Ancestry of
Sidney Dillon Ripley

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Thankful Pomeroy

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of Sidney Dillon Ripley — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 153 
  • Father:
  • Medad Pomeroy 
  • Mother:
  • Experience Woodward   
  • Birth Date:
  • 31 May 1679 
  • Birth Location:
  • Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 18 Sep 1773 
  • Death Location:
  • Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Bridge Street Cemetery, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Benjamin Lyman
  • Marriage Date:
  • 27 Oct 1698 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Joseph Lyman

  Benjamin Lyman (Ahnentafel No:76 )

  Daniel Lyman

  Medad Lyman

• Additional marriages for Thankful Pomeroy

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  • Spouse:
  • Nathaniel Lewis
  • Marriage Date:
  • 4 Jul 1726
  • Marriage Location:
  • Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut

• Sources for Thankful Pomeroy

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Farmington, p. 103, Marriage record for Nathaniell Lewis and Thankfull Lyman.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 11/13/2012).
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Northampton, Vol. 1, pp. 34, 964, Birth record for son Benjamin Lyman.
  • ⁴ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1996, Vol. 13, p. 26.
  • ⁵ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1903, Vol. 57, p. 209.
  • ⁶ New Haven, CT: Families of Ancient New Haven, Vol. 5, p. 1118.
  • ⁷ Northampton, MA: Vital Records, p. 964, Birth record for son Joseph Lyman/Limon.
  • ⁸ Northampton, MA: Vital Records, p. 964, Marriage record for Benjamin Lyman and Thankful Pumry.
  • ⁹ Northampton, MA: Vital Records, p. 964, Birth record for Thankful Pomroy.
  • ¹⁰ Northampton, MA: Vital Records, p. 964, Death record for Thankful Lewis.
  • ¹¹ Northampton, MA: Vital Records, p. 964, Marriage record for Nathaniel Lewis and Thankful Lyman.
  • ¹² Coleman, Lyman, Genealogy of the Lyman Family, in Great Britain and America; the Ancestors and Descendants of Richard Lyman from . . ., Albany, New York: J. Munsell (1872), 40, 391-392.
  • ¹³ Johnson, Alvin Page, Franklin D. Roosevelt's Colonial Ancestors: Their Part in the Making of American History, Boston: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard (1933), 148.
  • ¹⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd and William Addams Reitwiesner, American Ancestors and Cousins of The Princess of Wales, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1984), 44, 54.