Ancestry of
Jane Fonda

Movie Actress

Margaret Smith

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• • 8th Great-grandmother of Jane Fonda — 11th Generation
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  • from 1 Mar 1683 to 6 Sep 1683 
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  • John Watson
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  Sarah Watson (Ahnentafel No:773 )

  Mary Watson

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  • Family tradition states that Margaret was a Peggy Smith who traveled with John Watson from England to the colonies. It is said that she fell overboard and John saved her life. They married upon reaching New England.

• Sources for Margaret Smith

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1918, Vol. 72, p. 211.
  • ² Barbour, Lucius Barnes, Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut, Baltimore, Maryland: Reprinted for Clearfield Co., Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co. (2001), 391.
  • ³ Watson, Thomas, John Watson, of Harford, Conn., and His Descendants: A Genealogy, New York: Press of J. M. Bradstreet (1865), 5-11.

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