Ancestry of
Sumner Sewall

58th Governor of Maine

Joseph Childs

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Sumner Sewall — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 162 
  • Father:
  • Richard Childs 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Truant   
  • Birth Date:
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  • Birth Location:
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  • Christening Date:
  • 27 Oct 1667 
  • Christening Location:
  • Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Death Date:
  • 11 Mar 1717/1718 
  • Death Location:
  • Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Seabury
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1691 
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Priscilla Childs

  Patience Childs (Ahnentafel No:81 )

• Sources for Joseph Childs

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Marshfield, Vol. 1, p. 38, Death record for Joseph Childs.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Marshfield, Vol. 1, p. 24, Birth record for daughter Patience Childs.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Scituate, Vol. 1, p. 66, Baptism for Joseph Childs.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1858, Vol. 12, p. 68, incorrectly identifies marriage of Joseph's parents as his own.
  • ⁵ New England Marriages to 1700, Vol. 1, p. 310, Marriage of Joseph Childs and Elizabeth Seabury.
  • ⁶ Plymouth County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1686-1881, Case #3879, Probate file for Joseph Childs.
  • ⁷ Plymouth County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1686-1881, Case #3880, Probate file for father Richard Childs.
  • ⁸ The American Genealogist, 1964, Vol. 40, pp. 33-34.
  • ⁹ Wakefield, Robert S., ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 7, 2nd ed., Peter Brown, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2002), 32.