Ancestry of
John Adams

2nd U.S. President and Signer of the Declaration of Independence

Ruth Alden

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• • Great-grandmother of John Adams — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 11 
  • Father:
  • John Alden 
  • Mother:
  • Priscilla Mullins   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1636 
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  • Death Date:
  • 12 Oct 1674 
  • Death Location:
  • Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • John Bass
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 Feb 1657/1658 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  John Bass

  Samuel Bass

  Ruth Bass

  Joseph Bass

  Hannah Bass (Ahnentafel No:5 )

  Mary Bass

  Sarah Bass

• Sources for Ruth Alden

  • ¹ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1990, Vol. 7, p. 157.
  • ² Society of Colonial Wars in Massachusetts Membership Applications, 1560-1970, NULL719.
  • ³ Adams, Andrew N., A Genealogical History of Henry Adams, of Braintree, Mass., and His Descendants; also John Adams of Cambridge, Mass., Rutland, VT: The Tuttle Company (1898), 392.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 24.
  • ⁵ Bates, Samuel A.,, "Braintree Records", The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 37 (1883), 169.
  • ⁶ Hurd, D. Hamilton, comp., History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, Philadelphia: J. W. Lewis & Co. (1884), 311.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 94, 139.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 1, 23, 64, 102, 170, 214, 234, 254, 306, 309, 413, 452, 502, 555, 563, 589, 672, et. al..
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 465, 467.
  • ¹⁰ Williams, Alicia Crane, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1999), 20, 45-47.