 7 Dec.
1794.[ 373]
357
Whitcomb, Vital Statistics of Keene, 186, says 3 Jan.; Stabler, Journal of Abner Sanger, 396,
says 2 Jan.; Burleigh, Guild, 60, says 30 Jan..
358
359
360
361
1850 U.S. Census, Saratoga, Saratoga Co., N.Y., roll 592, p. 241.
362
363
Burleigh, Guild, 60, says 4 Jan.; Whitcomb, Vital Statistics of Keene, 186, says about same
time as Ivory, Jan. 6, 1782.
364
365
366
Vermont State Vital Records, ulceration of prostate gland, born Swanzey, N.H., son of Dan
and Sarah (Fletcher) Guild. Another card says buried Otis Cemetery there.
367
368
New Hampshire State Vital Records (birth); Vital Records of Holliston, Massachusetts, to
the Year 1850 (Boston: NEHGS, 1908), 210 (parents marriage).
369
370
Hamilton Child, Gazetteer and Business Directory of Lamoille and Orleans Counties, Vt.,
for 188384 (Syracuse, N.H.: H. Child, 1883), 234, which lists several of Thomas and Keziahs
children.
371
Journal of the House of Representatives of Vermont: October Session, 1848 (Montpelier,
Vt., E. P. Walton & Sons, 1849), 287.
372
New Hampshire State Vital Records say 4 April; Burleigh, Guild, 60, says 11 April.
373
She was not named in her fathers will of that date. He called Thomas and Rufus his two
youngest children.
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xiv. RUFUS GUILD, born Swanzey 28 Jan. 1790;[ 374] died Coventry, Vt., 19 or 20 Jan.
1858 age 68 or 67 years 11 months 22 days, a farmer, buried Otis Cemetery
there;[375] married Troy, N.H., 21 Dec. 1815 MARY POLLY A.
FORRISTALL,[ 376] born Fitzwilliam, N.H., 6 March 1792, daughter of Joseph
and Hannah (Mellen) Forristall,[377] died Coventry 17 May 1862 age 70 years 2
months 10 days.[ 378]
9. RICHARD5 GUILD, (James4, Josiah3, John2-1) was born at Keene, New

Hampshire, on 22 January 1762. He died at Cranston, Rhode Island, on 15 July
1837 and was buried in the Knightville Meeting House Lot in Cranston[ 379] or in
the Riverside Cemetery in Sterling, Connecticut.[ 380] He was of Smithfield, Rhode
Island, when he married (1) at North Providence, Rhode Island, on 16 January
1785 ORPHA SOPHIA WILBUR, daughter of William Wilbur of Smithfield.[ 381] She
was born, probably at Smithfield, about 1766, died at Cranston on 17 November
1807 age 41 and was buried with Richard with markers in both places.[ 382] Richard
married (2) at Cranston on 2 July 1809 ELEANOR RICE (KNIGHT) ALDRICH,
daughter of Nehemiah[ 383] and Eleanor (Hudson) Knight,[ 384] and apparently
374

Vermont State Vital Records, two cards with the different death dates and ages, born
Wanton, Vt., son of Dan and Sarah.
376
New Hampshire Town Records series, Troy [FHL 0,015,329], 1:115, Rufus of Swanzey
and Polly of Fitzwilliam. New Hampshire State Vital Records say 25 Dec. 1815. Burleigh, Guild,
60, calls her Polly and lists children; Lambert, Descendants of John Guild, 83, calls her Mary A.
377
New Hampshire State Vital Records; see birth of sister Keziah (above) for parents
marriage.
378
Vermont State Vital Records, lung fever, wife of Rufus, her birthplace and parents named.
379
Rhode Island Historic Cemeteries database online; Revolutionary War pension, Richard
Guild, W1420, B.L.Wt. 15444-160-55, in two depositions by his widow. Providence Probate
Records, A17870, 7:237, include only evidence that he died as a pensioner at Providence 15 July
1837 and his widow, Eleanor Rice Guild lived in Providence. His date of death also appears in a
declaration made at Providence on 10 Oct. 1837 (Providence Probate, A17870, 7:231).
380
Charles R. Hale, Charles R. Hale Collection [of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper
Notices of Marriages and Deaths], (1933-34), at the Connecticut State Library, Sterling, 23. This
cemetery is on the Moosup River in the Oneco section of Sterling and may be also called the
Oneco cemetery.
381
James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island 16361850, 21 vols. (Providence, R.I.:
Narragansett Historical Publishing Co., 18911912), 2 (North Providence):21, Guile, Richard, of
James, dec., of Smithfield, and Arpha Wilbur, of William, of Smithfield, married at North
Providence by Hope Angell, Justice, Jan. 16, 1785, citing 1:34.
382
Providence Gazette, 28 Nov. 1807, in Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 13:449, called
Mrs. Orpheus Guild, wife of Richard; Rhode Island Historic Cemeteries database online; Hale
Collection, Sterling, 23, her name read as Orphe and her age as 41.
383
Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 2 (Cranston):13, citing 2:51; Revolutionary War
pension, Richard Guild, W1420, B.L.Wt. 15444-160-55; Nehemiah Knight will dated 8 Nov.
375
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divorced wife of Benjamin Aldrich, which would explain why her marriage
record to Richard gives her surname as Knight. However, her first husband may
have been named James Aldrich.[ 385] Eleanor was born, probably at Cranston
about 6 February 1771,[ 386] died at Cranston on 24 September 1858 at age 87 years
7 months 18 days,[ 387] and was buried in the Nehemiah Knight Lot in Cranston.[ 388]
Considering the parents of Richards first wife, there seems to have been only
one William Wilbur in Smithfield in the mid to late 1700s. On 22 June 1764
Daniel Wilbore of Smithfield, husbandman, made his will naming wife Mary and
several children, including a son William (listed after a son Daniel) who had had
his portion, suggesting that he was over 21.[ 389] Daniel was born at Portsmouth,
Rhode Island, on 8 March 1701, the son of Benjamin and Mary (Kennecut)
Wilbore.[ 390] He married at Portsmouth on 2 April 1725 Sarah Fish, daughter of
Daniel Fish.[ 391] Thus Daniels son William was born after 1725 and before about
1743.[ 392] Daniel and Sarah also had a son named Benjamin, so Richard and
Orphas son Benjamin was named for an uncle and a great-grandfather.
No deed from Daniel to William was recorded at Smithfield, but on 4 March
1766, about the time Orpha was born, William Wilbour of Smithfield,
husbandman, purchased 85 acres, the farm where Ezekiel and Huldah Woodward
were then living in Smithfield.[ 393] Two months later, on 7 June 1766, William
mortgaged 40 acres of that farm to Jonathan Whipple of North Providence. Then
on 1 July 1771 he mortgaged 80 acres, probably the whole farm, again to
Jonathan Whipple. No wife signed either deed.[ 394] However, when William sold
59 acres of the homestead farm where I now dwell to Charles Angell on 29
April 1777, Williams wife Sarah signed. And she signed again when he sold 61
1806, proved 24 June 1808, gives daughter Eleanor R. Knight the privilege of living in the house
(abstract in Rhode Island Genealogical Register 8 [1985]:128, from Cranston Probate 2:2021).
384
Cranston Wills, 3:19698, abstracted in Rhode Island Genealogical Register 9 (1986):117.
Eleanor Knight of Cranston, widow, made her will 18 May 1822 naming daughter Eleanor R.,
wife of Richard Guild. Nehemiah Knight married Eleanor Hudson at Cranston 8 Aug. 1762
(Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 2 [Cranston]:16).
385
See the note re the father of her son James Aldrich under #10 Martha Guild below.
386
Calculated from her age at death.
387
Rhode Island State Vital Records, Deaths, 58:858, widow of Richard, daughter of
Nehemiah Knight.
388
Rhode Island Historic Cemeteries database online.
389
Smithfield Probate, Vol. 2, 17691797, p. 54.
390
Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 4 (Portsmouth):104 (birth), 47 (parents marriage).
391
Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 4 (Portsmouth):47.
392
Various Internet sources suggest he was born about 1741, but that is probably only a
guesstimate.
393
Smithfield Deeds, 6:76.
394
Smithfield Deeds, 6:88, 300.
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acres to Knight Dexter on 3 May 1777.[ 395] However, since Orphas father was of
Smithfield when she married, the family apparently stayed there, but no William
Wilbur (under any spelling) appears there in the 1790 census, and there is no
probate for either William or Sarah there.
Richard Guild served in the Revolution from Connecticut. The town of
Woodstock granted Richard 30 for articles supplied to him or his family,[ 396] he
having enlisted on 29 April 1777 in Capt. Paul Brighams Co., Col. John
Chandlers Regiment in the Connecticut line and served for three years.[ 397] This
regiment fought at Germantown, Pennsylvania, on 4 October 1777, wintered at
Valley Forge, fought at the Battle of Monmouth 28 June 1778, wintered at
Redding, Connecticut, stormed Stony Point 15 July 1779 and wintered at
Morristown, after which Richard was discharged on 4 April 1780.[ 398]
When he was married in 1785, Richard was living in Smithfield, and perhaps
one or two of his children were born there, but by 14 February 1789 he was living
in Providence, a butcher, when he first purchased land on the west side of the
Great Bridge in Providence from Nehemiah and Alice Arnold. It was on the south
side of High Street, adjacent to the Burying Ground.[ 399] On 18 November 1790 he
and John Perin, both butchers, purchased from Benjamin and Abigail Hodges a
triangular piece a little north of the road from the Great Bridge to Plainfield, about
a mile from the bridge.[ 400] Richard has not been found in the 1790 census, but
John Perrin had two males over 16 and five females in his household.[ 401] This
could include John and Richard, their wives, and Richards first three children.
When John and Richard sold their triangle of land to Nathan Williams on 22
March 1791, Johns wife was named Melicent and Richards wife Orpheas
made her mark.[ 402] On 11 April 1792 Richard bought another piece abutting the
first from Nehemiah and Alice Arnold.[ 403] Two years later, on 16 August 1794,
Richard, still called butcher, sold a small piece of land to one of his abutters,
Elisha Brown, the line running through the middle of a well. Elisha was not to sell
any shares in the well. This time Richards wife was called Orpa.[ 404]
395
Smithfield Deeds, 6:467; 7:162.

Lists and Returns of Connecticut Men in the Revolution, 86; Connecticut State Archives,
Revolutionary War, Series I, 30:43.
397
Revolutionary War pension, Richard Guild, W1420, B.L.Wt. 15444-160-55, says 15 April;
Record of Service of Connecticut Men, 234, says 29 April.
398
Record of Service of Connecticut Men, 229 (history), 234 (list of men).
399
Providence Deeds, 21:615.
400
401
1790 U.S. Census, Providence, Providence Co., R.I., roll 10, p. 197.
402
403
404
396
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On 15 November 1796 Richard bought land closer to Cranston, in the

southwest part of Providence, four acres on the road from Providence to
Pawtucket with a bound on Middle Cranston Road.[ 405] Then on 23 September
1797 he bought a small triangular abutting piece, a half of a quarter of an acre
between the Pawtucket and Cranston roads.[ 406] On 8 February 1798 he and
Orpheus sold the old High Street lot with a dwelling house and other
buildings.[ 407]
In 1800 at Cranston, Richard Guile had a male under 10, himself 2645,
four females under 10, one 1016, and one 2645.[ 408] On 4 March 1805 Richard
Guild of Cranston, yeoman, leased property in Cranston (not described) from
Nehemiah Knight, Jr., for $10.[ 409]
In 1810 at Cranston, Richard was over 45 with a male 1016, three females
under 10, one 1016, three 1626 and one 2645.[ 410] The small lot of 4 acres in
the southwest part of Providence Richard and wife Eleanor Rice Guild sold to
Jeremiah Knight of Cranston and Nehemiah R. Knight of Providence for $450 on
30 August 1810.[ 411] On 19 December 1812 he transferred his lease with
Nehemiah Knight for the remainder of the term for $60 to Samuel Burlingame
of Providence, merchant.[ 412] On the same day, 19 December 1812 Richard of
Cranston, yeoman, also sold to Samuel Burlingame for only $25 a dwelling house
and sawmill and implements for the sawmill, and the house, where Guild now
lives being on land belonging to Col. Knight Dexter.[ 413]
In 1820 at Cranston, Richard and a female were over 45, and he was engaged
in manufacturing.[ 414] When seeking a pension for his service, he deposed on 12
June 1820, at age 58, saying he had a wife and ten children, nine of them
daughters. He was a butcher but was unable to work.[ 415] On 18 November 1824
Richards wife, Eleanor Rice Guild, purchased from [her brother] Nehemiah R.
Knight of Providence, Esq., for $200, half of a piece of land and buildings in the
Village of Knightsville in Cranston plus a small triangular piece adjoining the
house, about an acre.[ 416] Apparently Eleanors sister Harriet Knight owned the
other half, as on 14 March 1826 they divided the property, the line running
405

407
408
1800 U.S. Census, Cranston, Providence Co., R.I., roll 45, p. 89.
409
Cranston Deeds, 7:271, recorded with the 1812 lease below.
410
1810 U.S. Census, Cranston, Providence Co. R.I., roll 58, p. 26.
411
412
Cranston Deeds, 7:272.
413
414
1820 U.S. Census, Cranston, Providence Co. R.I., roll 117, p. 29.
415
Revolutionary War pension, Richard Guild, W1420, B.L.Wt. 15444-160-55.
416
406
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through the middle of the Red House.[ 417] On 5 September 1826 Richard
purchased from Harriet Knight of Cranston for $10 a piece of land abutting that of
Eleanor.[ 418]
In 1830 at Cranston, Richard Guild had a male 1015, another 4050, himself
6070, two females 1520, and one 5060.[ 419] Richard was said to reside at
Providence, Rhode Island, in 1831,[420] but the author either meant the Providence
area or only knew where he had previously lived.
Richard Guilds estate was insolvent. At a court of 9 September 1837, Horace
Prior was made administrator, and household goods were set off to Eleanor R.
Guild, widow. The inventory was appraised on 5 September 1837.[ 421] On 13
September 1837 Eleanor R. Guild of Cranston, widow of Richard, sold for $500
to James Doran, a small lot and part of a dwellinghouse on the east side of the
road from Knightsville to Providence and another lot near the above, clearly the
land described above. A year later, on 19 October 1838, she quitclaimed on her
right of dower in a lot with a barn, six square rods, again to James Doran.[ 422]
In 1850 at Cranston, Eleanor Guild was age 78, living in the household of [her
son] James Aldrich, age 60, farmer, who had no wife with him.[ 423]
Eleanor made a will on 4 August 1858 calling herself widow of Richard
Guild. She gave all her personal estate now in possession of her son James
Aldrich to her grandson William H. A. Aldrich after James decease. She then
gave Jeremiah H. Aldrich $12 but specified no relationship. Daughter Alice
Burlingame was to have all the remainder of my personal estate. William H. A.
Aldrich was to be sole executor. The will was presented in court on 27 November
1858.[ 424]
Richards daughter Sophia, who died unmarried, made a will on 1 September
1865 naming her sister Sally Sheldon, widow of Joseph Sheldon, Mary Winsor,
wife of Serrill Winsor, Catherine and Eliza Smith, daughters of Alanson Smith
[sic], and three sisters, Esther Knight, Mary Guild, and Ann Johnson. All the rest
was to go to [her grandnephew] Nicholas S. Prior, and Henry A. Aldrich [nephew
William H. A. Aldrich] of Cranston was to be executor. It was presented in court
on 22 December and proved 12 January 1869.[ 425]
417
Cranston Deeds, 11:569. This may also be the 1826 deed of partition recorded at 80:34 but
not available on microfilm.
418
419
420
421
Cranston Probate, Richard Guild, #597, 5:35152.
422
Cranston Deeds, 14:471, 610.
423
424
Cranston Probate, Eleanor R. Guild, #598, 9:133.
425
Providence Probate, A9607, Wills, 22:265.
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Richards daughter Mary made her will at Providence on 4 June 1880, the
executor was to be William H. A. Aldrich, and it was proved on 31 May 1883.[ 426]
Bequests were to:
Sophia S. Doe,[ 427] $1000
Broadway Methodist Episcopal Church in Providence, $500
William H. A. Aldrich, $100 [son of sister Martha]
Nicholas S. Prior, $500 [grandson of sister Sally]
Catherine S. Winsor, beds and furnishings [daughter of sister Rebecca]
Esther A. Ford, chinaware [daughter of nephew Mortimer D. Guild]
Mary A. Johnson, furniture [wife of nephew Robert Johnson]
My sisters Esther Knight and Ann Johnson, wearing apparel and interest and income
of the assets of the estate.
Mrs. Martha Holloway $100 [granddaughter of Marys sister Martha].
After sisters deaths to my nephews and nieces: Richard Johnson, Robert Johnson,
Mortimer D. Guild, Eliza Smith, Katherine Winsor, Mary B. Winsor, Franklin C.
Briggs, and Sophia G. Wright.
All of the heirs are identified in their families below.

Children of Richard and Orpha Sophia (Wilbur) Guild, all born probably in
Providence:[ 428]
i. SOPHIA6 GUILD, born 1 Nov. 1785;[ 429] died 5 Burgess St., Providence, 27 Nov.
1868 age 83 years 1 month;[ 430] buried Nicholas Sheldon lot, Cranston.[ 431] In
426
Cranston Probate, 17:113.

In 1870 at Providence, Sophia S. Doe, age 45, was listed with Walter P. Doe, clergyman,
born N.Y. (1870 U.S. Census, Providence, Providence Co., R.I., roll 1480, p. 313). Sophia
Sheldon Doe, born 1825, died 23 Sept. 1909, was buried in Swan Point Cemetery in Providence
(Rhode Island Historic Cemeteries Database online). Sophie was born 5 July 1825, died
Providence 23 Sept. 1909, daughter of Robert and Sophie (Sheldon) Knight. She married 1 Aug.
1849 Walter Price Doe, born Wilton, Saratoga County, N.Y., 30 March 1813, son of Walter and
Mary (Emerson) Doe, died Providence 15 Dec. 1887 (Elmer E. Doe, Descendants of Nicholas Doe
[Orleans, Vt.: the author, 1918], 181; Rhode Island State Vital Records, Deaths, 87:713, which
says he was born Milton [sic], N.Y.). Rev. Walter P. Doe authored Eminent Authors on Effective
Revival Preaching (Providence, R.I.: A. Crawford Greene, 1876), viewed online 16 July 2009 at
www.google.com.
428
Birthdates (but not places) for all except Esther are from a transcription of a Bible Given
to Mortimer D. Guild a present from Esther G. Knight, Aug. 9, 1878. The Bible was, however,
published in 1789, and may contain a contemporary record of the births. It does not include
Richard and Orphas marriage (The Rhode Island Daughters of the American Revolution, Report
of Genealogical Records Committee of Rhode Island, Daughters of the American Revolution
[1940] [FHL 0,011,302], 238).
429
The date from her gravestone, Nellie M. C. Beaman, Cranston Cemetery Inscriptions,
Rhode Island Genealogical Register 17 (1993):126, from the James N. Arnold Collection at the
Knight Memorial Library, Providence.
427
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1850 Sophia was age 67, living with her sister Sally Sheldon at Cranston,[432]
and in 1860 they were in Providence, Sophia Gile age 75.[ 433]
10 ii. MARTHA GUILD, born 16 Sept. 1787; married JAMES ALDRICH.
11 iii. SALLY GUILD, born 10 Sept. 1789;[ 434] married JOSEPH SHELDON.
iv. ESTHER GUILD, born ca. 28 Feb. 1791;[ 435] died Cranston 23 April 1883 age 92
years 1 months 25 days;[ 436] buried Knightville Meeting House Lot;[437] married
Cranston 17 Sept. 1815 RICHARD KNIGHT 3D,[ 438] born ca. 10 July 1782
(calculated), died Cranston 20 Aug. 1864 age 82 years 28 days, son of Richard
and Ruth (Dye) Knight,[ 439] buried with Esther, called Gen.[ 440] In 1850 at
Cranston, Richard 2nd was 66, keeper of a boarding house, with Esther 57, and
her nephew Mortimer D. Guild, his wife Susan, age 20, and newborn infant
daughter, Esther.[ 441] In 1860 at Cranston, Richard Knight, Jr., was 77, still a
boarding house keeper, with Esther 67, Mortimer D. Guild 30, teamster, Susan
28, Esther A. 10, and five boarders.[442] Richard Knight Junr of Cranston made
his will on 6 July 1848 naming daughter Ruth Waterman, wife of Benoni, and
son Job with the remainder going to his wife Esther, who was to be sole
executrix. It was proved on 29 Sept. 1864.[ 443] In 1870 Esther G. Knight, age
77, was living in Providence with Mortimer D. Guild, 40, teamster, Susan C.,
430
Rhode Island State Vital Records, Deaths, 68:1152, chronic gastritis, daughter of Richard
and Orpha.
431
432
433
1860 U.S. Census, Ward 6, Providence, Providence Co., R.I., roll 1209, p. 277.
434
The Bible record says 1787, but the date on her gravestone was read as 10 Sept. 1789
(Beaman, Cranston Cemetery Inscriptions, Rhode Island Genealogical Register 17 [1993]:126).
435
Calculated. Esther is not in the Bible record, even though it was she who gave the Bible to
her nephew.
436
Rhode Island State Vital Records, Deaths, 83:624, old age, daughter of Richard and Orpha
Guild, widow of Richard Knight. A second transcribed Bible record is included on the same page
with the Bible that Esther gave to her nephew Mortimer D. Guild (see above). It includes the
deaths of Esther G. Knight in 1883, Miss Mary Guild, also in 1883, and Geo. [sic, probably
Gen.] Richard Knight who died 20 August 1864 in his 83rd year.
437
438
Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 17:338, from the Providence Phenix & Patriot; his
name also from Esthers death record in Rhode Island State Vital Records, Deaths, 83:624.
439
Rhode Island Vital Records, Deaths, 64:798, of old age, farmer, son of Richard and Ruth.
Ruths maiden name, Dye, is from Helen C. Cooper, Descendants of Richard Knight, c. 1605
1680 and Sarah Rogers c16201685, Rhode Island, 1991 Revision & Update (Kelowna, BC,
1991), 78. This says she was daughter of Daniel Dye, but no further evidence has been found.
440
Rhode Island Historic Cemeteries database online. The Bible transcription cited just above
calls him Geo. Richard Knight, but probably actually said Gen. Richard Knight.
441
442
443
Cranston Probate, 9:264, witnessed by James and Wm. H. A. Aldrich and Ambrose B.
Bailey.
12 v.
13 vi.
vii.
viii.
444
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38, and Esther A., 20.[444] In 1880 Esther, age 88, was living with her sister
Mary Guild in the same dwelling with [her nephew] William H. A. Aldrich.[445]
The children named in Richard Knights will were by his first wife Rebecca,
perhaps surnamed Burgess.[ 446]
REBECCA GUILD, born 10 May 1795; married ALPHEUS SMITH.
BENJAMIN GUILD, born 1 March 1797; married ANN ___.
ELIZA GUILD, born 4 June 1800; married by Rev. Mr. Gano, Providence, 2 July
1820 ALANSON SMITH, both of Providence,[ 447] born ca. May 1799
(calculated), died 132 Stewart St., Providence, 5 Aug. 1855 age 56 years 3
months.[ 448] He apparently married (2) Providence 30 Aug. 1837 Mary
Robinson.[ 449] In 1850 at Providence, Alanson Smith was 50, a cabinet maker,
with Mary 38 and others including Eliza Smith age 18.[ 450] Alanson made his
will on 12 May 1855 naming Eliza, daughter of my first wife, and wife Mary
E. Smith, referring to other children by her.[ 451]
Children of Alanson and Eliza6 (Guild) Smith:
1. William Henry7 Smith, born ca. July 1821 (calculated); died Providence
18 Aug. 1822 age 13 months.[ 452]
2. Infant child, died 30 Oct. 1825.[ 453]
3. Emma Eliza Smith, died 12 Oct. 1829, an infant.[ 454]
4. Eliza7 Smith, born ca. 1832, named in her aunts Sophias and Marys
wills.
MARY GUILD, born 10 Sept. 1801; died Cranston 26 April 1883 age 81 years 7
months;[ 455] buried Swan Point Cemetery, Providence.[ 456] In 1860 Mary Guild,
age 56, was living in the household of Robert Knight, 78, with Walter P. and
Sophia L. Doe.[457] In 1870 she was with Walter and Sophia Doe.[458] In 1880
1880 U.S. Census, Cranston, Providence Co., R.I., roll 1214, ED 103, p. 105A.
446
Donald Lines Jacobus and Edgar Francis Waterman, The Waterman Family, 3 vols.
(Hartford, Conn.: Connecticut Historical Society, 19391954), 3:310, 316.
447
Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 15:113, from the Providence Gazette.
448
Rhode Island State Vital Records, Deaths, 55:818, neuralgia, no birth place given or
parents named.
449
Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 7:462, marriages by Rev. James Wilson, Beneficent
Congregational Church.
450
451
Providence Will Book, 17:412, docket #A7453.
452
Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 14:288, from the Providence Gazette, son of
Alanson, in this town, and 19:134, from the Providence Phenix.
453
Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 19:138, from the Providence Phenix.
454
Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 19:136, from the Providence Phenix.
455
Rhode Island State Vital Records, Deaths, 83:624, single, old age, daughter of Richard and
Orpha.
456
457
458
445
38
Mary Guild, age 78, was living with her sister Esther as a separate household
in the house of [their nephew] William H. A. Aldrich.[ 459]
14 ix. LOUISIANNA GUILD, born 14 Dec. 1803;[ 460] married FONES BRIGGS.
15 x. ANN GUILD, born 9 April 1806; married DARIUS T. JOHNSON.
10. MARTHA6 GUILD (Richard5, James4, Josiah3, John2-1), daughter of Richard

and Orpha Sophia (Wilbur) Guild, was born, probably at Providence, Rhode
Island, on 16 September 1787. She died in Cranston, Rhode Island, on 24
December 1828 in her 42nd year.[ 461] She married at Cranston on 30 July 1809 [her
step-brother] JAMES ALDRICH.[ 462] He was born at Glocester, Rhode Island, about
12 December 1789 (calculated), son of Benjamin and Eleanor Rice (Knight)
Aldrich.[ 463] He died at Cranston on 2 October 1861 at age 71 years 9 months 20
days.[ 464]
In 1850 at Cranston, James was age 60, a farmer, with his mother in his
household.[ 465] In 1860 there James was age 70, a farmer with $4000 in land and
$1500 in personal estate. William H. A. was 42, a cashier, and they had a servant,
Eliza Gorton, age 55, living with them.[ 466] In his will dated 7 October 1859 James
459
460
The transcribed Bible record says Levinia (?), suggesting that the record was difficult to
read.
461
Rhode Island American, Fri., 26 Dec. 1828, p. 2, In Cranston, on Wed. morning last, Mrs.
Martha Aldrich, wife of James Aldrich, Esq., in the 42nd year of her age.
462
Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 2 (Cranston):13, from 1:370.
463
Alvin James Aldrich, George Aldrich Genealogy, 6 vols. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Service
Press & Litho Co., and Decorah, Iowa: Anundsen Publishing Co., 19711988), 1:68, says his
fathers name was Benjamin, which agrees with the fathers name on James death record. But at
4:15 this same Aldrich genealogy calls his father James and lists his children with Eleanor Rice
Knight as well as grandchildren, children of James and Martha (Guild) Aldrich. The will of James
Aldrich of Scituate, R.I., names James, son of his son Benjamin (abstract in Rhode Island
Genealogical Register 2 [1980]:184, from Scituate Probate, 5:7879), so Aldrich 4:15 must be in
error. In 1790 at Glocester, Benjamin Aldrich had no males under 16 in his household (1790 U.S.
Census, Glocester, Providence Co., R.I., roll 10, p. 237), but there was no James Aldrich listed as
a head of household. When Benjamin of Glocester died on 4 June 1829 (Providence Patriot, 6
June 1829, p. 3), administration was first granted on 29 Aug. 1829 to James Aldrich of Cranston,
but on 17 Oct. 1829 Benjamin B. Aldrich of Scituate was appointed administrator (Glocester
Probate, 4:195, 197). James Aldrich was listed as a grandson in the will of his maternal
grandfather Nehemiah Knight at Cranston, dated 8 Nov. 1806, proved 24 June 1808, and as a
nephew in the will of Eleanors brother Jeremiah Knight of Cranston, dated 10 May 1821
(abstracts in Rhode Island Genealogical Register, 8 [1985]:128, from Cranston Probate 2:2021,
and 9 (1986):114, from Cranston Probate 3:5053).
464
Rhode Island Vital Records, Deaths, 61:910, which named his parents as Benjamin [sic]
and Eleanor R. Aldrich.
465
466
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gave a bequest to granddaughter Martha W. Winsor, daughter of Olney Winsor

and his late wife Maria E. Winsor deceased, and the rest was to go to his son
William H. A. Aldrich. It was proved on 26 Oct. 1861.[ 467]
Children of James and Martha6 (Guild) Aldrich:
i. EDWIN7 ALDRICH, died 10 June 1810;[ 468] buried in the Nehemiah Knight lot in
Cranston.[ 469]
ii. MARIA ELEANOR ALDRICH, born 20 Jan. 1813;[ 470] died 8 Coles St.,
Providence, 11 April 1857 age 44 years 7 months 21 days;[ 471] buried in the
Nehemiah Knight lot in Cranston;[ 472] married Cranston 24 Feb. 1833 OLNEY
WINSOR,[ 473] born Sterling, Conn., 17 Jan. 1815,[ 474] died East Greenwich, R.I.,
27 Sept. 1874 age 59 years 8 months 10 days, son of David and Lydia (___)
Winsor,[475] buried with his wife. Olney married (2) Providence 15 Sept. 1859
Lydia Ann Nichols of Wickford.[ 476] Olney was probably the youngest child of
his parents, named last in the distribution of his fathers estate at Sterling on 21
Oct. 1825.[ 477]
Child of Olney and Maria Eleanor7 (Aldrich) Winsor:
1. Martha Aldrich8 Winsor, born Central Falls, R.I., ca. 28 Sept. 1847
(calculated); died 80 Benevolent St., Providence, 5 May 1891 age 43
years 7 months 7 days;[478] of Wickford, R.I., age 21, when she married
North Kingstown 19 April 1868 Thomas Hutchinson Holloway, born
Wickford [in North Kingstown] age 22, bookkeeper, son of Thomas S.
467
Cranston Probate, James Aldrich, 9:197.

Aldrich, George Aldrich, 4:15.
469
Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries Database.
470
Aldrich, George Aldrich, 4:15, which spells her middle name Elinor.
471
Aldrich, George Aldrich, 4:15; Rhode Island State Vital Records, Deaths, 57:972,
consumption, daughter of James and Martha Aldrich, born Scituate [sic].
472
Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries Database.
473
Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 2 (Cranston):28, which says Olney was of Sterling,
Conn., son of David, and Maria of Cranston, daughter of James.
474
Aldrich, George Aldrich, 4:15; his birthplace from his second marriage record and his
death record.
475
Aldrich, George Aldrich, 4:15 (date only); Rhode Island State Vital Records, Deaths,
74:996, son of ___ and Lydia, married, physician, angina pectoris; his fathers name from both
marriage records.
476
Rhode Island State Vital Records, Marriages, 59:694, Olney of Providence, age 44,
engineer, born Sterling, Conn., son of David and Lydia, his second marriage; Lyda Ann of
Wickford, age 38, born Wickford, daughter of John and Lydia Nichols, also her second marriage
[sic]. Wickford is part of North Kingstown.
477
Plainfield, Conn., District Probate, David Winsor, Sterling, #2321.
478
Rhode Island State Vital Records, Deaths, 91:717, premature labor, urmic poisoning, and
written faintly above: Brights, daughter of Olney and Maria E. (Aldrich) Windsor. This death
record is the source of her full middle name. Her mothers maiden name is from Marthas
marriage record.
468
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and Susan (Tillinghast) Holloway,[ 479] born 22 Oct. 1845,[ 480] baptized
St. Pauls Church, Narragansett, in South Kingstown, 28 June 1846,[481]
died 165 Delaine St., Providence, 29 March 1908, age 62 years 5
months 7 days, a telephone agent, buried Swan Point Cemetery,
Providence.[ 482] On 17 April 1865 Olney Winsor of North Kingstown,
guardian of Martha A. Winsor, a minor by virtue of decree 10 April
1860 sold all her right in the real estate of the late Harriet Goodwin,
her 40-acre homestead and 15 acres of woodland in Cranston.[ 483] Thus
this was the Mrs. Martha Holloway named in the will of her great-aunt
Mary Guild in 1880. In 1880 at North Kingstown, Thomas H. Holloway
was 34, a nursery agent. Wife Martha A. was 32 and children were
Sarah L. 12, Maria W. 10, Henry A. 7, Thomas S. 5, and George A., 2.
Listed next was Susan E. [sic] Holloway, age 70.[ 484]
iii. WILLIAM HENRY ALLEN ALDRICH, born 30 Nov. 1818;[ 485] died Knightsville in
Cranston 29 Sept. 1896 age 77 years 10 months 0 days [sic].[ 486] In 1870 at
Cranston, Wm H. Aldrich was 50, a farmer, with Eliza Gorton, 64,
housekeeper.[ 487] In 1880 at Cranston, William H. A. was 61, farmer, with
servant Cordelia V. Gibbs, 39. As a separate household in the same dwelling
were [his aunt] Mary Guild, 78, and her sister Esther Knight, 88.[ 488]
479
Rhode Island State Vital Records, Marriages, 68:714. Susans maiden name from her own
baptism (see below).
480
The date from the return of death at Providence (FHL 2,023,654).
481
Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 10:363, where [his mother], Susan Tillinghast
Holloway, was baptized as an adult on 16 Jan. 1842.
482
Rhode Island State Vital Records, Deaths, 1908, p. 151; Returns of Deaths, Providence
(FHL 2,023,654), the informant his wife Jennie N. P. Holloway; Rhode Island Historic Cemeteries
Database online.
483
Cranston Deeds, 44:355. Harriet Goodwin was the niece of Marthas great-grandmother,
Eleanor Rice (Knight) (Aldrich) Guild. She had married Capt. Sylvester Rhodes at Cranston on 26
December 1802 (Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 2 [Cranston]:16; David Jeffries, History of
Providence County, Rhode Island [New York: W. W. Preston & Co., 1891], 755). He died at
Cranston on 3 October 1823 (Providence Patriot, 4 Oct. 1823, p. 3, viewed at
GenealogyBank.com). Mrs. Harriet Rhodes, youngest daughter of the Hon. Nehemiah R.
Knight, then married in Cranston ca. 13 March 1828 Dr. Charles Goodwin (Rhode-Island
Republican, 13 March 1828, p. 3, viewed at GenealogyBank.com). Born ca. 1 Sept. 1786
(calculated), she died at Cranston 10 Oct. 1864 age 78 years 1 month 9 days (Rhode Island State
Vital Records, Deaths, 64:800, chronic disease of liver, born Cranston, daughter of Nehemiah and
Eleanor Knight).
484
1880 U.S. Census, North Kingston, Washington Co., R.I., roll 1210, ED 155, p. 329A.
485
Aldrich, George Aldrich, 4:15.
486
Rhode Island State Vital Records, Deaths, 96:648, marasmus of old age, single, farmer,
son of James and Martha; Aldrich, George Aldrich, 4:15, says 28 Sept.
487
488
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11. SALLY6 GUILD (Richard5, James4, Josiah3, John2-1), daughter of Richard and
Orpha Sophia (Wilbur) Guild, was born at Providence, Rhode Island, on 10
September 1789. She died at 13 Burgess Street in Providence on 20 August 1868
at age 78[ 489] and was buried in the Nicholas Sheldon lot in Cranston.[ 490] She
married at Cranston, Rhode Island, on 11 February 1810 JOSEPH SHELDON.[ 491]
He was born about 1786, died on 16 April 1849 at age 62, and was buried in the
Nicholas Sheldon Lot. He was the son of Nicholas and Phebe (Potter) Sheldon.[ 492]
In his will dated 22 March 1849, proved 26 May 1849, Joseph named wife
Sally, her sister Sophia Guild, grandson Nicholas Sheldon Prior under 21, three
brothers, Pardon, Jeremiah, and William, and sister Celia Arnold.[ 493] In 1850 at
Cranston, Sally Sheldon was 58 [sic], with Sophia Guild 67, Susan Perrin 62, and
Nicholas Prior 7 in her household.[ 494] In 1860 at Providence, Sally was 69, with
$1800 in real and $2500 in personal estate. [Her sister] Sophia Gile was 75 and
Nicholas S. Prior, 19, was an accountant.[ 495]
Child of Joseph and Sally (Guild) Sheldon:
i. SARAH E.7 SHELDON, died before 1847; married WILLIAM KNIGHT PRIOR,[ 496]
born ca. 1817,[497] son of Horace and Orra (Knight) Prior. Horace Priors will,
on 27 June 1863, mentions son William K. and daughter Harriet, while Orras,
dated 10 April 1877, mentions only daughter Harriet.[ 498] William R. [sic] Prior
of Cranston married (2) Smithfield 25 Feb. 1847 Catherine Borden of
489
Rhode Island State Vital Records, Deaths, 68:1130, insanity, daughter of Richard and
Sophia Gile, widow of Joseph Sheldon.
490
491
Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 18:38, from the Providence Phenix & Patriot;
15:113, 379, from the Providence Gazette; Sallys death record in Rhode Island State Vital
Records, Deaths, 83:624.
492
Rhode Island Historic Cemeteries database online; Beaman, Cranston Cemetery
Inscriptions, Rhode Island Genealogical Register 17 (1993):126.
493
Abstract in Rhode Island Genealogical Register 11 (1988):44, from Cranston Wills,
7:47678.
494
495
496
Their names from their son Nicholas Sheldon Priors marriage record (see below) and his
death record at Johnston, R.I., Death Book 3, p. 90, communicated to the author by the town
clerks office by telephone 2 November 2009.
497
In 1860 William K. was 42, a teamer, with Catharine 31, Chester 12, Horace 6, and
William S. 1 (1850 U.S. Census, Johnston, Providence Co., R.I., roll 1206, p. 33). In 1870 in the
4th Ward at Providence, K. William was 53, a stable keeper, with Catherine 41, and six children
(roll 1478, p. 423).
498
Cranston Probate, 9:344 (Horace), 17:41 (Orra). Daughter Harriet died unmarried at
Johnston 11 March 1903, age 83 years 8 months 23 days, daughter of Horace and Orra K, born
Johnston, buried Cranston (Rhode Island State Vital Records, Deaths, 1903, p. 66).
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Smithfield.[ 499] He may have died Lake Como, Fla., 13 Oct. 1903.[500] In 1880
at Potters Precinct, Fla., Wm. K. was 63, a farmer, born R.I., with wife
Catharine 51, born Mass., and four children,[ 501] but they have not been located
in the 1900 census.
Child of William Knight and Sarah E.7 (Sheldon) Prior:
1. Nicholas Sheldon8 Prior, born Cranston 14 Dec. 1843;[ 502] died Johnston,
R.I., 7 Nov. 1933;[ 503] married Providence 19 July 1862 Mary
Dougherty,[ 504] born Providence 27 Sept. 1845,[ 505] died 30 Princeton
Ave., Providence, 29 Dec. 1916 age 71 years 3 months 2 days, daughter
of Neil and Margaret Dougherty, both born Ireland, buried Grace
Church Cemetery.[ 506] In 1870 in Providence, Nicholas S. was 29, a
bookkeeper with $6500 in real and $600 in personal estate. Mary was
23, Frank 7,[ 507] Joseph 6,[ 508] Albert 4,[ 509] and Frederick H. 4 months
old, born in Feb.,[ 510] all born R.I.[ 511] In 1880 at North Providence,
Nicholas S. Prior was age 37, a bookkeeper, with wife Mary 32, and
sons Frank S. 17, Joseph S. 16, Albert S. 14, Frederick H. 10, and
Howard S. 5.[ 512] In 1900 at Johnston, Nicholas S. 55, was bookkeeper
in a cotton mill, married for 37 years to Mary, age 54, mother of five,
three [? unclear] living. Three sons were with them, Joseph S., born
Nov. 1863, was a bottler, Albert S., born Feb. 1866, was lineman for a
telegraph company, and Frederick H., born Feb. 1873, was a violin
player. Also there was aunt Harriet Prior, born June 1819.[ 513] In 1910
499
Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 3 (Smithfield):60.

WorldConnect at Rootsweb.com, which adds that William and Catherine had a daughter
Sarah Sheldon Prior born 7 May 1850.
501
1880 U.S. Census, Potters Precinct, Putnam Co., Fla., roll 131, ED 132, p. 62.
502
1900 census, see below; the place from his marriage record.
503
Death record at Johnston, R.I., Death Book 3, p. 90, communicated to the author by the
town clerks office by telephone 2 November 2009. This included his birth date as 14 Dec. ___.
504
Rhode Island State Vital Records, Marriages, 62:606. This names their parents.
505
1900 census, see below, says Nov. 1845, but her death record says 27 Sept. 1845.
506
Returns of Deaths, Providence (FHL 2,023,913), cerebral hemorrhage and weakness due to
age, born Providence. This names her parents and husband.
507
He was born 148 Fountain St., Providence, 10 Nov. 1862 (Providence Vital Records,
8:41); Frank Sheldon Prior drowned in Johnston 20 April 1889, age 26 years 5 months 10 days
(Rhode Island State Vital Records, Deaths, 89:628).
508
Joseph Sheldon Prior was born 148 Fountain St., Providence, 10 Nov. 1863 (Providence
Vital Records, 8:73 and 76).
509
Albert Prior was born 24 A St., Providence, 8 Feb. 1866 (Providence Vital Records,
8:164).
510
Frederick Horace Prior was born 13 Burgess St., Providence, 1 Feb. 1870 (Providence
Vital Records, 9:131).
511
512
1880 U.S. Census, North Providence, Providence, R.I., roll 1215, ED 124, p. 486B.
513
1900 U.S. Census, Johnston, Providence Co., R.I., roll 1510, ED 133, p. 11B.
500
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they were still all living together, now in Providence.[ 514] In 1920 and
1930 Nicholas was living on Greenville Ave. in Johnston with a
housekeeper, Pocahontas Wood, black, born in Va. ca. 1867. In 1930 he
was age 88, widowed, retired. There was also a cousin, Annie A. Tripp,
widow, age 71.[ 515]
12. REBECCA6 GUILD (Richard5, James4, Josiah3, John2-1), daughter of Richard

and Orpha Sophia (Wilbur) Guild, was born in Providence, Rhode Island, on 10
May 1795. She died on 11 July 1831 age 36, and was buried in the Knightville
Meeting House lot in Cranston, Rhode Island, or in Riverside Cemetery, Sterling,
Connecticut, where she also has a gravestone.[ 516] She married at Cranston on 4
June 1815 ALPHEUS SMITH of Johnston,[ 517] son of Dr. Alpheus and Mary Polly
(Smith) Smith.[ 518] He died at Cranston on 13 January 1822 aged about 26.[ 519]
Children of Alpheus and Rebecca (Guild) Smith:
i. HANNAH HARRIS7 SMITH, born ca. Feb. 1816 (calculated); died 20 May 1837
age 21 years 3 months, buried Riverside Cemetery, Sterling.[ 520]
ii. CATHERINE SMITH, named in her aunt Sophias will, born Cranston 11 June
1821; died Sterling, Conn., 6 Feb. 1909 age 87 years 7 months 26 days;[ 521]
buried in Riverside Cemetery, Sterling, wife of Thomas;[ 522] married Sterling
14 Dec. 1872 THOMAS WINSOR, born Sterling ca. 1794.[ 523] She was living
with her aunt Ann (Guild) Johnson from 1850 through 1870 (see below). In
1880 at Sterling, Thomas Winsor was 75, a retired farmer, born Conn., his
parents born R.I., with wife Catherine, age 61, she and her parents born R.I.[ 524]
514
1910 U.S. Census, Ward 7, Providence, Providence Co., R.I., roll 1444, ED 221, p. 12A.
1920 U.S. Census, Johnston, Providence Co., R.I., roll 1672, ED 120, p. 20A; 1930
Johnston, roll 2172, ED 223, p. 3B.
516
Rhode Island Historic Cemeteries database online but also Hale Collection, Sterling, 23, as
wife of Alpheus with the same date.
517
Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 2 (Cranston):13, 23, from 1:372, by Elder Bela
Jacobs.
518
Charles William Farnham, John Smith, the Miller of Providence, Rhode Island,
typescript online at HeritageQuestOnline (___, 1999), 52; Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island,
10:144, marriages at St. Johns Church, Providence (parents marriage).
519
Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 13:30, from the Providence Journal, and 14:288,
from the Providence Gazette.
520
Hale Collection, Sterling, 23, daughter of Alphes [sic] and Rebecca.
521
Sterling Vital Records, 3:528, fracture of hip, daughter of Alpheus and Rebecca Smith; the
birth date from her gravestone.
522
Hale Collection, Sterling, 23, where her stone bears her birth date but not her death date.
523
Sterling Vital Records, 3:308, he age 68, she 54.
524
1880 U.S. Census, Sterling, Windham Co., Conn., roll 110, ED 147, p. 212A.
515
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iii. MARY B. SMITH, born Scituate, R.I., April 1831 [sic];[525] married Providence 28
March 1854 SERRILL WINSOR of Providence, age 24, jeweller, son of
Serrill[ 526] and Sarah (Andrews) Winsor, born Johnston 28 March 1830.[ 527] In
1870 at Providence, Cyrrell Winsor was age 40, a hardware dealer with
$3000 in personal estate. Mary B. was 39, and Cyrell W. Winsor was age 4.[ 528]
In 1873 they went to California where in 1892 Serrill was proprietor of the
California Pottery and Terra-Cotta Works at Oakland.[529] In 1900 at Oakland,
Serrell was age 70, married 46 years to Mary B., mother of four, one living.[ 530]
Children of Serrill and Mary B.7 (Smith) Winsor:
1. Daughter,8 born 37 Dean St., Providence, 15 Nov. 1856; died there 4 Dec.
1856 age 14 days.[ 531]
2. Serrill Willis Winsor, born Providence 12 June 1866[ 532] and was in
Alameda in 1910, age 44, married two years to Lydia C., age 43, born
Indiana, her parents born Germany.[ 533]
3. Mary Guild Winsor, born Hammond St., Providence, 6 July 1872; died
there 30 Aug. 1872, age 2 months.[ 534]
4. Another child, born and died probably ca. 1874 in California.[ 535]
13. BENJAMIN6 GUILD (Richard5, James4, Josiah3, John2-1), son of Richard and
Orpha Sophia (Wilbur) Guild, was born on 1 March 1797. He married ANN
___.[ 536]
Child of Benjamin and Ann (___) Guild:
i. MORTIMER DEVLIN7 GUILD, born Cranston 30 Dec. 1828,[ 537] or ca. 31 Dec.
1830 (calculated), died Providence 18 March 1887 age 56 years 2 months 18
525
1900 census (see below); the place from her marriage record.
Rhode Island State Vital Records, Marriages, 53:564, Mary B., born Scituate, said to be
the daughter of Rebecca Smith, Serrill born Johnston.
527
Daniel Webster, The Bay of San Francisco . . . A History, 2 vols. (Chicago, Ill.: Lewis
Publishing Co., 1892), 2:325.
528
529
Webster, The Bay of San Francisco, 2:325, which has much more detail.
530
1900 U.S. Census, Ward 3, Oakland, Alameda Co., Calif., roll 82, ED 355, p. 7A.
531
Providence Vital Records, Births, 6:218, Deaths 9:223, marasmus.
532
Webster, The Bay of San Francisco, 2:325, which has much more detail. His birth was not
recorded in Rhode Island.
533
1910 U.S. Census, Ward 3, Alameda, Alameda Co., Calif., roll 69, ED 5, p. 11a. Lydia had
had four children, three apparently by an earlier marriage as the only Winsor child was Mary E.,
age 4.
534
Providence Vital Records, Births, 10:22, Deaths 13:40, cholera infantum.
535
Webster, The Bay of San Francisco, 2:325,
536
Her given name from son Mortimers death record.
537
Margaret Guild Lamberts database at WorldConnect on Rootsweb.com.
526
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days;[ 538] buried Swan Point Cemetery, Providence;[539] married SUSAN COBB,
born Cranston ca. 17 Dec. 1830 (calculated), died 167 Ivy St., Providence, 18
April 1905, daughter of Benjamin and Lydia (Clark) Cobb, buried Swan Point
Cemetery, Providence.[540] In 1850 Mortimer, age 22, teamer, Susan 20 and
Esther age 0, were living with his aunt and uncle Esther and Richard Knight at
Cranston.[ 541] And in 1860, still with Richard and Esther, Mortimer D. was 30,
a teamster, Susan 28, and Esther A. 10.[542]
Child of Mortimer Devlin and Susan (Cobb) Guild:
1. Esther A.8 Guild, age 21, born Cranston 10 Jan. 1850;[ 543] died Plainville,
Mass., 29 March 1926;[ 544] married Providence 27 July 1871 Charles E.
Fort of Providence, age 22, a driver, born Attleborough, Mass., 27 June
1850, son of Samuel D. and Mary Elizabeth (Jackson) Fort,[ 545] died
Providence 15 Jan. 1922 age 71.[ 546]
14. LOUISIANNA6 GUILD (Richard5, James4, Josiah3, John2-1), daughter of

Richard and Orpha Sophia (Wilbur) Guild, was born at Providence, Rhode Island,
on 14 December 1803. She died on 19 October 1840 and was buried in the
Knightville Meeting House Lot in Cranston, Rhode Island.[ 547] She married at
Cranston about 10 May 1822 FONES BRIGGS.[ 548] He was born in Warwick,
Rhode Island, about 8 December 1794 (calculated), died at Cranston 24
538
Rhode Island State Vital Records, Deaths, 87:657, bronchitis, consumption, born Cranston,
son of Benjamin and Ann.
539
Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries, database online.
540
Rhode Island State Vital Records, Deaths, 1905, 158, pneumonia; Rhode Island Historical
Cemeteries, database online; her mothers maiden name from Lambert, Descendants of John
Guild, 303.
541
542
543
Lambert, Descendants of John Guild, 303; the place from her marriage record.
544
545
Rhode Island State Vital Records, Marriages, 71:852; mothers full name from her
marriage to Samuel D. Fort at Attleborough 2 Sept. 1844 (Massachusetts Vital Records from
1841, 12:39 [parents marriage], 42:62 [Charles birth, indexed as Foster]).
546
Alphabetical Index of the Births, Marriages and Deaths Recorded in Providence, Rhode
Island, online database at NewEnglandAncestors.org (New England Historic Genealogical
Society, 2003; original publication. City of Providence, Alphabetical Index of the Births,
Marriages and Deaths Recorded in Providence, Rhode Island, 25 vols. 18791945) vol. 21,
Deaths, 19201930.
547
548
Rhode-Island American, 10 May 1822, p. 3, viewed on Early American Newspapers,
Series 1 at NewEnglandAncestors.org; Lambert, Descendants of John Guild, 81, says 11 May
1822.
46
September 1869 age 74 years 9 months 16 days, son of Isaac Briggs,[ 549] and was
buried in the Knightville Meeting House lot.[ 550]
In 1840 at Cranston, Fones Briggs was age 40-50, with a male 1520, a
female 510, one 2030, and one 3040.[ 551] The 1850 census at Cranston lists
Fones Briggs, age 53, machinist, with $1500 in real estate, Ann, 42, born England
[sic], Franklin 24, jeweller, Sophia 11, and Abby A. Potter 17, and Eliza Potter
14.[ 552] In 1860 at Cranston, Fones was 65, machinist, Ann 42, again born
England, Abby Potter 27, and Eliza Potter 24.[ 553] This was Ann (Cunleff) Potter,
widow of Henry Potter and daughter of William Cunleff, whom Fones married at
Cranston 28 July 1842.[ 554]
Children of Fones and Louisianna (Guild) Briggs:
i. FRANKLIN C.7 BRIGGS, born May 1824[ 555] or ca. 1826; married by ca. 1863
MARY A. ___. He was a jeweller in 1850. A daughter, Maria Winsor Briggs,
was born in Cleveland, Ohio, ca. 18 Sept. 1864 (calculated) and died at 23
Howell St., Providence, 10 Dec. 1870 age 6 years 2 months 22 days.[ 556] A
newspaper article in the Cleveland Plain Dealer on 24 Sept. 1899 says
Artemas Ward referred to Franklin as the ever-blooming Briggs and had
boarded with him in the late 50s.[ 557] So this was the Frank Briggs, boarding
in Cleveland in 1860, age 31, a dentist, his birthplace unknown.[ 558] In 1870 at
East Cleveland, Franklin Briggs, age 46, born R.I., was a dentist, with Mary,
30, born Iowa, dressmaker, and Maria, age 5.[ 559] In 1900 on Euclid Ave.,
Cleveland, he was age 76, divorced, a dentist born R.I.[ 560]
ii. SOPHIA GUILD BRIGGS, born ca. 11 Sept. 1834 (calculated); died 23 Howell St.,
Providence, 9 May 1883 age 48 years 7 months 28 days;[ 561] buried North
Burial Ground, Providence;[ 562] married Providence 23 Aug. 1854, as his
549
Rhode Island State Vital Records, Deaths, 69:954, of O.A. [old age?], married, machinist,
born Warwick, son of Isaac and ___ Briggs.
550
551
552
553
554
Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 2 (Cranston):7; also 10:800, recorded in records of
the Second Freewill Baptist Church in Smithfield.
555
1900 census, see below.
556
Rhode Island State Vital Records, Deaths, 70:1084, diphtheria, daughter of Franklin C. and
Mary A.
557
Viewed at GenealogyBank.com 12 July 2009.
558
1860 U.S. Census, Ward 3, Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, roll 952, p. 62.
559
1870 U.S. Census, East Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, roll 1192, p. 260.
560
1900 U.S. Census, Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, roll 1252, ED 11, p. 1A.
561
Rhode Island State Vital Records, Deaths, 83:749, pneumonia, wife of John. This is the
source of her middle name and names her parents as Fones and Lucina.
562
Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries database online.
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second wife, JOHN WRIGHT of East Greenwich, age 28, an engraver [sic,
engineer?]. He was born Providence 20 March 1825, son of John and Phebe
(Rabel) Wright,[ 563] died 11 Kirk St., Providence 29 Dec. 1902, age 77 years 9
months 9 days, buried North Burial Ground,[564] called Major John Wright.[ 565]
In 1850 John Wright, 25, machinist, and Mary C. 25 were living with Mary
Tillinghast, age 55, in Providence.[ 566] In 1860 he was at East Greenwich, age
35, an engineer, with Sophia G., 23, C. T., a male, age 5, Ella J. 3, Mary A. 1,
all born in R.I.[ 567] In 1870 at Providence, John was 42, an engineer for the city
fire department, Sophia 33, Charles 15, Ella 13, Mary 11, and John 9.[ 568]
In 1880 at 23 Howell St., Providence, John was 53, an engineer, born R.I.,
his parents born England, with wife Sophia, 43, daughter Mary 21, and sons
John 19, apprentice jeweler, and Elmer 4.[ 569] John married (3), as her second
husband, at Providence 19 Nov. 1885 Mary Jane (Dyer) Morrow, age 37, born
Cranston, daughter of William and Mary A. Dyer.[ 570]
Children of John and Sophia Guild7 (Briggs) Wright:
1. Charles T.8 Wright, born East Greenwich 13 April 1855.[ 571]
2. Ella Jane Wright, born East Greenwich 14 Feb. 1857.[ 572]
3. Mary Ann Wright, born East Greenwich 19 Feb. 1859.[ 573]
4. John Slocum Wright, born Providence 28 Sept. 1861;[ 574] died 1940,
buried North Burial Ground, Providence;[ 575] married Providence 9 July
1883 Lillian A. or Lizzie Alice Axe, age 24, born Providence, daughter of
563
Rhode Island State Vital Records, Marriages, 54:608, which also gives her mothers name
as Lucina. His birth place and date are from his death record (see below). Phebes maiden name is
from her own death record (Providence Vital Records, Deaths, 13:67), died 23 Howell St., 13 Jan.
1875 age 79 years 10 months 25 days, old age, born England, widow of John, daughter of ___ and
Elizabeth Rabel. Johns first wife, Mary C. Wright, died Broad St., Providence, 2 March 1851 age
26, daughter of William T. Tillinghast (Providence Vital Records, Deaths, 9:23).
564
Returns of Deaths, Providence (FHL 2,023,413), phthisis pneumonalis, son of John and
Phebe, both born England, the informant son John S. Wright.
565
566
567
1860 U.S. Census, East Greenwich, Kent Co., R.I., roll 1203, p. 63.
568
1870 U.S. Census, 1st Ward, Providence, Providence Co., R.I., roll 1478, p. 201.
569
1880 U.S. Census, Providence, Providence Co., R.I., roll 1211, ED 121, p. 51B.
570
Providence Vital Records, Marriages, 14:224.
571
Rhode Island State Vital Records, Births, 55:042, no given name, John an engine tender.
His name is from the 1860 and 1870 censuses.
572
Rhode Island State Vital Records, Births, 57:42, John a mechanic, born Providence,
Sophia born Cranston.
573
Rhode Island State Vital Records, Births, 59:42, John an engineer, born Providence,
Sophia G. born Cranston.
574
Providence Vital Records, Births, 7:207, 4th child of the mother, John a soldier in the 5th
Regt., R.I.V. The name given here is Mary Ann, but son John was age 9 in 1870 and 19 in 1880,
so the name is evidently the clerks error. His full middle name is from his marriage record.
575
48
Roger and Margaret J. (Griffith) Axe.[ 576] In 1900 at 22 Halsey St. in

Providence, John S. Wright, born Sept. 1861, was a plumber, married
17 years to Lillie A., born Jan. 1859, mother of two children, son
Marshall C., born Oct 1884, and daughter Lillie M., born Nov. 1886.[ 577]
Although Johns occupation and his wifes first name are different, that
this is the right family seems certain because the son Marshall was born
at 23 Howell St., where Johns parents were living.[ 578]
5. Elmer Briggs Wright, born 23 Howell St., Providence, 17 Nov. 1875;[ 579]
died 19 Calla St., Providence 10 Dec. 1901 age 26 years 23 days, clerk,
buried North Burial Ground, Providence;[ 580] married Providence 11
Nov. 1901 Ella Elizabeth Pray.[ 581]
15. ANN6 GUILD (Richard5, James4, Josiah3, John2-1), daughter of Richard and
Orpha Sophia (Wilbur) Guild, was born at Providence, Rhode Island, on 9 April
1806. She died at Sterling, Connecticut, on 1 May 1879 at age 73[ 582] and was
buried in the Gallup Cemetery in Sterling.[ 583] She married DARIUS T.
JOHNSON,[ 584] who was born in Coventry, Rhode Island, about 1808. He died at
576
Rhode Island State Vital Records, Marriages, 83:519. This record clearly calls her Lizzie,
but the birth records for the two children call her Lillian A. or Lillie E. Roger Axe married
Margaret J. Griffith in Providence 2 Aug. 1856, but although several other children were recorded
there, Lillian/Lizzie was not (Alphabetical Index of the Births, Marriages and Deaths Recorded in
Providence, Rhode Island).
577
1900 U.S. Census, Providence, Providence Co., R.I., roll 1506, ED 12, p. 2A.
578
Rhode Island State Vital Records, Births, 84:247, Marshall Chester Wright, born
Providence 14 Oct. 1884, son of John S., age 24, plumber, and Lillie E., 25, their first child. The
daughter Lillian Josephine was born at 100 Lippett St., Providence, 15 Nov. 1886, to the same
parents (ibid., 86:259).
579
Providence Vital Records, Births, 10:206, 5th [sic] child of the mother, John an engineer
[sic], age 50 and Sophia age 40, both born Providence [sic].
580
Returns of Deaths, Providence (FHL 2,023,378), consumption, his birth date and parents,
John and Sophia G., recorded.
581
Ellas full name and the date and place of marriage are from the Alphabetical Index of the
Births, Marriages and Deaths Recorded in Providence, Rhode Island, but the record is not
available on microfilm.
582
Sterling Vital Records, 3:476, paralysis, widow, born Cranston, R.I., daughter of Richard
Guild.
583
Hale Collection, Sterling, 62.
584
Her sister Sophias will calls her Ann Johnson (Providence Wills, 22:265).
49
Sterling on 16 July 1876 at age 67, son of Darius and Amy (___) Johnson,[ 585] and
he was buried in the Gallup Cemetery there.[ 586]
In 1850 at Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire, Darius T. Johnson, age
42, born in Connecticut [sic], had with him Ann 44, Robert L. 10, Richard M. 14,
Catharine Smith 32, and Albert G. Tillinghast, 34, all born in Rhode Island.
Darius and Albert were calico printers.[ 587]
In 1860 at Sterling, Darius T. Johnson was 51, a farmer with $4000 in real and
$1000 in personal estate, born in Connecticut [sic]. Anne was 53, Robert L. 20,
and Catherine Smith 42, all born in Rhode Island[ 588] On 2 April 1868 John L.
Johnson, attorney for Darius T. Johnson, mortgaged a two-hundred acre farm with
buildings in Sterling to Samuel Gordon of Norwich, Connecticut, who in turn
discharged the mortgage on 8 July 1871. Darius then mortgaged it again on 3
October 1871 to Philip Winslow, describing it as bounding east on the state line,
saying he had purchased it from Samuel Gordon.[ 589]
In 1870 at Sterling, Darius T. was 60, Ann 42, Robert L. 30, working on the
farm, Catherine Smith 50, servant, with Mary Johnson, age 35, and Susan B.
Johnson 2, both born Connecticut.[ 590]
Children of Darius T. and Ann (Guild) Johnson, born in Rhode Island:[ 591]
i. RICHARD M.7 JOHNSON, born Cranston, R.I.,[ 592] Dec. 1836;[ 593] died
Westborough, Mass., 21 March 1909 age 92, buried Hyde Park, Mass.;[594]
married ca. 1860 SUSAN A. probably LORD, born N.H. in Feb. 1838.[595] He
was at Boston in 1870, age 33, bookkeeper, born R.I., with Susan, 32, born
N.H., Frederick 9, Richard 4, Robert 1, all born Mass., and Albert Lord, 39,
585
Sterling Vital Records, 3:470, brain disease, farmer, son of Darius and Amy Johnson. This
record says he was born in Coventry, R.I. A search for Johnson in the 1810 through 1830 censuses
on Ancestry.com revealed many such families in Coventry, R.I., and none in Coventry, Conn. But
the only Darius Johnsons located were in New York.
586
587
1850 U.S. Census, Dover, Strafford Co., N.H., roll 439, p. 74.
588
1860 U.S. Census, Sterling, Windham Co., Conn., roll 92, p. 458.
589
Sterling Deeds, 6:555, (which refers to the 1868 mortgage as recorded on 6:548, but it does
not appear there), 6:556 (the second mortgage).
590
1870 U.S. Census, Sterling, Windham Co., Conn., roll 117, p. 608.
591
Richard and Robert were both named in Anns sister Marys will (see above).
592
Death record, see below.
593
1900 census, see below.
594
Massachusetts Vital Records from 1841, Deaths 1909, 101:333, died in the Westboro
Insane Hospital, age 72, cerebral consumption with congestion of lungs and organic dementia,
born Cranston, R.I., son of Darius T. and ___ (Love) [sic] Johnson, both born R.I., bookkeeper,
the informant Mrs. Susan E. Childs, 18 Childs St., Hyde Park.
595
1900 census, see below. She must be the Susan E. Lord, age 12 in 1850, living with
Rensaller E. Clark, 32, grocer, and Elisabeth L. Clark 30, at Dover, Strafford Co., N.H. (roll 439,
p. 29).
50
clerk, born N.H.[ 596] In 1900 at Hyde Park, Richard J.[?] was 63, married 40
years to Susan A., mother of three, all living, as well as brother-in-law Albert
Lord, born Dec. 1830 and aunt Elizabeth L. Clark, born Aug. 1819, widow,
born N.H.[597] A search for the births of the children yielded only Robert Clark
Johnson, born Boston 4 April 1869, son of Richard M., bookkeeper, and Susan
E., born R.I. and N.H.[ 598]
ii. ROBERT L. JOHNSON, born Cranston 2 April 1840; died 28 Dec. 1908 age 68,
buried Riverside Cemetery, Sterling;[ 599] married Sterling 22 Nov. 1865 MARY
A. JOHNSON,[ 600] born 30 Sept. 1835, died 30 Oct. 1922, buried with her
husband.[ 601] He served in Battery B. of the R.I. Light Artillery.[ 602] In 1900 at
Sterling, Robert was age 60, a farmer, married 35 years to Mary, age 64,
mother of one child who was living, both and their parents born R.I.[ 603]
Child of Robert L.7 and Mary A. (Johnson) Johnson:
1. Susan B.8 Johnson, born Sterling 7 Sept. 1868;[604] married Sterling 12
March 1889 Philip G. Winslow, age 39, born Sterling.[ 605] In 1900 at
Sterling, Philip G. was age 51, born in May 1849, a farmer, married
eleven years to Susie, age 32, born Sept. 1867 [sic], mother of no
children.[ 606]
596
1870 U.S. Census, Ward 11, Boston, Suffolk Co., Mass., roll 647, p. 44.
1900 U.S. Census, Hyde Park, Norfolk Co., Mass., roll 670, ED 1040, p. 11A.
598
Massachusetts Vital Records from 1841, 216:133.
599
Sterling Vital Records, 3:526, carcinoma, color maker, born Cranston, R.I., son of Darius
and Ann Johnson; Hale Collection, Sterling, 23, has his birth date. The birth record of his daughter
Susan says he was born in Dover, N.H.
600
Sterling Vital Records, 2:16, Robert L. age 25, farmer, born Cranston, Mary A. Johnson
[sic], 28, born Sterling.
601
602
From his gravestone (Hale Collection, Sterling, 23).
603
604
Sterling Vital Records, unnamed female child of Robert and Mary A. Johnson.
605
Sterling Vital Records, 3:320.
606
597
51
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Index
A
Aldrich
Alice, 34
Benjamin, 31, 38
Benjamin B., 38
Edwin, 39
Eleanor Rice (Knight), 26, 3031, 38
James, 31, 34, 36, 3839
Jeremiah H., 34
Maria Eleanor, 39
Martha (Guild), 3536, 3839
William Henry Allen, 3440
Alexander
Susanna, 16
Alger
Elizabeth, 10
Allen
Ann (Guild), 1
James, 1
Andrews
Sarah, 44
Angell
Charles, 31
Arnold
Alice, 32
Benedict, 19
Celia (Sheldon), 41
Nehemiah, 32
Avery
William, 5
Axe
Lillian A., 4748
Lizzie Alice, 47
Margaret J. (Griffith), 48
Roger, 48
Ayers
Hannah, 24
B
Bailey
Ambrose B., 36
Barr
Emily C. (Guild), 23
John, 23
Bigelow
Patience, 15
Blake
Bridget (--), 7
Hannah, 13
John, 7
Robert, 67, 21
Borden
Catherine, 4142
Briggs
Ann (Cunleff) (Potter), 46
Fones, 38, 4546

Franklin C., 35, 46
Isaac, 46
Judith (Guild), 8
Louisianna (Guild), 38, 4546
Lucina (Guild), 46
Maria Winsor, 46
Mary A. (--), 46
Nathaniel, 8
Sophia Guild, 35, 4647
Brigham
Paul, 26, 32
Brown
Elisha, 32
Bullard
Rebecca (--), 17
Solomon, 17
Bumpas
Sarah, 13
Burgess
Rebecca, 37
Burleigh
Belinda, 26
Charles, 2, 4, 13
John, 26
Persis (Harwood), 26
Burlingame
Alice (Aldrich), 34
Samuel, 33
Burroughs
Mr., 3
Butler
Joseph P., 26
Butterworth
Patience, 7
C
California
Oakland, 44
Canada, 19
Carpenter
Sarah, 7
Chandler
John, 32
Chapman
Eleanor (--), 16
Childs
Susan E. (--), 49
Clapp
Joshua, 13
Margaret (Guild), 13
Clark
David, 25
Elizabeth L. (--), 4950
Lydia, 45
Index
Olive, 25
Olive (Smith), 25
Rensaller E., 49
Clauson
Lydia, 28
Cobb
Benjamin, 45
Lydia (Clark), 45
Susan, 36, 45
Collicott
Ann (Palmer), 910
Deborah, 910
Deborah (Dowse), 10
Preserved, 10
Richard, 910
Thomasin (--), 10
Connecticut
Canterbury, 7
Coventry, 26
Hebron, 13
Lyme, 9
Norwich, 49
Redding, 32
Stafford, 14
Sterling, 30, 39, 43, 4850
Woodstock, 2526, 32
Corbin
Walter J., 14
Crooke
Elizabeth, 13
Mary, 1
Rebecca, 12
Roger, 1
Ruth, 1
Sarah (--), 1
Crossfield
James, 19
Rebecca, 1920
Cunleff
Ann, 46
William, 46
Curtis
Sarah, 34
D
Davis
Jabez, 16
Dexter
Knight, 3233
Samuel, 3
Doe
Mary (Emerson), 35
Sophia Sheldon (Knight), 35, 37
Walter, 35
Walter Price, 35, 37
Doran
James, 34
Dougherty
Margaret (--), 42
Mary, 42
Neil, 42
Dowse
Deborah, 10
Dye
Daniel, 36
Ruth, 36
Dyer
Mary Jane, 47
E
Emerson
John, 16
Mary, 35
Sabra (Willson), 16
England, 1, 17, 46
Hammersmith, Middlesex, 1
Ilketshall, St. Margaret, Suffolk, 1
Everard/Everett
Ruth, 7
F
Faxon
Deborah (Thayer), 9
Joane, 5
Joseph, 9
Field
Deborah (Garrett), 9
John, 9
Fish
Daniel, 31
Sarah, 31
Fisher
Anthony, 5
Ebenezer, 12
Joane (Faxon), 5
Samuel, 2122
Sarah, 46
Fletcher
Abigail, 27
Anna, 27
Benjamin, 27
Esther (Hoar), 27
Josiah, 27
Ruth, 20
Sarah, 13, 27, 29
Thomas, 27
Florida
Lake Como, 42
Potters Precinct, 42
Ford
Index
Esther A. (Guild), 35
Forristall
Hannah (Mellen), 2930
Joseph, 2930
Keziah, 29
Mary/Polly A., 30
Fort
Charles E., 45
Esther A. (Guild), 45
Mary Elizabeth (Jackson), 45
Samuel D., 45
Foster
John, 8
Mary (Stuard), 8
Mercy, 8
Frink
Calvin, 27
G
Gano
Rev. Mr., 37
Gardner
Peter, 2
Rebecca (Crooke), 2
Garrett
Deborah, 9
George
Elizabeth, 10, 13
John, 10
Nicholas, 10
Richard, 10
Thomas, 10
Germany, 44
Gibbs
Cordelia V., 40
Gilbert
Hannah, 13
Gile
John Charles, 12
Gilson
Sophia, 24
Goodwin
Charles, 40
Harriet (Knight) (Rhodes), 40
Gordon
Samuel, 49
Gorton
Eliza, 38, 40
Graves
Asahel, 2728
Hepsibah, 28
Joshua, 28
Lydia (Woodcock), 28
Lydia Adams (Guild), 2728
Green
Augusta (Hyde), 25
Emeline, 25
Griffith
Margaret J., 48
Guild
Alanson, 23
Alma W. (Houghton), 22
Ann, 12, 3435, 38, 43, 4849
Ann (--), 37, 44
Belinda (Burleigh), 26
Benjamin, 5, 12, 37, 44
Bethiah, 67, 13
Betsey (Sickles), 23
Calvin, 24
Dan, 1213, 2629
David, 13, 29
Deborah, 12
Deborah (--), 89, 1112
Ebenezer, 4, 8
Eleanor Rice (Knight) (Aldrich), 26, 3031, 3334, 40
Eleazer, 8
Eliazur, 4
Eliza, 37
Elizabeth, 34, 7
Elizabeth (Crooke), 13
Elizabeth (George), 13
Elizabeth (Sickles), 23
Emeline (Green), 25
Emily C., 23
Esther, 29, 3438, 40, 45
Esther (Worsley), 13, 2526
Esther A., 3537, 45
Fanny, 2729
Galen, 23
Hammond/Harmond, 2425
Hannah (Hodges), 13, 2021
Hannah (Young), 28
Hepsibah (Graves), 28
Herman, 24
Hiram, 22
Horace, 25
Huldah (Knight), 24
Ivory, 28
James, 1113, 22, 2526
James N., 25
Joab, 26
Joanna, 7
John, 16, 8, 1112, 17, 2628
Joseph, 1213
Josiah, 813, 18, 2021, 28
Judith, 8
Julia, 22
Keturah (Turner), 2324
Keziah (Forristall), 29
Laban, 2223
Lanson, 21, 2324
Index
Louisianna, 38, 4546
Lucina, 46
Lucinda, 23
Luther, 2425
Luther A., 25
Lydia (--), 13, 26, 28
Lydia (Clauson), 28
Lydia Adams, 2728
Margaret, 13, 26
Margaret (--), 29
Martha, 3536, 3839
Mary, 1214, 3438, 40
Mary (Woodcock), 3
Mary/Polly A. (Forristall), 30
Mercy (Foster), 8
Mortimer Devlin, 3536, 4445
Nathaniel, 13
Olive (Clark), 25
Orpha Sophia (Wilbur), 26, 30, 32, 3536
Phebe (Man), 8
Rebecca, 35, 37, 43
Richard, 9, 1113, 2024, 26, 3036
Rufus, 27, 30
Sabra D. (Wightman), 2223
Sally, 3436, 41
Samuel, 34, 10
Sarah, 6, 13, 1718, 23, 25, 28
Sarah (Fisher), 46
Sarah (Fletcher), 13, 27, 29
Sarah (Pond), 13, 26, 28
Sarah E., 29
Simeon, 2728
Sophia, 3437, 41
Sophia (Gilson), 24
Susan (Cobb), 36, 45
Susannah (Thompson), 24
Thomas, 27, 29
Winfield Scott, 23
Zillah (Turner), 2023
Guile
Samuel, 12
Gylde
Margery (Jorden), 1
Richard, 1
H
Hammond
Priscilla, 25
Harris
Deborah (Guild), 12
Hannah (Blake), 13
John, 1112
Nicholas, 13
Thomas, 13
Harwood
Persis, 26
Hawes
Abigail, 8
Heath
Abigail, 14
Hector, 2
Herring
Ann, 4
Hill
Ann (Palmer) (Collicott), 10
James, 10
Hoar
Esther, 27
Hobart
Mehitable, 6
Hodges
Abigail, 32
Benjamin, 32
Edmund, 20
Experience (Williams), 20
Hannah, 13, 2021
Mary (--), 20
Nathan, 20
Holloway
George A., 40
Henry A., 40
Jennie N. P. (--), 40
Maria W., 40
Martha Aldrich (Winsor), 35, 3940
Sarah L., 40
Susan (Tillinghast), 40
Thomas Hutchinson, 3940
Thomas S., 3940
Houghton
Alma W., 22
Howlett
Davis, 27
Mary, 15
Hudson
Eleanor, 3031, 40
Hyde
Augusta, 25
I
Indiana, 44
Ingraham
Joanna, 4
Iowa, 46
Ireland, 42
J
Jackson
Mary Elizabeth, 45
Jewett
Deborah (Lord), 9
Index
Nathan, 9
Johnson
Amy (--), 49
Ann (Guild), 3435, 38, 43, 4849
Darius, 49
Darius T., 38, 4849
Frederick, 49
John L., 49
Lydia, 14
Mary A., 35, 4950
Mary A. (Johnson), 35, 4950
Richard, 49
Richard M., 35, 4950
Robert Clark, 4950
Robert L., 35, 4950
Susan A. (Lord), 4950
Susan B., 4950
Jorden
Margery, 1
Judson
Esther, 7
K
Kellock
Lemuel, 12
Kennecut
Mary, 31
King Philips War, 5
Kingsbury
Eleazer, 7
Esther (Judson), 7
Joanna (Guild), 7
Samuel, 7
Knight
Eleanor (Hudson), 3031, 40
Eleanor Rice, 26, 3031, 33, 38
Esther (Guild), 3438, 40, 45
Hannah (Ayers), 24
Harriet, 3334, 40
Huldah, 24
Jeremiah, 33, 38
Job, 36
Joel, 24
Nehemiah, 3031, 33, 38, 40
Nehemiah R., 33, 40
Orra, 41
Rebecca (Burgess), 37
Richard, 3637, 45
Robert, 35, 37
Ruth, 36
Ruth (Dye), 36
Sophia Sheldon, 35, 37
Sophie (Sheldon), 35
Lane
Bethiah (Guild), 6
Ebenezer, 6
John, 6
Mehitable (Hobart), 6
Samuel, 6, 10
Laurence
Daniel, 11
Lean
Samuel, 6
Lord
Albert, 4950
Deborah, 9
Susan A., 4950
Lyon
George, 1112
M
Mackintosh
Rebecca, 17
Man
Abigail (Hawes), 8
Benjamin, 11
Beriah, 11
Bethia (Rocket), 13
Bethiah (Guild), 13
Elizabeth (George), 10
Hannah (Gilbert), 13
Joseph, 12
Nathaniel, 10
Phebe, 8
Theodore, 8
William, 13
Massachusetts
Attleborough, 4, 6, 11
Belchertown, 14
Boston, 910, 17, 19, 4950
Braintree, 9
Concord, 12
Dedham, 17, 17
Dorchester, 12
Easton, 7
Greenwich, 14
Groton, 15, 19
Haverhill, 2
Hingham, 6
Hyde Park, 4950
Ipswich, 18
Lancaster, 5, 15
Lexington, 19
Medfield, 3, 5, 11, 2325
Medway, 7, 13
Natick, 3
Needham, 4
Newbury, 2
Index
Norfolk Co., 21
North Attleborough, 4
Norton, 20
Pentucket, 2
Plainville, 4
Rehoboth, 4, 7
Roxbury, 2
Salem, 8
Scituate, 9
Stoughton, 1112, 2021
Suffolk Co., 18
Taunton, 8
Walpole, 7, 1718, 25
Westborough, 49
Wrentham, 3, 58, 1113, 15, 1718, 2021, 2326
Mather
Mr., 1112
Mellen
Hannah, 2930
Metcalf
Thomas, 3
Morrow
Mary Jane (Dyer), 47
Morse
Sarah, 17
N
Nason
Sarah (Perkins), 18
Sarah (Worsley), 18
Thomas, 18
New Hampshire
Cheshire Co., 8, 18, 27
Dover, 49
Dublin, 1820
Fitzwilliam, 2930
Keene, 89, 1117, 20, 2530
Marlborough, 1820
New Ipswich, 27
Roxbury, 20
Strafford Co., 49
Swanzey, 14, 19, 2630
Troy, 2930
Walpole, 13
Winchester, 16
New Jersey
Monmouth, 32
Morristown, 32
New York
Belcher, 14
Black Creek, 14
Constable, 16
Cortland Co., 29
Danube, 23
Hebron, 14
Herkimer Co., 23
Little Falls, 23
Massena, 25
Montgomery Co., 23
Salisbury, 23
Saratoga, 29
Saratoga Co., 35
St. Lawrence Co., 25
Ticonderoga, 19, 27
Washington Co., 14
Wilton, 35
Nichols
John, 39
Lydia (--), 39
Lydia Ann, 39
O
Ohio
Cleveland, 46
P
Palmer
Ann, 910
Elizabeth (Alger), 10
John, 910
Pennsylvania
Covington, 28
Germantown, 32
Philadelphia, 28
Tioga Co., 28
Valley Forge, 32
Perkins
Sarah, 18
Perrin
John, 32
Melicent (--), 32
Susan, 41
Perry
Anthony, 7
Mehetabel (--), 7
Nathaniel, 7
Patience (Butterworth), 7
Sarah (Carpenter), 7
Sarah (Guild) (Blake), 6
Phipps
Margaret, 16
Plaisted
Elizabeth (--), 10
Pond
David, 26
Sarah, 13, 26, 28
Sarah (Richardson), 26
Potter
Abby A., 46
Ann (Cunleff), 46
Index
Eliza, 46
Henry, 46
Phebe, 41
Pray
Ella Elizabeth, 48
Prior
Albert S., 42
Catherine (Borden), 4142
Chester, 41
Frank Sheldon, 42
Frederick Horace, 42
Harriet, 4142
Horace, 34, 41
Joseph Sheldon, 42
Mary (Dougherty), 42
Nicholas Sheldon, 3435, 4143
Orra (Knight), 41
Sally (Guild), 35
Sarah E. (Sheldon), 4142
William Knight, 4142
William S., 41
Puffer
Elizabeth (Guild), 7
Richard, 7
Ruth (Everard/Everett), 7
William, 7
R
Rabel
Phebe, 47
Rhode Island
Central Falls, 39
Coventry, 48
Cranston, 3031, 3336, 3843, 4546, 4950
East Greenwich, 39, 47
Glocester, 38
Johnston, 4144
Narragansett, 40
North Kingstown, 3940
North Providence, 3031
Pawtucket, 33
Portsmouth, 31
Providence, 3248
Scituate, 38, 44
Smithfield, 3032, 4142
South Kingstown, 40
Warwick, 45
Wickford, 39
Rhodes
Harriet (Knight), 40
Sylvester, 40
Richardson
Sarah, 26
Robertson
George, 4
Robinson
Elizabeth (Guild), 4
George, 4
Joanna (Ingraham), 4
Mary E., 37
Rocket
Bethia, 13
Rockwood
Cephas L., 21
Elizabeth, 16
Margaret (Phipps), 16
Nathaniel, 16
S
Sanger
Abner, 19, 27
Sears
Samuel, 6
Sheldon
Celia, 41
Jeremiah, 41
Joseph, 34, 41
Nicholas, 41
Pardon, 41
Phebe (Potter), 41
Sally (Guild), 34, 36, 41
Sarah E., 4142
Sophie, 35
William, 41
Shurtleff
Lucinda, 16
Sickles
Elizabeth/Betsey, 23
Smith
Alanson, 34, 37
Alpheus, 37, 43
Catherine, 3435, 43, 49
Eliza, 3435, 37
Eliza (Guild), 37
Emma Eliza, 37
Hannah Harris, 43
Maria, 25
Mary B., 3435, 44
Mary E. (Robinson), 37
Mary/Polly, 43
Mary/Polly (Smith), 43
Olive, 25
Rebecca (Guild), 35, 37, 43
Ruth, 21
William Henry, 37
Sterns
Nathaniel, 3
Stuard
Mary, 8
Index
T
Thayer
Deborah, 9
Thompson
John, 27
Sarah (Fletcher) (Guild), 27
Susannah, 24
Thurber
Rhobie, 14
Tillinghast
Albert G., 49
Mary (--), 47
Mary C., 47
Susan, 40
William T., 47
Tripp
Annie A. (--), 43
Turner
Keturah, 2324
Lucinda (Guild), 23
Ruth (Smith), 21
Samuel, 21, 23
Zillah, 2023
V
Vermont
Bennington, 19
Cavendish, 22
Chester, 2125
Coventry, 2930
Guilford, 28
Orleans Co., 29
Rockingham, 24
Springfield, 24
Windsor Co., 21
W
Ward
Abigail (Heath), 14
Artemas, 46
John, 14
Ruth, 14
Ware
Robert, 11
Waterman
Benoni, 36
Ruth (Knight), 36
Wheeler
Abigail, 1819
Abraham, 19
Chloe (Willson), 17
Hannah (Woods), 19
Jonathan, 17
Whipple
Jonathan, 31
Whiting
John, 11
Whitney
Jonathan, 11
Wightman
Esther (--), 22
George, 22
Sabra D., 2223
Wilbore
Benjamin, 31
Daniel, 31
Mary (--), 31
Mary (Kennecut), 31
Sarah (Fish), 31
Wilbur
Orpha Sophia, 26, 3032, 35
Sarah (--), 31
William, 3032
Wilder
Sarah, 15
Williams
Experience, 20
Nathan, 32
Willson
Abel, 1516
Abijah, 15
Asa, 1617
Becca, 16
Bettey, 14
Chloe, 17
David, 16
Deborah, 15
Eleanor (--) (Chapman), 16
Elizabeth (Rockwood), 16
Ephraim, 15
Guild, 14
James, 14
Jerusha, 16
Joel, 15
Joseph, 15
Lucinda (Shurtleff), 16
Lydia (Johnson), 14
Mary (Guild), 1214
Mary (Howlett), 15
Mary (Woods), 15
Michael, 13, 17
Molley, 15
Oliver, 16
Phebe (--), 15
Rebecca (--), 15
Rhobie (Thurber), 14
Ruth, 16
Ruth (Ward), 14
Sabra, 16
Sally, 16
Sally (--), 15
Index
Samuel, 1415
Sarah, 14
Sarah (Bumpas), 13
Sarah (Wilder), 15
Susanna, 16
Susanna (Alexander), 16
Uriah, 1214, 17
Winslow
Philip, 49
Philip G., 50
Susan B. (Johnson), 50
Winsor
Catherine (Smith), 35, 43
David, 39
Lydia (--), 39
Lydia Ann (Nichols), 39
Lydia C. (--), 44
Maria Eleanor (Aldrich), 39
Martha Aldrich, 35, 3940
Mary B. (Smith), 3435, 44
Mary E., 44
Mary Guild, 44
Olney, 3940
Sarah (Andrews), 44
Serrill, 34, 44
Serrill Willis, 44
Thomas, 43
Wisconsin
Oshkosh, 23
Wood
Pocahontas, 43
Woodcock
Ann (Herring), 4
John, 34
Lydia, 28
Mary, 3
Samuel, 4
Sarah (Curtis), 34
Woods
Hannah, 19
Mary, 15
Patience (Bigelow), 15
Samuel, 15
Woodward
Ezekiel, 31
Huldah (--), 31
Solomon, 16
Susanna (Willson), 16
Worsley
Abigail, 20
Abigail (Wheeler), 1819
Ann, 18
Arathusa, 20
Benjamin, 18
Esther, 13, 18, 20, 2526
Hannah, 20
Jesse, 1920
Joseph, 17
Josiah, 20
Rebecca (Crossfield), 1920
Rebecca (Mackintosh), 17
Robert, 11, 13, 1720, 25
Ruth (Fletcher), 20
Sally, 20
Samuel, 18
Sarah, 18
Sarah (Guild), 13, 1718, 25
Sarah (Morse), 17
Wright
Charles T., 47
Ella Elizabeth (Pray), 48
Ella Jane, 47
Elmer Briggs, 4748
John, 47
John Slocum, 4748
Lillian A. (Axe), 4748
Lillian Josephine, 48
Lillie M., 48
Lizzie Alice (Axe), 47
Marshall Chester, 48
Mary Ann, 47
Mary C. (Tillinghast), 47
Mary Jane (Dyer) (Morrow), 47
Phebe (Rabel), 47
Sophia Guild (Briggs), 35, 47
Y
Young
Hannah, 28

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A LINE FROM JOHN1 GUILD OF DEDHAM

TO WRENTHAM, MASSACHUSETTS, AND BEYOND

John Charles Gile, The GuileGileGuiles Genealogy: Descendants of Samuel Guile. . .

John Guild of Dedham, Massachusetts

definitely at Dedham, it seems reasonable to hypothesize that she was Johns

John Guild of Dedham, Massachusetts

John Guild of Dedham, Massachusetts

(Curtis?) Woodcock of Dedham and Attleborough, Mass.[29] Woodcocks

John Guild of Dedham, Massachusetts

Hill, Dedham Births, Marriages and Deaths, 9.

John Guild of Dedham, Massachusetts

Suffolk County Deeds, 66:113, recorded 16 June 1743.

John Guild of Dedham, Massachusetts

Vital Records of Wrentham, 2:30910.

John Guild of Dedham, Massachusetts

John Guild of Dedham, Massachusetts

New Hampshire, on 23 March 1774 at age 80.[102] He married about 1715

The last, Deborah Collicut, seems a likely possibility. Although no marriage

John Guild of Dedham, Massachusetts

Suffolk County Court Files, #4431.

John Guild of Dedham, Massachusetts

Deborah Guild was admitted to the church at Wrentham on 12 October 1718.

John Guild of Dedham, Massachusetts

i. MARY4 GUILD, born 10 April 1716; married URIAH WILLSON.

Suffolk County Deeds, 83:258.

John Guild of Dedham, Massachusetts

Hardwick, Mass., as of 14 April 1788, son of Nicholas4 (Nicholas3, Thomas21)

4. MARY4 GUILD (Josiah3, John2-1), was born at Wrentham, Massachusetts, on 10

John Guild of Dedham, Massachusetts

Willson.[146] He died at Keene on 6 November 1794 at age 80 years and about 9

Vital Records of Wrentham, 1:227, his parents' marriage at 2:400.

John Guild of Dedham, Massachusetts

Vital Records of Wrentham, 2:517.

John Guild of Dedham, Massachusetts

Whitcomb, Vital Statistics of Keene, 245.

John Guild of Dedham, Massachusetts

vii. ?URIAH WILLSON, born 1753.[191]

5. SARAH4 GUILD (Josiah3, John2-1), was born at Wrentham, Massachusetts, on 9

Whitcomb, Vital Statistics of Keene, 245.

John Guild of Dedham, Massachusetts

registered their intentions to marry at Walpole on 19 November 1758[202] and

John Guild of Dedham, Massachusetts

Revolutionary War pension, Robert and Abigail Worsley, W6482.

John Guild of Dedham, Massachusetts

John Guild of Dedham, Massachusetts

of Wrentham, cordwainer.[243] On 7 February 1751 Josiah sold Richard another

Suffolk County Deeds, 84:184.

John Guild of Dedham, Massachusetts

appointed administrator on Richards estate at Zillahs request. The inventory

Windsor County, Vermont, Probate, 8:456469.

John Guild of Dedham, Massachusetts

John Guild of Dedham, Massachusetts

John Guild of Dedham, Massachusetts

Medfield, Mass., 5 May 1844 Olive Clark,[305] born Medfield, Mass. 27

7. JAMES4 GUILD (Josiah3, John2-1) was born at Wrentham, Massachusetts, on 1

John Guild of Dedham, Massachusetts

i. MARGARET5 GUILD, born Keene 15 July 1759.

8. DAN4 GUILD (Josiah3, John2-1) was born at Wrentham, Massachusetts, on 18

John Guild of Dedham, Massachusetts

Whitcomb, Vital Statistics of Keene, 186. See three different entries.

John Guild of Dedham, Massachusetts

Children of Dan and Sarah (Pond) Guild:

Whitcomb, Vital Statistics of Keene, 32.

John Guild of Dedham, Massachusetts