Ancestry of
Tennessee Williams

Author of A Streetcar Named Desire

James Dakin

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Tennessee Williams — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 24 
  • Father:
  • Preserved Fish Dakin 
  • Mother:
  • Deborah Akin   
  • Birth Date:
  • 18 Jun 1790 
  • Birth Location:
  • Ferrisburg, Addison, Vermont 
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  • Death Date:
  • 13 Feb 1857 
  • Death Location:
  • Harveysburg, Warren, Ohio 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Ann "Polly" Sabin
  • Marriage Date:
  • 27 Apr 1815 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Dutchess County, New York 
  • Child:

  Edwin Francis Dakin (Ahnentafel No:12 )

• Sources for James Dakin

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A098893.
  • ² Compiled by Gordan Alan Morris and Philip Sabin Hibbard I, William Sabin and his Descendants 1609-2000, (Published by Shirley Bradshaw, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, 2000), 125.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 168.
  • 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), 193.