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HEYWOOD FAMILY of Sullivan County, NH
Transcribed and contributed to Genealogy Trails by Janice Farnsworth - Farns10th@aol.com
Source: History of Charlestown, NH - Fort 4 by Rev. Henry H. Saunderson pub 1876,
Claremont, NH

p.40l Colonel William Heywood
Son of Eleazer and Azubah Heywood
WILLIAM HEYWOOD (wives: Lydia Hastings and 2d Joanna
Wetherbe)
Honorable William Heywood of Lancaster, his grandson thus speaks: "Col. Wm Heywood's 2d wife was Joanna Wetherbe from Lunenburg, MA. She lived in my father's (his son) family from the death of her husband and she d. Dec. l83l. She was a lady it seems to me without a fault." Col. Heywood di. Feb. 4, l803. Col. William Heywood m. (l) Lydia Hastings dau of Dr. John Hastings and his wife Hannah (White) Hastings b. at Hatfield, MA Aug l9, 1732 He m. (2) Joanna Wetherbe dau of Capt. Ephraim Wetherbe and Joanna (Bellows) Wetherbe b. in Lunenburg, MA. Children by his lst wife
l. Azubah Heywood b. 1753 m. 1776 Phineas Pearl

l. Warren Heywood d. 1777
2. Patty Heywood b. 1778

2. Eleazor Heywood b. 1755 m. Dorcas Whitaker of Kill-
ingly CN

l. Rebecca Heywood d. age 2
2. William Heywood m. Res: Wayne Co. MI
3. Mary Heywood m. James W. Bradley d. l873 at
Claremont
4. Willard Heywood b. in Hartland 1796 m. Emily
Baldwin of Strafford Vt dau of Dr. Eleazor
Baldwin Res: Windsor (9 children)

3. Lydia Heywood b. 1757 d. unm.

By his 2d wife, Joanna Wetherbe William Heywood had issue
4. Lucinda Heywood b. 1764 m. 1787 Amasa Grout
5. William Heywood Jr. b. 1766
6. Fanny Heywood b. 1769 m. 1795 Dr. Daniel Egery of Lancaster
7. Mary Heywood b. 1772 d. unm
8. Elisha Heywood b. 1774 d. early
9. Persis Heywood b. 1777 d. unm in adv. yrs.
10. Prudence Heywood b. 1780 m. Rev. Samuel Goddard of Norwich, Vt.
11. Orange Heywood b. 1783 d. l860 unm
12. Gustavus Heywood b. 1786 Res: MI

Listed also is Calvin Heywood and Simeon Haywood and their families.


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