Ancestry of
William Durant

Co-Founder of General Motors and Founder of Frigidaire

John Smith Jr.

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of William Durant — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 850 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1618 
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  • Death Date:
  • Jan 1692 
  • Death Location:
  • Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Deborah Howland
  • Marriage Date:
  • 4 Jan 1648/1649 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Hasadiah Smith (Ahnentafel No:425 )

  Eleazer Smith

• Additional marriages for John Smith Jr.

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  • Spouse:
  • Ruhamah Kirby

• Sources for John Smith Jr.

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Plymouth, Vol. 1, p. 657, Birth record for daughter Hasadiah Smith.
  • ² Mayflower Descendant: A Journal of Pilgrim Genealogy and History, Summer 2019, Vol. 67, No. 2, p. 146.
  • ³ New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1942, Vol. 73, No. 3, pp. 159-166 and accompanying chart.
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 1948, Vol. 24, p. 8.
  • ⁵ Cutter, William Richard, ed., New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of . . . Volume 3, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1913), 1038.
  • ⁶ Dwight, Melatiah Everett, The Kirbys of New England: A History of the Descendants of John Kirby of Middletown, Conn. and or . . ., New York: The Trow Print (1898), 245.
  • ⁷ Emery, William M., Ancestry of the Grinnell Family, Unknown: Privately Printed (1931), 73-74.
  • ⁸ Howland, Franklyn, A Brief Genealogical and Biographical History of Arthur, Henry, and John Howland and their Descendants of the . . ., New Bedford, Massachusetts: Published by Franklyn Howard (1885), 38.
  • ⁹ Johnson, Caleb H., "Henry Howland of Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire: Father of Mayflower Passenger John Howland", (accessed 06/09/2020).
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#55 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: Notable Descendants of Henry and Margaret (----) Howland of . . .", (accessed 10/29/2014).
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 605.