George Willard

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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.

George married Deborah Dunster about 1635-1640 in Scituate, New Plymouth Colony. Deborah died on 13 May 1721 in Yarmouth, Barnstable Co, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Deborah Willard was christened on 14 Sep 1645 in Scituate, New Plymouth Colony; died on 13 May 1721 in Yarmouth, Barnstable Co, Massachusetts.