John Heywood Decon

  General Notes:

~Concord, Massachusetts Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1635-1850, printed by the town, page 10

Deacon John Heywood and I share the same Birthday, 5 April ⁶²³

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information:
Deacon John Heywood was the third child of John Heywood the emigrant. John, Jr. was born in Concord, Massachusetts, 5 Apr 1662, where he also settled and lived. He died there 2 Jan 1718. In 1676, he was a constable. He was keeper of an ordinary at Concord in his later years. He married a woman named Sarah, and their children were:
Sarah
Thomas, b. 16 Jul 1686
Samuel, b. 11 Oct 1687; m. Elizabeth Hubbard, 1710, was deacon and town officer; d. 28 1750. Elizabeth and Samuel had thirteen children.
Edmund, b. 31 Jul 1689
Josiah, b. 15 Nov 1601
Daniel, b. 15 Apr 1694, moved to Worcester and is the ancestor of a large number of Worcester family; married Hannah, daughter of Obiadiah Ward, another pioneer at Worcester; he lived and kept an inn on the side of the Bay State House, and his son and grandson maintained the same tavern for over a hundred years
Eleazer, b. 3 Aug 1696
Nathan, b. 24 Sep 1698
Sarah, b. 18 Jan 1700/01
John, b. 14 Mar 1703, settle in Lunenburg
Mary, b. 23 Mar 1704
Phinehas, b. 18 Jul 1707, settled in Shrewbury; m. Elizabeth Moore; d. 6 Mar 1776
Benjamin, b. 24 Oct 1709

~Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, p. 429⁵²⁴
~Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine, p. 383-384. ⁵⁵⁹

• He died.
John Heywood died on 2 Jan 1717 from an epidemic that swept Concord. He was a Deacon of the Church. He kept an ordinary, or inn, probably the same one as his father. The land on what is now Thoreau Street, was in the hands of the Heywood Family until the early 1800s.

Here Lyes ye
Body of Deacon
JOHN HAYWOOD
Who Decd January
The 2d 1717 in ye 57th
Year of His Age
Old Hill Burying Ground
Concord, Massachusetts

John married Sarah Blodgett, daughter of Samuel Blodgett and Ruth Eggleston, on 7 Jan 1687 in Concord, Massachusettes.⁹⁴ (Sarah Blodgett was born on 17 Feb 1668 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts ⁶²⁴.)