Ancestry of
Ruth Ellen Atwood

(1923–2011)

Mercy Knowles

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• • 7th Great-grandmother of Ruth Ellen Atwood — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 539 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Knowles 
  • Mother:
  • Mercy Freeman   
  • Birth Date:
  • 13 Sep 1681 
  • Birth Location:
  • Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • AFT 23 Jul 1702 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Thomas Rich
  • Marriage Date:
  • 23 Jul 1702 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Mercy Rich (Ahnentafel No:269 )

  John Rich

• Sources for Mercy Knowles

  • ¹ Mayflower Descendant: A Journal of Pilgrim Genealogy and History, 2017, Vol. 65, No. 1, p. 88.
  • ² New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1920, Vol. 51, pp. 222-223.
  • ³ Baker, Peggy M., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 19, 2nd ed., Thomas Rogers, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2013), 267.
  • ⁴ Merrick, Barbara Lambert, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 24, Part 3, William Brewster, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2019), 57-59.
  • ⁵ Merrick, Barbara Lambert and Scott Andrew Bartley, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 24, Part 1, William Brewster, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2014), 296.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 596.