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Benjamin Apthorp Gould

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Benjamin Apthorp Gould

Founder of The Astronomical Journal


    John May Jr.

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    • 4th Great-grandfather of Benjamin Apthorp Gould — 7th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 120 
    • Mother:
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    • Birth Date:
    • ABT 1630 
    • Birth Location:
    • England 
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    • Death Date:
    • 11 Sep 1671 
    • Death Location:
    • Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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    • Marriage Date:
    • 19 Nov 1656 
    • Marriage Location:
    • Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
    • Children:

    • Sarah May

      John May (Ahnentafel No:60 )

    • Notes: 
    • John May's death date may have actually been his burial date.

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  • Sources for John May Jr.

    • 2 Boston City Council, Documents of the City of Boston for the Year 1904, Vol. 1, Boston: Municipal Printing Office (1905), Document 8, p. 84.
    • 3 Child, Elias, Genealogy of the Child, Childs and Childe Families, of the Past and Present in the United States and the Canadas, Utica, NY: Curtiss and Childs, Printers (1881), 419.
    • 4 Ferris, Mary Walton, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines: A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Wisconsin Cuneo Press (1931), Vol. 1, pp. 110, 414-415, 423.
    • 7 Williams, Edward H., Jr., Robert Williams of Roxbury, Mass. and His Descendants, Newport, Rhode Island: Reprinted from The Magazine of New England History (1891), 13.