Surname Saturday -- LNU (England to colonial Massachusetts)

It's Surname Saturday, and I'm "counting down" my Ancestral Name List each week.  

I am in the 8th great-grandmothers and I'm up to Ancestor #1165 who is Elizabeth LNU  (1645-1715) [Note: the earlier great-grandmothers and 8th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts].

My ancestral line back through one generation of this LNU family line is:

1. Randall J. Seaver

2. Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983)
3. Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002)

4. Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942)
5. Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962)

8. Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922)
9. Hattie Louise Hildreth (1857-1920)

18.  Edward Hildreth (1831-1899)
19.  Sophia Newton (1834-1923)

36.  Zavhariah Hildreth (1783-1857)
37.  Hannah Sawtell (1789-1857)

72.  Zachariah Hildreth (1754-1828)
73.  Elizabeth Keyes (1759-1793)

144.  Zachariah Hildreth (1728-1784)
145.  Elizabeth Prescott (1734-1812)

290.  Jonas Prescott (1703-1784)
291.  Elizabeth Harwood (1701-1739)

582.  Nathaniel Harwood (1669-1751)
583.  Mary Barron (1673-1758)

1164.  Nathaniel Harwood, born about 1640 in probably England; died 07 February 1716 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.  He married about 1663 in Massachusetts, United States.
1165.  Elizabeth LNU, born about 1645 in Massachusetts, United States; died 25 April 1715 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.

Children of Nathaniel Harwood and Elizabeth LNU are:
i. William Harwood, born 28 March 1665 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States; died 17 September 1740 in Dunstable, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States; married Esther Perry 11 May 1692 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; born 11 August 1674 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; died 08 October 1747 in Dunstable, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
ii. Elizabeth Harwood, born before 16 June 1667 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States; died in  ; married John Barker 10 October 1704 in Massachusetts, United States; born 04 March 1644 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; died 21 April 1718 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
iii. Nathaniel Harwood, born 01 October 1669 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; died 28 August 1751 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; married Mary Barron (1673-1758) about 1695 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
iv. Peter Harwood, born 12 January 1672 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; died 10 May 1740 in Littleton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; married Mary Fox 07 November 1700 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; born 30 June 1673 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; died 17 May 1742 in Littleton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
v. John Harwood, born 08 February 1675 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.

vi. Mary Harwood, born 05 February 1676 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; died 29 September 1756 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; married Thomas Powers 25 October 1702 in Littleton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; born 25 May 1667 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; died 21 January 1734 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.

Information about this family was obtained from town vital records and from:


Dean Crawford Smith, edited by Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, 1878-1908: Part III: The Ancestry of Henry Clay Bartlett, 1832-1892 (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004), pages 290-297.  

This work provides more information about this family, including a possible surname for Nathaniel's wife, Elizabeth.  It makes a circumstantial case that this Elizabeth is Elizabeth Cheevers, baptized at St. Andrews, Canterbury, Kent, England on 27 September 1639, daughter of Peter and Elizabeth (--?--) Cheevers.  The evidence includes a will of Bartholomew Cheever of Boston in 1693 that names "my Cousin Elizabeth Harwood..."  Another Elizabeth, wife of a Henry Harwood of Boston, is another possibility, but may have died by 1693.  There are several other possibilities also.

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