Ancestry of
Jon Meacham

Author and Historian

James McLeod

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Jon Meacham — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 152 
  • Father:
  • John McLeod 
  • Mother:
  • Alice Harrington   
  • Birth Date:
  • 22 Mar 1777 
  • Birth Location:
  • Petit Rivere, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada 
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  • Death Date:
  • 10 Nov 1857 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Brooklyn, Queens, Nova Scotia, Canada 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Murray
  • Marriage Date:
  • 12 Oct 1792 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Milton, Queens, Nova Scotia, Canada 
  • Children:
  
  

  Jediah McLeod

  Susanna McLeod

  James Bent McLeod (Ahnentafel No:76 )

• Sources for James McLeod

  • ¹ Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society, Vol. 16, Halifax, Nova Scotia: Wm. Macnab and Son (1912), 109.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 01/24/2025).
  • ³ Cameron, Cecilia Elise, A Family Hierarchy in Canada and the United States of America, 1619-1971: Cameron, allied Kinze and Warth Families, Kent, Washington: C. E. Cameron [1972], 264.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Genealogies of Mayflower Families: From the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 3, Peck - Wolcott, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1985), 588.

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