Ancestry of
Anthony Perkins

Movie Actor

Benjamin Edson

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Anthony Perkins — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 130 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Edson 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Turner   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1686 
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  • Death Date:
  • 13 May 1758 
  • Death Location:
  • Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Joanna Orcutt
  • Marriage Date:
  • 14 Jul 1715 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  Benjamin Edson

  Nathan Edson

  Peter Edson

  Jacob Edson

  William Edson

  Seth Edson

  Ichabod Edson

  Ebenezer Edson

  Joanna Edson (Ahnentafel No:65 )

  Abigail Edson

• Sources for Benjamin Edson

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Bridgewater, Vol. 1, p. 103, Birth record for daughter Joanna Edson.
  • ² Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts, Volume 1, Chicago: J. H. Beers and Company (1912), 312.
  • ³ Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts, Volume 3, (Chicago: J. H. Beers and Company (1912)), 1761.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 264, 300.
  • ⁵ Wood, Ralph V., Jr., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 12, Francis Cooke, Revised Edition, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press (2011, revised edition 3rd printing), 280-281.