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Anderson Cooper

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Anderson Cooper

Television Journalist


    Richard Ward

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    • 6th Great-grandfather of Anderson Cooper — 9th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 434 
    • Birth Date:
    • 15 Apr 1689 
    • Birth Location:
    • Newport, Newport Co., Rhode Island 
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    • Death Date:
    • 21 Aug 1763 
    • Death Location:
    • Newport, Newport Co., Rhode Island 
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    • Marriage Date:
    • 2 Nov 1709 
    • Marriage Location:
    • Newport, Newport Co., Rhode Island 
    • Children:

    • Mary Ward (Ahnentafel No:217 )

      Samuel Ward

    • Notes: 
    • Governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

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  • Sources for Richard Ward

    • 2 NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1996, Vol. 13, p. 25.
    • 3 Flagg, Norman Gershom and Lucius C. S. Flagg, Family Records of the Descendants of Gershom Flagg (Born 1730) of Lancaster, Massachusetts . . ., Quincy, Illinois: Cadogan-Hatcher Mfg. Co., Printers and Binders (1907), 134.
    • 5 Tillinghast, Rose C., The Tillinghast Family 1560-1971, Unknown: Unknown (1972), 13.

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