John WALDRON^[1]

1665 - 1740  (75 years)

• Name	John WALDRON
  Born	1665	Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire
  Gender	Male
  Heritage	English
  Will Written	12 May 1740	New Hampshire
  Died	Jul 1740	Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire
  Person ID	I4028	Main
  Last Modified	4 Nov 2023

  
  

  Family	Mary HAM,   b. 2 Oct 1668, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire ,   d. 1742, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire  (Age 73 years)
  Married	29 Aug 1698	Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire
  Children	1. Richard WALDRON,   b. 1697, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire ,   d. 1789, Barrington, Strafford, New Hampshire  (Age 92 years)   2. Sarah WALDRON,   b. 1705, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire ,   d. Jul 1712, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire  (Age 7 years)   3. Bridget WALDRON,   b. 1707, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire ,   d. Jul 1712, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire  (Age 5 years)
  Last Modified	4 Oct 2023
  Family ID	F1430	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 1665 - Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire Married - 29 Aug 1698 - Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire Will Written - 12 May 1740 - New Hampshire Died - Jul 1740 - Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Notes

  Probate Records of the Province of New Hampshire, 1635-1771 (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1969), 2: 78, 319, 787-9. John Waldron, Sr. [X] of Dover. Married to Mary (Ham) Waldron, dau. of John Ham of Dover, a farmer. JWSr.'s will (w.d. 5/12/1740) has many children, hundreds of acres, & a negro slave to bequeath. Daniel Field of Dover: b. 9 /1690, acc. shot by John Waldron 4/23/1708. s/o Lt. Zachariah Field of Dover (selectman, Lt. of garrison, prominent) & Sarah (Roberts) Field, who had 4 sons & 4 daughters. Weapon: musket; Circumstances: "killing" -- died that night.; Court proceedings: 8/1708t: ordered to post bond & pay costs. 2/1709t: dismissed. bnf for mansl. John Waldron of Dover: hornbreaker, 1672; in June 1678, Jonathan Watson & Joseph Beard saw him overtaken in drink, a habit which brought distress to his family. In 1680 the court took drastic steps, ordering him confined with one leg chained to a post, and supplied with materials for his trade, the proceeds to go for his & his children's maintenance. Still in confinement in 1682. In 1684, in Boston, drunk & abusing a constable. 2 known children: Capt. John Waldron of Dover (b. circa 1675) & Elizabeth. Not seen again, unless he is also John (Walden) of Wells, who played cards in a Boston tavern in Feb. 1689 and paid a fine in court saying "There is something for you to make merry withy," and they sent him to jail. —— Twenty-five years ago, a great grand-daughter of JOHN WALDRON told us that he was picked up in the streets of an English sea-port while a boy, in an “unfair manner," by one "Master Heard, hustled off to America, brought to Dover, and kept by said Heard as a chore-boy; that the boy was poorly clad and had a hard time of it, but excited the sympathies of one Mrs. Horne, past whose door he used to drive the cows, which Mrs. Horne did the forlorn boy many kindnesses, and becoming a widow married him. And further, that said Mrs. Horne lived on Horne's hill, where Stephen P. Palmer lately lived. Examination of records convinced us that the traditions were correct. Master John Heard, of Dover, a ship-master, in his Will mentions "my prentice" John Waldron, and we have no doubt that he-mildly speaking-kidnapped the boy. Waldron did marry widow Horne. She was granddaughter of that same Master Heard, being Mary, daughter of John Ham by wife Mary daughter of Master Heard: she was born 2 Oct. 1668: married, 1st, 30 June 1686, John Horne, son of the original William Horne,—he being born 25 Oct. 1663, lived on Horne's hill, and died Mar. 1696-7, leaving divers children. Widow Mary married, 2d, 29 Aug. 1698, JOHN WALDRON. [2]

  
  

• Sources

  [S4] Maine and New Hampshire, Genealogical Dictionary of, Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby and Walter Goodwin Davis, (The Southworth-Anthoensen Press, Portland, ME. 1928-1939), 232, 710-711. [S241] Misc, John Waldron, of Dover, N.H., and his descendants.