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was also a granddaughter of Zebulon Leonard,
a well-kno\vn lawyer of Middlesex county. Mrs.
Washburn died Dec. 14, 1861, and was buried
in Mount Prospect cemetery. She was a member
of the Unitarian Church. Five children
were born to this second marriage, namely:
Abram, born Aug. 1, 1833, died in 1871 ; Nath-
aniel, born Sept. 6, 1835, died May 28, 1861 ;
Hope Savage, bom April 19, 1837, died June
2, 1855; Hannah Ames, born May 14, 1840, resides
on the old homestead ; and Samuel Shaw,
born Jan. 13, 1842, died June 24, 1862.
HAYWARD (Taunton family). Since the.
close of the Civil war there have resided at
Taunton and been active and prominent there
in its social and professional life representatives
of one branch of the Easton Hayward
family. Reference is made to the late Joseph
W. Hayward, M. D., a Civil war surgeon,
brevet major of United States volunteers, who
was long active in his profession and in useful
citizenship in the city of his adoption, where
now his son, Dr. Walter Barrows Hayward,
is following the profession of his father.
The branch to which the Hayw^rds of Taunton
under consideration belong, was descended
from (I) Thomas Hayward, of Aylesford,
England, who with his wife Susanna and five
children came to this country in 1630, in the
ship "Hercules," settling at Cambridge, where
he was a proprietor in 1635-36. He removed
to Duxbury, where he was a proprietor in
1638, and a freeman in 1647. He removed to
Bridgewater, becoming
among the earliest and
a proprietor, and
oldest of the settlers
of the town. He died in 1681, and his will
bears date of 1678. His children were: Thomas,
Nathaniel, John, Joseph, Elisha, Mary (wife
of Edward Mitchell) and Martha (wife of
John Howard ) .
(II) Deacon Joseph Hayward, son of
Thomas, married (first) Alice, daughter of
Elder William Brett, and had a son Joseph,
born in 1673. He married again and had a
daughter Alice, born in 1683. He married
(third) Hannah, daughter of Experience
Mitchell and his wife Jane (Cooke) Mitchell,
the latter the daughter of Francis Cooke, the
"Mayflower" pilgrim. By this third marriage
there were children: Mary, born 1685 (married
in .1706 Thomas Ames) ; Thomas, born
1687; Edward, born July 24, 1689; Hannah,
born 1691 (married in 1714 Capt. Ebenezer
Byrarn)
; Susanna, born 1695 (married prob-
ably in 1719 Jonathan Packard) ; Peter, born
1699; and Abigail, born 1702 (married in
1731 Zachariah Snell).
(III) Edward Haywarf, son of Deacon
Joseph, born in 1689, settled in Taunton
North Purchase, now Easton, as early as 1714.
In 1715 he married Hannah, daughter of Ben-
jamin Kinsley. Their children were: Hannah,
born July 15. 1716; Edward, April 13, 1718;
Joseph, April 27, 1722 (died in 1740) ; and
Matthew, Dec. 10, 1728. Mrs. Hannah (Kinsley)
Hayward died Nov. 11, 1747. On Oct.
26, 1748, Mr. Hayward married (second)
Keziah White, widow of Edward White,
of West Bridgewater, and their children
were: Edward, born July 31, 1749; Ke-
ziah, July 12, 1751; Joseph, July 17, 1753;
and Solomon, Aug. 3, 1755. Edward Hayward
was deacon in the Congregational
Church. In 1737 he was a justice of the
peace; and he also represented the town in the
State Legislature. He died May 21, 1760, in
the seventy-first year of his age.
(IV) Joseph Hayward, son of Edward and
Keziah, born July 17, 1753, married Jan. 24,
1781, Lydia, daughter of Elisha Barrows, Esq.,
of Rochester, and they became the parents of
the following children: Elizabeth Smith,
Rotheus, Lucy, Lydia, Joseph, Ansel, Elisha,
Rowena, Sophia, Minerva, Edward Tupper,
Daniel, Lydia (2), and George Washington.
The aggregate height of the seven sons, in
their shoes, was forty-three feet.
(V) Capt. George Washington Hayward,
son of Joseph and Lydia (Barrows), and father
of the late Dr. Joseph W. Hayward, of Taunton,
was born June 10, 1807. He was one of
the leading men and useful citizens of his
town. In the early thirties he was made cap-
tain in the militia of the town—was next to
the last captain
Easton militia,
of the
which
East
held
company of the
its last annual
meeting in May, 1835. He was for five years,
including 1838, 1841, 1844 and 1846, a member
of the superintending school committee.
He was selectman of the town for seven years,
1849-1856. He married Sylvia Smith Pratt,
and they had three children, as follows:
Georgiana, born Nov. 20, 1835, who died July
17, 1899; Edward Russell, born Jan. 17, 1837;
and Joseph Warren.
(VI) Dr. Joseph Waeren Haywakd, son of
George Washington and Sylvia S. (Pratt), was
born in Easton July 11, 1841. He was graduated
at the Bridgewater normal school in the
spring of I860, then taught school two winters.
In 1861 he began the study of medicine with
Dr. Edgar E. Dean, of North Bridgewater,
and entered Harvard Medical School in the
fall of 1862. On March 13, 1863, having
passed the examination of the regular army