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John Lithgow

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William Raymond

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of John Lithgow — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 166 
  • Father:
  • William Raymond 
  • Mother:
  • Hannah Tupper   
  • Birth Date:
  • 12 or 23 FEB 1742/1743 
  • Birth Location:
  • Rochester, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
  • 27 Mar 1743 
  • Christening Location:
  • Rochester, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Lydia Weeks
  • Marriage Date:
  • 31 Dec 1765 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Tisbury, Dukes, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Lydia Raymond (Ahnentafel No:83 )

• Sources for William Raymond

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 3, p. 14, Private marriage record for Benjamin Adams and dau. Lydia Raymond.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Tisbury, Vol. 1, p. 176, Marriage record for William Raymond and Lydia Weeks [torn].
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Rochester, Vol. 2, p. 246, Marriage intention for William Raimond and Lidea Weeks.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 2, p. 422, Private birth record for William Raymond.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Rochester, Vol. 1, p. 241, Baptism record for William Raimond.
  • ⁶ Raymond, Samuel, Genealogies of the Raymond Families of New England, 1630-1 to 1886: With a Historical Sketch of Some . . ., New York: Press of J. J. Little and Co. (1886), 130, 142.
  • ⁷ Tupper, Franklin Whittlesey, Thomas Tupper and His Descendants, Boston, Massachusetts: Tupper Family Association of America, Inc. (1945), 24, incorrectly gives his name as Ebenezer.
  • ⁸ Weeks, Robert D., Genealogy of the Family of George Weekes, of Dorchester, Mass., Part II, Newark, New Jersey: Press of L. J. Hardham (1892), 135.

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