Ancestry of
William Cullen Bryant

American “Fireside” Poet

Ruth Staples

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• • Great-grandmother of William Cullen Bryant — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 9 
  • Father:
  • John Staples 
  • Mother:
  • Hannah -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1702 
  • Birth Location:
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  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 8 Mar 1777 
  • Death Location:
  • Brockton, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Snell Cemetery, Brockton, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Ichabod Bryant
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1722 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Children:
  
  

  Philip Bryant (Ahnentafel No:4 )

  Seth Bryant

  Job Bryant

• Sources for Ruth Staples

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 03/06/2015).
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Brockton, Vol. 1, p. 316, Death record for Ruth Bryant.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2000, Vol. 154, pp. 46, 229-230.
  • ⁴ Hill, Peter B., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 11, Part 1, 2nd edition, Edward Doty, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2009), 209.
  • ⁵ Hill, Peter B., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 11, Part 3, Edward Doty, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2000), 221.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 181.