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Sam Waterston

Stage, TV and Movie Actor

Joseph Bispham

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Sam Waterston — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 30 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Bispham 
  • Mother:
  • Susanna Pearson   
  • Birth Date:
  • 14 Jan 1792 
  • Birth Location:
  • Moorestown, Burlington, New Jersey 
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  • Death Date:
  • 27 Mar 1852 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Susan Ridgway Tucker
  • Marriage Date:
  • 22 Oct 1828 
  • Marriage Location:
  • St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Mount Holly, Burlington, New Jersey 
  • Child:

  Josephine Augusta Bispham (Ahnentafel No:15 )

• Sources for Joseph Bispham

  • ¹ Federal Census, PA, Philadelphia County, 1850, Philadelphia Locust Ward, Image 185 of 256.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 12/13/2022).
  • ³ Pennsylvania and New Jersey, U.S., Church and Town Records, 1669-2013, Marriage record for Joseph Bispham and Susan R Tucker.
  • ⁴ Bispham, William, Memoranda Concerning the Family of Bispham in Great Britain and the United States of America, New York: Gilliss Brothers (1890), 259-260, 307.
  • ⁵ French, Howard Barclay, Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas French: Who Came to America from Nether Heyford, Northamptonshire . . ., Vol. 2, Philadelphia: Privately Printed (1913), 323.

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