Ancestry of
James Garfield

20th U.S. President

Mercy Bigelow

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• • 3rd Great-grandmother of James Garfield — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 33 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Bigelow 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Flagg   
  • Birth Date:
  • 4 Apr 1686 
  • Birth Location:
  • Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 28 Feb 1745 
  • Death Location:
  • Weston, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Thomas Garfield
  • Marriage Date:
  • 2 Jan 1706/1707 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Thomas Garfield Jr. (Ahnentafel No:16 )

  • Notes: 

  • The birth record for Mercy is said to be the one recorded for Martha Bigulah at Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1686.

• Sources for Mercy Bigelow

  • ¹ Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915, Birth record for Martha Bigulah.
  • ² Watertown, MA: Vital Records, 1630-1825, Vol. 2, Page 23, Marriage record for Thomas Gearfield and Mercy Biglo.
  • ³ Weston, MA: Vital Records to 1850, Page 2, Birth record for son Thomas Gearfield.
  • ⁴ Weston, MA: Vital Records to 1850, Page 393, Baptism for son Thomas Garfield.
  • ⁵ Weston, MA: Vital Records to 1850, Page 391, 443, Death record for Mercy Gearfield.
  • ⁶ Howe, Gilman Bigelow, Genealogy of the Bigelow Family of America, from the Marriage in 1642 of John Biglo and Mary Warren to the Year 1890, Worcester, Massachusetts: Printed by Charles Hamilton (1890), 26-27.
  • ⁷ Jacobus, Donald Lines, ed., The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley and his Wife Emma Arabella Bosworth, Woodstock, Vermont: N. Grier Parke, II (1960), 264.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 482.