Ancestry of
Anderson Cooper

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Gershom Flagg

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Anderson Cooper — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 864 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Flagg 
  • Mother:
  • Mary -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 16 Apr 1641 
  • Birth Location:
  • Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 6 Jul 1690 
  • Death Location:
  • Battle of Wheelwright Pond, Lee, Strafford, New Hampshire 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Hannah Leffingwell
  • Marriage Date:
  • 15 Apr 1668 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  John Flagg (Ahnentafel No:432 )

  Hannah Flagg

  Abigail Flagg

  • Notes: 

  • Gershom Flagg was killed by Indians.

• Sources for Gershom Flagg

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2009, Vol. 163, pp. 19-21.
  • ² U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, SAR #26043, Application for Charles Noel Flagg.
  • ³ Cutler, Nahum S., A Cutler Memorial and Genealogical History: Containing the Names of a Large Proportion of the Cutlers in . . ., Greenfield, Massachusetts: Press of E. A. Hall and Co. (1889), 327.
  • ⁴ Learned, William Law, comp., The Learned Family (Learned, Larned, Learnard, Larnard and Lerned) Being Descendants of William Learned . . . 2nd Ed., Albany: Weed-Parsons Printing Company, Printers (1898), 60.
  • ⁵ Vinton, John Adams, The Vinton Memorial Comprising A Genealogy of the Descendants of John Vinton of Lynn, 1648, Boston: S.K. Whipple and Company (1858), 402.

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