Ancestry of
Linda Hamilton

TV and Movie Actress

Abigail Cleveland

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• • 7th Great-grandmother of Linda Hamilton — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 821 
  • Father:
  • Josiah Cleveland 
  • Mother:
  • Abigail Paine   
  • Birth Date:
  • 3 Jun 1715 
  • Birth Location:
  • Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 19 Dec 1782 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Cleaveland Cemetery, Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • John Adams
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 7 Nov 1741 
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  Lois Adams

  John Adams (Ahnentafel No:410 )

• Additional marriages for Abigail Cleveland

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  • Spouse:
  • Benjamin Brown

• Sources for Abigail Cleveland

  • ¹ Connecticut, U.S., Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection), Birth records for children of John and Abigail Adams.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 04/22/2024).
  • ³ Adams, Andrew N., A Genealogical History of Henry Adams, of Braintree, Mass., and His Descendants; also John Adams of Cambridge, Mass., Rutland, VT: The Tuttle Company (1898), 314.
  • ⁴ Austin, John D., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 6, 3rd ed., Stephen Hopkins, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), 171.
  • ⁵ Whittemore, Henry, History of the Adams Family with Biographical Sketches of Distinguished Descendants . . ., New York: Willis McDonald and Co., Publishers (1893), 16.

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