Ancestry of
Ted Danson

TV Actor - “Cheers”, “CSI”

Mercy Hedge

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• • 7th Great-grandmother of Ted Danson — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 661 
  • Father:
  • Elisha Hedge 
  • Mother:
  • Mary -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • Sep 1680 
  • Birth Location:
  • Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • from 18 Oct 1715 to 2 Mar 1718 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Edward Denison
  • Marriage Date:
  • 29 Nov 1701 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Edward Denison

  John Denison (Ahnentafel No:330 )

  Elisha Denison

  Mary Denison

  Desire Denison

  • Notes: 

  • Mercy Hedge's given name is also seen as Mary.

• Sources for Mercy Hedge

  • ¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 321, 482 [sic], 784.
  • ² Wheeler, Richard Anson, History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut, From its First Settlement in 1649 to 1900, New London, Connecticut: Press of the Day Publishing Company (1900), 342.
  • ³ White, Elizabeth Pearson, John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 1, Camden, Maine: Picton Press (1990, 7th printing 2014), 113-114.
  • ⁴ 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), 607.

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