Ancestry of
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

American “Fireside” Poet

Samuel Tompson

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 68 
  • Father:
  • William Thompson 
  • Mother:
  • Anne Brigham   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1631 
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  • Death Date:
  • 18 Jun 1695 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Hancock Cemetery, Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Shepard
  • Marriage Date:
  • 25 Apr 1656 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Edward Tompson (Ahnentafel No:34 )

• Additional marriages for Samuel Tompson

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  • Spouse:
  • Elizabeth Billings
  • Marriage Date:
  • 4 Oct 1680

• Sources for Samuel Tompson

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 01/18/2017).
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1858, Vol. 12, p. 347, Marriage record for Samuel Tomson and Sarah Sheppard.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1861, Vol. 15, p. 113.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1878, Vol. 32, p. 325.
  • ⁵ Bates, Samuel A., ed., Records of the Town of Braintree, 1640 to 1793, Randolph, MA: Daniel H. Huxford (1886), p. 661, Birth records for children of Samuel Tompson and Sarah Shepard .
  • ⁶ Bates, Samuel A., ed., Records of the Town of Braintree, 1640 to 1793, Randolph, MA: Daniel H. Huxford (1886), p. 661, Marriage record for Samuel Tompson and Sarah Shepard .
  • ⁷ Manning, William Henry, The Genealogical and Biographical History of the Manning Families of New England and Descendants . . ., Salem, Massachusetts: The Salem Press Company (1902), 146.
  • ⁸ Sibley, John Langdon, Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Volume 3, 1659-1677, Cambridge: Charles William Sever (1885), 306.