Ancestry of
Ben Ames Williams

Novelist and Short Story Author

Thomas Ames

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Ben Ames Williams — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 96 
  • Father:
  • John Ames 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Willis   
  • Birth Date:
  • 21 Feb 1682 
  • Birth Location:
  • Bridgewater, Plymouth, Masssachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Hayward
  • Marriage Date:
  • 27 Feb 1706 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Bridgewater, Plymouth, Masssachusetts 
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  Thomas Ames Jr. (Ahnentafel No:48 )

  Mary Ames

  Nathan Ames

• Sources for Thomas Ames

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Bridgewater, Vol. 2, p. 34, Marriage record for Thomas Ames and Mary Hayward.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Bridgewater, Vol. 1, pp. 31-36, Birth records for children of Thomas and Mary Ames.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Bridgewater, Vol. 1, p. 36, Birth record forThomas Ames.
  • ⁴ Howard, Heman, The Howard Genealogy: Descendants of John Howard of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, from 1643 to 1903, Brockton, Massachusetts: The Standard Printing Co. (1903), 16.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 202.
  • ⁶ Wakefield, Robert S., ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 7, 2nd ed., Peter Brown, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2002), 194.