Ancestry of
T. S. Eliot

Poet and Playwright

William Greenleaf

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of T. S. Eliot — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 22 
  • Father:
  • Daniel Greenleaf 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Gookin   
  • Birth Date:
  • 10 Jan 1725/1726 
  • Birth Location:
  • Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 21 Jul 1803 
  • Death Location:
  • New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Acushnet Cemetery, Acushnet, Bristol, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Brown
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 Jun 1747 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Children:
  
  

  Elizabeth Greenleaf

  Margaret Greenleaf

  Rebecca Greenleaf

  Nancy Greenleaf (Ahnentafel No:11 )

  Daniel Greenleaf

  • Notes: 

  • Revolutionary War veteran

• Sources for William Greenleaf

  • ¹ Boston, MA: Births 1700-1800, p. 270, Birth record for daughter Elizabeth Greenleafe.
  • ² Boston, MA: Births 1700-1800, p. 312, Birth record for daughter Rebecca Greenleaf.
  • ³ Boston, MA: Births 1700-1800, p. 301, Birth record for daughter Margaret Greenleaf.
  • ⁴ Boston, MA: Inhabitants and Estates of the Town of Boston, 1630-1822 (Thwing Collection), p. 6619, Record for the family of son-in-law Thomas Dawes.
  • ⁵ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A047548.
  • ⁶ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 03/18/2021).
  • ⁷ New England Ancestors Magazine, 2000, Vol. 1.5, pp. 11-15.
  • ⁸ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1847, Vol. 1, p. 79.
  • ⁹ American Antiquarian Society, Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society at the Annual Meeting Held in Worcester, October 18, 1922, Vol. 2, Pt. 2, Worcester, Massachusetts: The Davis Press (1923), 303-304.
  • ¹⁰ Greenlaw, Lucy Hall, ed., The Genealogical Advertiser: A Quarterly Magazine of Family History, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Press of T. R. Marvin and Son, 1899, Vol. 2, p. 93.
  • ¹¹ Greenleaf, James Edward, Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family, Boston: Frank Wood, Printer (1896), 207, 210-223.