↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC9M-RF2 : 13 July 2016), Jno. Wilder, 11 May 1673; citing Birth, Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 892,249.
↑ New England Historic Genealogical Society. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston: The New England Historic Genealogical Society. Vol 16 (1862)
↑ Mackenzie, George Norbury, and Nelson Osgood Rhoades, editors. Colonial Families of the United States of America: in Which is Given the History, Genealogy and Armorial Bearings of Colonial Families Who Settled in the American Colonies From the Time of the Settlement of Jamestown, 13th May, 1607, to the Battle of Lexington, 19th April, 1775. 7 volumes. 1912. Reprinted, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1966, 1995.
↑ Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records, Bolton Vital Records Transcripts. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook).
↑ Torry, Clarence A. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004. [Estimates marriage 1699]
↑ Oliver B. Wood. Index to the Probate Records of the County of Worcester, Massachusetts. Boston, MA, USA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1898.
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.
John was born in Lancaster 11 5th month 1673. If that is Old Style, July 11, 1673.
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 65621: Will of John Wilder
Research notes
The Wilder Genealogy gives Sarah Sawyer, and not Sarah White as John's wife. This has been disproven, and its speculated that the confusion was the result of Sarah mother's second marriage to a Sawyer.
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