Ancestry of
Richard Gere

Movie Actor

Adam Wright

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Richard Gere — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 562 
  • Father:
  • Richard Wright 
  • Mother:
  • Hester Cooke   
  • Birth Date:
  • from 21 Sep 1644 to 20 Sep 1646 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 20 Sep 1724 
  • Death Location:
  • Plympton, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Soule
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1678 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Esther Wright

  John Wright

  Mary Wright

  Isaac Wright

  Rachel Wright

  Sarah Wright (Ahnentafel No:281 )

• Additional marriages for Adam Wright

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  • Spouse:
  • Mehitable Barrows
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1699
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts

• Sources for Adam Wright

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2012, Vol. 166, p. 129.
  • ² Originally compiled by Harriet W. Hodge; Revised by Robert S. Wakefield and John Bradley Arthaud, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 21, John Billington, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2014), 57.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#74 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: The New England Ancestry of Actor Richard [Tiffany] Gere", (accessed 10/10/2014).
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 219, 323.
  • ⁵ Stover, Margaret Harris and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 10, Samuel Fuller, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2013), 15.
  • ⁶ Van Antwerp, Lee Douglas and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 9, Francis Eaton, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1996), 22.
  • ⁷ Wood, Ralph V., Jr., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 12, Francis Cooke, Revised Edition, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press (2011, revised edition 3rd printing), 60, 90-91, 160.

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