Ancestry of
Sam Waterston

Stage, TV and Movie Actor

Meshech Penniman

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Sam Waterston — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 108 
  • Father:
  • William Penniman 
  • Mother:
  • Ruth Thayer   
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  • Christening Date:
  • 21 May 1749 
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  • Death Date:
  • 22 Oct 1827 
  • Death Location:
  • Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Burial Location:
  • First Parish Cemetery, Norwell, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Ruth Bailey
  • Marriage Date:
  • 20 Aug 1777 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Elisha T. Penniman (Ahnentafel No:54 )

• Additional marriages for Meshech Penniman

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  • Spouse:
  • Betsey Randall
  • Marriage Date:
  • 12 May 1812

• Sources for Meshech Penniman

  • ¹ General Society of Mayflower Descendants Membership Applications, 1620-1920, General No. 10494, Membership application for Marion Sybil (Penniman) Plummer.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 10/16/2022).
  • ³ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Marriage record for Mesheck Penniman and Ruth Dwelle.
  • ⁴ Mayflower Births and Deaths, Vol. 1 and 2, Vol. 2, p. 353, Birth record for Meshach/Meshek Penniman.
  • ⁵ Mayflower Deeds and Probates, 1600-1850, p. 461.
  • ⁶ Penniman, Rev. George Wallace, The Penniman Family, 1631-1900, Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc. (1981), 175.
  • ⁷ Vinton, John Adams, The Vinton Memorial Comprising A Genealogy of the Descendants of John Vinton of Lynn, 1648, Boston: S.K. Whipple and Company (1858), 354.

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