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Tennessee Williams

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Robert Ayer

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Tennessee Williams — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 336 
  • Father:
  • John Ayer 
  • Mother:
  • Hannah Evered alias Webb   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1625 
  • Birth Location:
  • England 
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  • Death Date:
  • 1711 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Palmer
  • Marriage Date:
  • 27 Feb 1650 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Samuel Ayer (Ahnentafel No:168 )

  Mehitable Ayer

  • Notes: 

  • Some sources appear to confuse and combine the names of Robert Ayer, husband of Elizabeth Palmer, and his brother-in-law Samuel Dalton, husband of Elizabeth's sister Mehitabel.

• Sources for Robert Ayer

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Haverhill Births, Vol. 1, p. 21.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Haverhill Marriages, Vol. 2, p. 245.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, October 1863, Vol. 17, p. 307.
  • ⁴ The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts: Vol. 3, 1675-1681, Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute (1920), 382-384, Will of Henry Palmer.
  • ⁵ Chapman, Rev. Jacob, A Genealogy of the Philbrick and Philbrook Families, Descended from the Emigrant, Thomas Philbrick, 1583-1667, Exeter, New Hampshire: Exeter Gazette Steam Printing House (1886), 10, gives Robert's name as Dalton.
  • ⁶ Holman, Mary Lovering, Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury, n.p.: n.p. (1938), 1094-1095.
  • ⁷ Lash, David Chapman, A Transcript of Notes to 1958 Relating to the American Ancestry of David Chapman Lash and His Wife Emma Shrives Lash, Beverly, Massachusetts: typed manuscript (1959), 64.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 173.