Ancestry of
Robert Frost

Poet and Playwright

Mehitable Ayer

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of Robert Frost — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 167 
  • Father:
  • Robert Ayer 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Palmer   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1661 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Thomas Philbrick
  • Marriage Date:
  • 14 Apr 1681 
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  Elizabeth Philbrick

  Mehitabel Philbrick (Ahnentafel No:83 )

  • Notes: 

  • Some sources give Mehitable Ayer's father as Dalton Ayer. This is almost certainly the result of confusion between her father Robert Ayer and her uncle Samuel Dalton.

• Sources for Mehitable Ayer

  • ¹ New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, 1654-1969, Births P to 1901, p. 14899, Birth record for daughter Elizabeth Philbrick.
  • ² The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts: Vol. 3, 1675-1681, Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute (1920), 383, Will of Henry Palmer.
  • ³ Chapman, Rev. Jacob, A Genealogy of the Philbrick and Philbrook Families, Descended from the Emigrant, Thomas Philbrick, 1583-1667, Exeter, New Hampshire: Exeter Gazette Steam Printing House (1886), 10-11, 15-16.