NOTE: This gravestone is not of the time period when he and family died. It is nothing more than a memorial stone. Had it been an old one from the 1600s, it would have been made of limestone and would most likely be very unreadable today.

William was Christened on 12 October 1595 at Bishopsgate, Stortford, Essex County, England.

William was a point maker (lace tags used before buttons).

He married Alice Thurgood on 29 January 1621 at Bishopsgate, Stortford, Essex County, England.

He married Annis Bayford Alcock on 06 November 1625 in Farnham, Essex County, England.

William came to New England approximately 1635 to 1637. He settled at Roxbury, Massachusetts.

He worked as a Tanner.

William became a freeman on 13 May 1640 at Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.

William and Hannah were industrious, economical, sober, pious and respected. With Christian fortitude and submission they endured their trials, privations and dangers, of which they had a large share. They brought up a large family well and trained them in the way they should go, from which they did not depart.

He died on Sunday, 26 November 1641 at Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, at age 46 years, 3 months and 14 days according to the Roxbury Church records, "1641, month 11: day 26 and the records say "William Chandler a Christian and godly brother dyed of a Consumption."

- Biographical information provided by Find A Grave member, Nanny Almquist.
[✔The biography above that was provided by Nancy Almquist did not provide the source where it mentions "William and Hannah. . . " However, a check of The Chandler Family: the descendants of William and Annis Chandler who settled in Roxbury, Mass., 1637, it appears that this particular paragraph was attributed to the pages discussing William, which it was not. It appears parts of the paragraph were actually in the Second Generation that was discussing a part of William's daughter Hannah who married George Abbott. Without the actual citation to verify the accuracy. Therefore, any of the biographical story paragraphs may not necessarily be accurate. If someone can provide a written source to document the facts above, please contact this memorial holder by using the "edit" and sending the information. Thank you.]
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Vital Records of Roxbury Massachusetts to the Year 1849, Vol. 2, page 485: Death:
Willia[m] Chandler consumption, 26: 11m: 1640-41 C.R. 1
William Chandler householder, [housekeeper, CT R.] bur Jun 19 [19: 11m, CT.R., 1641

C.R. 1 = church record First Religious Society (Unitarian)
CT R = court records, Suffolk Co. Quarterly Court

[NOTE: For the second entry, if it pertains to the first, has a possible typo in the record because the 11th month in the calendar at the time would be the month of January/possibly even February. The calendar year at that time period started on Lady's Day which was on March 25 not January 1 which did not occur until 1752.]

In another source it states:

The New England Historic & Genealogical Register Vol. 3 July 1851 p. 334 Early Records of Boston:
Roxbury: Births & Burialls in Roxbury from the Yeare 1630, into the First Month 1645
William Chandler housekeeper buried 19 (11) 1641 Chandler

In the Chandler Genealogy written in 1883, by William Chandler, he cites 1641 throughout the bio sketch of William Chandler and Annis, his wife. Therefore it can be concluded that every entry agrees that the year of death is 1641 and not 1642.

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From The Chandler Family, The Descendants of William and Annis Chandler who settled in Roxbury, Mass., 2nd Ed., quoting from the Roxbury Records as reprinted in the Norfolk County Journal…
"William Chandler came to N. E. about the year 1637… he lived a very religious and godly life among us, and fell into a Consumption to which he had, a long time, been inclined; he lay near a yeare sick, in all of which time his faith, patience & Godliness & Contentation So Shines that Christ was much glorified in him - he was a man of Weake parts but Excellent faith and holiness; he was a Very thankful man, and much magnified God's goodness. He war poor, but God prepared the hearts of his people to him that he never wanted that which (at least to his Esteem) Very plentiful and Comfortable to him - he died about the —— in the yeare 1641 and left a Sweet memory and Saviour behind him.
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Chandler, William. The Chandler Family: The Descendants of William and Annis Chandler who settled in Roxbury, Mass 1637. Worcester, Mass: Press of Charles Hamilton, 1883.

1. William Chandler and Annis his wife settled, 1637, in Roxbury, Mass. They brought with them four children. Their youngest, Sarah, is the only one of whose birth is recorded in this country. In the history of Roxbury it is stated that, "It has been remarked that no people can boast of more honorable descent that are those of Massachusetts:" and that, "The Roxbury people were the best that came" from England.

What Annis's surname was before marriage, does not clearly appear. Dea. George Alcock, of Roxbury, in his will of 1640, said: "To our brother Edward Porter 20 bushels of Indian Corne, and to our brother Chandler the Monye he oweth me" "for half the fence betwixt him and me." "My brother Mr. ___ Hooker" to be "overseer." Mrs. Alcock was sister of Rev. Thos. Hooker. She died in Roxbury. Edward Porter married a sister of Dea. George Alcock. Gov. Dudley, in a letter to Lady Lincoln, says, "Mrs. Alcock, sister to Mr. ___ Hooker." Hence it may well be suspposed that "Annis" was a sister of Dea. George Alcock.

Annis Chandler was admitted to the church in Roxbury "at the same time her husband William Chandler was."

After the death of Mr. Chandler, she, under the name of "Ann," m. 2 July 1643, John Dane, of Barkhampstead and Bishop's Stortford, Herts. England, and of Ipswich and Roxbury, N.E.

"Att a Gen^rall Cot^rt at Boston 17th of the 8 mo. 1649," "Upon the petition of John Dayne, that the house and land which was Wm Chandler's" be "Settled upon ye said Dayne, he having paid more debts of Chan^dlers than ye house and land was worth, & also brought up ye children of Chandler w'ch have been chargeable to him."

"1649, Oct. 19. In Ans^r to the petition of John Dayne ffor the Setling the house and lands of Wm Chandler (whose widow he marryed and Children brought up) on him, the said John Dayne, his request is granted by this Corte."

Johnn Dane died in Roxbury, and the church records say he "was buried 14 Sept. 1658." By a former wife he had children whom he thus mentioned in his will of the "7 day Seventh month 1658." "I give "to my son Francis Dane [minister at Andover, Mass. who married in his old age for his third wife, Hannah, daughter of this William and Annis Chandler, and widow of 'Georg Abet," of Andover] my wood lot of two and a half acres." "to my Daughter Elizabeth How [wife of James How, commoner of Ipswich] a black cow which he at Andover in the hands of George Abbot." "to my Son John Dane [' the tayler of Wood Roe, in hatfield,' Eng. and the chirugeon of Ipswich, Mass. and whose dau. Mary Dane m. William Chandler of Andover, the third child of this 'Annis'] one feather bed, one Bowlster and Pillow, one Yellow Rugg and Pewter Platter." "I give to louving wiff Anie whom I mak sooll Exseekitrix all my moveable goods that is nnot expressed."

Mrs. Annice (as the apostle Eliot called her) Dane married in Roxbury, 9 Aug. 1660, John Parmentor, of Sudbury. Hhis wife Bridget had died the 6th day of April previous. John Paramenter had taken the "freeman's" oath 13 May 1640. In 1641 he was Selectman in Sudbury. He was authorized, 1640, "to end small causes under 20 shillings,." "John Paramenter aged 83, sometime Deacon at Sudbury died 1671 m 3 d 1/"

In 1671 John Paramenter made his will, and mentioned his wife Annisce, to whom he gave "the use of my warming pan so long as she remain my widdow." The executors of this will were Capt. Issac Johnson, and his cousin Chaney, shoemaker.

Thomas Grocer wrote on the back of his will, "I therefore by these presents give unto John Swinterton now at Roxbury Full power to make a will for me in true form according to the law of N.E. and the true intent of my will expressed on the other side of this paper 29 Jan. 1664."

Wit. William X Cleaves
his mark
Elizabeth X Parker
mark

An Inventory of George Grocers goods at Goodwife Paramenters House At Roxbury, this 5 Feb. 1664.

Debts due Dr. Alcocke.
Debts due Mr.. Wilde for cakes for his burial.
Debts due Goodwife Parameter for Wine and Beer.
Debts due Jno Chandler for Diggin the grave
Debts due Sam^l Gore for Coffin and Raile.

Mrs. Annis Parameter died 15 March 1683. Church records say "1683 m 1 d 17 died Old Mother Parminter a blessed saint."

William Chandler was a small landed proprietor in Roxbury, Mass., as "A note of ye Estates and persons of ye inhabitants of Roxbur," made between 1638 and 1640, shows "22 acres -- William Chandler -- 7 persons [in his family] -- £06: 00; 00."

In the arrangement for care of the stock, he was "to pay Goodwife Burt for her boy ye full tyme that hee ded keepe the goats, 12^d a ppeace for goats and kids," for his "1 goat and one kid," while his neighbors had from three to thirty, only two of whom had so few as he.

He was rated as a "housekeeper." He took the freeman's oath 1640. His name is among those of the proprietors of Andover, with that of his son Thomas and son-in-law George Abbot.

It is a tradition that the tannery of Samuel Guild, on the corner of Bartlett Street and Shawmut Avenue, Roxbury, Mass., was originally that of William Chandler, 1640.

The Roxbury Records, as reprinted in the "Norfork County Journal," say: "William Chandler came to N.E. about the year 1637. he brought 4 small children: Thomas, Hannah, John, William; his 5th child Sarah was born here; he lived a very religious and godly life among us, be inclined; he lay near a yeare sick, in all which time his faith,, patience and Godliness & Contentation So Shined that Christ was much glorified in him--he was a man of Weake parts but Excellent faith and holiness; he was a Very thankful man, and much magnified God's goodness. He was poor, but God prepared the hearts of his people to him that he never wanted that which was (at least in his Esteem) Very plentiful and Comfortable to him -- he died about the -- in the yeare 1641, and left a Sweet memory and Savor behind him."

The Eliot Church Records say, "William Chandler, a Christian, Godly Brother. died of a Consumption month 11, day 26, 1641, and was buried 19 (11) 1641, in Roxbury."

Roxbury was "filled with laborious people," said Edward Johnson in his "Wonder-Working Providence of Sions Saviour in New-England."

The children of William Chandler were:

2. I. Hannah, b. abt 1629; m. first, "12 Dec. 1646," say the Eliot Church Records of Roxbury, in the hand writing of John Eliot the apostle, "George Abbot," second, 1690, Rev .Francis Dane, of Andover.

3. II. Thomas, b. 1630; m. Hannah Brewer.

4. III. William; m. first, Aug 18 (or 5 another record says), 1658, Mary Dane, of Ipswich; second, 8 Oct. 1679, Bridget Henchman, widow of James Richardson, by "Sam'l Adams, commissioner.

5. IV. John; m. "ffeb. 16, 1658," Elizabeth Douglas.

6. V. Sarah, b. Roxbury; m. first, 4 Nov. 1659, William Cleaves; second, Wilson; third, 11 Oct. 1688, Eph. Stephens; fourth, Allen.