Ancestry of
Samuel Danforth

(1666–1727)

Samuel Danforth Jr.

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Danforth 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Wilson   
  • Birth Date:
  • 18 Dec 1666 
  • Birth Location:
  • Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 14 Nov 1727 
  • Death Location:
  • Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts 
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  • Notes: 

  • In May 1835, Samuel's only surviving grandson Job Danforth erected a memorial stone for his grandfather at Plain Cemetery in Taunton.

• Marriages for Samuel Danforth Jr.

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  • Spouse:
  • Hannah Allen
  • Marriage Date:
  • 4 Oct 1688
  • Marriage Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts

• Sources for Samuel Danforth Jr.

  • ¹ American Ancestors Magazine, 2013, Vol. 14.4, p. 53.
  • ² Boston, MA: Inhabitants and Estates of the Town of Boston, 1630-1822 (Thwing Collection), p. 1542, Record for family of spouse Hannah Allen.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 07/03/2021).
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1852, Vol. 6, p. 17.
  • ⁵ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1861, Vol. 15, p. 315.
  • ⁶ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1860, Vol. 14, p. 39.
  • ⁷ May, John Joseph, Danforth Genealogy: Nicholas Danforth of Framlingham, England, and Cambridge, N.E. (1589-1638) and William Danforth . ., Boston, Massachusetts: Charles H. Pope (1902), 26, 34-37.
  • ⁸ Sewall, Samuel, Diary of Samuel Sewall, 1674-1729, Vol. 1, 1674-1700, Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society (1878), 228, Marriage of Samuel Danforth and Hannah Allen.
  • ⁹ 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), 88.