Ancestry of Dr.
Benjamin Spock

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Deborah Richardson

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of Benjamin Spock — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 253 
  • Father:
  • Nathaniel Richardson Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Abigail Read   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1708 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 1770 
  • Death Location:
  • Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Jonathan Sargent Jr.
  • Marriage Date:
  • 29 Sep 1726 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Jonathan Sargent

  Nathaniel Sargent

  Lucretia Sargent

  Mary Sargent

  Deborah Sargent

  Ruth Sargent

  Phineas Sargent (Ahnentafel No:126 )

• Sources for Deborah Richardson

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Leicester, Vol. 1, p. 78, Birth record for daughter Lucretia Sargent.
  • ² Roberts, Gary Boyd, "No. 55 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: Notable Descendants of Henry and Margaret (----) Howland . . .", (accessed 10/29/2014).
  • 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), 548.
  • ⁴ Vinton, John Adams, The Richardson Memorial: Comprising a Full History and Genealogy of the Posterity of the Three Brothers . . ., Portland, Maine: Brown Thurston and Co. (1876), 516, 536.
  • ⁵ White, Elizabeth Pearson, John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 3, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press (2008, 2nd printing 2011), 329-330.

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