Ancestry of
Sam Waterston

Stage, TV and Movie Actor

Joseph Penniman

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Sam Waterston — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 864 
  • Father:
  • James Penniman 
  • Mother:
  • Lydia Eliot   
  • Birth Date:
  • 1 Aug 1639 
  • Birth Location:
  • Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 5 Nov 1705 
  • Death Location:
  • Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Waiting Robinson
  • Marriage Date:
  • 25 Sep 1666 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  James Penniman (Ahnentafel No:432 )

• Additional marriages for Joseph Penniman

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  • Spouse:
  • Sarah Bass
  • Marriage Date:
  • 10 May 1693
  • Marriage Location:
  • Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts

• Sources for Joseph Penniman

  • ¹ Quincy, MA: Vital and Church Records, 1672-1870, Baptism record for son James Penniman.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1996, Vol. 71, p. 17.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 126.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1429.
  • ⁵ Penniman, Rev. George Wallace, The Penniman Family, 1631-1900, Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc. (1981), 11-15.
  • ⁶ Vinton, John Adams, The Vinton Memorial Comprising A Genealogy of the Descendants of John Vinton of Lynn, 1648, Boston: S.K. Whipple and Company (1858), 352-353.

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