Family:Thomas Hayward and Bethiah Brett (1)

Keeping the Children Straight

The children of this couple and the children of Thomas Hayward and Bethiah Waldo 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 and Bithia", while the children of Thomas and Bethia (Waldo) Hayward are identified as the children of "Thomas 3d and Bithia".

1. ↑ Marriages and Deaths, in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. Vital records of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, to the year 1850. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1916)
   2:166.

   HAWARD, Thomas and Bithia Brett, June 5, 1706. [Intention not recorded.]

2. ↑ Goodenow, Lucy Belcher. The Brett Genealogy: I. The Bretts in England II. William Brett III. Roger Brett. (Cambridge, Mass: Murray and Emery Co., 1915)
   56-57.

   Children (Hayward):
   (20) i. ALICE, born April 7, 1707; married (1) Thomas Cushman,
   (2) Joseph Pratt.
   ii. A son, born Sept. 22. 1709; deceased same day.
   iii. A son, born May 22, 1712; died June 23, same year.
   (21) iv. BETHIA, born Sept. 22. 1715; married (1) Arthur Harris,
   (2) Robert Latham.
   (22) v. MARY, born Jan. 4, 1718-19; married Samuel Dunbar.
   (23) vi. SETH, born Dec. 3, 1721; married Tal Taloitha Pratt.
   (24) vii. PHEBE, born April 26, 1725; married Josiah Washburn.

3.   Bridgewater, Mass., Vital Records, in Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. Mayflower Descendant: An Illustrated Quarterly Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy, History and Biography
   7(1905):55.

   'The birth of the children of Thomas & Bithia Hayward born in the Town of Bridgwater
   Allice Hayward was born April y^e 7^th Ann^o Dom 1707
   Their second child was a son born Sep^t 22^d Ann^o Do 1709 and Deceased ["Sep^t 22 1709" has been crossed out] the same day
   Their third was a son born May 22^d Anno Dom 1712 and Deceased June the 23 in the same year
   Bithiah Hayward was born Septem^r 22^d Anno Dom 1715
   Mary Hayward was born January 4^th Annoq [sic] Domi 1718/19
   Seth Hayward was born December 3 Anno Domi 1721
   Phebe Hayward was born April 26 Anno Dom 1725
   Tho^s : Hayward above named Died march y^e 20^th : An^o Dom 1741
   Bithia Hayward first above named Died august y^e 14^th : An^o Dom 1745'