Ancestry of
James Willard Maxwell

(1901–1960)

Anthony Collamore

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of James Willard Maxwell — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 944 
  • Father:
  • John Collamore 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Nicholl   
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  • Death Date:
  • 16 Dec 1693 
  • Death Location:
  • shipwreck near Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Men of Kent Cemetery, Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Chittenden
  • Marriage Date:
  • 14 Jun 1666 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Mary Collamore

  Peter Collamore (Ahnentafel No:472 )

  Elizabeth Collamore

  • Notes: 

  • Anthony Collamore lost his life in a shipwreck during a snow storm in 1693. The wreck occurred on the rocks near the Scituate shore and has since been known as Collamore's Ledge. His body was recovered several days later.

• Sources for Anthony Collamore

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 11/15/2014).
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Scituate, Vol. 2, p. 367, Death of Anthony Colamer.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Scituate, Vol. 2, p. 55, Marriage record for Anthony Collamer and Sarah Chettenden.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Scituate, Vol. 1, p. 84, Birth record for daughter Elizabeth Colamer.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Scituate, Vol. 1, p. 91, Birth record for daughter Mary Collimor.
  • ⁶ Mayflower Descendant: A Journal of Pilgrim Genealogy and History, 2017, Vol. 65, No. 1, p. 75.
  • ⁷ Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700, p. 7444, Marriage record for Anthony Collamer and Sarah Chittenden.
  • ⁸ Bowman, George Ernest, ed., Pilgrim Notes and Queries, Boston, Massachusetts: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1914, Vol. 2, No. 7, p. 99.
  • ⁹ Brogan, Hugh and Charles Mosley, American Presidential Families, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company (1993), 534.
  • ¹⁰ Hatch, Charles, Genealogy of the Descendants of Anthony Collamer of Scituate, Massachusetts, Salem, Massachusetts: Newcomb and Gauss, Publishers (1915), 21-31.
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 549.
  • ¹² Stetson, Oscar Frank, ed., The Descendants of Cornet Robert Stetson of Scituate, Massachusetts, 1634, Vol. 1, Nos. 1-3, Unknown: Stetson Kindred of America, Inc. (1933), 33.