Ancestry of
William Nelson

(c1711–1772)

William Nelson

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Thomas "Scotch Tom" Nelson 
  • Mother:
  • Margaret Reade   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1711 
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  • Death Date:
  • 19 Nov 1772 
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• Marriages for William Nelson

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  • Spouse:
  • Elizabeth Burwell
  • Marriage Date:
  • Feb 1738

• Sources for William Nelson

  • ¹ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1987, Vol. 4, p. 27.
  • ² Barthelmas, Della Gray, The Signers of the Declaration of Independence: A Biographical and Genealogical Reference, Jefferson, N.C. and London: McFarland and Company, Inc., Publishers (1997), 199-200.
  • ³ Dorman, John Frederick, Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5, 4th ed., Vol. 1, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 436.
  • ⁴ Keith, Charles P., The Ancestry of Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States of America 1889-1893 . . ., Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company (1893), 37.
  • ⁵ Lee, Edmund Jennings, Lee of Virginia, 1642-1892: Biographical and Genealogical Sketches of the Descendants of Colonel Richard Lee . . ., Philadelphia: (1895), 508.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 5.
  • ⁷ Wikipedia, "Thomas Nelson, Jr.", _Jr., (accessed 02/27/2014).
  • ⁸ Wikipedia, "William Nelson (governor)", (accessed 02/27/2014).