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Elizabeth Treadway (4807) & Shadrach Hapgood
13951. Dea. Nathaniel Hapgood. Born on 21 Oct 1665 in Sudbury, MA.287 Nathaniel died bef 1741.287

From The Hapgood Family, pages 27–31:371
    Deacon Nathaniel Hapgood, was, for his time, a man of eminence, distinguished for enterprise and success in business, official trusts, and usefulness. Being the eldest son, he received a double portion of his father's estate, and succeeded to the inheritance of his home-lot and proprietary in the then extensive town of Stow; and, as if not satisfied or accommodated by this, he, May 17, 1697, for £32.10s., bought of Simon Willard 80 acres adjoining his home-lot, on the southwest, and Assabet River on the north. March 19, 1702-3, he purchased for £70, of Mr. Willard, then of Salem, all his farm in Stow bounded southwest by near Alcocks farm (i.e. 'the farm' in Marlboro) and south by Assabet River, which parted it from Habgood's land formerly bought of Willard.” His home farm, well adapted to tillage, must now have been very extensive, including, as is presumed, the 500 acres granted 1657, by the General Court, to Major Symon Willard of Concord, for his services to this colony, added to the 50 acres inherited from his father, and 23 more adjacent on the east, assigned in the second division of common lands in 1719, and another lot adjoining the “Willard Farm,” granted in 1723; and when we consider the great allowance then made for swag of chain in laying out grants, Deacon Habgood’s home farm could have been little, if any, short of 700 acres.
    Subsequently, as the common lands of Stow were from time to time divided among the proprietors, he, “in the right of his father Shadrach,” drew many lots, especially in the north and northwest parts of the town. June 22, 1721, there was assigned to Isaac Gates 9 acres 55 rods of meadow, meadow bottom and upland, in two pieces, supposed to have been subsequently bought by Deacon Habgood. One, containing 5 acres 122 rods, extending up and down on the west side of Pinhill Brook, near Lancaster (original) line, and bounded east and northeast by that brook, west and south by common land. The other lot of 3 acres 93 rods, situated also on Pinhill Brook, next to Groton line, bounded north by that line, east by the brook, west by common land, and south by Ephraim Willowby’s meadow.
    May 22, 1722, there was laid out for him, for a fourth division, 95 acres in Stow, 50 in the right of his father Shadrach, and 45 in the right of Joseph Daby, on the west side of Pinhill Brook, bounded northeasterly (for a short distance) by the brook, and a way, 2 rods wide, left for the conveniency of the meadows, “Northerly near to Groton line, westerly near to George Robin’s land and southerly by undivided land.” The northeast line began near Isaac Gates’ meadow, above described, 2 rods from Groton line, and ran near west northwest parallel to said line, then parallel to Robins’ land, with a highway 2 rods wide between, then by John Daby’s lot of 15 acres, then east by 28 south 100 rods, and then east 148 rods to the brook. This lot constituted the nucleus of the second Hapgood farm in the old town of Stow, and was situated on the hip of Stow Leg, between Lancaster and Groton, and now in Harvard, about 1 1/4 miles from the Town House.
    In 1726, to Nathaniel Hapgood, 3 1/2 acres of meadow in Pinhill meadows, bounding southerly upon Lancaster line and Pinhill Brook, east by Isaac Gates’ meadow, the first above described, and northerly upon common land.
    May 16, 1727, there was laid out in Stow, for Deacon Nathaniel Hapgood, 24 acres 140 rods of the fifth and sixth division, 6 acres and 28 rods of which were to the right of his father Shadrach, and 10 acres to the right of John Daby. “It lyeth,” says the record, “westerly of John Daby’s land,
where he now dwells.” It had a way, running northerly or rather northeast and southwest for 7 rods of its eastern boundary, and the land of Samuel Hall for the northeast boundary, and its extreme south angle was “at or near the town line,” probably Lancaster north line. And at the same date another lot, of the fifth division, containing 18 acres and 132 rods; 9 acres and 25 rods to his own inherited right, and 8 acres 132 rods to the right of Joseph Daby. This was bounded north 86 rods by his own land, east by Thomas Wheeler’s, 73 rods, southeast by Pinhill Meadow, south by said meadow, and southwest by John Daby's land. Its south and southwest lines met near a small run of water in the bank of the meadow.
    He early became the proprietor of William Kerley’s right in the public lands of Lancaster, and of a lot upon Bare Hill. For, March 16, 1722-3, 23 acres, in two lots, were “laid out for him for a third and fourth division to the estate of William Kerley, Jr.” One lot was bounded northwest by his own land on Bare Hill, and the other northeast by the same. These were no doubt included in the 65 acres afterward owned by his son Shadrach. These lots, perhaps, by some exchanges, were gathered into a large farm, and by a division of Stow, in 1732, thrown into Harvard. Thus it appears that, years after the death of Shadrach Habgood the first, lots continued to be assigned to Deacon Nathaniel in the right of his father, which went to his descendants and gave them ample farms, and what was still better, farms on the mica slate formation.
    Deacon Nathaniel was much interested in Lancaster, and probably in Worcester and Grafton. At Lancaster, September 10, 1713, he sold, for £55, to Thomas Carter, a house lot of 20 acres. October 19, 1730, he bought of John Remain, for £138, a meadow at Long Hill, in Lancaster; and sold for 60, December 1, 1730, to Ephraim Wilder, 28 acres; and for £10, February 6, 1732, to Samuel Wilson, 40 acres in Lancaster. May 20, 1730, he gave his son Nathaniel, then of Lancaster, 12 acres in Stow, at Hogpen Hill, and all his town rights and lands in Lancaster.
    He seems to have purchased of Isaac Miller a right in the undivided lands of Worcester, where, in the part now Holden, 120 acres were drawn in his right, by his son Daniel, and June 20, 1750, sold for £100, to “Zacceus” Gates. November 5, 1728, he sold for £60, to John Coller, 48 acres in Hassanamisco, now Grafton.
    March 28, 1725, he conveyed to his son Shadrach “all his lands in Harvard with the rights and privileges thereto belonging which lands, it is added, are set forth in Stow & Lancaster proprietors' records.” This shows that they were originally in two towns, and drawn partly in the right of Deacon Nathaniel, and partly in the right of his father Shadrach.
    Deacon Nathaniel, it is safe to presume, was an excellent
man, early and long a pillar in the church of Stow, although her records are too defective to inform us of any of his religious history. In the management of the municipal interests of the town his name is most conspicuous. Between 1697 and 1727, he served as selectman 14 years; and in 1711 and 1712 as grand juryman, and in 1716-18 as town treasurer, and sometimes as moderator of town meetings. He was early styled “Ensign.” He seems to have settled his estate mainly in his lifetime, and probably died intestate. Yet there was no resort to any court for any further settlement. No record exists of his death, but his ashes, no doubt, repose in the graveyard by the old common in Stow. His name does not occur after 1732, when he appeared to be setting his house in order. His wife was a widow in 1741.

From The William Ward Genealogy:287
Nathaniel was the owner of a considerable amount of land by inheritance, purchase, and town division. His ‘home farm’ in the southwesterly section of Stow exceeded 700 acres, and his interests extended to Lancaster and other towns. He was selectman fourteen years, grand juryman two years, town treasurer 1716 to 1718, and a deacon of the church.
On 6 Sep 1695 when Nathaniel was 29, he married Elizabeth Ward (9017) , daughter of Capt. Samuel Ward (3070) (24 Sep 1641-15 Nov 1729) & Sarah Howe (25 Sep 1644-11 Aug 1707).371 Born on 21 Mar 1672 in Marlboro, MA.287 Elizabeth died in Stow, MA, on 5 Nov 1748; she was 76.444

From The Hapgood Family:371
    Elizabeth’s will was approved November 18, 1748, giving to Nathaniel, her eldest son, £20; to Hezekiah, her second son, £10; to Shadrach, her third son, £30; to Daniel, her fourth son, £10; to Sarah Gates, her second daughter, and wife of Phineas Gates, half of the remainder of her estate; and to her two grandchildren, Elizabeth and Lucy Gates, in equal shares, the other half. Her estate was inventoried at £626. 7s.
Their children include:
23720i.
Nathaniel Hapgood (ca 1696-ca 1746)
23721ii.
Capt. Hezekiah Hapgood (ca 1698-13 May 1768)
23722iii.
Lieut. Shadrach Hapgood (6 Nov 1704-8 Oct 1782)
23723iv.
Dea. Daniel Hapgood (ca 1706-30 Apr 1790)
23724v.
Elizabeth Hapgood (ca 1708-)
23725vi.
Sarah Hapgood (ca 1710-)
13952. Mary Hapgood. Born on 2 Nov 1667 in Marlboro, MA. Mary died in Sherborn, MA 13 Jan 1692[/3].415
On 10 Apr 1688 when Mary was 20, she married John Whitney (7537) , son of Jonathan Whitney (1634-ca 1702) & Lydia Jones (2742) (1632-3 Feb 1701/2).415 Born on 27 Jun 1662 in Watertown, MA.30 John died in 1731.415

John, of Framingham, married first Mary Hapgood, second Sarah Haven, and third Martha (Howe) Walker, widow of Thomas Walker.
Their children include:
20658i.
Mary Whitney (27 Mar 1689-)
20659ii.
Elizabeth Whitney (21 Jan 1690-4 Jul 1720)
20660iii.
Dea. James Whitney (28 Dec 1692-10 Apr 1770)
13953. Thomas Hapgood. Born on 1 Oct 1669 in Sudbury, MA.371 Thomas died in Marlboro, MA, on 4 Oct 1764; he was 95.371

From The Hapgood Family, pages 160–165:371
    Thomas Hapgood, born October i1 1669, as well as his brother Nathaniel, began life with considerable means, and, like him, aspired to manorial possessions. According to a reliable tradition, he had been brought up in Concord, and, following the course of the Assabet River, he penetrated the Indian Reservation of Agogonquemeset, consisting of 6,000 acres, which had been purchased of them in 1686 by the planters of Marlboro, and which now forms the north northeastern part of that town; here he decided to settle. He, accordingly, purchased of Edmund Rice, February 28, 1694, for £8, a 30-acre right in the entire trac ; and of John Fay and Nathan Brigham, October 30, 1699, for 17, another 30-acre right; and of William Ward, December 31, 1706, “for a reasonable sum,” another 30-acre right; and of Thomas Howe, December 31, 1713, “for a reasonable sum,” a 30-acre right and of Jonathan Forbush, April 6, 1711, “for a reasonable sum,” a 30-acre right, including the first division already made. These five rights enabled him to draw, at subsequent divisions, a great amount of land, and he actually owned and occupied, in one body, between 500 and 700 acres of the mica-slate formation, several farms of which have remained in the hands of his descendants to this day. The spot where he encamped the first night on arriving upon his land, and the location of his house, was about four miles from his brother’s in Stow, two miles south of Feltonville, 40 rods southwest of Round Hill, and four or six rods east of a spring; it is still pointed out. But these were not his only purchases, creating foundations for homes and independence to generations of his race.
    February 21, of the first year of the reign of George I, 1714, he purchased for £14, of John and Lydia Hanchett of Suffield, Connecticut, their right to 80 acres in an undivided tract of 3,200 acres on the north side of Quinsigamond Pond, which had been granted by the General Court, 1650, to Isaac Johnson, “for £400, adventured in the common stock” and laid out, 1657, to his executors, Thomas Dudley and Increase Newell, as 4,200 acres, requiring Newell to pay £10, due to the treasury of the colony. On these 80 acres he, no doubt, settled his son Thomas, and, April 18, 1738, gave him all the land laid out and to be laid out unto the whole of the fifteenth house lot in Shrewsbury, showing that he had become a proprietor of Shrewsbury. June 21, 1725, he, with five others, quit claimed to Deacon Samuel Wheeler their rights to certain pieces of land in the Haynes farm.
    He seems to have been a quiet and respected citizen, who devoted his energies to business, leaving to others the management of public affairs. He was once chosen selectman. One of the garrison houses in Marlboro' was named for him in 1704, and in 1744 he was chosen on a committee of arbitration between opposing parties, for the location of a church in Southboro.
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    December 31, 1711, Judith joined with her husband, Thomas Hapgood, in a deed to John Forbush; acknowledged December 17, 1719; recorded January 1, 1720. (Book 21, page 30.)
    March 18, 1735 (book 36, page 641), Thomas Hapgood of Marlboro, deeds 105 acres in Marlboro to (his son) John Hapgood of Marlboro, “in consideration of good will and affection.”
    Thomas Hapgood, November 12, 1703, petitioned the General Court for an allowance, alleging that “he having, in 1690, been detached into the service against the Indian enemy, was engaged in the bloody fight near Oyster River, New Hampshire, wherein Captain Noah Wiswell and divers others were slain and wounded; that he then had his left arm broken and his right hand much shot, so that he endured great pain and narrowly escaped with his life; that he was thereby much disabled for labor and getting his livelihood; forced to sell what stock he had acquired before being wounded to maintain himself since, and that in the fight he was necessitated to leave and lose his arms with which he was well furnished at his own charge.” The court granted him £5.
    He died October 4, 1764. An English publication had this notice of his death:
    Died, at Marlboro', New England, in the ninety-fifth year of his age, Mr. Thomas Hapgood. His posterity were very numerous, viz., nine children, ninety-two grandchildren, two hundred and eight great grandchildren, and four great great grandchildren; in all, three hundred and thirteen. His grandchildren saw their grandchildren and their grandfather at the same time.

Will: From The Hapgood Family:371
    COPY OF THE WILL OF THOMAS HAPGOOD.
    In the Name of God amen the Tenth Day of June one Thousand seven Hundred and sixty and in the thirty third year of His Majestys
Reign I Thomas Hapgood of Marlborough in the County of Middlesex and Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England yeoman. Being advanced in age and Infirm in Body But of Perfect mind and memory Thanks be Given to God therefor Calling unto mind the mortality of my Body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to Dye Do make and ordain this my Last will and Testament that is to say Principly and first of all I give and Reacomend my Soul into the Hands of God that gave it and my Body I Reacomend to the Earth to be Buried
in Decent Christian Burial at the Discretion of my Executor Nothing Doubting But at the genaral Resurection I shall Receive the Same again by the mighty Power of God and as Touching such Worldly Estate wherewith it hath Pleased God to Bless me in this Life I Give and Dispose of the same in the following manner and form
    Inprimis I Give and Bequeath to the Heirs of my son Thomas Hapgood Deceased the Sum of Sixteen Pounds to be paid by My Executors hereafter named within three years after my Deceas to be Equaly Divided Between them
    Itim I give to my son John Hapgood over and above what I have already Given him the Sum of thirty three Pounds Six Shillings and Eight Pence to be paid out of my estate within three years after my decease also one half of my husbandry tools also the one half of my rights in the Indian land propriety
    Itim I give to my son Joseph Hapgood over and above what I have already given him the sum of thirty three pounds six shillings and eight pence to be paid out of my estate within three years after my decease also I give to my said son Joseph Hapgood his heirs and assigns forever all my part of my dwelling and about two acres of land bounded as follows Southerly and westerly and northerly by his own land and easterly by the high way also one half of my Husbandry tools also one half
of my rights in the Indian land propriety
    Itim I give to my daughter Mary the wife of John Wheeler the sum of Sixty Six pounds thirteen shillings and four pence to be paid to her or her heirs by my Executors hereafter named within two years after my decease also one sixth part of my indore moovables after my decease
    Itim I give to my daughter Sarah Hoar the wife of Benjamin Hoar the sum of sixty six pounds thirteen shillings and four pence to be paid to her or her heirs by my Executors within two years after my decease also I give to her one sixth part of my indoore moovables after my decease
    Itim I give to the children of my daughter Judith Taylor deceased the sum of sixty six pounds thirteen shillings and four pence to be paid to them or their heirs within two years after my decease also I give them one sixth part of my indoore moovables after my decease
    Itim I give to my daughter Elisabeth the wife of William Taylor the sum of sixty six pounds thirteen shillings and four pence to be paid to her or her heirs by my Executors within two years after my decease also one sixth part of my indoore moovables after my decase
    Itim I give to my daughter Hepzibah the wife of Edward Godard the sum of sixty six pounds thirteen shillings and four pence to be paid her or her heirs by my Executors within two years after my decease also one sixth part of my indoore moovables after my decase
    Itim I give to my daughter Huldah Witherbe the sum of sixty six pounds thirteen shillings and four pence to be paid to her or to her heirs by my Executors within two years after my decease also one sixth part of my indoore moovables
    Itim my will is that the Rest of my Estate if any there be after the Leagesees afore said and my funeral charges are paid and my just debts if any there be the Rest of my Estate to be equaly divided between all my sons and daughters or their heirs as afore said Itim I like wise constitute make and ordain my two sons John Hapgood and Joseph Hapgood my sole Executors of this my last will and testament and I do hereby utterly disallow revoke and disanull all and every other or former Testaments wills Leagices and bequests and Executors by me in any ways before named willed and bequeathed Ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day
and year afore written
    Thomas Hapgood [by mark] (Seal)
Signed sealed published pronounced and declared by the said Thomas Hapgood as his last will and testament in the presence of us the subscribers
    Joseph Tayntor [by mark]. John Warren [signed]. Ezra How [signed]
October ye 8th 1763
    We the Subscribers Being Leagetees in the afore said will are satisfied with the Leagecies given us therein and Desire the said will may be proved and approved as witness our Hands
    Mary Wheeler, Benja Hoar & Sarah Hoar, David Taylor, Stephen Flagg & Judith Flagg, Zillah Taylor, Mary Rice heir to Elisabeth Taylor, Rhoda Goddard one of the heirs to Hephzibah Godara, Huldah Witherbe
Middlesex SS. Octobr. 31. 1763
    Mr Ezra How (who wrote the foregoing instrument) made solemn oath that what the aforenamed Testator gave in this his Will to the Children of his Daughter Judith Taylor He intended that it should be equally divided among them, as he declared to the said Ezra; but that it was a casual omission in him (in writing said Will) that it was not so expressed
    Sworn before me S. Danforth J. Prob — Justice of the Peace
A true copy.
    Attest, S. H. Folsom Register.

    His will was proved October 31, 1763, and John having died in the meantime, Joseph, who was his co-executor, acted alone. His estate, exclusive of indoor movables, was inventoried at £533.2s.3d. He had, in his lifetime, given each of his sons farms.
Ca 1690 Thomas married Judith Barker (8418) , daughter of John Barker (3 Mar 1646-10 Mar 1710) & Judith Simonds (2939) (3 Apr 1646-10 Apr 1704). Born on 9 Apr 1671 in Concord, MA.371 Judith died in Marlboro, MA, on 15 Aug 1759; she was 88.371

From The Hapgood Family, page 162:371
    Middlesex Probate Record Docket, No. 57 : Will of John Barker of Concord, Massachusetts, dated March 14, 1710-11, probate April 21, 1718, names “My eldest daughter Judith Hapgood,” and Thomas Hapgood and wife Judith, signed a receipt to the Executor in October, 1718, for their share of the estate.
Their children include:
22495i.
Mary Hapgood (6 Oct 1694-)
22496ii.
Sarah Hapgood (10 Feb 1686-16 Jan 1770)
22497iii.
Judith Hapgood (24 Feb 1698-8 Nov 1742)
22498iv.
Elizabeth Hapgood (4 Oct 1699-17 Mar 1763)
22499v.
Capt. Thomas Hapgood (18 Apr 1702-5 Oct 1745)
22500vi.
Hepsibeth Hapgood (27 Jun 1704-19 Jul 1763)
22501vii.
John Hapgood (9 Feb 1706/7-26 May 1762)
22502viii.
Huldah Hapgood (10 Feb 1709-)
22503ix.
Joseph Hapgood (2 Oct 1714-)
13954. Sarah Hapgood. Born ca 1670.371 Sarah died in Townsend, MA bef 10 Oct 1746.

Sarah’s estate was probated 10 Oct 1746. Sarah Whitney, late of Townsend, widow of Jonathan Whitney of Concord, named Shadrech Whitney, eldest son, also as guardian for the heirs of Zaccheus Whitney, decease; Jonathan Whitney; Amos Whitney, also as guardian for the heirs of Timothy Whitney, deceased; Daniel Whitney; Sarah Warren, widow; Samuel Hunt and wife Tabitha; Ebenezer Cutler and Anna his wife; witnesses Samuel Taylor and William Fletcher. Inventory taken by Daniel Taylor and William Fletcher.
On 10 Apr 1688 Sarah married Jonathan Whitney (7535) , son of Jonathan Whitney (1634-ca 1702) & Lydia Jones (2742) (1632-3 Feb 1701/2), in Sherborn, MA. Born on 20 Oct 1658 in Watertown, MA.30 Jonathan died in Concord, MA 17 Mar 1734/5.

From The Hapgood Family:371
    Jonathan had a lot and built a house near Chestnut Brook in Sherborn about 1691. He afterwards went to Concord where he died 17 Mar 1735, will dated 14 Mar 1735, proved 18 Mar 1735. He served in King Philip’s war in 1676; resdided in Sherborn, Watertown, and Concord.
Their children include:
20647i.
Sarah Whitney (2 Mar 1692/3-10 Apr 1752)
20648ii.
Jonathan Whitney (27 Sep 1694-)
20649iii.
Tabitha Whitney (1 Sep 1696-2 Nov 1762)
20650iv.
Shadrach Whitney (12 Oct 1698-Jul 1764)
20651v.
Jonathan Whitney (25 Nov 1700-)
20652vi.
Anna Whitney (22 May 1702-24 Aug 1793)
20653vii.
Amos Whitney (1 May 1705-)
20654viii.
Zaccheus Whitney (16 Nov 1707-)
20655ix.
Isaac Whitney (ca 1708-)
20656x.
Timothy Whitney (20 Feb 1709-1740)
20657xi.
Daniel Whitney (ca 1710-)
13955. Elizabeth Hapgood. Born ca 1674.371 Elizabeth died on 20 Jul 1689.371

According to The Hapgood Family,444 Elizabeth died unmarried 20 Jul 1689, but other sources say she married Edward Brown about 1700, some with even a marriage date of 3 Jan 1699/1700 at Stow. There’s no record of such a marriage at Stow.
Elizabeth married Edward Brown, son of Boaz Brown (14 Feb 1641/2-7 Apr 1724) & Mary Winship (2 Jul 1641-20 Jul 1726). Born on 20 Mar 1672 in Concord, MA. Edward died in Stow, MA, on 15 Mar 1711; he was 38.444
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