Birth Marriage and Death listed in THE BOOK OF THE WILDERS THOMAS LINE PG 1 FHL PG 1 FHL 929.273 W 645 WI VOL ! ---------------------------------------------------------------- in 1706 Thomas Wilder gave the town of Lancaster the graveyard on the farm surrounding the grave of his father, thomas Wilder, who was the first one buried therein. A selectman he owned a large tract of land in Lancaster. He served in the King William's War ( 1689 to 1998 and in the Queen Ann's war ( 1701 tp 1713 ) ---------------------------------------------------------------- -
From TH E HISTORYOF THE LOWN OF LANCASTER, MASS. by Rev Abajah P Marvin
From gravestone in old common burying grounds “ Here lyes Buried ye Body of Capt THOMAS WILDER who died August ye 7 th 1716 about ye 70 th of ye age.”