Anna (Corliss) Heyward (1691 - 1764)

Born Sep 1691 in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of John Hinds — married 31 Aug 1709 in Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay

Wife of Oliver Heyward — married 18 Jun 1749 in Brookfield, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 8 Sep 1764 at about age 73 in Brookfield, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Anna was born in 1691. She passed away in 1764.

Anna married John Hinds first. They were the parents of Sarah Anna, John, Frances, Mary, Seth, Jotham, Dinah, Corliss, Rachel, Tryphena, Submit, Susanna.

Anna married Samuel Hayward second.

Hannah Whittaker was born in September 1691 in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts Bay.

Her parents were John Corliss and Mary Wilford.

She married John Hinds on August 31, 1709 Together they had 12 children:

1. Corliss Hinds
2. Susanna Hinds
3. Submit Hinds
4. Cornelius Hinds
5. Rachel Hinds
6. Dinah Hinds
7. Johathan Hinds
8. Seth Hinds
9. Frances Hinds
10. Anna Hinds
11. John Hinds
12. Mary Hinds

PARENTS: John Corliss and Mary Wilford

1st HUSBAND: John Hinds, married August 31, 1709 in Marlborough, Middlesex Co., MA

CHILDREN WITH 1st HUSBAND: John, Anna Frances, Mary, Seth, Jotham, Dinah, Corliss, Rachel, Typhrena, Cornelius, Submit, Susanna

2nd HUSBAND: Oliver, Heyward, Esq. - No Children

DEATH OF MRS. ANNA (WHITTAKER) HEYWARD^[1]

Mr. Sibley, the Librarian of Harvard College, to whom we are under obligation for many old newspapers which we have republished from time to time, furnishes the following extracts from the Massachusetts Gazette for Sept 27, 1764. Our readers will find in the second volume of the Register, a genealogical sketch of the Checkley Family, prepared by Mr. Drake, in which an account is given of the preservation of the Rev Mr. Rolfe, but Mr. Drake gives credit to Hagar, a Negro servant, while Anna Whitaker has respresented herself as having hidden in an apple chest. See Register II, Page 353, and the authorities there cited.

Brookfield, September 24, 1764

"On the 8th Inst., died after a few days illness, Mrs. Anna Heyward, in the 74th year of her age, the wife of Oliver Heyward, Esq. She has left by a former Husband 13 children, 82 grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren, in all 112. She was very useful as a mid-wife and in her last sickness had the most unshaken trust in the Mercy of God, through the redeamer. In her youth, when the savages invaded Haverhill, she saved two children of the Rev. Mr. Rolf's by hiding them in the cellar after the indians had enter'd the House while they were glutting their rage on the parents; the two indians followed her into the cellar; yet such was her presence of mind and dexterity that she conceal'd the children and herself that they escaped their notice; and they were the only members of the famly at home to survive the bloody carnage".^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/57697899
2. ↑ Created by: Star Rhodes Added: 25 Aug 2010 Find A Grave Memorial 57697899 Sponsored by confused365

• David Webster Hoyt, The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts : with some related families of Newbury, Haverhill, Ipswich, and Hampton, and of York County, Maine: (1897-1917; Reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1982)
• Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Ancestry.com
• Massachusetts, Compiled Marriages, 1633-1850, Ancestry.com
• Find a Grave
• Hinds, Albert Henry. History and Genealogy of the Hinds Family (Thurston Print, Portland, Maine, 1899) Page 15
• Ancestry.com. U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors. Original data: Newspapers and Periodicals. American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts.
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