Ancestry of
Matt Damon

Movie Actor

Joseph Emerson

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Matt Damon — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1026 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Emerson 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Brewster   
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  • Christening Date:
  • 25 Jun 1620 
  • Christening Location:
  • Bishop's Stortford, Hertsfordshire, England 
  • Death Date:
  • 3 Jan 1679/1680 
  • Death Location:
  • Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Bulkeley
  • Marriage Date:
  • 7 Dec 1665 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Lucy Ann Emerson (Ahnentafel No:513 )

  Edward Emerson

  Peter Emerson

  Ebenezer Emerson

• Additional marriages for Joseph Emerson

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  • Spouse:
  • Elizabeth Woodmansey
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1653
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts

• Sources for Joseph Emerson

  • ¹ Early New England Families, 1641-1700, Edward Bulkeley (m. 1638), p. 3.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1993, Vol. 147, p. 45.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1885, Vol. 39, p. 324.
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 1945, Vol. 22, pp. 206, 210.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VII, T-Y, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2011), 525.
  • ⁶ Damon, Richard A., Jr., The Damon Family of Wayland, Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts: Penobscot Press (1997), 1.
  • ⁷ Emerson, P. H., The English Emersons: A Genealogical Historical Sketch of the Family from the Earliest Times to the End of the . . ., London: D. Nutt (1898), 24.
  • ⁸ Jacobus, Donald Lines, The Bulkeley Genealogy: Rev. Peter Bulkeley, Being an Account of his Career, his Ancestry ..., New Haven, Connecticut: unknown (1933), 128.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 173.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 94, 188.
  • ¹¹ Washburn, Mabel Thacher Rosemary, Ancestry of William Howard Taft, New York: Frank Allaben Genealogical Company (1908), 46, 49.