Ancestry of Sir
Hiram Maxim

Machine Gun Inventor

Patience Weston

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• • Great-grandmother of Hiram Maxim — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 11 
  • Father:
  • Isaac Weston 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Ripley   
  • Birth Date:
  • 23 Mar 1749 
  • Birth Location:
  • Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 14 Aug 1817 
  • Death Location:
  • Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Rock Cemetery, Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Samuel Rider
  • Marriage Date:
  • 7 Sep 1769 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Rochester, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Zurviah Rider (Ahnentafel No:5 )

  • Notes: 

  • The Mayflower Society has previously accepted that this Patience Weston was the wife of Elisha Clarke, however, they now doubt this identification as her father was living in Plympton, Massachusetts, at the same time that she was reportedly marrying Elisha Clarke from Maine at the age of 13.

• Sources for Patience Weston

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 10/10/2024).
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Middleborough, Vol. 1, p. 269, Birth record for daughter Zurviah Rider.
  • ³ Hill, Peter B., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 11, Part 2, Edward Doty, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1996), 67, 186-187.
  • ⁴ Hinkley, Marlene Alma, Genealogy and Family History of the Descendants of John Clarke of Wenham, Massachusetts, and Exeter, New Hampshire, n.p.: Genealogical Society of Utah (1968), 5.
  • ⁵ Throop, Louise Walsh, et. al., Mayflower Families in Progress: George Soule of the Mayflower and His Descendants in the Fifth and Sixth . . . Part 1, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2000), 3.
  • ⁶ Wakefield, Robert S. and Russell L. Warner, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 14, Family of Myles Standish, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2007), 41, 123.