Ancestry of
James Spader

TV and Movie Actor

Rhoda Merrihew

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of James Spader — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 75 
  • Father:
  • Stephen Merrihew 
  • Mother:
  • Ruby Eldridge   
  • Birth Date:
  • 26 Dec 1771 
  • Birth Location:
  • New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 18 Sep 1841 
  • Death Location:
  • Fairhaven, Bristol, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Riverside Cemetery, Fairhaven, Bristol, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Henry Huttleston
  • Marriage Date:
  • 6 Dec 1795 
  • Marriage Location:
  • New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Elizabeth Huttleston (Ahnentafel No:37 )

  Mary Eldredge Huttleston

  • Notes: 

  • Fairhaven vital records give Rhoda (Merrihew) Huttleston's death date as JUL 1841, but her tombstone has the date as 18 SEP 1841.

• Sources for Rhoda Merrihew

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 07/14/2016).
  • ² Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915, 1921-1924, Death record for daughter Mary E Huttlestone Rogers.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, New Bedford, Vol. 1, p. 328, Birth record for Rhoda Merrihew.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, New Bedford, Vol. 2, p. 293, Marriage record for Henry Huttlestone and Rhoda Merrihew.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Fairhaven, Vol. 1, p. 303, Death record for Rhoda Huttlestone.
  • ⁶ Huddleston, George, Huddlestone Family Tables, Concord, New Hampshire: The Rumford Press (1933), 4.
  • ⁷ Pease, Zephaniah W., History of New Bedford, Vol. 3, New York: The Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1918), 488-489.
  • ⁸ Randall, Eunice Kelley, David O'Killia, the Immigrant of Old Yarmouth, Massachusetts with His Descendants and Allied Families, 1652-1962, Unknown: Unknown (1962), 96.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 432.

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