1William Richard Cutter and William Frederick Adams, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts, Vol. 2, p. 1186 (1910).
"(VI) Colonel Aaron, son of Simon (2) Willard, was born in Lancaster in 1701. He became one of the most prominent citizens of Worcester county, holding various civil and military offices. he was captain of the Lancaster company in the French and Indian war and was engaged for nine months in the reduction of Canada in 1758 under Colonel Oliver Partridge. He had a company of eighty Lancaster men in 1759 under General Ruggles; in 1761 he was at Crown Point. Afterward he was colonel of a Worcester county regiment. He married (first) December 16, 1724, Mary Wright, at Lancaster, Born 1703-04, died June 3, 1764. He married (second) (intentions dated December 22, 1766) Mary Brackett. sho died April 27, 1767, aged sixty-three years, two months and eight days. "Captain" Aaron died May 12, 1784, aged eighty-four, according to the Lancaster records. Children, born at Lancaster, by first wife: 1. Aaron, September 10, 1725, officer in the French and Indian wars, served in the revolution. 2. Simon, September 29, 1727. 3. Mary, January 21, 1729-30. 4. Nathaniel, February 28, 1731-32. 5. John, born September 22, 1734. 6. Peter, born February 26, 1736, mentioned below. 7. Elizabeth. 8. Dorothy, March 1, 1742. 9. Wright, February 20, 1745-46, died March 28, 1754.
(VII) Peter, son of Colonel Aaron Willard, was born at Lancaster, February 26, 1736
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