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Edgar Rice Burroughs

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William Symmes

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Edgar Rice Burroughs — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 350 
  • Father:
  • Zachariah Symmes 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Baker   
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  • Christening Date:
  • 10 Jan 1626/1627 
  • Christening Location:
  • Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England 
  • Death Date:
  • BY 30 Jul 1695 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Sparhawk
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1652 
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  • Child:

  Sarah Symmes (Ahnentafel No:175 )

• Additional marriages for William Symmes

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  • Spouse:
  • Mary Chickering
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1677

• Sources for William Symmes

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1892, Vol. 46, p. 188.
  • ² Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VI, R-S, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 641.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles and others, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. I, A-B, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1999), 486.
  • ⁴ Brogan, Hugh and Charles Mosley, American Presidential Families, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company (1993), 534.
  • ⁵ Carleton, Hiram, ed., Genealogical and Family History of the State of Vermont, New York: The Lewis Publishing Company (1903), 237.
  • ⁶ Pierce, Frederick Clifton, Fiske and Fisk Family: Being the Record of the Descendants of Symond Fiske, Lord of the Manor of Stadhaugh, . . ., Chicago, Illinois: Press of W. B. Conkey Company (1896), 66.
  • ⁷ Richardson, Douglas and Kimball G. Everingham, editor, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd edition, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2011), Vol. 2, p. 380.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 581.
  • ⁹ Torrey, Frederic Crosby, The Torrey Families and Their Children in America, Vol. 1, Lakehurst, New Jersey: n. p. (1924), 45, 47.
  • ¹⁰ Vinton, John Adams, The Symmes Memorial: A Biographical Sketch of Rev. Zechariah Symmes, Minister of Charlestown, 1634-1671 . . ., Boston: David Clapp and Son (1873), 18-24.