Ancestry of
Sam Waterston

Stage, TV and Movie Actor

Joseph Allen

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Sam Waterston — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 110 
  • Father:
  • Mother:
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1752 
  • Birth Location:
  • Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 17 Aug 1832 
  • Death Location:
  • Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Ashwood Cemetery, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Mehitable Holbrook
  • Marriage Date:
  • 26 Dec 1776 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Sybil Allen (Ahnentafel No:55 )

• Sources for Joseph Allen

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 10/19/2022).
  • ² Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Marriage record for Joseph Allen and Mehitable Holbrook.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Weymouth, Vol. 2, p. 229, Death record for Joseph Allen.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Brookline, Vol. 275, p. 238, Death record for daughter Sybil (Allen) Penniman.
  • ⁵ Penniman, Rev. George Wallace, The Penniman Family, 1631-1900, Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc. (1981), 175.

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