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Benedict Cumberbatch

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Zachariah Alden

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Benedict Cumberbatch — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1230 
  • Father:
  • John Alden Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Phillips   
  • Birth Date:
  • 18 Feb 1672 
  • Birth Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
  • 23 Feb 1672/1673 
  • Christening Location:
  • Old South Church, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Death Date:
  • BY 17 Aug 1709 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. at sea 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Viall
  • Marriage Date:
  • 13 Jan 1700 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Mary Alden (Ahnentafel No:615 )

  Elizabeth Alden

  Zechariah Alden

• Sources for Zachariah Alden

  • ¹ Mayflower Descendant: A Journal of Pilgrim Genealogy and History, 2018, Vol. 66, No. 1, p. 50.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1952, Vol. 28, p. 224.
  • ³ The Narragansett Historical Register, Providence, Rhode Island: Rhode Island Citizens Historical Associations, 1884-85, Vol. 3, p. 108.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 121, 248, 338.
  • ⁵ Williams, Alicia Crane, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1999), 37, 94-96.

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