Ancestry of
Gillian Anderson

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Mercy Sanford

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• • 8th Great-grandmother of Gillian Anderson — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1323 
  • Father:
  • John Sanford 
  • Mother:
  • Content Howland   
  • Birth Date:
  • 19 Jan 1704 
  • Birth Location:
  • Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • George Grinnell
  • Marriage Date:
  • Feb 1726 
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  Lydia Grinnell (Ahnentafel No:661 )

  Aaron Grinnell

• Sources for Mercy Sanford

  • ¹ Publications of the Rhode Island Historical Society, New Series, Providence: The Standard Printing Co., 1896, Vol. 4, No. 1, p. 124.
  • ² Rhode Island: Vital Records, 1636-1850, Newport Co., Vol. 4, p. 6-155, Birth of Mercy Sanford.
  • ³ Rowe, Henry S., The Ancestry of John Simmons: Founder of Simmons College, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Riverside Press (1933), 31.
  • ⁴ Williams, Alicia Crane, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1999), 227.

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