John Waldron of Dover, NH and his descendants by Alonzo Hall Quint 1879
“Twenty five years ago, a great grand daughter of John Waldon told us that he was picked up in the streets of and English sea port while a boy in an “unfair manner” by one “Master Heard” hustled off to America, brought to Dover, and kept by said Heard as a chore-boy; that the boy was portly clad and had a hard time of it, but excited the sympatbies of one Mrs. Horne, past whose door he used to drive the cows, which Mrs. Horne did the forlorn boy many kindnesses, and becoming a widow married him. and further, that said Mrs. Horne lived on Horne’s Hill. Waldron did marry widow Horne. she was granddaughter to that same Master Heard, being Mary, daughter of John Ham by wife Mary daughter of Master Heard. She was born 2 Oct 1668; marrried 1st 30 June 1686 John Horne, son of the original William Horne, he being born 25 Oct 1663, lived on Horne’s Hill and died Mar 1697/8 leaving divers children. Widow Mary married 2d, 29 Aug 1698 John Waldron.”
Clarke’s kindred genealogies by Augustus Peck Clark 1896
John2 Horne, son of William1, was of Dover. He married 30 June 1686 Mary, daughter of John and Mary (Heard) Ham, born 2 Oct 1668. He died march 1696/7 and she married 2nd 29 Aug 1698 John Waldron, and was mother of Mehetabel Waldron who married James4 Chesley; and gramdmother of Col. John Waldron who married 3rd wife Margaret (Frost), widow of Hon. John5 Wentworth, Jr.
He was married to Mary HAM (daughter of John HAMM SR and Mary HEARD) on Aug 27 1698 in Dover, New Hampshire. Mary HAM was born on Oct 2 1668 in Dover, Hampshire. She died in 1742 in Dover, New Hampshire. Capt. John WALDRON and Mary HAM had the following children: