Ancestry of
Joseph Smith

Founder of the Mormon Church

William Merriam

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Joseph Smith — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 58 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Merriam 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Goldstone   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1624 
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  • Burial Date:
  • 22 May 1689 
  • Burial Location:
  • Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Breed
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1652 
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Rebecca Merriam (Ahnentafel No:29 )

• Additional marriages for William Merriam

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  • Spouse:
  • Anna Jones
  • Marriage Date:
  • 11 Oct 1676
  • Marriage Location:
  • Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts

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  • Spouse:
  • Sarah - - - - - -

• Sources for William Merriam

  • ¹ Essex Antiquarian, 1907, Vol. 11, p. 145.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1868, Vol. 22, p. 160.
  • ³ The Essex Genealogist, 1991, Vol. 11, pp. 200-201.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Mary Audentia Smith, Ancestry and Posterity of Joseph Smith and Emma Hale: With Little Sketches of Their Immigrant Ancestors All of Whom . . ., Independence, Missouri: Herald Publishing House (1929), see chart preceding p. 51.
  • ⁵ Pope, Charles Henry, Merriam Genealogy in England and America: Including the "Genealogical Memoranda" of Charles Pierce Merriam . . ., Boston, Massachusetts: Charles H. Pope (1906), 36, 42-44.