Joseph Willard

1720 - 1799  (78 years)

• Name	Joseph Willard  [1, 2, 3]
  Birth	27 Apr 1720	Grafton, Worcester, Massachusetts   [4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  Death	30 Mar 1799	Grafton, Worcester, Massachusetts   [4, 5]
  Person ID	I42480	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2025

  
  

  Father	Joseph Willard,   b. 27 May 1693, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 18 Oct 1774, Grafton, Worcester, Massachusetts (Age 81 years)
  Mother	Martha Clarke,   b. Abt 1694   d. 1794 (Age 100 years)
  Marriage	5 Jan 1715	Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [5]
  Family ID	F24849	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Hannah Rice,   b. 5 Mar 1730   d. 8 Aug 1825, Grafton, Worcester, Massachusetts (Age 95 years)
  Marriage	2 Feb 1747  [4, 5]
  Notes	Date of intention.
  Children	+ 1. Virtue Willard,   b. 13 Oct 1766, Grafton, Worcester, Massachusetts d. 12 Dec 1857, Athol, Worcester, Massachusetts (Age 91 years)
  Family ID	F24848	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2025

  
  

• Notes

  He served with the Worcester County militia in the Revolution.

  
  

• Sources

  [S3431] Massachusetts, town clerk and town records, 1626-2001, on familysearch.org. [S8217] Find a Grave page for Virtue Willard Wadsworth. [S1953] The Halls of New England, Genealogical and Biographical by David Brainerd Hall. Albany, New York: J. Munsell's Sons, 1883. [S648] New England Families Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation ed. William Richard Cutter. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913-14. [S7562] Willard Genealogy, Sequel to Willard Memoir by Joseph Willard and Charles Wilkes Walker, ed. Charles Henry Pope. Boston: Willard Family Association, 1915.