Ancestry of
Bill Richardson

30th Governor of New Mexico

Mercy Freeman

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• • 6th Great-grandmother of Bill Richardson — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 285 
  • Father:
  • John Freeman Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Merrick   
  • Birth Date:
  • 3 Aug 1687 
  • Birth Location:
  • Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 7 Jul 1720 
  • Death Location:
  • Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Old Burying Ground, Brewster, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Chillingsworth Foster
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  • Children:
  
  

  James Foster

  Chillingsworth Foster

  Mary Foster

  Thomas Foster

  Nathan Foster

  Isaac Foster (Ahnentafel No:142 )

  Marcy Foster

• Sources for Mercy Freeman

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 04/24/2015).
  • ² Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Birth record for daughter Mary Foster.
  • ³ Mayflower Births and Deaths, Vol. 1 and 2, p. 246.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1866, Vol. 20. p. 353.
  • ⁵ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1872, Vol. 26, p. 398.
  • ⁶ Austin, John D., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 6, 3rd ed., Stephen Hopkins, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), 94, 363, 396.
  • ⁷ Freeman, Frederick, Freeman Genealogy, in Three Parts, Boston: Franklin Press; Rand, Avery, and Company (1875), 35, 53.
  • ⁸ Merrick, Barbara Lambert and Scott Andrew Bartley, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 24, Part 1, William Brewster, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2014), 288.
  • ⁹ Merrick, Barbara Lambert, comp., Mayflower Families in Progress: William Brewster of the Mayflower and His Descendants for Four Generations, 3rd edition, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2000), 84.
  • ¹⁰ Reynolds, Cuyler, Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs: A Record of the Achievements of the People of the . . ., Vol. 1, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1911), 473-474.
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 117.
  • ¹² Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 145, 280, 429.