Notes:

1740    HAYWARD    Benjamin, s. of Benjamin Jr. and Molley, Sept. 10, 1740.          Birth    Mendon  
1740    HAYWARD    Benjamin son of Benjamin Jr. and Molley Sept. 10 1740.          Birth    Mendon
1736    HAYWARD    Benjamin - 1736.          Birth    Mendon
1740    HAYWARD    Elisabeth [-], w. of Benjamin, Oct. 29, 1740.          Birth    Mendon
1740    HAYWARD    Elisabeth - wife of Benjamin Oct. 29 1740.          Birth    Mendon

1759    HAYWARD    Benjamin (3d int.) and Elizabeth Thayer Feb. 22 1759.          Marriage    Mendon
1759    HAYWARD    Benjamin (3d, int.) and Elizabeth Thayer, Feb. 22, 1759.          Marriage    Mendon
1759    THAYER    Elizabeth and Benjamin Hayward (31 int.) Feb. 22 1759.          Marriage    Mendon
1759    THAYER    Elizabeth and Benjamin Hayward (31, int.), Feb. 22, 1759.          Marriage    Mendon

1759    HAYWARD    Mary, d. of Benjamin and Elisabeth, Oct. 10, 1759.          Birth    Mendon
1759    HAYWARD    Mary daughter of Benjamin and Elisabeth Oct. 10 1759.          Birth    Mendon
1760    HAYWARD    Molley, d. of Benjamin 3d and Elizabeth, Oct. 10, 1760.          Birth    Mendon
1760    HAYWARD    Molley daughter of Benjamin 3d and Elizabeth Oct. 10 1760.          Birth    Mendon

1762    HAYWARD    Tripliena daughter of Benjamin and Elisabeth Feb. 13 1762.          Birth    Mendon
1762    HAYWARD    Tripliena, d. of Benjamin and Elisabeth, Feb. 13, 1762.          Birth    Mendon
1763    HAYWARD    Tryphena daughter of Benjamin 3d and Elizabeth Feb. 14 1763.          Birth    Mendon
1763    HAYWARD    Tryphena, d. of Benjamin 3d and Elizabeth, Feb. 14, 1763.          Birth    Mendon
1765    HAYWARD    Deborah daughter of Benjamin and Elisabeth June 16 1765.          Birth    Mendon
1765    HAYWARD    Deborah, d. of Benjamin and Elisabeth, June 16, 1765.          Birth    Mendon 
1767    HAYWARD    Shradreich son of Benjamin and Elisabeth July 2 1767.          Birth    Mendon
1767    HAYWARD    Shradreich, s. of Benjamin and Elisabeth, July 2, 1767.          Birth    Mendon
1775    HAYWARD    Shradreich son of Benjamin and Elisabeth Oct. 3 1775.          Death    Mendon
1775    HAYWARD    Shr2dreich, s. of Benjamin and Elisabeth, Oct. 3, 1775.          Death    Mendon
1771    HAYWARD    Phinehas son of Benjamin and Elisabeth June 9 1771.          Birth    Mendon
1771    HAYWARD    Phinehas, s. of Benjamin and Elisabeth, June 9, 1771.          Birth    Mendon
1773    HAYWARD    Nance, d. of Benjamin and Elisabeth, Dec. 9, 1773.          Birth    Mendon
1773    HAYWARD    Nance daughter of Benjamin and Elisabeth Dec. 9 1773.          Birth    Mendon
1777    HAYWARD    Montgomary, ch. of Benjamin and Elisabeth, Apr. 13, 1777.          Birth    Mendon
1777    HAYWARD    Montgomary ch. of Benjamin and Elisabeth Apr. 13 1777.          Birth    Mendon
1781    HAYWARD    Ben, s. of Benjamin and Elisabeth, Sept. 13, 1781. Benjamin, -, 1736.          Birth    Mendon   
1781    HAYWARD    Ben son of Benjamin and Elisabeth Sept. 13 1781.          Birth    Mendon
1736    HAYWARD    Ben, s. of Benjamin and Elisabeth, Sept. 13, 1781. Benjamin, -, 1736.          Birth    Mendon

Birth:
1713    HAYWARD    Benjemin son of Benjemin and Anna Aug. 23 1713.          Birth    Mendon  
1713    HAYWARD    Benjemin, s. of Benjemin and Anna, Aug. 23, 1713.          Birth    Mendon

Died:
1783    HAYWARD    Benjamin Oct. 29 1783.          Death    Mendon
1783    HAYWARD    Benjamin, Oct. 29, 1783.          Death    Mendon

Benjamin married Mary "Molley" Wheaton on 13 Feb 1734/35 in Mendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts. Mary (daughter of Samuel Wheaton and Mary Rockwood) was born on 23 Oct 1718 in Mendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts; died in Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Levi Hayward
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 121379715
• Group: Veteran or Patriot of Revolutionary War

Notes:

From FindaGrave:

86 years old It was suggested that previous generations of this family sometimes spelled the name "Hayward".

Levi moved to Townsend about 1775. Local historians credit him with building the first farmhouse in the area.

Vermont Phœnix, June 08, 1838: "Died, n Townshend, May 14, Mr. Levi Howard, aged 85, a soldier of the Revolution. Printers in N. York and Mass are requestd &c."

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/121379715

Group:
Revolutionary War Patriot or Soldier.

Levi married Bethiah Chapin on 28 May 1776. Bethiah (daughter of John Chapin and Rhoda Albee) was born on 12 Mar 1755; died on 6 Oct 1829 in Vermont; was buried after 6 Oct 1829 in Round Hilll Cemetery, West Townshend, Windham County, Vermont. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 42583423
• Group: Descendant of Revolutionary War Veteran

Notes:

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42583423

Group:
DAR or SAR Eligible Descendant of a Revolutionary War Veteran

Sylvia married Judge Peter Rawson Taft, II on 5 Dec 1810 in Townshend, Windham County, Vermont. Peter (son of Aaron Taft and Rhoda Rawson) was born on 14 Apr 1785 in Uxbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts; died on 1 Jan 1867 in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio; was buried after 1 Jan 1867 in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 4592
• Group: Descendant of Revolutionary War Veteran
• Group: Head of Line - Nicholas Taft

Notes:

From FindaGrave:

US Attorney General, Secretary of War, and Diplomat. The founder of the Taft Republican political dynasty, he served as the Secretary of War from March to May 1876 and the Attorney General from May 1876 until March 1877 under President Ulysses S. Grant.

The only child of Peter Rawson Taft, a Vermont lawyer and politician, he attended local schools until the age of sixteen. He then taught school to earn money to attend Amherst Academy (now Amherst College) in Amherst, Massachusetts. In 1829 he entered Yale College at New Haven, Connecticut and graduated in 1833. From 1837 until 1837 he was an instructor at Elington, Connecticut and subsequently studied law at the Yale Law School and was admitted to the Connecticut bar in 1838. Taft elected not want to practice law in New York because he believed people were under the corrupting influence of wealth, so in 1839 he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio where he became a member of the Cincinnati City Council, and one of the most influential citizens of Ohio.

In 1856 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention, and also that year made an unsuccessful run for the US House of Representatives against George H. Pendleton. From 1866 until 1872 he was a judge of the Superior Court of Cincinnati, after which he resigned to practice law with two of his sons. In 1872 he was the first president of the Cincinnati Bar Association. In 1875 he ran for the Republican nomination for the Governor of Ohio but lost to future US President Rutherford B. Hayes. In 1876 when US Secretary of War William W. Belknap resigned, President Ulysses S. Grant appointed him for the position in March of that year. During his short term, he reformed and reversed War Department policy by having commanders at US military forts in the West to choose who would run post traderships. In May 1876 Grant appointed him to become the US Attorney General. The following October, after the highly contested Hayes-Tilden Presidential Election, he supported Grant's use of the military in South Carolina and Mississippi to suppress violence against African Americans in the South. He then cosponsored a bill, signed into law by Grant, that peacefully settled the 1876 Election with an Electoral Commission. In 1879 he was again an unsuccessful Republican candidate for Governor of Ohio, losing to Charles Foster. In 1882 he was appointed by President Chester A. Arthur as US Minister to Austria-Hungary until 1884 and US Minister to Imperial Russia in St. Petersburg from 1884 to 1885.

He died at the age of 80. His son, William Howard Taft, became the 27th US President. Both his grandson and great-grandson, Robert A. Taft I and Robert Taft Jr., were US Senators and his great-great-grandson, Robert A. Taft II, was the Governor of Ohio from 1999 until 2007.

Bio by: William Bjornstad

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/4592

Group:
DAR or SAR Eligible Descendant of a Revolutionary War Veteran

Group:
Descendants of Nicholas Taft of Stepney, several of whose children were early immigrants to Massachusetts.

Alphonso married Louisa Maria Torrey on 26 Dec 1853 in Millbury, Worcester County, Massachusetts. Louisa (daughter of Samuel Davenport Torrey and Susan Holman Waters) was born on 11 Sep 1827 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; died on 8 Dec 1907 in Millbury, Worcester County, Massachusetts; was buried after 8 Dec 1907 in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]