Ancestry of
Ezra Pound

Expatriate American Poet and Critic

Abner Weston

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Ezra Pound — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 24 
  • Father:
  • James Weston 
  • Mother:
  • Abigail Dunham   
  • Birth Date:
  • 26 Nov 1764 
  • Birth Location:
  • Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sally Thurston
  • Marriage Date:
  • 17 Oct 1788 
  • Marriage Location:
  • New Braintree, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  John Wheeler Weston (Ahnentafel No:12 )

• Sources for Abner Weston

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, New Braintree, Vol. 1, p. 122, Marriage record for Abner Weston and Salley Thurston.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Hardwick, Vol. 1, p. 261, Marriage of Abner Weston and Salley Thurston at New Braintree.
  • ³ Paige, Lucius R., History of Hardwick, Massachusetts: With a Genealogical Register, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company (1883), 515.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 177.
  • ⁵ Throop, Louise Walsh, et. al., Mayflower Families in Progress: George Soule of the Mayflower and His Descendants in the Fifth and Sixth . . . Part 1, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2000), 7.
  • ⁶ Wilhelm, James J., The American Roots of Ezra Pound, New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc. (1985), 33.