Ancestry of
Linda Ronstadt

Singer and Songwriter

Jemima Freethe

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• • 7th Great-grandmother of Linda Ronstadt — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1009 
  • Father:
  • John Freethe 
  • Mother:
  • Hannay Bray   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1688 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. York, York Co., Maine 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Jonathan Spafford
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT 13 May 1708 
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Samuel Spofford

  Jacob Spafford (Ahnentafel No:504 )

  • Notes: 

  • Jemima Freethe's maiden name is also seen as Treethe.

    Jemima Freethe's marriage intention states she's "of York."

• Sources for Jemima Freethe

  • ¹ Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001, FHL No 7006989, Images 91 and 211, Birth record for son Jacob Spafford.
  • ² Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001, FHL No 7006989, Images 106, 248, Marriage intention for Jonathan Spoford and Jemima Freethe.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Rowley, Vol. 1, p. 297, Marriage record for Jonathan Spoford and Jemima Freethe of York.
  • ⁴ Ashworth P. Burke, Family Records, (Baltimore, Maryland: Reprinted for Clearfield Company, Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1994, original 1897)), 548.
  • ⁵ 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), 41-42.
  • ⁶ 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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