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Benedict Cumberbatch

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John Langdon

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Benedict Cumberbatch — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 152 
  • Father:
  • Nathaniel Langdon 
  • Mother:
  • Abigail Harris   
  • Birth Date:
  • 28 Jul 1747 
  • Birth Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • Aug 1793 
  • Death Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Walley
  • Marriage Date:
  • 2 Jun 1771 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  John Walley Langdon (Ahnentafel No:76 )

  Abigail Harris Langdon

  Elizabeth Langdon

• Sources for John Langdon

  • ¹ A Volume of Records Relating to the Early History of Boston, Containg Boston Marriages From 1752 to 1809, Boston: Municipal Printing Office (1903), p. 54, Marriage record for John Langdon and Mary Walley.
  • ² Boston, MA: Church Records, 1630-1895, West Church, p. 23, Baptism for son John Walley Langdon.
  • ³ Boston, MA: Inhabitants and Estates of the Town of Boston, 1630-1822 (Thwing Collection), p. 12072, John Langdon family.
  • ⁴ Boston, MA: Marriages, 1700-1809, Vol. 2, p. 54, Marriage record for John Langdon and Mary Walley.
  • ⁵ Mayflower Descendant: A Journal of Pilgrim Genealogy and History, 2018, Vol. 66, No. 1, p. 50.
  • ⁶ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1876, Vol. 30, pp. 36-37.
  • ⁷ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, SAR #85245, Application for Robert Cecil Cumberbatch.
  • ⁸ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, SAR #18065, Application for James Davee Langdon.
  • ⁹ Harris, Edward Doubleday, An Account of Some of the Descendants of Capt. Thomas Brattle, Boston: D. Clapp and Son (1867), 74.
  • ¹⁰ Kneeland, Stillman Foster, Seven Centuries in the Kneeland Family, New York: Published by the Author (1897), 107-109.
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 27.
  • ¹² Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 121, 248, 338.

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