Ancestry of
Emma Jane Reed

(1846–1920)

Rachel Niles

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• • 2nd Great-grandmother of Emma Jane Reed — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 23 
  • Father:
  • Daniel Niles 
  • Mother:
  • Mercy -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 18 Sep 1737 
  • Birth Location:
  • Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • John Packard
  • Marriage Date:
  • 27 Jan 1763 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Easton, Bristol, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Mercy Packard (Ahnentafel No:11 )

  • Notes: 

  • On Bridgewater marriage record,Rachel Niles's given name is also seen as Ruth. Her Bridgewater marriage intention has it as Rachel. Her marriage is also record in Easton vital records and her name is also given there as Rachel.

• Sources for Rachel Niles

  • ¹ Easton, MA: Marriages, 1720-1802, p. 56, Marriage record for John Pacard and Rachel Niles.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Bridgewater, Vol. 2, p. 278, Marriage and intention for John Packard and Ruth/Rachel Niles.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1931, Vol. 85, p. 155.
  • ⁴ The Mayflower Descendant, 2003, Vol. 52, p. 58, Marriage record for John Pacard and Rachel Niles.
  • ⁵ Nahum, Mitchell, Mitchell's History of Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Reprinted in facsimile., Bridgewater, Massachusetts: Reprinted by Henry T. Pratt (1897, originally 1840), 265.
  • ⁶ Phillips, Vernon S., Francis Nash of Braintree, Mass. and 1550 of His Descendants, Akron, Ohio: Typed manuscript (1933), 12, 19.