Russ Spooner
5/29/2004
23:35:04
|  RE: spooner about 1655,1719
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HANNAH SPOONER (SAMUEL, SAMUEL, WILLIAM) was born August 18, 1719 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts, and died February 06, 1812 in Hardwick, Worcester County. She married BENJAMIN WILLIS March 30, 1743 in Dartmouth. He was born May 13, 1718 in Dartmouth, and died 1756 in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts.
Benjamin Willis was a farmer. He removed from Darmouth to Hardwick, Massachusetts, about 1749.
A grandson of his wrote some years since:
"My grandfather Willis died before I was born. I recollect but few circumstances mentioned by grandmother."
"They moved into the wilderness; no land was cleared. They had to cut poles and to make a yard before they could unyoke the oxen. She (my grandmother) showed me the rock beside which she made a fire and baked a Jonny-cake for supper. Grandfather got his farm under such cultivation as to keep a good stock of cattle before he died. Grandmother administered and settled the estate after great trouble, and carried on the farm. The latter part of one winter and in early spring, snow fell so deep that the fences were covered, and the crust was hard enogh to bear both men and cattle. Men went to march and April town meetings in a direct line. Being short of wood, grandmother would yoke the oxen, uncle Lemuel drive them (he was then ten or twelve years old) to the edge of the woods on the crust of the snow; she cut down a tree, hooked the chain, and he drove to the house while she cut another tree.
I remember after grandmother was eighty years of age, as she was singing one of her great-grand-children to sleep in her room, a neighbor called; the door of her room being ajar, he inquired withsome earnestness, 'what young girl is in the other room singing?' "
Source: Records of William Spooner of Plymouth, Massachusetts & his descendants Thomas Spooner, 1883
Children of HANNAH SPOONER and BENJAMIN WILLIS are:
REBECKAH WILLIS, b. March 20, 1743/44, Dartmouth; d. October 21, 1823.Christening: August 09, 1752
LEMUEL WILLIS, b. April 30, 1745, Dartmouth; d. April 25, 1829. Christening: August 09, 1752
ABIGAIL WILLIS, b. July 17, 1746, Dartmouth; d. December 25, 1810. Christening: August 09, 1752
HANNAH WILLIS, b. October 29, 1748, Hardwick; d. January 30, 1798. Christening: August 09, 1752
MEHITABEL WILLIS, b. November 27, 1750, Hardwick; d. July 30, 1797.
MARY WILLIS, b. April 27, 1752, Hardwick.
ZERVIAH WILLIS, b. May 01, 1754, Hardwick; d. April 08, 1827.
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RE: spooner about 1655,1719