I66: William NEEDHAM (14 Jul 1713

William NEEDHAM

14 Jul 1713 - ____

BIRTH: 14 Jul 1713, Billerica, Middlesex, MA

Father: John NEEDHAM
Mother: Mary JEFTS

Family 1 : Mehittable BLANCHARD

MARRIAGE: 19 Feb 1738, Billerica, Middlesex, MA

                                   __________________
                 _John NEEDHAM ___|
                |                 |__________________
 _John NEEDHAM _|
|               |                  _William SAVIL ___+
|               |_Hannah SAVILLE _|
|                                 |_Hannah TIDD _____+
|
|--William NEEDHAM 
|
|                                  _Henry JEFTS _____
|                _Henry JEFTS ____|
|               |                 |_Hannah BIRTHS ___
|_Mary JEFTS ___|
                |                  _John BALDWIN ____+
                |_Mary BALDWIN ___|
                                  |_Mary RICHARDSON _+

[70] William Needham served in the French and Indian Wars with the
Billerica Militia, and may have authored a letter of complaint from his
company to their senior regimental officer, Col. Eleazar Tyng. See:

"The Disgruntled Billerica Militia of 1755"
Nathaniel Lane Taylor
New England Ancestors, Vol. 7, No. 1 (Winter 2006), p35
(The speculation concerning authorship of the letter is my own;
the article includes a photo of the letter, with William's signature
prominent and in a hand much like that of the letter's body.)

"Vital Records of Billerica"
New England Historic Genealogical Society
in "Massachusetts Town Birth Records"
http://ancestry.com/search/rectype/vital/massrecords/

"History of Billerica, Massachusetts, with a Genealogical Register"
Rev. Henry A. Hazen
Boston, A. Williams and Company, 1883
Genealogal Register, pp. 99-100: NEEDHAM
"Soldiers in the Public Service, 1745-62", p. 149
"Selectmen", p306: "Wm. Needham, 1751-54 4 [terms]"

"Descendants of John Needham"
Robert Francis Needham, Arlington, MA, 1934

Needham Family Genealogical Notes
Unpublished work; 1998
Virginia Joy Chism Nichols
Record #11