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From Reminiscencesof Worcester
by Caleb Wall; Tyler & Seagrave, Worcester MA, 1887
Page 30, et. seq.
Of the original "Fathers of the Town," Dea. and Capt. Daniel Heywood resided on the site of the present Bay State House, where he and his son and grandson of the same name kept a hotel for nearly one hundred years from the first organization of the town. The main portion of this ancient hotel building, afterwards known as the old "Central Hotel," and continued from the last Daniel Heywood's time as a public house by Reuben Wheeler, Samuel Hathaway, Cyrus Stockwell, Z. and D. Bonney, Luke Williams, Wood & Fisher, E. T. Balcom, Clifford & Swan, and Warner Clifford, to the year 1854, was then removed to make way for the Bay State House, and the old structure now stands on the south-east corner of Salem and Madison street. One of its chambers was used for a county prison in 1632. The north addition to it made by Mr. Wheeler more than fifty years ago, is now a part of the carriage manufactory of Messrs. Tolman, Russell, & Co., on Exchange street.
Daniel Heywood, one of two first deacons and tavern keepers in Worcester, was the son of Dea. John Heywood of Concord, from which place Daniel came in 1718, and married Hannah, sister of Major Daniel Ward. Of their seven children, the oldest, Mary, married Capt. israel Jennison; Rebecca, born in 1725, married Noah Jones, first keeper of the old Jones tavern beyond New Worcester, from 1760 to 1781; Daniel, born in 1727, married Anna Wait, Dec. 13, 1753, leaving a son Daniel, to whom his grandfather bequeathed most of his large estate, including the hotel, which he afterwards continued until his death in 1809; Abel, born in 1729, married Hannah Goddard from Brookline, and the latter's son, Abel, Jr., who married Hannah Cahmberlin, was father of the late Henry Heywood, who died in 1872, aged 87. the first Daniel Heywood's youngest daughter, Abigail, married Capt. Palmer Goulding, Jr., and another daughter, Sarah, married Asa Moore, a hotel keeper, who died in 1801, aged 89. The Heywoods were originally very extensive land owners in the central portion of the town on both sides of the main highway.
The first Daniel Heywood, born in Concord, April 15, 1696, who married in Worcester, Sept. 25, 1718, a daughter of Obadiah Ward, was brother of Phinehas Heywood, born at Concord in 1797, who went from here to Shrewsbury in 1739, and settled in the north-west part of that town near Worcester line, where his grandson, Daniel, now lives. Phinehas was prominent in town affairs in Shrewsbury preceding the Revolution, delegate to the Provincial Congresses, &c., and was father of the Hon. Benjamin Heywood, who settled in Worcester, performed meritorious service in the war, and was Judge of the Court of Common Pleas from 1802 to 1811, besides holding other important offices. The late Dr. Benjamin F. Heywood of this city, was a son of the Judge, who was a nephew of the first Daniel Heywood of Worcester. The Heywoods in Gardner are descendants of Phinehas.
Epitaph
From The Worcester book : a diary of noteworthy events in Worcester, Massachusetts, from 1657 to 1883
by Franklin P. Rice; Putnam, Davis & Co., Worcester, 1884
"Here lies inter'd the body of Major Daniel Heywood, who departed this life April 12th 1773 in ye 79th year of his age. He was an early settler in this town and one of the first Deacons of the church in this Place, in which office he continued to the day of his Death. This monument is erected at the desire and Expence of his Grandson & Heir, Daniel Heywood.
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