Ancestry of
James Merrill

Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet

Abigail Shaw

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of James Merrill — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 169 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Shaw 
  • Mother:
  • Judith Whitmarsh   
  • Birth Date:
  • 17 Jul 1695 
  • Birth Location:
  • Weymouth, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 12 Jul 1755 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Old Cemetery, Stafford, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Daniel Alden
  • Marriage Date:
  • 25 Dec 1717 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Joseph Alden (Ahnentafel No:84 )

  Daniel Alden

  Abigail Alden

  Zephaniah Alden

  Hannah Alden

  Hannah Alden

  Mehetabel Alden

  Barnabas Alden

  Ebenezer Alden

  Mary Alden

• Sources for Abigail Shaw

  • ¹ Loud, John J., History of Weymouth, Massachusetts, Weymouth, Massachusetts: Weymouth Historical Society (1923), 614, [Birth].
  • ² Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 184.
  • ³ 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), 150.
  • ⁴ Wakefield, Robert S., ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 7, 2nd ed., Peter Brown, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2002), 212.
  • ⁵ 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), 100, 337-340, 355.

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