Ancestry of
Bill Gates

Founder of Microsoft

Samuel Appleton

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• • 10th Great-grandfather of Bill Gates — 13th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 6562 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Appleton 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Isaac   
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  • Christening Date:
  • 13 Aug 1586 
  • Christening Location:
  • Little Waldingfield, Suffolk, England 
  • Death Date:
  • Jun 1670 
  • Death Location:
  • Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Judith Everard
  • Marriage Date:
  • 24 Jan 1615/1616 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Preston, Suffolk, England 
  • Children:
  
  

  Samuel Appleton

  John Appleton

  Sarah Appleton (Ahnentafel No:3281 )

• Additional marriages for Samuel Appleton

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  • Spouse:
  • Martha - - - - - -

• Sources for Samuel Appleton

  • ¹ Essex Antiquarian, 1900, Vol. 4, p. 1.
  • ² Great Migration Newsletter, 2006, Vol. 15, p. 23.
  • ³ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1987, Vol. 4, p. 71.
  • ⁴ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1987, Vol. 4, p. 193.
  • ⁵ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2006, Vol. 160, pp. 108-111.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1448.
  • ⁷ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 9.
  • ⁸ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. V, M-P, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2007), 346.
  • ⁹ Appleton, W. S., A Genealogy of the Appleton Family, Boston: T. R. Marvin and Son (1874), 5.
  • ¹⁰ Appleton, William Sumner, A Rough Sketch of the Appleton Genealogy, Boston: Press of T. R. Marvin and Son (1873), 5.
  • ¹¹ Barthelmas, Della Gray, The Signers of the Declaration of Independence: A Biographical and Genealogical Reference, Jefferson, N.C. and London: McFarland and Company, Inc., Publishers (1997), 277.
  • ¹² Bond, Henry, Family Memorials: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Vol. 2, Boston: Little, Brown & Company (1855), 875.
  • ¹³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "The Royal Descents of Jane Pierce, Alice and Edith Roosevelt, Helen Taft, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Barbara Bush", (accessed 09/29/2014).
  • ¹⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 109, 147, 183, 193.
  • ¹⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 110, 186.
  • ¹⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 566.
  • ¹⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (2018), 371, 813.
  • ¹⁸ Watson, Marston, Royal Families: Americans of Royal and Noble Ancestry, Volume 3, Samuel Appleton and His Wife Judith Everard . . ., Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (2007), 1-2.
  • ¹⁹ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 236.

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