Ancestry of
Bill Gates

Founder of Microsoft

Samuel Smith

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Bill Gates — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1650 
  • Father:
  • William Smith 
  • Mother:
  • Magdalen -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1647 
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  • Death Date:
  • from 8 May 1730 to 18 Nov 1745 
  • Death Location:
  • Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Rachel Marvin
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1677 
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  • Child:

  Ruth Smith (Ahnentafel No:825 )

• Sources for Samuel Smith

  • ¹ The American Genealogist, 1948, Vol. 25, p. 75.
  • ² Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. V, M-P, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2007), 69.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VI, R-S, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 411.
  • ⁴ Ferris, Mary Walton, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines: A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Wisconsin Cuneo Press (1931), Vol. 2, p. 578.

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