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Benjamin Apthorp Gould

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Benjamin Apthorp Gould

Founder of The Astronomical Journal


    Eleazer May

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    • 2nd Great-grandfather of Benjamin Apthorp Gould — 5th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 30 
    • Birth Date:
    • 9 Jul 1705 
    • Birth Location:
    • Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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    • Death Date:
    • 19 Feb 1783 
    • Death Location:
    • Pomfret, Windham, Connecticut 
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    • Marriage Date:
    • 29 Jan 1735/1736 
    • Marriage Location:
    • Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Additional marriages for Eleazer May


    • Spouse:
    • Abigail Sumner
    • Marriage Date:
    • 27 Dec 1750
    • Marriage Location:
    • Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts

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  • Sources for Eleazer May

    • 2 Appleton, William Sumner, Record of the Descendants of William Sumner, of Dorchester, Mass., 1636, Boston: David Clapp and Son, Printers (1879), 6.
    • 3 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. 418, 423.
    • 4 May, John, et. al., Journal and Letters of Col. John May, of Boston: Relative to Two Journeys to the Ohio Country in 1788 and '89 . . ., Cincinnati: Robert Clarke and Col (1873), 7.
    • 5 Williams, Alicia Crane, Chase-Wigglesworth Genealogy: The Ancestors and Descendants of Philip Putnam Chase and His Wife . . ., Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press, Inc. (1990), 170.