Ancestry of
James Spader

TV and Movie Actor

Samuel Merriam

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of James Spader — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1946 
  • Father:
  • George Merriam 
  • Mother:
  • Susanna Raven   
  • Birth Date:
  • 21 Jul 1643 
  • Birth Location:
  • Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • AFT 22 Mar 1690 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Townsend
  • Marriage Date:
  • 25 Apr 1671 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Elizabeth Merriam

  Sarah Merriam (Ahnentafel No:973 )

  • Notes: 

  • Although one source gives Samuel Merriam's birth year as 1643, other sources indicate the last digit of the year was torn off or illegible in the vital records indicating he was born sometime in the 1640s.

• Sources for Samuel Merriam

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Concord, Vol. 1, p. 5, Birth record for Samuell Miriam.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Concord, Vol. 1, p. 18, Birth record for daughter Sarah Meriam.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1966, Vol. 120, p. 167.
  • ⁴ Pope, Charles Henry, Merriam Genealogy in England and America: Including the "Genealogical Memoranda" of Charles Pierce Merriam . . ., Boston, Massachusetts: Charles H. Pope (1906), 38,47.

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