Ancestry of
John Greenleaf Whittier

American “Fireside” Poet

Edmund Greenleaf

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of John Greenleaf Whittier — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 80 
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  • Christening Date:
  • 2 Jan 1574 
  • Christening Location:
  • St. Mary's la Tour, Ipswich, Suffolk, England 
  • Death Date:
  • 24 Mar 1671 
  • Death Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Moore
  • Marriage Date:
  • 2 Jul 1611 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Langford, Essex, England 
  • Children:
  
  

  Enoch Greenleaf

  Sarah Greenleaf

  Judith Greenleaf

  Elizabeth Greenleaf

  Stephen Greenleaf (Ahnentafel No:40 )

• Sources for Edmund Greenleaf

  • ¹ Early New England Families, 1641-1700, William Hilton (m. 1640), p. 1.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1968, Vol. 122, p. 28.
  • ³ The American Genealogist, 1980, Vol. 56, p. 107.
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 1982, Vol. 58, pp. 96-97.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 2, G-O, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 953.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 140.
  • ⁷ Greenleaf, James Edward, Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family, Boston: Frank Wood, Printer (1896), 71-75, 190-194.
  • ⁸ Holman, Mary Lovering, Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury, n.p.: n.p. (1938), 589-591.
  • ⁹ Macy, Silvanus Jenkins, Genealogy of the Early Generations of the Coffin Family in New England, Boston: David Clapp and Son, Printers (1870), 2-3.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 140, 148, 184.
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 176.
  • ¹² Starbuck, Alexander, The History of Nantucket County, Island and Town including Genealogies of First Settlers, Boston: C. E. Goodspeed and Co. (1924), 698.
  • ¹³ Sumner, Edith Bartlett, Ancestry of Edward Wales Blake and Clarissa Matilda Glidden with Ninety Allied Families, Los Angeles, California: Unknown (1948), 131-134.