Ancestry of
Bill Gates

Founder of Microsoft

John Faunce

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• • 10th Great-grandfather of Bill Gates — 13th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 7022 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1608 
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  • Death Date:
  • 29 Nov 1653 
  • Death Location:
  • Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Patience Morton
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1633 
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  Priscilla Faunce

  Mary Faunce

  Sarah Faunce (Ahnentafel No:3511 )

  Mercy Faunce

  Joseph Faunce

• Sources for John Faunce

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1960, Vol. 114, pp. 116-119.
  • ² Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 574, 651-654.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 2, G-O, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1297.
  • ⁴ Dwyer, Michael, "Genetic Distance Zero", (accessed 11/21/2023).
  • ⁵ Hill, Peter B., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 11, Part 1, 2nd edition, Edward Doty, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2009), 9.
  • ⁶ Wakefield, Robert S. and Judith H. Swan, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 18, Part 1, Richard Warren, 10, 12.

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