Samuel Haskell Sr.'s wife was Sybil Willard, the great granddaughter of Simon Willard, a hero of King Philip's War. I wrote about Simon ten years ago so I will write now about Sybil's grandfather Henry Willard.
This is from Joseph Willard's family history, The Willard Memoir:
11. Henry, son of Simon and Mary; born at Concord, June 4,1655. He married, first, Mary Lakin, daughter ofLakin, of Groton, July 18, 1674, when at the age of nineteen. She died not later, I think, than 1688. Second, Dorcas Cutler, about 1689, perhaps of the Charlestown family. She survived her husband, and afterwards became the wife of Benjamin Bellows, for many years a resident of Lancaster. Henry Willard died leaving a good estate, and a large heritage of children. He had resided a while in Groton, but spent the principal part of his life in Lancaster, where he died, in middle life, in the year 1701. As several of his sons held highly respectable positions in life, it is a just inference in favor of the character of the parents. No contemporaneous notice of him is known to exist.-p359
Willard Memoir: Or, Life and Times of Major Simon Willard; with Notices of Three Generations of His Descendants, and Two Collateral Branches in the United States; Also, Some Account of the Name and Family in Europe from an Early Day Phillips, Sampson, Boston, Ma.1858
Henry did indeed leave a "large heritage of children", fourteen to be exact.Thirteen were with his first wife Mary Lakin/Larkin and one with his second wife Dorcas Cutler. All are mentioned in Henry's will which I found at the AmericanAncestors website and will transcribe eventually.
I'm descended from Henry and Mary's son Joseph Willard.
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