Ancestry of
Sam Waterston

Stage, TV and Movie Actor

John Putnam

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Sam Waterston — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1556 
  • Father:
  • Nicholas Putnam 
  • Mother:
  • Margaret Goodspeed   
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  • Christening Date:
  • 17 Jan 1579 
  • Christening Location:
  • Wingrave, Buckinghamshire, England 
  • Death Date:
  • 30 Dec 1662 
  • Death Location:
  • Salem, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Priscilla Gould
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1711 
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  Thomas Putnam

  Nathaniel Putnam

  John Putnam (Ahnentafel No:778 )

• Sources for John Putnam

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Salem Deaths, Vol. 6, p. 170.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Salem, Vol. 6, p. 170, Death record for John Putnam the elder.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2016, Vol. 170, p. 203.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1965, Vol. 119, pp. 174-176.
  • ⁵ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1993, Vol. 147, p. 20.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 274.
  • ⁷ 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, pp. 520-521.
  • ⁸ McLean, Hulda Hoover, Genealogy of the Herbert Hoover Family, Stanford, California: The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University (1967), fold-out chart between pages 4 and 5.
  • ⁹ Mudge, Florence A., John Mudge and Hannah Hutchinson, First Settlers of Plymouth, Vermont, Danvers, Massachusetts?: Unknown (1930), 11.
  • ¹⁰ Putnam, Eben, A History of the Putnam Family in England and America, Vol. 1, Salem, Massachusetts: The Salem Press Publishing and Printing Company (1891), 3-7.
  • ¹¹ Putnam, Read H., Putnam's Direct Line, Provo, Utah: J. G. Stevenson (1964), 7.
  • ¹² Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#66 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: New England Ancestors of Depression-Era Novelist John Steinbeck", (accessed 10/16/2014).

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