Ancestry of
Benjamin Apthorp Gould
Founder of The Astronomical Journal
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- 2nd Great-grandfather of Benjamin Apthorp Gould — 5th Generation
- Ahnentafel No:
- 30
- Father:
- John May
- Mother:
- Prudence Bridge
- Birth Date:
- 9 Jul 1705
- Birth Location:
- Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts
- Christening Date:
- Christening Location:
- Death Date:
- 19 Feb 1783
- Death Location:
- Pomfret, Windham, Connecticut
- Burial Date:
- Burial Location:
- Spouse Name:
- Dorothy Davis
- Marriage Date:
- 29 Jan 1735/1736
- Marriage Location:
- Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts
- Children:
John May
Dorothy May (Ahnentafel No:15 )
Eleazer May
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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
- 1 Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Roxbury, Vol. 1, p. 238, Birth record for daughter Dorothy 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.