Ancestry of
Ezra Pound

Expatriate American Poet and Critic

James Weston

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Ezra Pound — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 48 
  • Father:
  • Zachariah Weston 
  • Mother:
  • Mehitable Shaw   
  • Birth Date:
  • 31 Oct 1723 
  • Birth Location:
  • Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 26 Oct 1786 
  • Death Location:
  • New Braintree, Worcester, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Abigail Dunham
  • Marriage Date:
  • 9 Feb 1748/1749 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Abner Weston (Ahnentafel No:24 )

  • Notes: 

  • Revolutionary War veteran

• Sources for James Weston

  • ¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 176.
  • ² Throop, Louise Walsh, et. al., Mayflower Families in Progress: George Soule of the Mayflower and His Descendants for Four Generations, 6th ed., Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2011), 56.
  • ³ 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), 7-8.
  • ⁴ Wilhelm, James J., The American Roots of Ezra Pound, New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc. (1985), 33.