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| | Simon Willard |
 | | See his "Life," by Joseph Willard (Boston, 1858).--His son, Samuel, clergyman, born in Concord, Massachusetts, 31 January, 1640; died in Boston, Massachusetts, 12 September, 1707, was graduated at Harvard in 1659, studied divinity, was ordained minister at Groton in 1663, and continued there until the Indian war of 1676. |
 | | John Hovey, with a Funeral Sermon on Samuel Willard," by William Thompson, A. M., and a preface by Thomas Prentice (Boston, 1743).--The second Samuel's son, Joseph, clergyman, born in Biddeford, Maine, 9 January, 1738; died in New Bedford, Massachusetts, 25 September, 1804, was left fatherless at an early age, and made several coasting voyages. |
 | | --Another son of Joseph, Joseph, author, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 14 March, 1798; died in Boston, Massachusetts, 12 May, 1865, studied at Phillips Exeter academy, was graduated at Harvard in 1816, studied law in Amherst, practised in Waltham and Lancaster, and settled in Boston in 1829. |
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