Ancestry of
Gerald Ford

38th U.S. President

Samuel Ayer

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Gerald Ford — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 896 
  • Father:
  • Robert Ayer 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Palmer   
  • Birth Date:
  • 11 Nov 1654 
  • Birth Location:
  • Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 29 Aug 1708 
  • Death Location:
  • Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Pentucket Cemetery, Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Johnson
  • Marriage Date:
  • 14 Dec 1681 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Mehetable Ayer

  James Ayer (Ahnentafel No:448 )

  • Notes: 
  • Killed by Indians in the massacre at Haverhill.

• Sources for Samuel Ayer

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 08/11/2011).
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Haverhill Births, Vol. 1, pp. 18, 21.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Haverhill Marriages, Vol. 2, p. 19.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, October 1863, Vol. 17, p. 307.
  • ⁵ The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts: Vol. 3, 1675-1681, Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute (1920), 382-384, Will of Henry Palmer.
  • ⁶ Holman, Mary Lovering, Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury, n.p.: n.p. (1938), Vol. 2, p. 925.
  • ⁷ Lash, David Chapman, A Transcript of Notes to 1958 Relating to the American Ancestry of David Chapman Lash and His Wife Emma Shrives Lash, Beverly, Massachusetts: typed manuscript (1959), 64.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 171.
  • ⁹ Schutz, John A., Legislators of the Massachusetts General Court 1691-1780: A Biographical Dictionary, Boston: Northeastern University Press (1997), 276.
  • ¹⁰ White, Daniel Appleton, The Descendants of William White, of Haverhill, Mass.: Genealogical Notices by . . ., Boston, Massachusetts: American Printing and Engraving Company (1889), 12.