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John Walley Langdon

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Benedict Cumberbatch — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 76 
  • Father:
  • John Langdon 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Walley   
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  • Christening Date:
  • 8 Mar 1772 
  • Christening Location:
  • West Church, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Death Date:
  • 17 Apr 1855 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Rebecca Cordis
  • Marriage Date:
  • 26 Aug 1794 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Joseph Langdon (Ahnentafel No:38 )

• Sources for John Walley Langdon

  • ¹ A Volume of Records Relating to the Early History of Boston, Containg Boston Marriages From 1752 to 1809, Boston: Municipal Printing Office (1903), p. 415, Marriage record for John Walley Langdon and Rebecca Cordis.
  • ² Boston, MA: Church Records, 1630-1895, West Church, pp. 23, 161, Baptism for John Walley Langdon.
  • ³ Boston, MA: Inhabitants and Estates of the Town of Boston, 1630-1822 (Thwing Collection), p. 12072, John Langdon family.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Death record for spouse Rebecca Langdon.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Charlestown, Vol. 2, p. 108, Birth record for son Joseph Langdon.
  • ⁶ Mayflower Descendant: A Journal of Pilgrim Genealogy and History, 2018, Vol. 66, No. 1, p. 51.
  • ⁷ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1876, Vol. 30, p. 36.
  • ⁸ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, SAR #85245, Application for Robert Cecil Cumberbatch.
  • ⁹ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, SAR #18065, Application for James Davee Langdon.
  • ¹⁰ Harvard College Fine Arts Library Collections, "A Boston merchant-adventurer and his illustrated souvenir of the Smyrna trade, ca. 1838".
  • ¹¹ Hunnewell, James F., A Century of Town Life: A History of Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1775-1887, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company (1888), p. 215, Baptism record for son Joseph Langdon.
  • ¹² Kneeland, Stillman Foster, Seven Centuries in the Kneeland Family, New York: Published by the Author (1897), 108.
  • ¹³ Putnam, Eden, ed., Putnam's Monthly Historical Magazine Devoted to Genealogy, History and Archaeology, Salem: The Salem Press, 1896, Vol. 4, p. 257.
  • ¹⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 338.

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