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William Cullen Bryant

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Hannah Mitchell

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• • 2nd Great-grandmother of William Cullen Bryant — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 27 
  • Father:
  • Experience Mitchell 
  • Mother:
  • Mary -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1662 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Joseph Hayward
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1682 
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  Mary Hayward

  Edward Hayward

  Hannah Hayward

  Abigail Hayward (Ahnentafel No:13 )

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  • Hannah Mitchell, daughter of Experience Mitchell and wife of Joseph Hayward, could not have been the daughter of Experience Mitchell's first wife Jane Cooke. Hannah Mitchell married about 1682 and had her last child Abigail in 1702. This would make Hannah's age about 40-42 and her birth about 1660-1662. Jane Cook

• Sources for Hannah Mitchell

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Bridgewater, Vol. 1, p. 147, Birth record for daughter Hannah Hayward.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Bridgewater, Vol. 1, p. 151, Birth record for Mary Hayward.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 2, G-O, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1272.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. III, G-H, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2003), 292.
  • ⁵ Byram, John Arnold, Byrams in America, Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press (1996), 12.
  • ⁶ Nahum, Mitchell, Mitchell's History of Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Reprinted in facsimile., Bridgewater, Massachusetts: Reprinted by Henry T. Pratt (1897, originally 1840), 182.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 20, 182.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 202, incorrectly gives Hannah's spouse as Thomas, and mother as Jane.
  • ⁹ Underhill, Lora Altine Woodbury, Descendants of Edward Small of New England and the Allied Families with Tracings of English Ancestry, Cambridge: Privately Printed at The Riverside Press (1910), 373.
  • ¹⁰ Williams, Alicia Crane, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1999), 433.
  • ¹¹ Wood, Ralph V., Jr., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 12, Francis Cooke, Revised Edition, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press (2011, revised edition 3rd printing), 37, 272.