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Descendants of William Pollard

Generation No. 1

1. WILLIAM¹ POLLARD was born 1640 in Coventry, Warwickshire, England, and died Abt. 1700 in Coventry, Warwickshire, England. He married MARY FARMER 1660 in Coventry, Warwickshire, England, daughter of JOHANNES FARMER and ISABELL BURBIDGE. She was born September 13, 1640 in Coventry, Warwickshire, England, and died 1701 in Coventry, Warwickshire, England.

Notes for WILLIAM POLLARD:
The Pollard family in America is divided into four principal classes;
1- The early Boston Pollards.
2- The Billerica Pollards.
3- The Virginia Pol lards.
4- Emigrants since 1800.

Our Pollards belong to the Billerica Pollards . Billerica, once part of Cambridge, was set off in 1655 and is some 20 miles north-west of Boston. The forefathers of the Pollards originally came from the Danes, settling in the county of Antrim, Ireland in the fifteenth century. In the sixteenth century a branch of these Pollards crossed to Northumberland , England and in the 17th century two brothers went into Sussex, South England and crossed over to America in 1620. One of the brothers settled in Boston and the other was shipwrecked on an East India trip.The Billerica Pollards were from Coventry, England and Thomas, the son of William, was the first Billerica Pollard to come to the USA.

Children of WILLIAM POLLARD and MARY FARMER are:

	i.		WILLIAM² POLLARD, b. Abt. 1662; d. Unknown.
	ii.		JOHN POLLARD, b. Abt. 1664, Coventry, Warwickshire, England; d. Unknown.
	iii.		ELIZABETH POLLARD, b. Abt. 1666, Coventry, Warwickshire, England; d. Unknown.

More About ELIZABETH POLLARD:
Baptism: August 30, 1668, Ansley, Warwickshire, England

	iv.	NATHANIEL POLLARD, b. Abt. 1668; d. Unknown.
2.	v.	THOMAS POLLARD, b. Abt. 1670, Coventry, Warwickshire, England; d. April 04, 1724, Billerica, Mass. USA.
	vi.	JOSEPH POLLARD, b. Abt. 1672; d. Unknown.
	vii.	JAMES POLLARD, b. Abt. 1674, Coventry, Warwickshire, England; d. Unknown.

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