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John and William Stone came to Guilford in Rev. Henry Whitfield's company and both signed the covenant. They cultivated farms. John was also clothier and mason; William kept an inn. Intermarriages of their and John Bishop's descendants are numerous.

See numbers 85, 103, 118, 124, 151, 160, 235, 275, 293, 322, 344, 345, 404, 514, 756, 759, 1202, 1305, 1586, 2463.

WILCOX
(The Wilcox Family by Prof. Reynold Webb Wilcox, M. A., M. D., LL.D. e1893).

The family is of Saxon origin and was seated at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England, before the Norman Conquest. Sir John Dugdale in the visitation of the County Suffolk, mentins fifteen generations of the family previous to 1600. This traces the family back t 1200. In the reign of King Edward the Third, Sir John Wilcox was entrusted with several important commands against the French and had command of the cross-bow men at Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex. (Name was originally Wilcoxson).

ARMS

Azure: on a saltire ermine; a lion rampant

gules. Miscellaneous Genealogica et Heraldica.

V. 5 Fifth Series pp 177 and 273.

4. Wm. Wilcoxson (b. 1601) and his first descendants sailed from England on the "Planter" 4.5.1635, arrived in Boston May 26th; first home at Concord Mass., then at Stratford, Conn., 1639, were he was one of the first proprietors and a prominent man of the township. Dr. Trumbull says, "Wm. Wilcoxson, one of the first principal gentlemen of the town and church of Stratford" - Orcutt's History of Stratford, p. 89. (He died in 1652 and his widow m. Wm. Hayden). Their eighth child was:

3. Sarah Wilcoxson, later spelled Wilcox (1649-1691) m. 3.7.1665 John Meigs son of Vincent M., the first marriage performed in Killingsworth, of Conn. Their son:

2. Janna Meigs (1672-1739) m. 5.18.1693.

Hannah Willard, their dau:

1. Hester Meigs (b. 12.19.1709) m. Stephen Bishop.

See numbers 211, 482, 526, 646, 733, 800, 927, 1070, 1256, 1257, 1984, 2043, 2194.

WILLARD

Major Simon Willard. The "Willard Memoir" by Joseph Willard, Boston, 1858, stated that Willard gens was established in England as early as the reign of William the Conqueror, five of his followers named Willard being listed in Domesday Book