Ancestry of
John Kerry

68th U.S. Secretary of State

John Nelson

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of John Kerry — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 458 
  • Father:
  • Robert Nelson 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Temple   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1654 
  • Birth Location:
  • England 
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  • Death Date:
  • 15 Nov 1734 
  • Death Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Tailer
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  Rebecca Nelson

  Mehitable Nelson (Ahnentafel No:229 )

• Sources for John Nelson

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1856, Vol. 10, p. 76.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1863, Vol. 17, p. 238.
  • ³ American Society of Genealogists, The Genealogist, Rockport, Maine: Picton Press, Spring 1981, Vol. 2, Iss. 1, p. 126.
  • ⁴ Drake, Samuel Adams, Captain Nelson: A Romance of Colonial Days, New York: Harper and Brothers, Publishers (1879).
  • ⁵ Dwight, Benjamin W., The History of the Descendants of Elder John Strong, of Northampton, Mass., Vol. 1, Albany, New York: Joel Munsell (1871), 619-620.
  • ⁶ Johnson, Alvin Page, Franklin D. Roosevelt's Colonial Ancestors: Their Part in the Making of American History, Boston: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard (1933), 64, 69-74, 78.
  • ⁷ Richardson, Douglas and Kimball G. Everingham, Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2011), 186.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#58 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: Elizabeth Boyd Roberts: A Genealogical Tribute with 50 New . . .", (accessed 07/08/2017).
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 184, 573.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (2018), 355, 921, 923.
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 430.