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Thomas Emerson

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Buffalo Bill — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 144 
  • Father:
  • Robert Emerson 
  • Mother:
  • Susan Crabb   
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  • Christening Date:
  • 26 Jul 1584 
  • Christening Location:
  • Bishop's Stortford, Hertsfordshire, England 
  • Death Date:
  • 1 May 1666 
  • Death Location:
  • Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Brewster
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1 Jul 1611 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Bishop's Stortford, Herts, England 
  • Children:
  
  

  John Emerson

  Nathaniel Emerson

  Joseph Emerson (Ahnentafel No:72 )

• Sources for Thomas Emerson

  • ¹ Early New England Families, 1641-1700, Edward Bulkeley (m. 1638), p. 3.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Ipswich Deaths, p. 548, [Death].
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1885, Vol. 39, p. 324.
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 1945, Vol. 22, p. 206.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VII, T-Y, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2011), 525.
  • ⁶ Emerson, Benjamin Kendall, The Ipswich Emersons, A.D. 1636-1900: A Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas Emerson of Ipswich, Mass., with some . . ., Boston: David Clapp & Son (1900), 19, 25.
  • ⁷ Emerson, P. H., The English Emersons: A Genealogical Historical Sketch of the Family from the Earliest Times to the End of the . . ., London: D. Nutt (1898), 24, 26.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 173.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 94.
  • ¹⁰ Washburn, Mabel Thacher Rosemary, Ancestry of William Howard Taft, New York: Frank Allaben Genealogical Company (1908), 46.