Received into church in Charlestown 30 March 1640 and marrried there 2 days later. Made a freeman in Charlestown 2 June 1651.118

Probably was sent to Colonies with brother Edward and sister Elizabeth after his father died. In the previous edition of the “Book of the Wilders,” author Rev Charles H Wilder states, “It was a time of bitter persecution [of Protestants] in England. Charles I had alienated the best of his subjects by enforcing religious conformity, and great numbers fled from the Star Chamber, the administrations of Laud and the fear of a return to the Papacy, to the new colonies in New England, and with the multitudes, it was not difficult for the family to be provided for.”118

In 1651 he moved about 40 miles to the west to an area purchased from Native Americans to form the community of Nashawa or Nashawena. He was about 40 years old. His 500-acre farm was just east of the present town of Lancaster, as marked by the burial ground on his old farm where his was the first body planted. The stone which was later placed there mistakenly says he was settled in Hingham in 1641. Rev Moses Wilder’s research termed him a “substantial, capable man, respected in the community, an active member of the church, a thorough Puritan, jealous of the rights of the brotherhood and willing to resist the encroachments of the ministry, as he estimated them.”118

He was a selectman of Lancaster until his death. His widow Anna and son Thomas were executors of his estate.118

Andrews Family Lines gives death place as Worcester150