Person:John Hayden (4)

He was mentioned in his father's will dated 25 May 1718, proved June 1718.

    John was an innholder in the South Precinct after 1732 on present North Street in Randolph, later called the Willard place on west side opposite the large rocks, north of the low ground once known as the slough.  He was elected hogreave in 1717, fenceviewer 1729, constable 1734 but refused to serve, surveyor of highways 1736, 1738 for the South Precinct. He was a partner in the Land Bank of 1740.
    Both John and his wife were alive in March 1754, but no records of his death is found.

1. ↑ Waldo Chamberlain Sprague. Genealogies of the Families of Braintree, MA 1640-1850. (Frank E. Dyer)
   Thayer family.
2. ↑ Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
   2:386-387.
3. ↑ Waldo Chamberlain Sprague. Genealogies of the Families of Braintree, MA 1640-1850. (Frank E. Dyer)
   pp. 1266, 2216, 2222.