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William H. Macy

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Abraham Macy Jr.

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of William H. Macy — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 66 
  • Father:
  • Abraham Macy 
  • Mother:
  • Anna Worth   
  • Birth Date:
  • 7 Oct 1739 
  • Birth Location:
  • Nantucket, Nantucket Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • from 30 Jun 1820 to 1 Jul 1820 
  • Death Location:
  • Ghent, Columbia, New York 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Priscilla Bunker
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 Dec 1761 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Nantucket, Nantucket Co., Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Phebe Macy (Ahnentafel No:33 )

  Eunice Macy

  Aaron Macy

  • Notes: 

  • Although most publications, including the transcribed copies of the Nantucket vital records, give Abraham Macy's birth date as 07 AUG 1739, the original record actually states “Abraham Macy was born ye 7th Day of ye 8th mo. 1739” indicating it was actually 07 OCT 1739 according to the Julian calendar in use at the time.

• Sources for Abraham Macy Jr.

  • ¹ Dutchess County, NY: The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Vol. 2, p. 882.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 5, p. 429, Death record for daughter Phebe Macy in Ghent.
  • ³ Macy, Silvanus J., Genealogy of the Macy Family from 1635 - 1868, Albany: Joel Munsell (1868), beware frequent errors in dates, 109, 137, 149-153.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 176, 326, 707.
  • ⁵ White, Elizabeth Pearson, John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 1, Camden, Maine: Picton Press (1990, 7th printing 2014), 587.