Ancestry of Maj. Gen.
Oliver Otis Howard

Medal of Honor Recipient
U. S. Civil War

Mercy Little

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• • 3rd Great-grandmother of Oliver Otis Howard — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 53 
  • Father:
  • Ephraim Little 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Sturtevant   
  • Birth Date:
  • 26 Feb 1678 
  • Birth Location:
  • Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • AFT 30 Mar 1752 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Job Otis
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1 Oct 1699 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Mercy Otis

  Job Otis Jr. (Ahnentafel No:26 )

  Abigail Otis

  Mary Otis

  Ephraim Otis

  Ruth Otis

  Sarah Otis

  David Otis

  Sarah Otis

  Priscilla Otis

  • Notes: 

  • Mercy Little's given name is also seen as Mary.

• Sources for Mercy Little

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1848, Vol. 2, p. 288.
  • ² Otis, William A., A Genealogical and Historical Memoir of the Otis Family in America, Chicago: Unknown (1924), 72-73.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 44, 92, 211, 388, 490.
  • ⁴ Wakefield, Robert S. and Judith H. Swan, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 18, Part 1, Richard Warren, 25, 105-106.
  • ⁵ White, Elizabeth Pearson, John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 1, Camden, Maine: Picton Press (1990, 7th printing 2014), 333.