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    Avis Chapman

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    • 5th Great-grandmother of Grandma Moses — 8th Generation
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    • 165 
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    • AFT 11 Jan 1657/1658 
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    • Marriage Date:
    • 26 Oct 1635 
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    • Long Sutton, Somersetshire, England 
    • Children:

      • Hannah Reed

      William Reed Jr. (Ahnentafel No:82 )

      Thomas Reed

      John Reed

      James Reed

    • Notes: 

    • In early publications, Avis Chapman's maiden name is also seen as Deacon. However, this is now believed to be false. It would appear that she was confused with an Avis Deacon who emigrated to Virginia aboard the Alice in 1635.

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  • Sources for Avis Chapman

    • 1 NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1989, Vol. 6, p. 64.
    • 2 Somerset Marriage Index, Marriage record for William Reeds and Avis Chapman.
    • 3 The Mayflower Descendant, 1990, Vol. 40, p. 124.
    • 5 Chamberlain, George Walter, History of Weymouth Massachusetts, in Four Volumes, Vol. 4, Genealogy of Weymouth Families, Weymouth, Massachusetts: Weymouth Historical Society (1923), 568-569.
    • 7 Jacobus, Donald Lines, The Granberry Family and Allied Families: Including the Ancestry of Helen (Woodward) Granberry, New Haven, Connecticut: The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company (1945), 301-302.
    • 8 Reed, John Ludovicus, The Reed Genealogy: Descendants of William Reade of Weymouth, Massachusetts From 1635 to 1902, n. p.: n. p. (1902), 1-5, gives Avis's maiden name as Deacon.