Ancestry of
John Torrey

Co-founder, NY Academy of Science

William Bowditch

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• • Great-grandfather of John Torrey — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 10 
  • Father:
  • John Bowditch 
  • Mother:
  • Temperance French   
  • Birth Date:
  • 20 Jan 1683 
  • Birth Location:
  • Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 16 Apr 1748 
  • Death Location:
  • Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Bass
  • Marriage Date:
  • 2 Apr 1720 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Mary Bowditch

  Bethiah Bowditch

  Ruth Bowditch

  William Bowditch

  Samuel Bowditch

  Abigail Bowditch

  Susanna Bowditch (Ahnentafel No:5 )

  Bathsheba Bowditch

  Jonathan Bowditch

  • Notes: 

  • Some published sources give William Bowditch's birth date as 20 MAY 1683.

• Sources for William Bowditch

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1925, Vol. 79, p. 179.
  • ² Society of Colonial Wars in Massachusetts Membership Applications, 1560-1970, NULL719.
  • ³ Wakefield, Robert S., ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 7, 2nd ed., Peter Brown, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2002), 249.
  • ⁴ Williams, Alicia Crane, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1999), 136, 463-464.