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Dave Cowens

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Benjamin True

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Dave Cowens — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 398 
  • Father:
  • Jabez True 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Eaton   
  • Birth Date:
  • 10 Jan 1741/1742 
  • Birth Location:
  • Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • ABT 1814 
  • Death Location:
  • Livermore, Androscoggin, Maine 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Rhoda Merrill
  • Marriage Date:
  • 15 Dec 1762 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Cumberland, Cumberland Co., Maine 
  • Children:
  
  

  Sarah True (Ahnentafel No:199 )

  Martha True

• Sources for Benjamin True

  • ¹ Maine Marriages, 1771-1907, Marriage record for Benjamin True and Rhoda Merrill.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Salisbury, Vol. 1, p. 234, Birth record for Benjamin True.
  • ³ French, Rev. William Riley, A History of Turner, Maine, from Its Settlement to 1866, Portland, Maine: Hoyt, Fogg and Donham (1887), 53-54, 57.
  • ⁴ True, Charles Wesley, Jr., The True Family: Some Henry True Descendants on the Frontier, San Antonio, Texas: C. W. True, Jr. (1991), 66, 152.