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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice


    Mary Symmes

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    • 6th Great-grandmother of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. — 9th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 467 
    • Birth Date:
    • 9 Apr 1628 
    • Birth Location:
    • Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England 
    • Christening Date:
    • 16 Apr 1628 
    • Christening Location:
    • Dunstable, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
    • Death Date:
    • 18 Jul 1710 
    • Death Location:
    • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
    • Burial Date:
    • 19 Jul 1710 
    • Burial Location:
    • King's Chapel Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
    • Marriage Date:
    • 15 Sep 1652 
    • Marriage Location:
    • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
    • Notes: 
    • Donald L. Jacobus and Edgar F. Waterman stated in their book Hale, House, and Related Families that Mary's death date was 18 DEC 1710. An entry in Samuel Sewall's diary shows that it actually occurred in July of that year.

  • Additional marriages for Mary Symmes


    • Spouse:
    • Anthony Stoddard
    • Marriage Date:
    • from 7 Dec 1683 to 10 Apr 1684

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  • Sources for Mary Symmes

    • 3 Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, Descendants of the Reverend Francis Higginson: First Teacher in the Massachusetts Bay Colony of . . ., Unknown: Privately printed (1910), 9.
    • 4 Jacobus, Donald Lines and Edgar Francis Waterman, Hale, House and Related Families: Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1978, reprinted from 1952), 734-741.
    • 5 Smith, Dean Crawford, The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, 1878-1908: Part 4, The Ancestry of Linda Anna Powers 1839-1879, Boston: New England Historica Genealogical Society (2000), 130.
    • 6 Threlfall, John Brooks, The Ancestry of Reverend Henry Whitfield (1590-1657) and His Wife Dorothy Sheafe (159?-1669) of Guilford, Connecticut, Madison, Wisconsin: Unknown (1989), 206, 219, 240-244, 257.