Ancestry of
James B. Conant

President of Harvard University

Mercy Tilson

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of James B. Conant — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 77 
  • Father:
  • Ephraim Tilson 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Hoskins   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1682 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • AFT 29 May 1718 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Josiah Washburn
  • Marriage Date:
  • 11 Feb 1702 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Joanna Washburn

  Joseph Washburn (Ahnentafel No:38 )

  Lydia Washburn

  Jemima Washburn

  Rebecca Washburn

  Josiah Washburn

  Mercy Washburn

• Sources for Mercy Tilson

  • ¹ American Ancestors Magazine, 2011, Vol. 12.2, p. 41.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1994, Vol. 69, p. 39.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 503.
  • ⁴ Williams, Alicia Crane, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1999), 345.
  • ⁵ Wood, Ralph V., Jr., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 12, Francis Cooke, Revised Edition, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press (2011, revised edition 3rd printing), 115, 245.