Family: Jonathan Wilder / Zerviah Houghton (F393)

• Male Jonathan Wilder

  
  

  Birth	5 Oct 1710	Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts
  Death	13 Jan 1794	Sterling, Worcester County, Massachusetts
  Burial
  Marriage	23 Feb 1738/39  [1, 2]	Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts  [1, 2]
  Father	John Wilder | F631 Group Sheet
  Mother	Sarah White | F631 Group Sheet

  
  

  Female Zerviah Houghton

  
  

  Birth	26 May 1721	Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts
  Christening	26 May 1721	Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts
  Death	Nov 1804	Sterling, Worcester County, Massachusetts
  Burial
  Father	Benjamin Houghton | F391 Group Sheet
  Mother	Zerviah Moore | F391 Group Sheet

  
  

  Male Silas Wilder

  
  

  Birth	27 Feb 1747	Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts
  Christening	10 Apr 1748	Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts
  Death
  Burial

  
  

  Female Martha Wilder

  
  

  Birth	16 Feb 1750	Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts
  Death
  Burial

  
  

  Female + Hannah Wilder

  
  

  Birth	22 Mar 1753	Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts
  Death	12 Dec 1801	Wendell, Franklin County, Massachusetts
  Burial
  Spouse	Joseph Johnson | F229
  Marriage	1769

  
  

  Male Calven Wilder

  
  

  Birth	12 Jun 1755	Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts
  Death
  Burial

  
  

  Male Rev. Elihue Wilder

  
  

  Birth	11 Feb 1760	Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts
  Christening	16 Mar 1760	Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts
  Death	18 Jun 1818	Sterling, Worcester County, Massachusetts
  Burial

  
  

  Female Martha Wilder

  
  

  Birth	3 Nov 1761	Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts
  Death
  Burial

  
  

• Notes

  Married: Zerviah had promised herself to another. Jonathan challenged him and was victorious. The following are from the First Book of Lancaster Records, page 15: "November ye 25th 1738 Then Jonathan Wilder of Lancaster Entered his Entention of mariage with Zeruiah Houghton of said Town. December ye 1st 1738 David Farrar of Lancaster appeared and forbid ye banes of mariage being out asked betwix ye above Said Jonath. Wilder and Zeruiah Houghton, and aledged this Reson that shee had Promised him ye said farrar marriage from whch shee cannot Losly depart."

  
  

• Sources

  [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). [S1105] Burr, Annie Lane and Thomas Hovey Gage. "John Houghton of Lancaster, Mass., and Some of His Descendants", (Boston: The New England Historical and Genealogical Registe, volume LXXIX, 1925).