Ancestry of
Abigail Willard

(1793–1860)

Benjamin Bellows

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Abigail Willard — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 22 
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  • Mary Bellows   
  • Birth Date:
  • 18 Jan 1676/1677 
  • Birth Location:
  • Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Dorcas Cutler
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  Joanna Bellows (Ahnentafel No:11 )

  • Notes: 

  • Benjamin Bellows was the illegitimate child of Mary Bellows, and the grandson of John Bellows and Mary Wood. Benjamin's father remains unknown, but his mother was summoned to court five years after his birth for what appears to have been a charge of fornication.

• Sources for Benjamin Bellows

  • ¹ Early Generations of the Wetherby, Witherby, Wetherbee, Witherbee Family in New England, Part I, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society [manuscript] (1946), 109.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2010, Vol. 164, p. 157.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles and others, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. I, A-B, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1999), 252-253.
  • ⁴ Jackson, James R., ed., History of Littleton, New Hampshire, Vol. 3, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The University Press (1905), 513.
  • ⁵ Mazza, Ethel Wetherbee, John Wetherbee of Marlboro and Stow, Massachusetts, Volume 1, Somersworth, New Hampshire: New Hampshire Printers (1991), 7.
  • ⁶ Pope, Charles Henry, et. al., Willard Genealogy: Sequel to Willard Memoir, Cambridge: Murray and Emery Company (1915), 19.