Ancestry of
Henry David Thoreau

American Author and Poet

Samuel Dunbar

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• • Great-grandfather of Henry David Thoreau — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 12 
  • Father:
  • Peter Dunbar 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Thaxter   
  • Birth Date:
  • 11 May 1704 
  • Birth Location:
  • Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 17 Apr 1786 
  • Death Location:
  • Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Hayward
  • Marriage Date:
  • 11 Feb 1744/1745 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Asa Dunbar (Ahnentafel No:6 )

• Additional marriages for Samuel Dunbar

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  • Spouse:
  • Melatiah Hayward
  • Marriage Date:
  • 14 Dec 1732
  • Marriage Location:
  • Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts

• Sources for Samuel Dunbar

  • ¹ General Society of Mayflower Descendants Membership Applications, 1620-1920, General no. 1127, Membership application for Horace Alden Keith.
  • ² General Society of Mayflower Descendants Membership Applications, 1620-1920, General No. 40298, Supplemental No. 2, Application for Carol Howard Costello Christensen.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Bridgewater, Vol. 2, p. 460, Death record for Samuel Dunbar.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Bridgewater, Vol. 2, p. 174, Marriage record for Samuel Dunbar and Mary Hayward.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Bridgewater, Vol. 1, p. 92, Birth record for son Asa Dunbar.
  • ⁶ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Bridgewater, Vol. 2, p. 459, Death record for son Asa Dunbar.
  • ⁷ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Bridgewater, Vol. 1, p. 94, Birth record for daughter Malatiah Dunbar.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 174.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 169, 589.
  • ¹⁰ Wakefield, Robert S., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 18, Part 2, 2nd Ed., Richard Warren, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2011), 323-324.
  • ¹¹ Wakefield, Robert S. and Judith H. Swan, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 18, Part 1, Richard Warren, 136.
  • ¹² Wakefield, Robert S., ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 7, 2nd ed., Peter Brown, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2002), 194, 198, 231.