Ancestry of
John Greenleaf Whittier

American “Fireside” Poet

Tristram Greenleaf

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of John Greenleaf Whittier — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 20 
  • Father:
  • Stephen Greenleaf 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Coffin   
  • Birth Date:
  • 11 Feb 1667/1668 
  • Birth Location:
  • Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • from 16 Sep 1741 to 15 Sep 1742 
  • Death Location:
  • Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Margaret Piper
  • Marriage Date:
  • 12 Nov 1689 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Nathaniel Greenleaf (Ahnentafel No:10 )

  • Notes: 

  • Church records from the Second Church of Newbury (later First Church of West Newbury) gives Tristram Greenleaf's date of death as 16 SEP 1741. However, his gravestone gives his death as 15 SEP 1742.

• Sources for Tristram Greenleaf

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Newbury, Vol. 2, p. 604, Death record for Tristram Greenleaf.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Newbury, Vol. 2, p. 208, Marriage record for Tristram Greenleaf and Margaret Piper.
  • ³ Greenleaf, James Edward, Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family, Boston: Frank Wood, Printer (1896), 200, gives Tristram's death as 13 SEP 1740.
  • ⁴ Piper, Horace, Genealogy of Elisha Piper of Parsonsfield, ME., and His Descendants . . ., Washington, D.C.: n. p. (1889), 86.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 184.