Ancestry of
Nathaniel Philbrick

Author of In the Heart of the Sea

George Munroe

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Nathaniel Philbrick — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 400 
  • Father:
  • William Munro 
  • Mother:
  • Martha George   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1674 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 17 Jan 1746/1747 
  • Death Location:
  • Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Sarah -----
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  William Munroe (Ahnentafel No:200 )

• Sources for George Munroe

  • ¹ Americana (American Historical Magazine), New York: The American Historical Society, 1920, Vol. 14, p. 65.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Cambridge, Vol. 1, p. 507, Birth record for son William Munroe.
  • ³ Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871, Probate files for George Munroe.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1946, Vol. 100, p. 4.
  • ⁵ Mackenzie, Alexander, History of the Munros of Fowlis with Genealogies of the Principal Families of the Name, Inverness: A. and W. Mackenzie (1898), 561, 590-597.
  • ⁶ McGuire, Joan S. Guilford, The Monroe Book: Being the History of the Munro Clan From Its Origins in Scotland to Settlement in New England and . . ., Franklin, North Carolina: Genealogy Publishing Service (1993), 18, 21.

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