Ancestry of
Melville Fuller

8th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

Samuel Bancroft

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Melville Fuller — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 26 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Bancroft 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Lamson   
  • Birth Date:
  • 21 Jul 1715 
  • Birth Location:
  • Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
  • 24 Jul 1715 
  • Christening Location:
  • Congregational Church, Wakefield, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Death Date:
  • 25 Nov 1782 
  • Death Location:
  • Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Lydia Parker
  • Marriage Date:
  • 30 Oct 1735 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Mary Bancroft

  Elisabeth Bancroft (Ahnentafel No:13 )

  Aaron Bancroft

  • Notes: 

  • French and Indian War veteran

• Sources for Samuel Bancroft

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Reading, Vol. 1, p. 494, Death record for Samuel Bancroft.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Reading, Vol. 1, p. 20, Birth record for Samuel Bancroft.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Wakefield, Vol. 1, p. 14, Baptism record for Samuell Bancroft.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Reading, Vol. 1, pp. 16-20, Birth records for children of Samuel and Lydia Bancroft.
  • ⁵ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1847, Vol. 1, p. 278.
  • ⁶ The Essex Genealogist, 1995, Vol. 15, p. 206.
  • ⁷ Carleton, Hiram, ed., Genealogical and Family History of the State of Vermont, New York: The Lewis Publishing Company (1903), 700.
  • ⁸ Lovejoy, Clarence Earle, The Lovejoy Genealogy with Biographies and History 1460-1930, n. p.: n. p. (1930), 92.
  • ⁹ Stearns, Ezra S., History of Plymouth, New Hampshire, Vol. 2, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Printed for the Town by the University Press (1906), 737.