Ancestry of
James Merrill

Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet

Abigail Barlow

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• • 8th Great-grandmother of James Merrill — 11th Generation
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  • 1349 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Barlow 
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  • AFT 25 Jan 1668/1669 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • John Dunham
  • Marriage Date:
  • 22 Oct 1622 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Leiden, Holland 
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  Samuel Dunham

  Jonathan Dunham

  Abigail Dunham

  Joseph Dunham

  Hannah Dunham

  Persis Dunham

  Benajah Dunham

  Daniel Dunham (Ahnentafel No:674 )

• Sources for Abigail Barlow

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1997, Vol. 151, p. 276.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1960, Vol. 114, p. 120, gives Abigail's maiden name as Wood.
  • ³ The American Genealogist, 1954, Vol. 30, pp. 144-146.
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 1960, Vol. 36, p. 243.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 602.
  • ⁶ Shurtleff, Nathaniel Bradstreet, comp., Descendants of William Shurtleff of Plymouth and Marshfield, Massachusetts, Vol. 1, Revere, Massachusetts: unknown (1912), 35.

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