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     Rev. Edward Wigglesworth was born in 1693 in Malden, Massachusetts.^1,2 He was the son of Rev. Michael Wigglesworth and Sybil Sparhawk.¹ Edward Wigglesworth graduated from Harvard, A.B., 1710, A.M., 1713; subsequently studied theology, and after occupying various pulpits in New England, was called in 1721 to the newly established Hollis chair of divinity, at Harvard, which he held until his death. He refused the rectorship of Yale college, 1723; was a fellow of Harvard, 1724-65, and graduated from the University of Edinburgh, D.D. 1730. Edward served as commissioner of the London Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians for many years, and declined a similar appointment to the Scotch deputations on account of feeble health. His publications include: Sober Remarks on a Modest Proof of the Order and Government Settled by Christ and His Apostles in the Church (1724); A Seasonable Caveat against Believing Every Spirit, lectures (1735); An Inquiry into the Truth of the Imputation of Adam's First Sin to his Posterity (1738); The Sovereignty of God in the Exercise of His Mercy, lectures (1741); An Answer to Mr. Whitefield's Reply to the College Testimony (1745); Some Evidences of the Divine Inspiration (1755); The Doctrine of Reprobation Briefly Considered (1763); besides the Dudleian lecture at Harvard (1757), and numerous sermons.¹ Rev. Edward Wigglesworth married firstly Sarah Leverett, daughter of Hon. John Leverett and Margaret Rogers, on 15 June 1726.³ Rev. Edward Wigglesworth married secondly Rebecca Coolidge, daughter of Joseph Coolidge and Rebecca Frost, on 10 September 1729.^4,3 Rev. Edward Wigglesworth died on 16 January 1765 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.¹

     Rev. Prof. Edward Wigglesworth was born on 7 February 1731/32 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.³ He was the son of Rev. Edward Wigglesworth and Rebecca Coolidge.^1,3 Harvard, A.B., 1749, A.M., 1752, D.D., 1786, was Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard, as successor to his father, 1765-91, and Professor Emeritus, 1791-94. He was also a fellow of the College, 1779-92; secretary of the corresponding board of the society in Scotland for promoting the gospel among the Indians of North America; an original member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the author of: Calculations on American Population (1775), Authority of Tradition Considered, the Dudleian lecture of 1777, and The Hope of Immortality (1779).¹ Rev. Prof. Edward Wigglesworth married Margaret Hill in 1765.² Rev. Prof. Edward Wigglesworth died on 17 June 1794 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the age of 62.³

     Esther Wigglesworth was born on 16 April 1685.¹ She was the daughter of Rev. Michael Wigglesworth and Martha Mudge.¹ Esther Wigglesworth married John Sewall, son of John Sewall and Hannah Fessenden, on 8 June 1708 in Newbury (Vital Records show June 8, 1710).^1,2,3 The marriage intention of Esther Wigglesworth and Abraham Toppan, son of Lieut. Jacob Toppan and Hannah Sewall, was published on 21 October 1713 in Newbury, Massachusetts, ; she was the widow of John Sewell, son of John Sewell and Hannah Fessenden.^1,4

     Henrietta Goddard Wigglesworth was the daughter of Edward Wigglesworth and Henrietta (Unknown).³ Henrietta Goddard Wigglesworth married Edward Jackson Holmes, son of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes and Amelia Lee Jackson, on 24 October 1871.⁴

     Rev. Michael Wigglesworth was born on 18 October 1631 in Yorkshire, England.^2,3,4 He was the son of Edward Wigglesworth.² Wiglesworth studied for a time at a school kept by Ezekiel Cheever; graduated Harvard, A.B., 1651, A.M., 1654, and a Fellow of the College, 1652-54. Having fitted himself for the ministry, he preached at Charlestown in 1653-1654, and was pastor at Malden from 1656 until his death, though for twenty years or more bodily infirmities prevented his regular attendance upon duties - Cotton Mather describes him as "a little feeble shadow of a man." During this interval he studied medicine and began a successful practice. He was again a Fellow of Harvard in 1697-1705 and is the author of the poem, The Day of Doom; or a Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgment (1662), which was reprinted in England, and reached ten editions in America. For a century this realistic and terrible expression of the prevailing Calvanisitc theology was by far the most popular work written in America. He was the author of other religious poems. His biography was written by John Ward Dean (Boston, 1871).^5,3 Rev. Michael Wigglesworth married firstly Mary Rayner ? on 18 May 1655 at Rowley, Massachusetts.² Rev. Michael Wigglesworth married Martha Mudge before 1682 in Malden his second wife (his "servant mayd ... not 20 years old": see Increase Mather's pleas against this marriage in Sibley, I, 281).^1,6 Rev. Michael Wigglesworth married Sybil Sparhawk, daughter of Nathaniel Sparhawk and Patience Newman, on 23 June 1691.⁶ Rev. Michael Wigglesworth died on 10 June 1705 in Malden at the age of 73.^2,3,4

     Rebecca Wigglesworth was born on 18 June 1730.³ She was the daughter of Rev. Edward Wigglesworth and Rebecca Coolidge.^1,3 Rebecca Wigglesworth married Professor Stephen Sewall, son of Nicholas Sewall and Mehitable Storer, on 9 August 1763 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, there was a child of the marriage, who died in infancy.^1,2 Rebecca Wigglesworth died on 23 January 1784 at the age of 53.⁴

     Rev. Samuel Wigglesworth was born on 4 February 1688/89 in Malden.³ He was the son of Rev. Michael Wigglesworth.¹ Harvard, A.B., 1707, A.M., 1710, a practising physician in Ipswich Hamlet (Hamilton), Massachusetts, and subsequently pastor there, published A Short Account of the Rev. Mr. Hale, of Newbury in the Christian History (1744); a Dudleian lecture (1760), and numerous discourses.¹ Rev. Samuel Wigglesworth died on 3 September 1768 in Hamilton at the age of 79.³

     Edith Wiggmore was born in Paterson, New Jersey.¹ She was the daughter of James L. Wiggmore.¹ Edith Wiggmore married Frank E. Toppan, son of Charles H. Toppan and Bertha Slaiger, on 5 July 1911.¹

     John Wightman was born in 1911.¹

      There is some doubt whether the vill of Wollascott was a member of Albrighton, but the balance of evidence favours such a supposition rather than say any other. The Abbot of Shrewsbury indeed never appears seized in demesne of Wollascott; but some of the Abbots feoffments were so very early and absolute that the Feofees, when they at length appear, are found in all but complete independence. Eyton supposes that the family of Le Poer were originally the Abbot's tenants there.
By 1259 we have a William de Wollascott whose name appears in a number of documents; he was still living in 1293 but by 1320 Roger de Wollascot, who attested a deed, represented this family. Eyton: Antiquities of Shropshire, Vol. 10, p. 110
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A Patent Roll of 22 February 1441 mentions a William Wollascot of Weston who obviously knew Ralp Lee "Whereas by an inquisition taken virtute officii before Ralph Lee, late escheator in the county of Salop, it was found that John Hordeley, late of Shrewsbury, was seised of the manor of Hordelay and granted the same to William Walford and Thomas More,chaplains, and their heirs and assigns for over, by collusion between John Hampton, late abbot of the church of St. Peter, Shrewsbury, and the said William and Thomas, for the use of the said abbot and church, contrary to the statute of mortmain of Richard 11; and afterwards at the suit of Richard, son of Richard Lakyn, knight, John Sainford, William Wollascot of Weston, John Walker, John Shanbery, clerk, and Thomas Walker the younger, complaining that whereas Matthew Hordeley was seised of the said manor and granted the same to John Howell, vicar of the church of Grysford, and John Houghton of Elesmere, chaplain, and their heirs and assigns for ever, and they were seised thereof until they died without heir; after whoso death the manor descended to Joan Fenymer, wife of William Fenymer, as kinswoman and heir of the said John Houghton, being daughter of Mabel, his sister, and William and Joan were seised and enfeoffed thereof the said Richard, son of Richard Lakyn, John Samford, William Wollascot, John Walker, John Shanbery and Thomas Walker,and their heirs and assigns for ever, and they were seised thereof, until by colour of the said inquisition and letters patent to Thomas Walker dated 10 February in the sixteenth year touching the keeping of the manor they were unjustly expelled, although the said John Hordeley had not granted the same to William Walford and Thomas More, as is supposed by the inquisition, nor ever had any title therein ; and beseeching the king to annul the said letters patent and to restore the petitioners to the manor:-
the king on 24 May in the sixteenth year commanded the sheriff of the county to cause Thomas Walker to appear before the king in Chancery in the quinzaine of Trinity following to show why the said letters patent should not be annulled and the petitioners restored, and the sheriff summoned the said Thomas by Richard Maffen and Roger Nonelay, and he appeared and said that the grant to William Walford and Thomas More had been made by collusion between them and the said abbot, as did also the said petitioners, by colour whereof the said record was delivered by the hands of John, bishop of Bath and Wells, the chancellor, to the justices of the Bench to try the issue and a writ was directed to the sheriff of Salop to cause to come before the king in the quinzaine of Martinmas in the eighteenth year twenty-four knights and legal men of the vicinage of Hordeley who had no knowledge of the petitioners and Thomas Walker, and there came the said Richard, son of Richard, John Samford, William Wallascot, John Walker, John Shanbury and Thomas Walker the younger by William Broun, his attorney, and Thomas Walker, but none of the twenty-four, wherefore the sheriff was directed to distrain on their goods and bring them before the king within fifteen days from Hilary following, on which day the petitioners and Thomas Walker appeared, but on the fourth day the latter came not, wherefore the case went against him by default, and the sheriff was commanded to distrain on the goods of the jurors and bring them before the king within fifteen days after Easter following to hold the assizes in the county, assigning Monday in St. Peter's Chair at Shrewsbury, the same day being given to the petitioners; and afterwards before William Westbury and John Hody, justices of assize in the county, the petitioners came (Thomas Parkhous appearing as the attorney of Thomas Walker the younger), and the jury said that John Hordeley never had the manor nor granted it to the petitioners and that the manor was worth 5 marks yearly; and now the petitioners have shewn that through their suit they have been reduced to poverty and that the jury was taken illegally through the default of the said Thomas Walker, and yet they cannot institute a new suit, because a decision valid in law cannot be revoked:-
the king grants to them and their heirs the restitution of the manor as fully as they had the same before their expulsion.
By p.s. and dated as abov[e." Patent Rolls 19 Henry VI. Part 2. pp. 517-8.^2,3 (unkown) Wilascot of Salop married (unknown) Lee of Langley, daughter of (unknown) Lee of Langley.

     Joan Wilascot was the daughter of (unkown) Wilascot of Salop and (unknown) Lee of Langley. Joan Wilascot married William Horne.

     Emma Wilcox was the daughter of Mary Jane Dana.¹

     Ruth Wilcoxson was born on 31 August 1667.¹ She was the daughter of Timothy Wilcoxson and Joanna Birdsey.¹ Ruth Wilcoxson married Robert Walker, son of Joseph Walker and Abigail Prudden, on 1 August 1695.¹ Ruth Wilcoxson died after 1743.¹

     Timothy Wilcoxson was born circa 1637.¹ He was the son of William Wilcoxson.² Timothy Wilcoxson married Joanna Birdsey, daughter of John Birdsey and Phillipa (Unknown), on 28 December 1664 in Stratford, Connecticut.¹ Timothy Wilcoxson died on 13 January 1712/13 in Stratford, Connecticut, (or 13 Jan 1710/11).¹

     William Wilcoxson was born circa 1601.¹ He was a linen weaver.¹ He emigrated in 1635 on the Planter.¹ He died before 16 June 1652 in Stratford, Connecticut.¹

     Caroline Wilde was the daughter of Hon. Samuel Sumner Wilde.¹ Caroline Wilde married Caleb Cushing, son of John Newmarch Cushing and Lydia Dow, on 23 November 1824 in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Caroline Wilde died on 28 August 1832.

     Catherine de Wilde was the daughter of Thomas de Wilde of Bhyross, Wrexham. Catherine de Wilde married William Brereton of Burros, son of Randle or Ralph Brereton and Alice Ipstones.

     Hon. Samuel Sumner Wilde was born in 1771.¹ Dartmouth, 1789. Unitarian. Studied law under David L. Barnes, U.S. District Court Judge. Admitted to the bar in 1792. Practised in Maine district. Federalist. Presidential elector, 1800, 1808. State Councillor, 1814. Member of Hartford Convention. Associate Judge of the Supreme Court. 1815-1850. He died in 1855.¹

     Susan Wilde was born on 16 March 1785.¹ She married William Cooper Parke, son of Captain Matthew Parke and Judith Cooper, on 5 November 1816 in Boston, Massachusetts.¹ Susan Wilde died on 6 January 1867 at the age of 81.¹

     Barbara Julia Wiley was born in 1874 in Bothwell, Tasmania.¹ She married Arthur Dean Beecroft, son of William James Beecroft and Kate Dean, in 1896 in Bothwell, Tasmania.¹

     Charles B. Wilkins was born circa 1824.² He married Charlotte Wright Norris, daughter of Sheppard Haines Norris and Elizabeth Sewall, on 8 May 1848 in Boston, Massachusetts.¹ Charles B. Wilkins died on 8 June 1849 on Lake Huron.

OBITUARY.
Died on Lake Huron, on the 8th inst, Mr Charles B. Wilkins, aged 25 son of Charles Wilkins, Esq. and a member of the firm of Charles Wilkins & Co. of this city. Young Mr W left Boston on the 22d of January last, on a voyage to Cuba, for the benefit of his health. From Cuba he journeyed to the residence of a friend in Milwaukie, Wis. The seeds of consumption, sown before his departure from Boston, were rapidly doing their work - though it was thought he might reach his home, to die in the midst of his family and friends. But it was ordered otherwise. On board a steamer, on his approach to Buffalo, he breathed his last. He was a young gentleman of excellent character, and mild and amiable manners esteemed and beloved by all who knew him.
His remains were received in this city on Thursday last, and on that afternoon, after the usual funeral solemnities at his father's house in Boylston street, were conveyed to the Cemetery at Mount Auburn. The Boston Daily Atlas, 16 June 1849.²

     George Nelson Will married Eliza Ann Simpson.¹

     Margaret Anne Will was born circa 1895 in Burlington, Ontario.¹ She was the daughter of George Nelson Will and Eliza Ann Simpson.¹ Margaret Anne Will married Percival Randolph Woodward, son of Henry William Woodward and Henrietta Rushout Sewell, on 2 April 1935 in St. George's Church, Hamilton, Ontario, Percy claimed to be but 50 years old on the registration form for this marriage.¹

     Elias Willard was born on 17 January 1756 in Harvard, Massachusetts.¹ He was the son of Lemuel Willard and Hannah Haskell.¹ Elias Willard married Catharine Ten Broeck Livingston, daughter of John Livingston and Catryna Ten Broeck, on 8 July 1778.² Elias Willard died on 20 March 1827 at the age of 71.¹

     Katherine Willard married Henry Gibbs, son of Robert Gibbs and Mary Shrimpton, in 1747.¹

     Lemuel Willard married Hannah Haskell.¹

     Mary Willard married Dr. Edward Ellis.¹