Ancestry of
Ralph Waldo Emerson

American Poet

William Emerson

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• • Grandfather of Ralph Waldo Emerson — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 4 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Emerson 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Moody   
  • Birth Date:
  • 31 May 1743 
  • Birth Location:
  • Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 20 Oct 1776 
  • Death Location:
  • Otter Creek, Rutland, Vermont 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Phebe Bliss
  • Marriage Date:
  • 21 Aug 1766 
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  • Child:

  William Emerson Jr. (Ahnentafel No:2 )

• Sources for William Emerson

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1885, Vol. 39, p. 324.
  • ² Jacobus, Donald Lines, The Bulkeley Genealogy: Rev. Peter Bulkeley, Being an Account of his Career, his Ancestry ..., New Haven, Connecticut: unknown (1933), 195, 371-372.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 173.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd and William Addams Reitwiesner, American Ancestors and Cousins of The Princess of Wales, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1984), 41.
  • ⁵ Wikipedia, "William Emerson (minister)", (accessed 01/09/2014).