Ancestry of
Nathaniel Philbrick

Author of In the Heart of the Sea

Philemon Munroe

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Nathaniel Philbrick — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 100 
  • Father:
  • William Munroe 
  • Mother:
  • Rebecca Locke   
  • Birth Date:
  • 30 Oct 1753 
  • Birth Location:
  • Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 17 Oct 1806 
  • Death Location:
  • Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Rhoda Mead
  • Marriage Date:
  • 13 Sep 1786 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Edwin Munroe (Ahnentafel No:50 )

  • Notes: 

  • Philemon Munroe's surname is also seen as Munro and Munrow.

    Philemon Munroe is said to have been at the Battle of Lexington.

• Additional marriages for Philemon Munroe

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  • Spouse:
  • Elizabeth Waite
  • Marriage Date:
  • 17 Feb 1784
  • Marriage Location:
  • Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts

• Sources for Philemon Munroe

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A081167.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Lexington, Vol. 1, p. 134, Marriage record for Philemon Munro and Elizabeth Waite in Malden.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Lexington, Vol. 1, p. 134, Marriage record for Philemon Munro and Rhoda Mead.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Lexington, Vol. 1, p. 53, Birth record for Philemon Munroe.
  • ⁵ Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871, Case #15705, Probate records for Philemon Munroe.
  • ⁶ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1878, Vol. 32, p. 195.
  • ⁷ Hudson, Charles, History of the Town of Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts: From Its First Settlement to 1868, Vol. 2 - Genealogies, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company (1913), 135.
  • ⁸ Mackenzie, Alexander, History of the Munros of Fowlis with Genealogies of the Principal Families of the Name, Inverness: A. and W. Mackenzie (1898), 600-601.
  • ⁹ McGuire, Joan S. Guilford, The Monroe Book: Being the History of the Munro Clan From Its Origins in Scotland to Settlement in New England and . . ., Franklin, North Carolina: Genealogy Publishing Service (1993), 37, 71-72.

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