Ancestry of
Ruth Gates

(1768–1854)

James Trowbridge

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Ruth Gates — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 24 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Trowbridge 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Marshall   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1636 
  • Birth Location:
  • Dorchester (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 22 May 1717 
  • Death Location:
  • Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • East Parish Burying Ground, Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Margaret Jackson
  • Marriage Date:
  • from 2 Jan 1674 to 30 Jan 1674 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Middlesex County, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Thomas Trowbridge (Ahnentafel No:12 )

• Additional marriages for James Trowbridge

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  • Spouse:
  • Margaret Atherton
  • Marriage Date:
  • 30 Dec 1659
  • Marriage Location:
  • Dorchester (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts

• Sources for James Trowbridge

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 02/05/2013).
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 06/03/2020).
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Newton, Vol. 1, p. 507, Death record for James Trowbridge.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Dorchester, Vol. 1, p. 20, Marriage record for James Trowbridge and Margaret Atherton.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Newton, Vol. 1, p. 194, Birth record for son Thomas Trowbridge.
  • ⁶ New England Marriages to 1700, Vol. 3, p. 1544, Marriage record for James Trowbridge and Margaret Jackson.
  • ⁷ Bartlett, J. Gardner, Simon Stone Genealogy: Ancestry and Descendants of Deacon Simon Stone of Watertown, Mass., 1320-1926, Boston: Stone Family Association (1926), 65.
  • ⁸ Jackson, Francis, A History of the Early Settlement of Newton, County of Middlesex, Massachusetts, from 1639 to 1800, Boston: Stacy and Richardson (1854), 419-420.
  • ⁹ Linzee, John William, The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass. and Their Ancestors and Descendants, Boston: Privately Printed (1913), 276-277.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 27, 45.
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 581.
  • ¹² Schutz, John A., Legislators of the Massachusetts General Court 1691-1780: A Biographical Dictionary, Boston: Northeastern University Press (1997), Page 603, Record for James Trowbridge.
  • ¹³ Trowbridge, Francis Bacon, The Trowbridge Genealogy: History of the Trowbridge Family in America, New Haven, Connecticut: Press of The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company (1908), 48, 503-506.
  • ¹⁴ Weis, Frederick Lewis, Major-General Humphrey Atherton, of Dorchester and James Atherton, of Dorchester and Lancaster and some of . . ., Lancaster, Massachusetts: unknown (1936), 23.
  • ¹⁵ Wikipedia, "Humphrey Atherton", (accessed 02/05/2013).