George HAYWARD

1654 - 1675  (21 years)

• Name	George HAYWARD
  Birth	2 Jul 1654	Concord, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts Bay Colony   [1]
  Gender	Male
  KPWR	2 Nov 1675	Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony   [2, 3]
  	The United Colonies of New England, meeting at Boston on 2 November 1675, declared war against the Narragansett Indians for giving aid and asylum to members of King Philip's Wampanoag tribe. George was among the impressed Concord militiamen under the command of Capt. Nathaniel Davenport, line officer of the Fifth Company, Massachusetts Regiment of the United Colonies army who took part in the Narragansett Campaign.
  Death	16 Dec 1675	Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations   [4]
  	According to Book I of the Concord Register "George heaward Junr died 16 desemr 1675". This death date suggests that he died in one of the skirmishes preceding the Army's main assault at the Great Swamp Fort.
  death2 (conflicting)	19 Dec 1675	Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations   [5]
  	Contemporary military reports and letters on file at the Massachusetts Archives, however, list George as one of the four men in Capt. Davenport's company who was slain during the 19 December 1675 attack on the Swamp Fort. George was 21 years old at the time of his death.
  Person ID	I3918	mason
  Last Modified	22 Jul 2026

  
  

  Father	George HAYWARD   d. 29 Mar 1671, Concord, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts Bay Colony
  Mother	Mary (UNKNOWN)   d. 12 Mar 1692/3, Concord, Middlesex Co, Province of Massachusetts Bay
  Family ID	F445	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S142] Concord, Massachusetts Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1635 - 1850., ((Boston: T. Todd, printer, 1895)). p. 7. (Concord Registers - Book I) [S1621] George Madison Bodge, Bodge, Soldiers in Kings Philip's War, ((1906, Rpt. Baltimore, MD: GPC, 2002)), pp. 171-172, 179-190. [S1642] Charles Hosmer Walcott, Walcott, Concord in The Colonial Period, ((Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1884)), p. 124. [S142] Concord, Massachusetts Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1635 - 1850., ((Boston: T. Todd, printer, 1895)). p. 19 [Concord Registers - Book 1] [S1621] George Madison Bodge, Bodge, Soldiers in Kings Philip's War, ((1906, Rpt. Baltimore, MD: GPC, 2002)), pp. 171, 190.