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Linda Ronstadt

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Horatio Gates Spafford

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Linda Ronstadt — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 126 
  • Father:
  • John Spafford 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Baldwin   
  • Birth Date:
  • 18 Feb 1778 
  • Birth Location:
  • Dorset, Bennington, Vermont 
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  • Death Date:
  • 7 Aug 1832 
  • Death Location:
  • Lansingburg, Troy, Rensselaer, New York 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Hannah Bristol
  • Marriage Date:
  • 19 May 1800 
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  • Child:

  Mary A. Spafford (Ahnentafel No:63 )

  • Notes: 

  • Author of Spafford's Gazetteer of New York.

• Additional marriages for Horatio Gates Spafford

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  • Spouse:
  • Elizabeth Clark Hewitt
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1815

• Sources for Horatio Gates Spafford

  • ¹ Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, 1977, Vol. 13, No. 5, "Some Notes on Allen's Men, The List", 363.
  • ² Evening Post (New York, New York), 07 MAY 1823, p. 2, Death notice for father Col. John Spafford.
  • ³ Proceedings of the New York State Historical Association: The Eleventh Annual Meeting . . ., Vol. 09, Unknown: New York State Historical Association (1910), 323.
  • ⁴ 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), 76, 156-157.

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