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Lily James

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John Bemis

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• • 9th Great-grandfather of Lily James — 12th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2700 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Bemis 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • Aug 1659 
  • Birth Location:
  • Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 24 Oct 1732 
  • Death Location:
  • Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Harrington
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1680 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Joseph Bemis (Ahnentafel No:1350 )

  John Bemis

  Samuel Bemis

• Additional marriages for John Bemis

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  • Spouse:
  • Sarah Holland
  • Marriage Date:
  • 27 Feb 1716/1717

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  • Spouse:
  • Judith Jennison
  • Marriage Date:
  • 30 May 1726
  • Marriage Location:
  • Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts

• Sources for John Bemis

  • ¹ Bond, Henry, Family Memorials: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Vol. 2, Boston: Little, Brown & Company (1855), 876.
  • ² Crane, Ellery Bicknell, ed., Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, Vol. 1, New York and Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company (1907), 141-142.
  • ³ Draper, Col. Thomas Waln-Morgan, The Bemis History and Genealogy: Being an Account, in Greater Part of the Descendants of Joseph Bemis of . . ., San Francisco, California: The Stanley-Taylor Co., Printers (1900), 55-64.
  • 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, p. 373.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 42.

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