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Samuel Eddy

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Jodie Foster — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 152 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Eddy Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Lydia Alden   
  • Birth Date:
  • 12 Jan 1742/1743 
  • Birth Location:
  • Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 29 Nov 1821 
  • Death Location:
  • Wayne County, New York 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Marion Cemetery, Marion, Wayne, New York 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Anna Morton
  • Marriage Date:
  • 10 Mar 1763 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  David Eddy (Ahnentafel No:76 )

  • Notes: 

  • This Samuel Eddy is sometimes confused with the Samuel Eddy who married Sally Paddock and died in 1832.

• Sources for Samuel Eddy

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A035940.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/06/2019).
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Middleborough, Vol. 1, p. 59, Birth record for Samuel Eddy.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Plymouth, Vol. 1, p. 351, Marriage record for Samuel Eddy and Anna Morton.
  • ⁵ Eddy, Ruth Story Devereux, The Eddy Family in America, Boston: T. O. Metcalf Company (1930), 99, 162-163.
  • ⁶ Hughes, Thomas Patrick and Frank Munsell, American Ancestry: Giving the Name and Descent in the Male Line of Americans Whose Ancestors Settled in the U.S., Vol. 11, Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers (1898), 30.
  • 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), 333.
  • ⁸ Stover, Margaret Harris and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 10, Samuel Fuller, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2013), 24.
  • ⁹ 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), 375.
  • ¹⁰ Williams, Alicia Crane, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 3, John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2004), 235-237.

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