Ancestry of
Bill Weld

68th Governor of Massachusetts

John Babcock Hillard Jr.

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Bill Weld — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 22 
  • Father:
  • John Babcock Hillard 
  • Mother:
  • Rebecca Allyn Stillman   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1812 
  • Birth Location:
  • Richmond, Virginia 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 14 Jul 1859 
  • Death Location:
  • Brooklyn, Kings, New York 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Harriet Low
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 19 Nov 1836 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Brooklyn, Kings, New York 
  • Child:

  Harriet Hillard (Ahnentafel No:11 )

  • Notes: 

  • John Hillard died of Bright's Disease.

• Sources for John Babcock Hillard Jr.

  • ¹ Federal Census, NY, Kings County, 1850, Brooklyn Ward 10, Image 276 of 282.
  • ² New York Evening Post: Death Notices, 1801-1890, Vol. 48, p. 20, Death notice for spouse Harriet Low Hillard.
  • ³ New York Evening Post: Death Notices, 1801-1890, Vol. 36, p. 47, Death notice for John Hillard.
  • ⁴ New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949, Death record for John Hillard.
  • ⁵ New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949, Death record for daughter Harriet Hillard White.
  • ⁶ U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1885, NY, Kings County, 1860, Brooklyn, p. 1, Image 12 of 130.
  • ⁷ U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930, Columbian Centinel, 19 NOV 1836, Marriage notice for John Hillard and Harriet Low.
  • ⁸ Clements Library, University of Michigan, "Hillard-Low family papers (1817-1935, bulk 1829-1897)".
  • ⁹ Haskell Family Association, Descendants of William Hascall of Fontmel Magna (1490-1542), (accessed 06/05/2020).
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 23.
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 142.

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