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Pete Seeger

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Pete Seeger

American Folk Singer


    Martha Leatherland

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    • 6th Great-grandmother of Pete Seeger — 9th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 369 
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    • 4 May 1673 
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    • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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    • ABT 1692 
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    • Notes: 
    • Some published sources claim Martha's maiden name was Drew and that she married John Thwing in Boston on 14 AUG 1692. Another more likely possibility is that Martha was the daughter of Zebeon and Rachel Leatherland (Lytherland) of Boston who was baptized 04 MAY 1673 based on evidence presented by Winifred Lovering Holman (The American Genealogist 24:259-260).

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  • Sources for Martha Leatherland

    • 2 Thwing, Walter Eliot, Thwing: A Genealogical, Biographical and Historical Account of the Family, Boston: David Clapp and Son, Printers (1883), 19.