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Benedict Cumberbatch

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John Kneeland

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• • 9th Great-grandfather of Benedict Cumberbatch — 12th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2456 
  • Father:
  • John Kneeland 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Stewart   
  • Birth Date:
  • 2 Aug 1632 
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  • Death Date:
  • 11 Aug 1691 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Hawkins
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 6 Oct 1659 
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  John Kneeland (Ahnentafel No:1228 )

• Sources for John Kneeland

  • ¹ Boston, MA: Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 1630-1699, p. 108, Birth record for son John Kneeland.
  • ² Boston, MA: Inhabitants and Estates of the Town of Boston, 1630-1822 (Thwing Collection), p. 11920, Family of John Kneeland.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. III, G-H, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2003), 264.
  • ⁴ Kneeland, Stillman Foster, Seven Centuries in the Kneeland Family, New York: Published by the Author (1897), 49-50.
  • ⁵ Stearns, Ezra S., Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire: A Record of the Achievements of Her People . . ., Vol. 2, New York and Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company (1908), 658.

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