Eunice Wilder

1690 - 1778  (88 years)

• Name	Eunice Wilder
  Birth	1690	Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   [1, 2, 3]
  Married	say 1710 (20 years)	Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   [1, 3, 4]
  Capt. John White, the son of Josiah and Mary (Rice) White. He was born on 29 September 1684 in Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts. Capt. White was known as a great Indian fighter. He served on a grand jury in 1719, and was chosen a selectman a year later. During Lovewell's War, he led several expeditions against the Indians. By trade, John was a blacksmith and was well to do for his time. In 1717, he was licenced to keep a tavern. He died on Wednesday 12 September 1725 in Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts. His inventory, dated January 1725/26, was valued at £1220. Eunice petitioned for relief after her husband's death. It relates much of what happened during the war and is excerpted below: 'Some few Instances whereof your Petr. would humbly ripresent to this Honble Court. Yor. Petrs. sd. husband altho he had divers times had the honour to bear command yet voluntarily Enlisted himself under the late Capt. Lovewell, and choose rather to go as and Under Officer at that time because he would do what in him lay to Encourage others to Enlist and marched with him at the time when they killed the Ten Indians, in which march they were out near Forty days, Then he performed a march to a place called Cohosse on Connecticut River thinking to meet with the Enemy there and come in at Fort Dummer, being out thirty four days, tho they missed of their desired Success; Then in about Eight days time he had a Company raised and went to Pigwacket to bury Capt. Lovewell which he performed in a very difficult season of the year. Then he went to Connecticut at his own cost and charge to get a Company of Mohege Indians in order to go down to St Francois to take an Indian fort there, but failing of his aim, he returned home and then enlisted a Company of Voluntiers and marched designing for a Fort beyond Pigwacket, but was taken sick before he got there, returned home and dyed leaving your Petr. his bereaved widow with seven Children the Eldest about Fifteen years old and Four of them very young, & one she then went with who is now living; Issue: 1. Eunice White 2. John White 3. Elizabeth White 4. Mary White 5. Thomas White 6. Lois White 7. Nathaniel White 8. Dorothy White (1717-____)
  Death	15 May 1778	Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   [3]
  Siblings	5 brothers and 3 sisters
  1. Nathaniel Wilder,   b. 1675, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 19 May 1679, Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 4 years)   2. Captain Ephraim Wilder,   b. 16 Apr 1677, Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 13 Dec 1769, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 92 years) + 3. Mary Wilder,   b. 12 May 1679, Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 1728, Plainfield, Windham County, Connecticut, U.S.A.  (Age 48 years) ▻ Simon Stevens,  m. 1701   4. Elizabeth Wilder,   b. 14 Feb 1680/81, Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   5. Jonathan Wilder,   b. 20 Apr 1682, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 17 Aug 1707, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 25 years) + 6. Dorothy Wilder,   b. 1686, Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 20 Aug 1738, Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 52 years) ▻ Samuel Carter,  m. Mar 1701   7. Nathaniel Wilder,   b. 1688, Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 15 May 1778, Petersham, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 90 years)   8. Eunice Wilder,   b. 1690, Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 15 May 1778, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 88 years)   9. Oliver Wilder,   b. 1694, Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 8 Mar 1765, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 71 years)
  Patriarch & Matriarch	Thomas Wilder   d. 23 Oct 1667, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   (Grandfather)  Mary Platts,   b. Wygan, Lancashire, England d. After 1678, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   (Great Grandmother)
  Person ID, Branch	I15065
  Last Modified	2 Aug 2018

  
  

  Father	Lt. Nathaniel Wilder,   b. 3 Nov 1655, Charlestown, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 31 Jul 1704, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. (Age 48 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Mary Sawyer,   b. 4 Jan 1652/53, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  Relationship	Birth
  Family ID	F529	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Pedigree

  ← Click to display 1Eunice Wilder(1690 – 1778) 2Lt. Nathaniel Wilder(1655 – 1704) 4Thomas Wilder( – 1667) 8 16 17 9 18 19 5Anna( – 1692) 10 20 21 11 22 23 3Mary Sawyer(4 Jan 1652/53 – ) 6Thomas Sawyer(1616 – 1706) 12John Sawyer(1582 – 15 Jul) 24Thomas Sawyer(Abt 1556 – ) 25unknown wife 13 26 27 7Mary Prescott(24 Feb 1629/30 – 1716) 14John Prescott(1604/05 – 1681) 28Ralph Prescott(1569 – 1609) 29Helen(Abt 1571 – 1643) 15Mary Platts( – 1678) 30Abraham Gawkroger Platts 31

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 1690 - Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Married - say 1710 - Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Death - 15 May 1778 - Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  = Link to Google Earth
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• Sources 🟢 Primary Evidence 🟡 Secondary Evidence 🟠 Tertiary Evidence 🔴 Unreliable Evidence

  [S691] Benson, Alan. "Family Group Sheets of White, Whitcomb and Johnson", (Cleveland, Ohio: Compiled 11 December 1993). [S464] Nourse, Henry S. The Birth, Marriage and Death Register, Church Records and Epitaphs of Lancaster, Massachusetts 1643-1850, (Lancaster, Massachusetts: Henry S. Nourse, 1890). [S67] Ancestral File (LDS), (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), Questionnable Source. [S902] Ward, Andrew Henshaw. "Sudbury Records" , (Boston: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, volume XVIII , 1864).