Ancestry of
William Rush Merriam

11th Governor of Minnesota

Hester Dewsbury

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• • 6th Great-grandmother of William Rush Merriam — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 385 
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  • BY 1653 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Philip Delano
  • Marriage Date:
  • 19 Dec 1634 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Mary Delano

  Philip Delano

  Esther Delano

  Thomas Delano

  John Delano

  Jonathan Delano (Ahnentafel No:192 )

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  • Hester Dewsbury's maiden name is also seen as Dewesbury, Dewsbery and Dewsberry.

• Sources for Hester Dewsbury

  • ¹ Plymouth, MA: Vital Records to 1850, 652.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1975, Vol. 51, p. 235.
  • ³ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, SAR #79843, Membership application for Donald Marean Bostwick.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 519.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles and others, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. II, C-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2001), 345.
  • ⁶ Brogan, Hugh and Charles Mosley, American Presidential Families, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company (1993), 472.
  • ⁷ Cushing, Muriel Curtis, Philip Delano of the "Fortune" 1621 and His Descendants for Four Generations, Plymouth, Massachusett: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2002), 1-2.
  • ⁸ Johnson, Alvin Page, Franklin D. Roosevelt's Colonial Ancestors: Their Part in the Making of American History, Boston: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard (1933), 102.
  • ⁹ Reynolds, Cuyler, ed., Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York and the Hudson River Valley, Vol. 3, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1914), 1059-1060.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 111.
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 436.
  • ¹² Wakefield, Robert S. and Judith H. Swan, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 18, Part 1, Richard Warren, 42.
  • ¹³ 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), 48, 74.