Ancestry of
Tennessee Williams
Author of A Streetcar Named Desire
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- 4th Great-grandfather of Tennessee Williams — 7th Generation
- Ahnentafel No:
- 84
- Father:
- Samuel Ayer
- Mother:
- Mary Johnson
- Birth Date:
- 27 Oct 1686
- Birth Location:
- Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts
- Christening Date:
- Christening Location:
- Death Date:
- 1 Sep 1771
- Death Location:
- Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts
- Burial Date:
- Burial Location:
- Pentucket Cemetery, Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts
- Spouse Name:
- Mary White
- Marriage Date:
- 10 May 1711
- Marriage Location:
- Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts
- Children:
Samuel Ayer
William Ayer
James Ayer Jr. (Ahnentafel No:42 )
James Ayer
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Sources for James Ayer
- 1 Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 08/11/2011).
- 2 Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Haverhill Marriages, Vol. 2, p. 16.
- 3 Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Haverhill Deaths, Vol. 2, p. 348.
- 4 Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Haverhill Births, Vol. 1, p. 18.
- 5 Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Haverhill, Vol. 1, p. 21, Birth record for son Samuel Ayer.
- 6 Ames, Constance Le Neve Gilman, The Story of the Gilmans and a Gilman Genealogy of the Descendants of Edward Gilman of Hingham, England 1550-1950, Yakima, Washington: Shields Rainier Printing Company (1950), 70.
- 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), 170.
- 9 Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 163, 453.
- 10 White, Daniel Appleton, The Descendants of William White, of Haverhill, Mass.: Genealogical Notices by . . ., Boston, Massachusetts: American Printing and Engraving Company (1889), 11-12.