Ancestry of
Sam Waterston

Stage, TV and Movie Actor

Ruth Bailey

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of Sam Waterston — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 109 
  • Father:
  • Benjamin Bailey 
  • Mother:
  • Ruth Tilden   
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  • Christening Date:
  • 2 Jun 1745 
  • Christening Location:
  • Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Death Date:
  • 2 Jan 1803 
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  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Hancock Cemetery, Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Meshech Penniman
  • Marriage Date:
  • 20 Aug 1777 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Elisha T. Penniman (Ahnentafel No:54 )

• Additional marriages for Ruth Bailey

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  • Spouse:
  • Lemuel Dwelly
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT 29 Nov 1766
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts

• Sources for Ruth Bailey

  • ¹ General Society of Mayflower Descendants Membership Applications, 1620-1920, General No. 10494, Membership application for Marion Sybil (Penniman) Plummer.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 10/16/2022).
  • ³ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Marriage record for Mesheck Penniman and Ruth Dwelle.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Scituate, Vol. 2, p. 17, Marriage intention for Lemuel Dwelly and Ruth Baily.
  • ⁵ Mayflower Deeds and Probates, 1600-1850, p. 461.
  • ⁶ Penniman, Rev. George Wallace, The Penniman Family, 1631-1900, Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc. (1981), 175.
  • ⁷ Wakefield, Robert S., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 18, Part 2, 2nd Ed., Richard Warren, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2011), 146.

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