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Benjamin Apthorp Gould

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Jacob Dana

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Benjamin Apthorp Gould — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 56 
  • Father:
  • Richard Dana 
  • Mother:
  • Anne Bullard   
  • Birth Date:
  • 2 Feb 1654/1655 
  • Birth Location:
  • Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 24 Dec 1698 
  • Death Location:
  • Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Patience Sabin
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1679 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Hannah Dana

  Samuel Dana (Ahnentafel No:28 )

• Sources for Jacob Dana

  • ¹ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1997, Vol. 14, p. 147.
  • ² U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700, 202, Marriage record for Jacob Dana and Patience [Sabin?].
  • ³ Compiled by Gordan Alan Morris and Philip Sabin Hibbard I, William Sabin and his Descendants 1609-2000, (Published by Shirley Bradshaw, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, 2000), 14.
  • ⁴ Dana, Elizabeth Ellery, The Dana Family in America, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Wright and Potter Printing Company (1956), 49, 53-56.
  • ⁵ Williams, Alicia Crane, Chase-Wigglesworth Genealogy: The Ancestors and Descendants of Philip Putnam Chase and His Wife . . ., Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press, Inc. (1990), 167-168.