Ancestry of
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

American “Fireside” Poet

Abigail Tompson

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• • 2nd Great-grandmother of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 17 
  • Father:
  • Edward Tompson 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Webster   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1693 
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  • Death Date:
  • 10 Sep 1778 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Stephen Longfellow
  • Marriage Date:
  • 25 Mar 1714 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Stephen Longfellow Jr. (Ahnentafel No:8 )

• Sources for Abigail Tompson

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Newbury, Vol. 2, p. 297, Marriage record for Stephen Longfellow and Abigail Tompson.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, April 1934, Vol. 88, p. 200.
  • ³ Currier, John J., "Ould Newbury": Historical and Biographical Sketches, Boston: Damrell and Upham (1896), 309.
  • ⁴ Emery, William M., Newell Ancestry: The Story of the Antecedents of William Stark Newell, Boston: Thomas Todd (1944), 205.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 182.