Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . ood, that isof wooded island. The latter was the reputedfounder of the Heywood family in England, fromwhich the American family is descended. Thisestate remained in the possession of the descendantsof Peter Heywood more than five hundred years,or until 1717 when Robert Heywood sold it to JohnStarkey, of Rochdale, whose grandson, JamesStarkey, dying intestate, allowed the place to passinto the hands of the Crown. It is now an attractivepub
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . ood, that isof wooded island. The latter was the reputedfounder of the Heywood family in England, fromwhich the American family is descended. Thisestate remained in the possession of the descendantsof Peter Heywood more than five hundred years,or until 1717 when Robert Heywood sold it to JohnStarkey, of Rochdale, whose grandson, JamesStarkey, dying intestate, allowed the place to passinto the hands of the Crown. It is now an attractivepublic park, having been donated for the purpose byQueen Victoria. While the English line is tracedin an unbroken line from this Peter Heywood, theancestry of the emigrants to America had not atlast accounts been discovered. James and John Hey-wood, both about twenty-two years old, presumablybrothers, came together in the ship Planter in were both certified from Stepney Parish, Lon-don. James Heywood settled in Charlestown andWoburn where he died November 20, 1642. JohnHeywood is the ancestor of the Worcester and Gard-ner families of this
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