Ancestry of
Charles Evans Hughes

36th Governor of New York

Amos Merrihew

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Charles Evans Hughes — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 26 
  • Father:
  • Preserved Merrihew 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Taber   
  • Birth Date:
  • 2 Apr 1738 
  • Birth Location:
  • Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • ABT 19 Nov 1794 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Washington, Dutchess, New York 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Spooner
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT 2 Apr 1762 
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Lydia Merrihew (Ahnentafel No:13 )

  • Notes: 

  • Revolutionary War veteran

• Sources for Amos Merrihew

  • ¹ Dutchess County, NY: The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Vol. 8, pp. 749-750.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Dartmouth, Vol. 2, p. 316, Marriage intention for Amos Merihew and Elisabeth Spooner.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 58.
  • ⁴ Spooner, Thomas, Records of William Spooner of Plymouth, Mass., and His Descendants, Vol. 1, Cincinnati, Ohio: Press of F. W. Freeman (1883), 128-129.
  • ⁵ Wood, Ralph V., Jr., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 12, Francis Cooke, Revised Edition, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press (2011, revised edition 3rd printing), 536.