George Willard

1614 - Yes, date unknown

• Name	George Willard  [1]
  Christening	4 Dec 1614	Horsmonden, Kentshire, England   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I2101	Cooley Miller Sears Barnhouse
  Last Modified	17 Apr 2020

  
  

  Family	Deborah Dunster   d. 13 May 1721, Yarmouth, Barnstable Co, Massachusetts
  Marriage	Abt 1635-1640	Scituate, New Plymouth Colony   [1, 3]
  Children	1. Deborah Willard,   c. 14 Sep 1645, Scituate, New Plymouth Colony d. 13 May 1721, Yarmouth, Barnstable Co, Massachusetts (Age ~ 75 years)
  Family ID	F795	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Apr 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Immigrant arrival date: 1638 Arrival place: Cambridge. George Willard, the father of Paul Sears' wife, was the son of Richard and Joane (Morebread) W,, of Horsmonden, Kent, Eng,, where he was bap, Dec, 1641; he settled at Scituate for a time, removing thence it is said to Maryland. There is some reason to believe that his wife was Dorothy Dunster, dau. of Henry D., of Baleholt, near Bury, Lanc, sister to Eliz'h D., who m. his bro. Simon Willard. Christening place: Horsmonden is a village in the borough of Tunbridge Wells in Kent, England. The village's name is derived from the Anglo Saxon hors meaning 'horse', bune ('reed') or burna ('stream') and denn, a Kentish word meaning 'wooded pasture'. The village is first recorded as Horsbundenne around the turn of the twelfth century. It was an important centre of the post-medieval iron industry and the nearby Furnace Pond is one of the largest of the artificial lakes made to provide water power for the works. King Charles I visited the foundry in 1638 to watch a cannon being cast \endash a bronze four-pounder, forty-two inches long, now preserved in London's White Tower. [4, 5, 6]

  
  

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