Ancestry of
Michael Lookinland

TV Actor

Silence Eddy

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• • 6th Great-grandmother of Michael Lookinland — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 297 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Eddy 
  • Mother:
  • Abigail Haskins   
  • Birth Date:
  • 27 May 1734 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 2 Aug 1815 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elisha Barney
  • Marriage Date:
  • 30 May 1751 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Rufus Barney (Ahnentafel No:148 )

• Sources for Silence Eddy

  • ¹ Federal Census, MA, Bristol County, 1790, Taunton, Image 3 of 6.
  • ² Massachusetts, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, Will of spouse Elisha Barney, dated 11 JUL 1778, proved 31 DEC 1781.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Taunton, Vol. 2, p. 38, Marriage record for Elisha Barney and Silence Eddy.
  • ⁴ Eddy, Ruth Story Devereux, The Eddy Family in America, Boston: T. O. Metcalf Company (1930), 888, 905.
  • ⁵ Fiske, Jane Fletcher, et. al., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 20, Part 2, Henry Samson, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2005), 289, incorrectly gives Silence's maiden name as Tower.
  • ⁶ Preston, Eugene Dimon, Genealogy of the Barney Family in America, Springfield, Virginia: The Barney Family Historical Association (1990), 21.