Thomas Wilder. Born 2 March 1676 in Charlestown. [3][4]
Abigail Wilder. Born about 1678, birth record not found. She is called eldest daughter in the will of her father. [5] She is therefore slotted in the gap between Thomas and Hannah whose birth dates are known.
Hannah Wilder. Born 31 October 1679 at Charlestown. [6]
James Wilder. Born 1681 at Charlestown. [7] Died 17 May 1739 in the 59th year of his age.
Ebenezer Wilder. Born 23 June 1683 at Lancaster. [8]
Rebekah Wilder. She is known from the will of her father where she is the second daughter named as Rebekah Whetcomb. There were many Whetcombs in Lancaster at the time, however, her husband has not yet been identified. She is placed in the gap between Ebenezer and Anna, though only thing we really know regarding her birth is that Abigail was older. [5]
Deborah Wilder. Born about 1692. Died 7 November 1673 in her 72nd year. [10]
Query: Could Hannah and James have been born at Marlboro? (see those vital records).
Residence
Lancaster was abandoned after the massacre of February 10, 1676 and John and Hannah left Lancaster for Charlestown, where several of their children were born. They returned to Lancaster about 1881, and remained there until their deaths. This per "Early Records of Lancaster" by Henry Nourse, pub 1884; pages 318-325
Death
Died: January 9, 1718 in Lancaster "in his 70th year".
Buried: The Old Common Burying Ground in Lancaster, Massachusetts. [11]
↑Joselyn. Vital Records of Charlestown, vol. 1. (1984): page 95.
↑ 5.05.15.2Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. NEHGS, 2014. Probate 24878: Will of John Wilder, 1718
↑ Profile created by Sonia DeBoer Antonides Antonides through the import of Sonia Antonides (Bayes Blood) .ged on Mar 2, 2018. This comment and citation should be deleted after a short biography has been added and primary sources have been cited.
Footnotes and citations:
Source list:
Wilder, Moses Hale. Book of the Wilders. (New York, 1878): 6-7. Books.google.com LINK
Lancaster. Henry S. Nourse, ed. The Birth, Marriage and Death Register, Church Records and Epitaphs of Lancaster, Massachusetts 1643-1850. (Lancaster, MA: 1890): 14. Archive.org LINK
Charlestown. Roger D. Joselyn, ed. Vital Records of Charlestown, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850, vol. 1. (Boston: NEHGS, 1984): 95. AmericanAncestors.org LINK
Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. NEHGS, 2014. Probate 24878: Will of John Wilder, 1718
Wakefield Memorial : comprising an historical, genealogical and biographical register of the name and family of Wakefield
Davis, Mavis F., Research on the French Family of West Hartland, Connecticut, Including the Wilder and Tiffany Families, Connecticut Nutmegger (Connecticut Society of Genealogists, Glastonbury, Conn., July 2016) Vol. 49, No. 1, Page 61.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with John 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 John:
Wilder-1839 and Wilder-65 appear to represent the same person because: Duplicate profile originally meant to be this same John Wilder, father of Thomas.