Ancestry of
Bathsheba (Ruggles) Spooner

First woman executed for murder in U.S. by non-British government

Melatiah Bourne

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• • Grandfather of Bathsheba (Ruggles) Spooner — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 6 
  • Father:
  • Shearjashub Bourne 
  • Mother:
  • Bathsheba Skiffe   
  • Birth Date:
  • 12 Jan 1673/1674 
  • Birth Location:
  • Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 24 Nov 1742 
  • Death Location:
  • Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Desire Chipman
  • Marriage Date:
  • 23 Feb 1692/1693 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Sylvanus Bourne

  Richard Bourne

  Samuel Bourne

  Sarah Bourne

  John Bourne

  Shearjashub Bourne

  Silas Bourne

  Bathsheba Bourne (Ahnentafel No:3 )

• Additional marriages for Melatiah Bourne

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  • Spouse:
  • Abigail Skiffe
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT 28 Mar 1705

• Sources for Melatiah Bourne

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1964, Vol. 118, pp. 204, 210-212.
  • ² New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1904, Vol. 35, p. 67.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 100, 224, 575.
  • ⁴ Roser, Susan E., Mayflower Increasings, 2nd Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (1997), 72.
  • ⁵ White, Elizabeth Pearson, ""John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 3, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press (2008, 2nd printing 2011), 55-57.
  • ⁶ White, Elizabeth Pearson, John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 1, Camden, Maine: Picton Press (1990, 7th printing 2014), 93, 332.
  • ⁷ Wikipedia, "Timothy Ruggles", (accessed 10/15/2014).