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Facts and Events
References
- ↑ Nourse, Henry Stedman. Birth, Marriage, and Death Register, Church Records and Epitaphs of Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1643-1850. (Clinton, Massachusetts: W.J. Coulter, 1890)
15.
"Joseph, Sonne of Thomas & Mary Wilder, borne, July, 5, 1683"
- ↑ Stearns, Ezra S. History of Ashburnham Massachusetts From the Grant of Dorchester Canada to the Present Time, 1734-1886 with a Genealogical Register of Ashburnham Families. (Ashburnham, MA, USA: Published by the town, 1887)
972.
"Judge Joseph Wilder of Lancaster, b. July 5, 1683, was a son of Thomas Wilder and a grandson of Thomas Wilder who was of Charlestown 1640 and who became one of the early settlers of Lancaster. Judge Wilder was of the committee to locate and lay out the township and he became one of the original proprietors."
[p. 56: List of sixty proprietors: "Joseph Wilder Esq'r of Lancaster in the Right of His Uncle Samuel Wheeler who sarved in the Expedition to Canada under Maj'r Nathanel Wade".]
- ↑ Nourse, Henry Stedman. Birth, Marriage, and Death Register, Church Records and Epitaphs of Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1643-1850. (Clinton, Massachusetts: W.J. Coulter, 1890)
324.
[Deaths recorded by Mr. Abijah Wyman]
1757.
Hon. Joseph Wilder Esqr., March 29.
[Also, p. 373: list of deacons: "Joseph Wilder, Esq., elected August 4, 1715, died March 29, 1757".]
- ↑ Old Common Burial Ground Lancaster, Mass., in Find A Grave
Joseph Wilder.
In Memory of
the Hon JOSEPH WILDER ESQ
who died MARCH 29th A Domi 1757
AEtatis 74.
He was enriched with strong Powers
and good Accomplishments, which were
exerted in his numerous public
and private Connections. He was
pleasant in Conversation; in Life
exemplary; & a steady Friend
to his Country, to ye Good, to
[the Poor, to Virtue and to God].
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