Elizabeth (Treadway) Hayward (1646 - 1714)

Born 3 Aug 1646 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Shadrach Hapgood — married 21 Oct 1664 (to 2 Aug 1675) in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Wife of Joseph Hayward — married 23 Mar 1676 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 18 Sep 1714 at age 68 in Watertown, Middlesex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Birth

03 AUG 1646 Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA^[1]

Elizabeth Treadway was born at Watertown, Massachusetts on 3: 2m: 1646 [April 3, 1646] daughter of Nathaniel and Suffanna Treadway. ^[2]

Marriage

First Husband - Hapgood

Elizabeth married Shadrach Hapgood on October 21, 1664, at Sudbury, Massachusetts. ^[3]

Hapgood Children

1. Nathaniel Habgood born on October 21, 1665 at Sudbury. ^[3]
2. Mary Habgood born on November 2, 1667 at Sudbury ^[3]; then of Sherborn, married John Whitney, of Sherborn, s. Jonathan, Apr. 10, 1688 , recorded at Watertown. ^[2]
3. Thomas Habgood born on February 1, 1669 at Sudbury. ^[3]
4. Sarah born about 1670.
5. Elizabeth born about 1672.

Excerpt: Shadrach Hapgood... married October 21, 1664, at Sudbury, to Elizabeth Treadway, daughter of Nathaniel and Sufferance Treadway. She was born April 3, 1646 and was the mother of Nathaniel, Mary, Thomas, and Sarah. She was residing at Sudbury when she received the sad news of her husband's murder by the Indians. Her elder daughter married John Whitney and the younger married Jonathan his brother.^[4]

Her first husband Shadrack was killed by Indians on August 2, 1675, in at attack at Brookfield, Massachusetts.

The inventory her husband Shadrach/Sidrach Hapgood/Habgood's estate, was presented to the courts on 5: 8: 1675 [October 5, 1675] by widow Elizabeth, and valued at L145 2s.^[5]

Second Husband - Hayward

Husband: Joseph Hayward

Child: Lydia Hayward

23 MAR 1677 Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA^[6][7]

Concord Marriages: HEAWARD, Joseph, and Elizabeth Treadwell, Mar. 23, 1676-77. ^[6]

Excerpt: Elizabeth (Treadway) Hapgood married second, Joseph Hayward of Concord, where her son Thomas is said to have been brought up. The records show that Hayward married Elizabeth Treadway, possibly he had her maiden name restored on the record to show her respectable origin, or the clerk committed an error in not knowing her previous marriage, or how to express both of her previous names. Joseph Hayward was born one year after her first husband, and having buried his first wife, December 15, 1675, four months after Shadrach Hapgood was slain, married, March 23, 1677, Elizabeth Treadway Hapgood. She buried her mother at Watertown, 1682, and her father, Nathaniel Treadway of Watertown, in 1687, who left legacies for the children of his "daughter Elizabeth Hayward by her first husband Habgood. ^[8]

The marriage between Joseph Heaward (sic) and Elizabeth Treadwell, was recorded at Concord, Massachusetts on March 23, 1676/77. ^[6]

In the will of her father, Nathaniel Treadway of Watertown, recorded in 1689, he divided his estate into eight parts, including one eighth to the children of his daughter Haward by her husband Hapgood and by her husband Haward. ^[9]

The five children/heirs were:

1. Nathaniel aged 12
2. Mary aged 10
3. Thomas aged 7
4. Sarah aged 5
5. Elizabeth aged 3. ^[5]

Joseph Hayward's will was written on January 29, 1711 and presented for probate on October 15, 1714. In it he names:

1. beloved wife Elizabeth
2. all my sons and daughters
3. daughter Mary Whitcomb
4. children of my son Ebenezer Hayward
5. my two sons Simeon Hayward and David Whitcomb, sole executors^[10]

Death

18 SEP 1714 Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA^[11]

• Find a Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64197738/elizabeth-hayward

Sources

1. ↑ Marilyn Scribner
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Watertown Records Comprising the First and Second Books of Town Proceedings with the Land Grants and Possession, and the First Book and Supplement of Births, Deaths and Marriages, The Historical Society, Press of Fred G. Barker, Watertown, Massachusetts, 1894 p. 12: 98
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3} Vital Records of Sudbury, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, NEHGS, Boston, Massachusetts, 1903 p. 208: P. 62
4. ↑ Stearns, Vol. 2, Page 781
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Case10315: p. 1-3: Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Digitized mages provided by FamilySearch.org)
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2} Tolman, George compiler. Concord, Massachusetts Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1635-1850, Printed by the Town, T. Todd Printer, Beacon Press, Boston, Massachusetts, 1891 p. 19
7. ↑ Potter
8. ↑ The Hapgood Family: Descendants of Shadrach, 1656-1898. A New Edition with Supplement, Warren Hapgood compiler, 1898. p.25
9. ↑ Case 22774: p1- 4: Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Digitized mages provided by FamilySearch.org)
10. ↑ Case 10987: p. 1-3: Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Digitized mages provided by FamilySearch.org)
11. ↑ Marilyn Scribner

See also:

• Hapgood, Warren. The Hapgood family: descendants of Shadrach, 1656-1898. A new edition with supplement. Boston: 1898.
• Stearns, Ezra S. Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire (Lewis Publishing Company, 1908) ; vol. 2, page 690
• Marilyn Scribner
• Potter, Charles E., Genealogies of Some Old Families of Concord, MA (Alfred Mudge and Son Printers; Boston, Massachusetts, 1887)
• Bond, Henry; "Early Settlers of Watertown"; pages 697-698 (Treadway)