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Jon Meacham

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James Bent McLeod

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Jon Meacham — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 76 
  • Father:
  • James McLeod 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Murray   
  • Birth Date:
  • 25 Oct 1799 
  • Birth Location:
  • Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Canada 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 17 May 1881 
  • Death Location:
  • South Brookfield, Nova Scotia, Canada 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • South Brookfield Union Cemetery, South Brookfield, Nova Scotia, Canada 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Ann Smith
  • Marriage Date:
  • 21 Sep 1826 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Children:
  
  

  Arthur James McLeod (Ahnentafel No:38 )

  William McLeod

  • Notes: 

  • James Bent McLeod's middle name is also seen as Bennett.

    The gravestone for James Bent McLeod gives the names of his parents.

• Sources for James Bent McLeod

  • ¹ Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society, Vol. 16, Halifax, Nova Scotia: Wm. Macnab and Son (1912), 109.
  • ² General Society of Mayflower Descendants Membership Applications, 1620-1920, General No 3222, Membership application for Alexander Byron McLeod.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 01/24/2025).
  • ⁴ Cameron, Cecilia Elise, A Family Hierarchy in Canada and the United States of America, 1619-1971: Cameron, allied Kinze and Warth Families, Kent, Washington: C. E. Cameron [1972], 243, gives James's death year as 1885.
  • ⁵ Jacobus, Donald Lines, The Waterman Family: Vol. II, Descendants of Robert Waterman of Marshfield, Massachusetts, New Haven, Connecticut: Edgar F. Waterman (1942), 123.

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