Ancestry of
Gillian Anderson

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Jeremiah Simmons

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Gillian Anderson — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 330 
  • Father:
  • John Simmons 
  • Mother:
  • Lydia Grinnell   
  • Birth Date:
  • 8 Apr 1747 
  • Birth Location:
  • Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island 
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  • Death Date:
  • 16 Jan 1798 
  • Death Location:
  • Easton, Bristol, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth R. Crossman
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 Dec 1778 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania 
  • Child:

  Julia Ann Simmons (Ahnentafel No:165 )

  • Notes: 

  • Revolutionary War veteran

• Sources for Jeremiah Simmons

  • ¹ General Society of Mayflower Descendants Membership Applications, 1620-1920, General No. 15691, Supplemental 01 application for Viola Joyce (Watkins) Fitler.
  • ² Membership Application to the General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, Massachusetts and Salt Lake City, Utah (2019), General No. 80528.
  • ³ Hughes, Thomas Patrick and Frank Munsell, editors, American Ancestry: Giving the Name and Descent in the Male Line of Americans Whose Ancestors Settled in the U.S., Vol. 05, Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons (1890), 72.
  • ⁴ Rowe, Henry S., The Ancestry of John Simmons: Founder of Simmons College, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Riverside Press (1933), 31.

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