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Hannibal Hamlin

15th U.S. Vice-President

Humphrey Atherton

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Hannibal Hamlin — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 118 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1608 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Lancashire, England 
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  • Death Date:
  • 16 or 17 SEP 1661 
  • Death Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Dorchester North Burying Ground, Dorchester (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Wales
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  Elizabeth Atherton

  Margaret Atherton

  Thankful Atherton (Ahnentafel No:59 )

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  • Notes: 

  • Maj. Gen. Humphrey Atherton died on Boston Common after falling from his horse. He apparently had just conducted a military review on the Common. Although his death is recorded as 16 SEP 1661, a memorandum of Capt. John Hull made at the time says he died on the 17th after midnight about 1 am.

    Although there are claims to the contrary, his origins and parentage are unknown. Also, there are claims that he came to New England aboard the James in 1635. Robert Charles Anderson does not include Atherton among the known passengers of the James. He lists Atherton as first appearing in New England in 1636.

• Sources for Humphrey Atherton

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 02/05/2013).
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Dorchester, Vol. 2, p. 272, Death record for Major General Humphrey Atherton.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1881, Vol. 35, pp. 67-72.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1847, Vol. 1, p. 287, Death of Maj Gen Humphrey Atherton.
  • ⁵ Suffolk County Wills, 27 OCT 1715, Probate file for Humphrey Atherton on behalf of his grandchildren.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 11.
  • ⁷ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. V, M-P, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2007), 88.
  • ⁸ Bartlett, J. Gardner, Simon Stone Genealogy: Ancestry and Descendants of Deacon Simon Stone of Watertown, Mass., 1320-1926, Boston: Stone Family Association (1926), 65.
  • ⁹ Linzee, John William, The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass. and Their Ancestors and Descendants, Boston: Privately Printed (1913), 277.
  • ¹⁰ Shurtleff, Nathaniel Bradstreet, comp., Descendants of William Shurtleff of Plymouth and Marshfield, Massachusetts, Vol. 1, Revere, Massachusetts: unknown (1912), 318.
  • ¹¹ Trowbridge, Francis Bacon, The Trowbridge Genealogy: History of the Trowbridge Family in America, New Haven, Connecticut: Press of The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company (1908), 503.
  • ¹² Weis, Frederick Lewis, Major-General Humphrey Atherton, of Dorchester and James Atherton, of Dorchester and Lancaster and some of . . ., Lancaster, Massachusetts: unknown (1936), 9-19.
  • ¹³ Wikipedia, "Humphrey Atherton", (accessed 02/05/2013).