Ancestry of
Maria Mitchell

Astronomer

William Gayer

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Maria Mitchell — 6th Generation
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  • 38 
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  • Death Date:
  • 23 Sep 1710 
  • Death Location:
  • Nantucket, Nantucket Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Dorcas Starbuck
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1673 
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  • prob. Nantucket, Nantucket Co., Massachusetts 
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  Dorcas Gayer (Ahnentafel No:19 )

  Damaris Gayer

• Sources for William Gayer

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket,Vol. 5, p. 326, Death record for William Gayer.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 2, p. 83, Birth record for daughter Dorcas Gayer.
  • ³ New England Marriages to 1700, Vol. 1, p. 605, Marriage record for William Gayer and Dorcas Starbuck.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 148, 204.
  • ⁵ Sumner, Edit Bartlett, Descendants of Thomas Farr of Harpswell, Maine, and Ninety Allied Families, Los Angeles, California: American Offset Printers (1959), 253.