Ancestry of
Linda Ronstadt

Singer and Songwriter

Jonathan Spafford

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Linda Ronstadt — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1008 
  • Father:
  • John Spaford Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Wheeler   
  • Birth Date:
  • 28 May 1684 
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  • Death Date:
  • 16 Jan 1772 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Union Cemetery, Georgetown, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Jemima Freethe
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT 13 May 1708 
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Samuel Spofford

  Jacob Spafford (Ahnentafel No:504 )

  • Notes: 

  • Jonathan Spafford's surname is also seen as Spofford.

• Sources for Jonathan Spafford

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/07/2019).
  • ² Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001, FHL No 7006989, Images 91 and 211, Birth record for son Jacob Spafford.
  • ³ Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001, FHL No 7006989, Images 106, 248, Marriage intention for Jonathan Spoford and Jemima Freethe.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Rowley, Vol. 1, p. 297, Marriage record for Jonathan Spoford and Jemima Freethe of York.
  • ⁵ Ashworth P. Burke, Family Records, (Baltimore, Maryland: Reprinted for Clearfield Company, Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1994, original 1897)), 548.
  • ⁶ Spofford, Dr. Jeremiah and Aphia T. Spofford, A Genealogical Record, Including Two Generations in Female Lines . . . Descendants of John Spofford and Elizabeth Scott, Boston: Alfred Mudge and Son (1888), 39, 41-42.
  • ⁷ Thompson, John H., Genealogy: Thompson-Spafford 1630 to 1930, Chase-Gordon, 1788 to 1930, Osborn-Gadsby, Gadsby-Woodcock, (Thorold, Ontario: n. p., 1930?), 50.

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