Ancestry of
Taylor Swift

Singer and Songwriter

Lydia Burgess

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• • 6th Great-grandmother of Taylor Swift — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 305 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Burgess Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Thankful Snow   
  • Birth Date:
  • 18 Apr 1724 
  • Birth Location:
  • Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • ABT 1811 
  • Death Location:
  • Cazenovia, Madison, New York 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Salmon Kingsley
  • Marriage Date:
  • 24 Jan 1743 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Windham, Windham Co., Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  Orin Kingsley (Ahnentafel No:152 )

  Jonathan Kingsley

  • Notes: 

  • Lydia Burgess's maiden name is also seen as Burges.

• Sources for Lydia Burgess

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A065211.
  • ² Austin, John D., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 6, 3rd ed., Stephen Hopkins, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), 143.
  • ³ Kingsley, William Arthur, Kingsley Family of America: Ancestry, Records, Sketches of John Kingsley of Dorchester and Rehoboth, Mass. with . . ., Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press (1980), 91-92.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 377-378, 787-788.
  • ⁵ White, Lorraine Cook, ed., Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection), originally published as The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vols. 1-55, Birth record for son Oren Kingsley.

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