Ancestry of
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

American “Fireside” Poet

Peleg Wadsworth Jr.

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• • Grandfather of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 6 
  • Father:
  • Peleg Wadsworth 
  • Mother:
  • Lusanna Samson   
  • Birth Date:
  • 6 May 1748 
  • Birth Location:
  • Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 12 Nov 1829 
  • Death Location:
  • Hiram, Oxford, Maine 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Wadsworth Cemetery, Hiram, Oxford, Maine 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Bartlett
  • Marriage Date:
  • 18 Jun 1772 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Child:

  Zilpah Wadsworth (Ahnentafel No:3 )

• Sources for Peleg Wadsworth Jr.

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A119858.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 08/11/2011).
  • ³ Currier, John J., "Ould Newbury": Historical and Biographical Sketches, Boston: Damrell and Upham (1896), 311.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 182.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 174-175.
  • ⁶ Wakefield, Robert S., ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 20, Part 1, Henry Samson, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2000), 94.
  • ⁷ Wikipedia, "Peleg Wadsworth", (accessed 08/11/2011).