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William H. Macy

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John Macy

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of William H. Macy — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 32 
  • Father:
  • Robert Macy 
  • Mother:
  • Abigail Barnard   
  • Birth Date:
  • 17 or 28 MAR 1748 
  • Birth Location:
  • Nantucket, Nantucket Co., Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 23 NOV 1838 or 1839 
  • Death Location:
  • Ghent, Columbia, New York 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Phebe Macy
  • Marriage Date:
  • 5 Mar 1794 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Nantucket, Nantucket Co., Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  John I. Macy (Ahnentafel No:16 )

  • Notes: 

  • Society of Friends church record give the birth date for John Macy as 17 MAR 1748, however other published and private records give it as 28 MAR 1748. Perhaps this latter date is for a baptism.

• Additional marriages for John Macy

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  • Spouse:
  • Bethiah Cartwright
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 Mar 1768
  • Marriage Location:
  • Nantucket, Nantucket Co., Massachusetts

• Sources for John Macy

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 5, p. 429, Death record for spouse Phebe Macy in Ghent.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 5, pp. 422-423, Death of John Macy in Ghent [dup. 1839 written above 1838].
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 5, p. 414, Death record for spouse Bethiah Macy.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 4, p. 162, Marriage record for John Macy and Bethiah Cartwright.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 4, p. 162, Marriage record for John Macy and Phebe Macy.
  • ⁶ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 2, p. 283, Birth record for son John I. Macy in Ghent.
  • ⁷ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 2, p. 282, Birth record for John Macy.
  • ⁸ Macy, Silvanus J., Genealogy of the Macy Family from 1635 - 1868, Albany: Joel Munsell (1868), beware frequent errors in dates, 92, 136-137.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 326.
  • ¹⁰ Townsend, Mrs. Charles Delmar, et. al., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 8, 2nd ed., Degory Priest, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2008), 99.