Ancestry of
James Dinsmore Tew

(1882–1964)

William Makepeace

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of James Dinsmore Tew — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 282 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Makepeace 
  • Mother:
  • Alice Brasier   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1636 
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  • Death Date:
  • BY 19 Aug 1681 
  • Death Location:
  • Assonet, Freetown, Bristol, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Ann Johnson
  • Marriage Date:
  • 23 May 1661 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Mary Makepeace (Ahnentafel No:141 )

  • Notes: 

  • William Makepeace drowned in the Taunton River while attempting to swim ashore from a sinking canoe. A description of the tragic event can be found in The Ancestry of Russell Makepeace (pp. 55-56).

• Sources for William Makepeace

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1866, Vol. 20, p. 212.
  • ² Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. V, M-P, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2007), 6-7.
  • ³ Makepeace, Russell, et. al., The Ancestry of Russell Makepeace of Marion, Massachusetts, 1904-1986: A Descendant of Thomas Makepeace . . ., Boston, Massachusetts: Newbury Street Press (2005), 52-56.