Ancestry of
Ezra Pound

Expatriate American Poet and Critic

David Wadsworth

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Ezra Pound — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 120 
  • Father:
  • Recompence Wadsworth 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Mory   
  • Birth Date:
  • 24 Mar 1720 
  • Birth Location:
  • Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 5 Dec 1749 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Old Oak Street Burial Ground, Grafton, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Hannah Paul
  • Marriage Date:
  • 8 May 1740 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  David Wadsworth (Ahnentafel No:60 )

• Sources for David Wadsworth

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 10/21/2020).
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Milton, Vol. 1, p. 190, Marriage record for David Wadsworth and Hannah Paul.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Dorchester, Vol. 2, Marriage record for David Wadsworth and Hannah Paul at Milton.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Milton, Vol. 1, p. 74, Birth record for son David Wadsworth.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Milton, Vol. 1, p. 74, Birth record for David Wadsworth.
  • ⁶ Pierce, Frederick Clifton, History of Grafton, Worcester County, Massachusetts: From Its Early Settlement by the Indians in 1647 to the . . ., Worcester: Press of Chas. Hamilton (1879), 575-576.
  • ⁷ Wadsworth, Horace Andrew, Two Hundred and Fifty Years of the Wadsworth Family in America, Lawrence, Massachusetts: Eagle Steam Job Printing Rooms (1883), 168, 226.
  • ⁸ Wilhelm, James J., The American Roots of Ezra Pound, New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc. (1985), 56-57.