Ancestry of
Sam Waterston

Stage, TV and Movie Actor

Abigail Polley

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• • 7th Great-grandmother of Sam Waterston — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 861 
  • Father:
  • John Polley 
  • Mother:
  • Susanna Bacon   
  • Birth Date:
  • 4 Jun 1654 
  • Birth Location:
  • Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
  • 4 Jun 1654 
  • Christening Location:
  • Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Death Date:
  • 15 Jan 1702/1703 
  • Death Location:
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  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Westerly Burying Ground, West Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • John Lyon
  • Marriage Date:
  • 10 May 1670 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Joseph Lyon (Ahnentafel No:430 )

  • Notes: 

  • Gravestone has her name as Abigaiel.

• Sources for Abigail Polley

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 10/17/2022).
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Roxbury, Vol. 1, p. 282, Birth and baptism record for Abigaile Polly.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. IV, I-L, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2005), 381.
  • ⁴ Lyons, Albert Brown, et. al., Lyon Memorial: Massachusetts Families, Including Descendants of the Immigrants William Lyon, of Roxbury . . ., Detroit, Michigan: Press of Wm. Graham Printing Co. (1905), 29-30.

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