Ancestry of
John Kerry

68th U.S. Secretary of State

James Bowdoin Jr.

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of John Kerry — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 230 
  • Father:
  • James Bowdoin 
  • Mother:
  • Hannah Pordage   
  • Birth Date:
  • 7 Aug 1726 
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  • Death Date:
  • 6 Nov 1790 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Erving
  • Marriage Date:
  • 15 Sep 1748 
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  • Child:

  Elizabeth Bowdoin (Ahnentafel No:115 )

  • Notes: 

  • 2nd Governor of Massachusetts

• Sources for James Bowdoin Jr.

  • ¹ New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1914, Vol. 45, p. 109.
  • ² Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 573.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (2018), 923.
  • ⁴ Salisbury, Edward Elbridge and Evelyn McCurdy Salisbury, Family Histories and Genealogies, Vol. 1, Pt. 2, New Haven, Connecticut: Press of Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor (1892), 381.