Ancestry of
John Greenleaf Whittier
American “Fireside” Poet
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- 3rd Great-grandfather of John Greenleaf Whittier — 6th Generation
- Ahnentafel No:
- 40
- Father:
- Edmund Greenleaf
- Mother:
- Sarah Moore
- Birth Date:
- Birth Location:
- Christening Date:
- 10 Aug 1628
- Christening Location:
- St. Mary's la Tour, Ipswich, Suffolk, England
- Death Date:
- 1 Dec 1690
- Death Location:
- Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Burial Date:
- Burial Location:
- Spouse Name:
- Elizabeth Coffin
- Marriage Date:
- 13 Nov 1651
- Marriage Location:
- Children:
Stephen Greenleaf
Elizabeth Greenleaf
John Greenleaf
Tristram Greenleaf (Ahnentafel No:20 )
Mary Greenleaf
- Notes:
Stephen Greenleaf's death is recorded at Newbury, Massachusetts with the following note, “cast on shore at Capbratoon coming from Canada and all lost.”
Stephen Greenleaf
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Additional marriages for Stephen Greenleaf
- Spouse:
- Hester Weare
- Marriage Date:
- 31 MAR 1678 or 1679
- Marriage Location:
- Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire
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Sources for Stephen Greenleaf
- 1 Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Newbury, Vol. 2, p. 333, Marriage intention for Joshua Moodey and daughter Mary Greenleaf.
- 2 Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Newbury, Vol. 2, p. 604, Death record for Stephen Greenleaf (shipwreck).
- 3 Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Newbury, Vol. 1, p. 199, Birth record for daughter Elizabeth Greenleafe.
- 4 New England Marriages to 1700, Vol. 1, p. 659, Marriage record for Stephen Greenleaf and Esther (Weare) Swett.
- 5 Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Family History of Central New York: A Record of the Achievements of Her People . . ., Vol. 1, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1912), 344.
- 6 Greenleaf, James Edward, Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family, Boston: Frank Wood, Printer (1896), 193, 198-200.
- 7 Macy, Silvanus Jenkins, Genealogy of the Early Generations of the Coffin Family in New England, Boston: David Clapp and Son, Printers (1870), 2.
- 8 Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 174, 184.
- 9 Starbuck, Alexander, The History of Nantucket County, Island and Town including Genealogies of First Settlers, Boston: C. E. Goodspeed and Co. (1924), 698.
- 10 Sumner, Edit Bartlett, Descendants of Thomas Farr of Harpswell, Maine, and Ninety Allied Families, Los Angeles, California: American Offset Printers (1959), 311.