Ancestry of
James Merrill

Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet

Thankful Harrington

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of James Merrill — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 145 
  • Father:
  • Benjamin Harrington 
  • Mother:
  • Abigail Bigelow   
  • Birth Date:
  • 29 Sep 1701 
  • Birth Location:
  • Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 6 Nov 1759 
  • Death Location:
  • Weston, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Josiah Livermore
  • Marriage Date:
  • 27 Mar 1723 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Weston, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Abijah Livermore (Ahnentafel No:72 )

• Sources for Thankful Harrington

  • ¹ Thwing, Walter Eliot, The Livermore Family of America, Boston: W. B. Clarke Company (1902), 23-24.

James Merrill photo by Judith Moffett (CC BY 3.0)