Ancestry of
Brooke Adams

TV and Movie Actress

Waitstill Smith

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• • 7th Great-grandmother of Brooke Adams — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 515 
  • Father:
  • John Smith 
  • Mother:
  • Katherine -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 11 Dec 1658 
  • Birth Location:
  • Dorchester (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
  • 12 Dec 1658 
  • Christening Location:
  • Dorchester (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Death Date:
  • ABT 1747 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Charles Davenport
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 20 Jun 1679 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Thomas Davenport

  Mary Davenport (Ahnentafel No:257 )

• Sources for Waitstill Smith

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Dorchester, Vol. 1, p. 39, Birth record for son Thomas Davenport.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Dorchester, Vol. 1, p. 6, Birth record for Waitstill Smith.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1879, Vol. 33, pp. 26-27, incorrectly gives birth date of 11 JAN 1659.
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 1946, Vol. 23, p. 145.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VI, R-S, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 379.
  • ⁶ Ferris, Mary Walton, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines: A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Wisconsin Cuneo Press (1931), Vol. 1, p. 274.
  • ⁷ Virkus, Frederick Adam, The Compendium of American Genealogy: The Standard Genealogical Encyclopedia of the First Families of America, Vol. 7, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (1968), 555.