Ancestry of
Sam Waterston

Stage, TV and Movie Actor

Mary -----

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• • 7th Great-grandmother of Sam Waterston — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 813 
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  • Birth Date:
  • BY 1640 
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  • Death Date:
  • 3 Feb 1709 
  • Death Location:
  • Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • John Emery Jr.
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 10 Oct 1650 
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  Mary Emery

  Hannah Emery

  John Emery

  Bethia Emery

  Sarah Emery

  Stephen Emery (Ahnentafel No:406 )

  Abigail Emery

  • Notes: 

  • Mary has been claim in some publications to have been the daughter of John Webster and Mary Shatswell. This has since been disproved. Other sources suggest her maiden name was Whipple. More research is needed.

• Sources for Mary -----

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Newbury Deaths, Vol. 2, Page 590, Death record for Mary Emery.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1940, Vol. 17, Page 96-99.
  • ³ The Essex Genealogist, 2002, Vol. 22, p. 239.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VII, T-Y, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2011), 264-267, disproves Mary's alleged parentage.
  • 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), 449.
  • ⁶ Brogan, Hugh and Charles Mosley, American Presidential Families, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company (1993), 420-421.
  • ⁷ Burleigh, Charles, M.D., The Genealogy and History of the Ingalls Family in America: Giving the Descendants of Edmund Ingalls . . ., Malden, Massachusetts: Geo. E. Dunbar (1903), 25.
  • ⁸ Davis, Walter Goodwin, The Ancestry of Phoebe Tilton, 1775-1847, Portland, Maine: Anthoensen Press (1947), 189.
  • ⁹ Emery, Rev. Rufus, Genealogical Records of Descendants of John and Anthony Emery, of Newbury, Mass. 15901890, Salem, Massachusetts: Emery Cleaves (1890), 2.
  • ¹⁰ Emery, Rev. Rufus, et. al., Emery: Four Generations of the Descendants of John Emery, Sen., of Newbury, Mass., and Anthony Emery of Kittery, Maine, Salem, Massachusetts: Emery Cleaves (1889), 4.
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#66 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: New England Ancestors of Depression-Era Novelist John Steinbeck", (accessed 10/16/2014).
  • ¹² Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 147.

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