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John Lithgow

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Thomas Emerson

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of John Lithgow — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 922 
  • Father:
  • Nathaniel Emerson 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1670 
  • Birth Location:
  • Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 14 Apr 1738 
  • Death Location:
  • Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Philippa Perkins
  • Marriage Date:
  • 20 Nov 1685 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Sarah Emerson (Ahnentafel No:461 )

  Mary Emerson

• Sources for Thomas Emerson

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Ipswich Births, p. 128.
  • ² Emerson, Benjamin Kendall, The Ipswich Emersons, A.D. 1636-1900: A Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas Emerson of Ipswich, Mass., with some . . ., Boston: David Clapp & Son (1900), 67, [Birth].
  • ³ Emerson, Benjamin Kendall, The Ipswich Emersons, A.D. 1636-1900: A Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas Emerson of Ipswich, Mass., with some . . ., Boston: David Clapp & Son (1900), 67, [Death].
  • ⁴ Emerson, P. H., The English Emersons: A Genealogical Historical Sketch of the Family from the Earliest Times to the End of the . . ., London: D. Nutt (1898), 24, [Birth].
  • ⁵ Emerson, P. H., The English Emersons: A Genealogical Historical Sketch of the Family from the Earliest Times to the End of the . . ., London: D. Nutt (1898), 24, [Death].
  • ⁶ Emerson, P. H., The English Emersons: A Genealogical Historical Sketch of the Family from the Earliest Times to the End of the . . ., London: D. Nutt (1898), 26.
  • ⁷ Perkins, George A., The Family of John Perkins of Ipswich, Massachusetts, Part 1, Descendants of Quarter-Master, John Perkins, 2nd ed., Salem, Mass.: Salem Press (1884), 25.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 450.

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