Ancestry of
Amanda L. Bancroft

(1807–1874)

John Bancroft

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• • Grandfather of Amanda L. Bancroft — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 4 
  • Father:
  • John Bancroft 
  • Mother:
  • Mercy Ashley   
  • Birth Date:
  • 16 Jul 1755 
  • Birth Location:
  • Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 16 Oct 1811 
  • Death Location:
  • Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Old Burying Ground, Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Holcomb
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1 Oct 1778 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Edward Bancroft (Ahnentafel No:2 )

• Sources for John Bancroft

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 09/10/2019).
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Westfield, Vol. 1, p. 3, Birth record for son Edward Bancroft.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Westfield, Vol. 2, p. 5, Marriage of John Bancroft Jr and Elizabeth Holcomb.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Westfield, Vol. 1, p. 4, Birth record for John Bancroft.
  • ⁵ Westfield, MA: Deaths in the First Church, 1728-1836, p. 38, Death record for John Bancroft.
  • ⁶ Frost, Thomas G. and Edward L. Frost. M.D., The Frost Family in England and America: With Special Reference to Edmund Frost and Some of His Descendants, Buffalo: Russell Printing Company (1909), 130.
  • ⁷ Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS), Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bancroft, John (1755-1811), (painting), Control No. IAP 81320780.