Ancestry of
William Claflin

27th Governor of Massachusetts

Elisha Adams

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of William Claflin — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 48 
  • Father:
  • Edward Adams 
  • Mother:
  • Lydia Penniman   
  • Birth Date:
  • 25 Aug 1666 
  • Birth Location:
  • Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • BY 5 Dec 1700 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mehitable Cary
  • Marriage Date:
  • 18 Dec 1689 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Bristol, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  Lydia Adams

  William Adams (Ahnentafel No:24 )

  Mehitable Adams

  Elisha Adams

• Sources for Elisha Adams

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1924, Vol. 78, p. 437.
  • ² MacGunnigle, Bruce Campbell, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 4, 3rd ed., Edward Fuller, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2006), 26.
  • ³ Wakefield, Robert S. and Russell L. Warner, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 14, Family of Myles Standish, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2007), 16.
  • ⁴ Wight, Charles Henry, Genealogy of the Claflin Family: Being a Record of Robert Mackclothlan, of Wenham, Mass. and . . ., New York: Press of William Green (1898), 81.