David Pollard (abt. 1707 - bef. 1764)

Born about 1707 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Lydia (Woodward) Moon — married 29 Jul 1740 in Taunton, Bristol, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

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Biography

David, son of Samuel Pollard and Mary (Solomon) Pollard, was born by 1707 as he would of been at least 21 years of age when he witnessed the will of Samuel Pratt, Sr. of Taunton on May 31, 1728.

David was brought before the Bristol County Court on April 8, 1735 to answer to the complaint by Mehitable Owen for "Begitting her With Child." He was ordered bound to appear at the next term as she had not yet "Delivered." He returned to court on the second Tuesday of July, 1735; fined three pounds and Mehitable agreed to the weekly maintenance. David ordered to be bound to save the town of any support charges. Samuel Pollard, his father, and Samuel Pollard Jr, his brother were sureties.

He married Lydia Woodward of Taunton, Massachusetts on July 29,1740. They had at least four children, as can be seen in the next paragraph, but none were recorded: Samuel, David, Lydia, Jeremiah and John Pollard.

Undated entry - David Pollard of Taunton, Massachusetts with his wife and four children were warned out of Raynham, Massachusetts. The order was returned to the court on 10 Mar 1752.

David's wife Lydia remarried to Matthew Moon 3 Oct 1764, so its assumed that he died sometime before then.

Sources

• Abstracts of Bristol County, Massachusetts Probate Records, Volume VI, 1727-1730, (Ancestry.com Operations Inc., Provo, UT, USA, database on-line), Witness to the will of Samuel Pratt Sr

• Bristol County, MA: Extracts from Court of General Sessions of the Peace, 1697-1801, (Original Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012. Helen S. Ullmann, CG, FASG, ed.), April 8, 1735 Session

• Bristol County, MA: Extracts from Court of General Sessions of the Peace, 1697-1801, (Original Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012. Helen S. Ullmann, CG, FASG, ed.), 2nd Tuesday of July, 1735 Session

• Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850, Taunton, Massachusetts, (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016), Marriage

• Raynham Town Records, (Ancestry.com Operations Inc., Provo, UT, USA, database on-line, 2011), Warned Out - undated

• Bristol County, MA: Extracts from Court of General Sessions of the Peace, 1697-1801, (Original Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012. Helen S. Ullmann, CG, FASG, ed.), Warning Out Returned

• https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG1N-KTB7;

• "Rhode Island, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1630-1945," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG1N-NM1V : accessed 11 July 2019), Abraham Lockwood and Lydia Pollard, 1 Mar 1770; citing Marriage, Pawtucket, Providence, Rhode...