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Gloria Vanderbilt

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Margaret Hamilton Adams

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• • 2nd Great-grandmother of Gloria Vanderbilt — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 19 
  • Father:
  • Archibald Hamilton Adams 
  • Mother:
  • Maria McKinney   
  • Birth Date:
  • 8 Sep 1795 
  • Birth Location:
  •  
  • Christening Date:
  • 20 Sep 1795 
  • Christening Location:
  • Reformed Church, Schenectady, Schenectady Co., New York 
  • Death Date:
  • 30 Nov 1872 
  • Death Location:
  •  
  • Burial Date:
  • 3 Dec 1872 
  • Burial Location:
  • Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Samuel Kissam
  • Marriage Date:
  • 19 Jun 1817 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Schenectady, Schenectady Co., New York 
  • Child:

  Maria Louisa Kissam (Ahnentafel No:9 )

• Sources for Margaret Hamilton Adams

  • ¹ Federal Census, NY, Kings County, 1850, Brooklyn Ward 4, Image 247 of 266.
  • ² Federal Census, NY, Kings County, 1860, Brooklyn Ward 10 Dist. 3, p. 72, Image 72 of 223.
  • ³ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1996, Vol. 13, p. 22.
  • ⁴ U.S., Dutch Reformed Church Records in Selected States, 1639-1989, Baptism record for Margariet Adams.
  • ⁵ U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930, 01 JUL 1817, New York Evening Post, Marriage of Samuel Kissam and Margaret Adams.
  • ⁶ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, SAR #4064, Membership application for George W. Vanderbilt.
  • ⁷ Duyckinck, Whitehead Cornell and Rev. John Cornell, The Duyckinck and Allied Families: Being a Record of the Descendants of Evert Duyckinck Who Settled in . . ., New York: Tobias A. Wright, Publisher (1908), 21, 37-38.
  • ⁸ Kissam, Edward, The Kissam Family in America from 1644 to 1825, New York: Dempsey and Carroll's Art Press (1892), 48-49.
  • ⁹ Pearson, Jonathan, Contributions for the Genealogies of the Descendants of the First Settlers of the Patent and City of Schenectady . . ., Albany, New York: J. Munsell (1873), 2.
  • ¹⁰ Sanders, John, Centennial Address Relating to the Early History of Schenectady, and Its First Settlers, Albany, New York: Van Benthuysen Printing House (1879), 184.
  • ¹¹ The Green-Wood Historic Fund, Green-Wood Cemetery: Burial Search, Burial record for Margaret H. Kissam, (accessed 06/24/2017).
  • ¹² Wikipedia, "William Henry Vanderbilt", (accessed 12/01/2014).