Thomas Hayward came from England in the same vessel with John Ames and settled in Duxbury before 1638; was made a freeman 1646; was an original proprietor, and among the earliest and eldest of the settlers of Bridgewater, he d. 1681; his will dated 1678; no wife living.—He had Thomas, Nathaniel, John, Joseph, Elisha; Mary w. of Edward Mitchell, and Martha, w. of John Howard; his son Thomas was a witness to his will, and probably wrote it.
