Ancestry of
Amy Adams

Movie Actress

Richard Maxson

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• • 11th Great-grandfather of Amy Adams — 14th Generation
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  • 14576 
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  • ABT 1613 
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  • AFT 1640 
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  • ----- Maxson
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  • ABT 1639 
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  John Maxson (Ahnentafel No:7288 )

  Rebecca Maxson

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  • Sources claiming that Richard Maxon was killed by Indians in 1638 are false. Evidence exists showing that Richard Maxson was alive in 1639.

    The widow of Richard Maxon, whose name is unknown, married John Harndell by 1647.

• Sources for Richard Maxson

  • ¹ Dutchess County, NY: The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Vol. 9, p. 268.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1984, Vol. 60, p. 170.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 224.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. V, M-P, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2007), 102-104.
  • ⁵ Brown, Walter LeRoy, The Maxson Family: Descendants of John Maxson and Wife Mary Mosher of Westerly, Rhode Island, Albion, New York: Unknown (1954), 1-3.
  • ⁶ Chamberlain, Mildred (Mosher) and Laura (McGaffey) Clarenbach, Descendants of Hugh Mosher and Rebecca Maxson Through Seven Generations, Unknown: Unknown (1980), 1.

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