Ancestry of
Thomas Edison

Inventor

Mercy Peckham

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• • Grandmother of Thomas Edison — 3rd Generation
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  • Ebenezer Matthews alias Elliott
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  Isaac Matthews Elliott

  John Matthews Elliott

  Elizabeth Matthews Elliott

  Nancy Matthews Elliott (Ahnentafel No:3 )

  Stephen Matthews Elliott

  Fannie Elliott

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  • Several sources claim that Mercy Peckham was the daughter of William Peckham and Mercy Perry. Their daughter Mercy is said to have been born about 1783. This is believed to be false based on the ages of some of her children including the oldest Stephen. Mercy Peckham would have been too young to have had children during the early 1790s. Also Mercy Peckham, daughter of William and Mercy (Perry) Peckham is said to have married John Bigland Dockery in 1800.

• Sources for Mercy Peckham

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A075426.
  • ² DeLestry, Edmond L., ed., Western Magazine: The Northwest's Oldest Living Magazine, 1920, Vol. 16, No. 4, p. 164.
  • ³ Thomas A. Edison Papers Project, Edison, Miller, and Affiliated Families: Thomas Alva Edison and His Family Tree, 152-153, 167.