Ancestry of
Ken Burns

Documentary Filmmaker

John Coleman

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Ken Burns — 11th Generation
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  • 1550 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Coleman 
  • Mother:
  • Susan Raulines   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1644 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Joanna Folger
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  • BEF 1667 
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  John Coleman

  Jeremiah Coleman

  Abigail Coleman (Ahnentafel No:775 )

• Sources for John Coleman

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1858, Vol. 12, p. 129.
  • ² The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Philadelphia: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1899, Vol. 23, No. 1, p. 19.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles and others, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. II, C-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2001), 161.
  • ⁴ Austin, John Osborne, American Authors' Ancestry: Including some others who have influenced life wisely . . ., Providence, Rhode Island: Freeman Company, Printers (1915), 64.
  • ⁵ Hinchman, Lydia S., Early Settlers of Nantucket: Their Associates and Descendants, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company (1896), 125.
  • ⁶ Townsend, Mrs. Charles Delmar, et. al., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 8, 2nd ed., Degory Priest, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2008), 37.

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