Ancestry of
Henry David Thoreau

American Author and Poet

Mary Hayward

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• • Great-grandmother of Henry David Thoreau — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 13 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Hayward 
  • Mother:
  • Bethia Brett   
  • Birth Date:
  • 4 Jan 1718/1719 
  • Birth Location:
  • Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 3 Feb 1793 
  • Death Location:
  • Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Samuel Dunbar
  • Marriage Date:
  • 11 Feb 1744/1745 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Asa Dunbar (Ahnentafel No:6 )

  • Notes: 

  • Mary Hayward's given name is also seen as Melatiah.

• Sources for Mary Hayward

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Bridgewater, Vol. 2, p. 459, Death record for Mary Dunbar.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Bridgewater, Vol. 1, p. 151, Birth record for Mary Hayward.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Bridgewater, Vol. 2, p. 174, Marriage record for Samuel Dunbar and Mary Hayward.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Bridgewater, Vol. 1, p. 92, Birth record for son Asa Dunbar.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Bridgewater, Vol. 2, p. 459, Death record for son Asa Dunbar.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 174.
  • ⁷ 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.
  • ⁸ 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.