Ancestry of
Hiram Percy Maxim

Radio Pioneer and Inventor

Waitstill Sumner

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of Hiram Percy Maxim — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 159 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Sumner 
  • Mother:
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1688 
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  • Death Date:
  • BY 27 Feb 1721/1722 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Israel Washburn
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 Nov 1708 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Sarah Washburn

  Washburn

  Deborah Washburn (Ahnentafel No:79 )

  Seth Washburn

  Israel Washburn

  • Notes: 

  • Waitstill (Sumner) Washburn may have married Ebenezer Pratt as her second husband at Bridgewater on 15 DEC 1720, and dying soon after.

• Sources for Waitstill Sumner

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 07/18/2019).
  • ² Benjamin, Mary Louise, A Genealogy of the Family of Lieut. Samuel Benjamin and Tabitha Livermore, His Wife, Early Settlers of Livermore, Maine, n. p.: n. p. (1900), 78.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 72, 468.
  • ⁴ Wood, Ralph V., Jr., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 12, Francis Cooke, Revised Edition, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press (2011, revised edition 3rd printing), 255.