Joseph Wilder was born to Thomas and Mary Wilder in Lancaster, Massachusetts July 5, 1683. [1]
He married Lucy Gardner at Lancaster in 1702. [2]
He was a Judge and Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. He died March 29, 1757.
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Joseph is the son of Thomas and Mary Wilder. He was a deacon in 1715. Also a judge in the courts of Maine, then a part of Massachusetts. In 1732 he was appointed a judge of the court of common pleas for Worcester county, and from 1741 until his death he served as chief justice. In 1739 he was made judge of probate for Worcester county, which office he also held until his death.
Joseph married Lucy Gardner on 5 Jan 1707 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
Among their children are:
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"Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPCH-1NR7 : 31 October 2019), Joseph Wilder and Lucy Gardner, 1702; citing Marriage, Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007011279.
↑ White, Almira Larkin, Ancestry of John Barber White and his descendants (Press of C.H. Webster, Haverhill, MA, 1913), Pages 83-4.
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White, Almira Larkin, Genealogy of the descendants of John White of Wenham and Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1638-1909 (Chase Brothers, Haverhill, MA, 1900), Vol 1, Page 74.
See also:
1. Wilder, Rev. Moses H. (1878). Book of the Wilders. A Contribution to the History of the Wilders. Printed by Edward O. Jenkins, Brooklyn, NY. Page 41 (accessed 14 Sep 22)
Worcester County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1731-1881. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.) Case 65637: Will
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Joseph by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Joseph:
Wilder-773 and Wilder-42 appear to represent the same person because: Same birth dates and marriage to Lucy (Gardner) Wilder. I am proposing a merge of the wife Lucy Gardner-2690 into Lucy Gardner-2842 as well. Currently, Joseph Wilder-773 and Lucy Gardner-2690 are duplicates attached as parents only to Lois (Wilder) Gardner Wilder-772 and the parents need merging and their children need integrating.