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James Garfield

20th U.S. President

John Spaford Jr.

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of James Garfield — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 78 
  • Father:
  • John Spofford 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Scott   
  • Birth Date:
  • 24 Dec 1648 
  • Birth Location:
  • Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 22 Apr 1697 
  • Death Location:
  • Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Ancient Burying Ground, Bradford, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Wheeler
  • Marriage Date:
  • 9 Mar 1675 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  John Spofford

  Jonathan Spafford

  Martha Spofford (Ahnentafel No:39 )

  • Notes: 

  • The gravestone at the Ancient Burying Ground in Bradford, Massachusetts, lists John Spaford's death date as 22 APR 1697. The vital records in Rowley, Massachusetts, list John Spaford's death date as 22 APR 1696. We believe Rowley is the most likely location of the death with Bradford being the burial location, but we are using the year of death from the tombstone.

    John Spaford's surname is also seen as Spofford.

• Sources for John Spaford Jr.

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 08/20/2013).
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Rowley, Vol. 1, p. 426, Marriage for John Spoferd and Sarah Wheeler.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Rowley, Vol. 1, p. 202, Birth record for John Spofford.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Rowley, Vol. 1, p. 522, Death record for John Spofford.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Rowley, Vol. 1, p. 203, Birth record for daughter Martha Spofford.
  • ⁶ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1854, Vol. 8, p. 340.
  • ⁷ McLean, Hulda Hoover, Genealogy of the Herbert Hoover Family, Stanford, California: The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University (1967), fold-out chart between pages 4 and 5.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 442.
  • ⁹ Spofford, Dr. Jeremiah and Aphia T. Spofford, A Genealogical Record, Including Two Generations in Female Lines . . . Descendants of John Spofford and Elizabeth Scott, Boston: Alfred Mudge and Son (1888), 39.
  • ¹⁰ Wheeler, Albert Gallatin, Jr., The Genealogical and Encyclopedic History of the Wheeler Family in America, Boston, Massachusetts: American College of Genealogy (1914), 396.