Ancestry of
James Spader

TV and Movie Actor

Isaac Greenwood

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of James Spader — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 76 
  • Father:
  • Isaac Greenwood Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Mary I'ans   
  • Birth Date:
  • 13 Oct 1758 
  • Birth Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
  • 3 Nov 1758 
  • Christening Location:
  • King's Chapel, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Death Date:
  • 21 Oct 1829 
  • Death Location:
  • Washington Hotel, New York, New York 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Deborah Langley
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1 May 1788 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Newport, Newport Co., Rhode Island 
  • Child:

  John Greenwood (Ahnentafel No:38 )

  • Notes: 

  • Isaac Greenwood was said to have been with his father's young apprentice Samuel Maverick at the Boston Massacre on 05 MAR 1770. He is said to have “dropped young Isaac's hand but an instant, and was in the act of throwing up his arms and exclaiming, "Fire away, you damned lobersterbacks!" when he received his death wound.” Isaac is also said to have witnessed the Boston Tea Party a few years later.

• Sources for Isaac Greenwood

  • ¹ Greenwood, Isaac John, The Greenwood Family of Norwich, England in America, Concord, New Hampshire: Rumford Press (1934), 78, 94-98 ,127.

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