Dr. Lemuel Hayward

Lemuel Hayward, M. D., born in Braintree, Massachusetts on March 22, 1749 and died in Jamaica Plain on March 20, 1821. Graduated from Harvard in 1768; studied medicine under Dr. Joseph Warren in 1769; established his practice in Jamaica Plain. During the Revolution, he was the surgeon in charge of the Army hospital in Jamaica Plain. He lived in Boston at 85 Newbury Street in 1789 and returned to Jamaica Plain in 1798.

In 1776, he married Sarah Savage (b. 1757), who died before October 19, 1781 without issue. His second wife was Sarah Henshaw (1763-1848) and together they had eight children: John White (1786-1832, who married Louisa Bellows of Walpole, NH), Charles (d. 1828), Joseph Henshaw (1789-1853, who married Mary May Davenport of Boston), Dr. George of Wayland (1791-1863, who was Professor of Surgery at Harvard from 1835-49 and built a house on Post Road in 1832), Sarah (1794-1884, who married Morris Dorr [1835-1911]), and Dr. Joshua Henshaw of Boston and Wayland (1797-1856, who married Sarah Ann McClean in 1830), Caroline, and Harriet Stillman Hayward (1803-1883, who married Com. Thomas W. Wyman of Wayland).

His nephew and namesake was Lemuel Shaw (1781-1861), who was a famous American jurist and Chief Justice of Massachusetts during the famous Parkman-Webster murder trial in March 1850.