Ancestry of
Robert Frost

Poet and Playwright

William Frost

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Robert Frost — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 32 
  • Father:
  • John Frost 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Pepperrell   
  • Birth Date:
  • 20 Aug 1705 
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  • Death Date:
  • 17 Sep 1778 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Prescott
  • Marriage Date:
  • 25 Aug 1750 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Salem, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  William Frost Jr. (Ahnentafel No:16 )

• Sources for William Frost

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Salem Marriages, Vol. 3, p. 387, Marriage record for William Frost and Elizabeth Prescott.
  • ² New Hampshire, Birth Records, Early to 1900, Birth record for son William Frost.
  • ³ Howard, Cecil Hampden Cutts, The Pepperrells in America, Salem, Massachusetts: Printed for the Essex Institute (1906), 6.
  • ⁴ Newdick, Robert Spangler, Newdick's Season of Frost: An Interrupted Biography of Robert Frost, Albany, New York: State University of New York Press (1976), 9.
  • ⁵ Prescott, William, The Prescott Memorial: or A Genealogical Memoir of the Prescott Families in America in Two Parts, Boston: Printed by Henry W. Dutton and Son (1870), 52.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 186.