Family:Thomas Hayward and Bethia Waldo (1)

Keeping the Children Straight

The children of this couple and the children of Thomas Hayward and Bethiah Brett are all listed in the Bridgewater Vital Records, overlapping by a few years. The children of this couple are all identified in the records as the children of "Thomas 3d and Bithia" (presumably because this Thomas was the 3rd oldest Thomas Hayward in the town when his first child was born), while the children of Thomas and Bethia (Brett) Hayward are identified as the children of "Thomas and Bithia".

1. ↑ Four Generations of the Waldo Family in America, in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
   52(1898):216.

   'Bethia [child of Daniel Waldo and Susannah Adams], b. Aug. 20, 1688; ... m. 2d, 1719, Thomas,³ son of Dea. Joseph² (Thomas¹) and Experience [should be Hannah, daughter of Experience] (Mitchell) Hayward of Bridgewater, who was b. March 6, 1688-7. They had six children.'

2.   Descendants of Francis Cooke, in Roser, Susan E. Mayflower Births & Deaths: From the files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. (Baltimore [Maryland]: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1992)
   1:353.

   'CHILDREN OF Thomas HAYWARD³ (Hannah Mitchell²) & Bethiah WALDO: (6) <Bridgewater VR 2:125>
   Edmund HAYWARD, b. 12 May 1720; d. c1781* <MD 15:89>
   Jane HAYWARD, b. 12 May 1720 (twins) <MD 15:89>
   Elijah HAYWARD, b. 10 Feb. 1721/2; d. 1800* <MD 15:89>
   Hannah HAYWARD, b. 5 Dec. 1723 <MD 15:90>
   Bethiah HAYWARD, b. 14 Sept. 1724 <MD 15:90>
   Rebecca HAYWARD, b. 24 Aug. 1727 <MD 15:90>'
   
   Annotations:
   (6) denotes the total number of children in the family.
   * denotes information written in pencil in Roser's source (the research files of George E. Bowman), not verified by Roser.
   MD indicates the volume and page number of The Mayflower Descendant the VR was published in (where the VRs are published by family rather than in alphabetical order by first name).

3.   Bridgewater, Mass., Vital Records, in Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. Mayflower Descendant: An Illustrated Quarterly Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy, History and Biography
   15(1913):89-90.

   'The Birth of the Children of Thomas Hayward y^e 3^d And Bithia his Wife
   Edmund and Jane Hayward were born May 12^th An^o Do 1720
   Elijah Hayward was born Feb 10^th Anno Dom 1721/2
   Hannah Hayward was born Decemb^r 5^th Anno Dom 1723
   Bithia Hayward was born September 14^th Anno Dom 1724
   Rebecca Hayward was born August 24 An^o domi 1727'