Ancestry of
Thomas Edison

Inventor

Abigail Merriman

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of Thomas Edison — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 111 
  • Father:
  • Nathaniel Merriman 
  • Mother:
  • Joan -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 18 Apr 1654 
  • Birth Location:
  • New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
  • 27 Jun 1661 
  • Christening Location:
  • New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • John Hitchcock
  • Marriage Date:
  • 8 Jan 1670/1671 
  • Marriage Location:
  • New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  Mary Hitchcock (Ahnentafel No:55 )

  Margery Hitchcock

  • Notes: 

  • Some sources give the marriage date for John Hitchcock and Abigail Merriman as 18 JAN 1670/1, however Robert Charles Anderson in his The Great Migration series gives the date as 08 JAN 1670/1.

• Sources for Abigail Merriman

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1967, Vol. 121, p. 85.
  • ² New Haven, CT: Families of Ancient New Haven, Vol. 3, p. 750.
  • ³ New Haven, CT: Families of Ancient New Haven, Vol. 5, p. 1167.
  • ⁴ New Haven, CT: Families of Ancient New Haven, Vol. 1, p. 151.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. III, G-H, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2003), 338.
  • ⁶ Hitchcock, Mrs. Edward, Sr., The Genealogy of the Hitchcock Family: Who are Descended from Matthias Hitchcock of East Haven, Conn., and . . ., Amherst, Massachusetts: Press of Carpenter and Morehouse (1894), 3, 118-119.