Ancestry of
James Garfield

20th U.S. President

Benjamin Garfield

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of James Garfield — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 64 
  • Father:
  • Edward Garfield 
  • Mother:
  • Rebecca -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1643 
  • Birth Location:
  • Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 28 Nov 1717 
  • Death Location:
  • Waltham, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Grove Hill Cemetery, Waltham, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Bridge
  • Marriage Date:
  • 17 Jan 1677/1678 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Thomas Garfield (Ahnentafel No:32 )

  Mehitabel Garfield

• Additional marriages for Benjamin Garfield

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  • Spouse:
  • Mehitable Hawkins
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1674

• Sources for Benjamin Garfield

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 08/23/2013).
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Waltham Deaths, Vol. 1, Page 267, Death record for Benjamin Gearfield.
  • ³ Watertown, MA: Vital Records, 1630-1825, Vol. 1, Page 48, Birth record for son Thomas Gearfeild.
  • ⁴ Watertown, MA: Vital Records, 1630-1825, Vol. 1, Page 43, Marriage record for Benjamin Garfeild and Elizabeth Bridge.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 2, G-O, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 889.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. III, G-H, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2003), 21.
  • ⁷ Bond, Henry, Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts . . ., 2nd ed., Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic-Genealogical Society (1860), 232-233.
  • ⁸ Bridge, William Frederick, An Account of the Descendants of John Bridge, Cambridge, 1632, Boston: J.S. Cushing and Company (1884), 12, 77.
  • ⁹ Jacobus, Donald Lines, ed., The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley and his Wife Emma Arabella Bosworth, Woodstock, Vermont: N. Grier Parke, II (1960), 264.
  • ¹⁰ Schutz, John A., Legislators of the Massachusetts General Court 1691-1780: A Biographical Dictionary, Boston: Northeastern University Press (1997), Page 567, Birth record for Benjamin Garfield.
  • ¹¹ Weis, Frederick Lewis, Early Generations of the Family of Robert Harrington of Watertown, Massachusetts, 1634, and Some of His Descendants, Worcester, Massachusetts: Privately printed (1958), 18.