Ancestry of
Ben Ames Williams

Novelist and Short Story Author

John Ames

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Ben Ames Williams — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 192 
  • Father:
  • William Ames 
  • Mother:
  • Hannah -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 24 May 1647 
  • Birth Location:
  • Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 1 Mar 1725/1726 
  • Death Location:
  • West Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Willis
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1671 
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  • Children:
  
  

  John Ames

  William Ames

  Nathaniel Ames

  Thomas Ames (Ahnentafel No:96 )

• Sources for John Ames

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Bridgewater, Vol. 1, pp. 33-36, Birth records for children of John Ames.
  • ² Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 182.
  • ³ Sherman, Robert Moody et. al., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 15, James Chilton-Richard More, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2013), 82.
  • ⁴ Smith, Dean Crawford, The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, 1878-1908: Part 3, The Ancestry of Henry Clay Bartlett, 1832-1892, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2004), 44.
  • ⁵ Wood, Ralph V., Jr., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 12, Francis Cooke, Revised Edition, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press (2011, revised edition 3rd printing), 114.