Ancestry of
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

American “Fireside” Poet

Mercy Wiswall

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• • 2nd Great-grandmother of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 25 
  • Father:
  • Ichabod Wiswall 
  • Mother:
  • Priscilla Pabodie   
  • Birth Date:
  • 4 Oct 1680 
  • Birth Location:
  • Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 12 Nov 1716 
  • Death Location:
  • Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Old Cemetery, South Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • John Wadsworth Jr.
  • Marriage Date:
  • 25 Jan 1704/1705 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  John Wadsworth

  Uriah Wadsworth

  Dorothy Wadsworth

  Ichabod Wadsworth

  Peleg Wadsworth (Ahnentafel No:12 )

  • Notes: 

  • Mercy Wiswall's given name is also seen as Marcy and Mary.

• Sources for Mercy Wiswall

  • ¹ General Society of Mayflower Descendants Membership Applications, 1620-1920, General No. 4107, Membership application for Mary Ann Buchanan Smith (Brewster) Clark.
  • ² Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 183.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 175, 191, 688.
  • ⁴ Wakefield, Robert S., ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 20, Part 1, Henry Samson, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2000), 94.
  • ⁵ Williams, Alicia Crane, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1999), 67, 209-211, 610.