Ancestry of
Amelia Earhart

Aviation Pioneer

James Hersey Jr.

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Amelia Earhart — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 194 
  • Father:
  • James Hersey 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Fearing   
  • Birth Date:
  • 23 May 1682 
  • Birth Location:
  • Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 19 Sep 1723 
  • Death Location:
  • Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Hawke
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 Jan 1705/1706 
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  Rachel Hersey (Ahnentafel No:97 )

  James Hersey

• Sources for James Hersey Jr.

  • ¹ Hingham, MA: Vital Records, 1637-1845, Vol. 1, p. 60, Birth record for daughter Rachel Hersey.
  • ² Hingham, MA: Vital Records, 1637-1845, Vol. 1, p. 72, Death record for James Hersey.
  • ³ History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts, Vol. 2, Genealogical, Hingham, Massachusetts: Published by the Town (1893), 294, 299, 301-302.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1967, Vol. 121, p. 210, Birth record for James Hersey.
  • ⁵ New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1912, Vol. 43, p. 186.
  • ⁶ Fales, De Coursey, The Fales Family of Bristol, Rhode Island: Ancestry of Haliburton Fales of New York, Boston, Massachusetts: T. R. Marvin and Son, Printers (1919), 200.
  • ⁷ Otis, William A., A Genealogical and Historical Memoir of the Otis Family in America, Chicago: Unknown (1924), 88.
  • ⁸ White, Elizabeth Pearson, John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 1, Camden, Maine: Picton Press (1990, 7th printing 2014), 358.

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