Ancestry of
Henry David Thoreau

American Author and Poet

Asa Dunbar

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• • Grandfather of Henry David Thoreau — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 6 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Dunbar 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Hayward   
  • Birth Date:
  • 26 May 1745 
  • Birth Location:
  • Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 22 Jun 1787 
  • Death Location:
  • Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Jones
  • Marriage Date:
  • 22 Oct 1772 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Weston, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Cynthia Dunbar (Ahnentafel No:3 )

• Sources for Asa Dunbar

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Bridgewater, Vol. 1, p. 92, Birth record for Asa Dunbar.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Bridgewater, Vol. 2, p. 459, Death record for Asa Dunbar.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Weston, Vol. 1, p. 132, Marriage record for Asa Dunbar and Mary Jones.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Vol. 248, p. 162, Death record for daughter Cynthia D Thoreau.
  • ⁵ New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, 1654-1969, Vol. Births D to 1901, p. 24327, Birth record for daughter Cyntha Dunbar.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 87, 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.
  • 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), 324.