Ancestry of
John Paul Stevens

U.S. Supreme Court Justice

Abigail Penniman

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• • 8th Great-grandmother of John Paul Stevens — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1501 
  • Father:
  • James Penniman 
  • Mother:
  • Lydia Eliot   
  • Birth Date:
  • 27 Dec 1651 
  • Birth Location:
  • Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 25 Jan 1729 
  • Death Location:
  • Bristol, Bristol Co. Rhode Island 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Congregational Churchyard, Bristol, Bristol Co. Rhode Island 
  • Spouse Name:
  • John Cary
  • Marriage Date:
  • 7 Dec 1670 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  John Cary (Ahnentafel No:750 )

  Abigail Cary

• Sources for Abigail Penniman

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 10/24/2022).
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1996, Vol. 71, p. 18.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1429.
  • ⁴ Cary, Seth C., John Cary the Plymouth Pilgrim: A People Which Takes No Pride in Noble Achievements of Remote Ancestors . . ., Boston, Massachusetts: Published by Seth C. Cary (1911), 63-64, gives incorrect parentage for Abigail.
  • ⁵ Wakefield, Robert S. and Ann Smith Lainhart, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 23, Part 1, John Howland, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2006), 42.