Ancestry of
Peleg Mitchell

(1759–1831)

Dorcas Gayer

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• • Grandmother of Peleg Mitchell — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 7 
  • Father:
  • William Gayer 
  • Mother:
  • Dorcas Starbuck   
  • Birth Date:
  • 29 Oct 1675 
  • Birth Location:
  • Nantucket, Nantucket Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Jethro Starbuck
  • Marriage Date:
  • 6 Dec 1694 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Nantucket, Nantucket Co., Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Sarah Starbuck

  William Starbuck

  Mary Starbuck (Ahnentafel No:3 )

• Sources for Dorcas Gayer

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 5, p. 448, Death record for daughter Mary Mitchell.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 2, p. 505, Birth record for daughter Mary Starbuck.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 4, p. 396, Marriage of Jethro Starbuck and Dorcas Gayer, "6th, 10 mo. 1694".
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 2, p. 83, Birth record for Dorcas Gayer, "29th, 8 mo. 1675".
  • ⁵ Hills, Rev. Aaron Merritt, Life and Labors of Mrs. Mary A. Woodbridge: Who Was for Six Years President of the Ohio W. C. T. U. for . . ., Ravenna, Ohio: F. W. Woodbridge (1895), 400.
  • ⁶ Macy, Silvanus J., Genealogy of the Macy Family from 1635 - 1868, Albany: Joel Munsell (1868), beware frequent errors in dates, 78.
  • ⁷ Townsend, Mrs. Charles Delmar, et. al., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 8, 2nd ed., Degory Priest, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2008), 101.