Ancestry of
Nathaniel Philbrick

Author of In the Heart of the Sea

William Munroe

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Nathaniel Philbrick — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 200 
  • Father:
  • George Munroe 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 6 Jan 1699/1700 
  • Birth Location:
  • Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 10 Jul 1778 
  • Death Location:
  • Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Rebecca Locke
  • Marriage Date:
  • 6 Mar 1735/1736 
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  • Child:

  Philemon Munroe (Ahnentafel No:100 )

• Sources for William Munroe

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Lexington, Vol. 1, p. 53, Birth record for son Philemon Munroe.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Cambridge, Vol. 1, p. 507, Birth record for William Munroe.
  • ³ Cutter, Dr. Benjamin and William Richard Cutter, A History of the Cutter Family of New England, Boston: David Clapp and Son (1871), 37.
  • ⁴ Mackenzie, Alexander, History of the Munros of Fowlis with Genealogies of the Principal Families of the Name, Inverness: A. and W. Mackenzie (1898), 597-603.
  • ⁵ 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), 21, 36-37.

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