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Willis Carrier

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Rachel Hersey

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of Willis Carrier — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 121 
  • Father:
  • James Hersey Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Hawke   
  • Birth Date:
  • 29 May 1714 
  • Birth Location:
  • Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 26 Dec 1793 
  • Death Location:
  • Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Otis Family Cemetery, Norwell, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Ephraim Otis
  • Marriage Date:
  • 6 Sep 1733 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Ephraim Otis Jr. (Ahnentafel No:60 )

  Rachel Otis

  Anne Otis

• Sources for Rachel Hersey

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 06/10/2023).
  • ² Hingham, MA: Vital Records, 1637-1845, Vol. 1, p. 60, Birth record for Rachel Hersey.
  • ³ History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts, Vol. 2, Genealogical, Hingham, Massachusetts: Published by the Town (1893), 301.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Scituate, Vol. 2, p. 430, Death record for Rachel Otis.
  • ⁵ The Mayflower Descendant, 1985, Vol. 35, p. 9.
  • ⁶ Fales, De Coursey, The Fales Family of Bristol, Rhode Island: Ancestry of Haliburton Fales of New York, Boston, Massachusetts: T. R. Marvin and Son, Printers (1919), 200-201.
  • ⁷ Otis, William A., A Genealogical and Historical Memoir of the Otis Family in America, Chicago: Unknown (1924), 88.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 44, 388, 490.