Ancestry of
Jon Meacham

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Mercy Standish

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• • 9th Great-grandmother of Jon Meacham — 12th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2405 
  • Father:
  • Alexander Standish 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Alden   
  • Birth Date:
  • BY 1664 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • from 17 MAY 1722 to 30 JAN 1728/1729 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Caleb Samson
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1684 
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  David Samson (Ahnentafel No:1202 )

  Lora Samson

  Rachel Samson

  Priscilla Samson

  Joshua Samson

  Ruth Samson

  Caleb Samson

  Jerusha Samson

  Sarah Samson

• Sources for Mercy Standish

  • ¹ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1623.
  • ² Hill, Peter B., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 11, Part 2, Edward Doty, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1996), 9.
  • 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), 29, 530, 755, 777.
  • ⁴ Roser, Susan E., Mayflower Increasings, 2nd Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (1997), 106.
  • ⁵ Wakefield, Robert S. and Judith H. Swan, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 18, Part 1, Richard Warren, 54.
  • ⁶ Wakefield, Robert S. and Russell L. Warner, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 14, Family of Myles Standish, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2007), 4, 10-11.
  • ⁷ Wakefield, Robert S., ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 20, Part 1, Henry Samson, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2000), 9.
  • ⁸ Williams, Alicia Crane, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1999), 43, 112-113, 199, 573.

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