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Richard Hatch

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Gideon Downer

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Richard Hatch — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 322 
  • Father:
  • Andrew Downer 
  • Mother:
  • Susannah Huntington   
  • Birth Date:
  • 16 Sep 1704 
  • Birth Location:
  • Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 7 Oct 1776 
  • Death Location:
  • Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Judith Merrill
  • Marriage Date:
  • 28 Mar 1729 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Judith Downer (Ahnentafel No:161 )

  • Notes: 

  • French and Indian War veteran

• Sources for Gideon Downer

  • ¹ Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1881, Case #8253, Probate file for estate of Gideon Downer.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Newbury, Vol. 2, p. 151, Marriage record for Gideon Downer and Judith Merryl.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Newbury, Vol. 1, p. 150, Birth record for Gideon Downer.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Newbury, Vol. 2, p. 585, Death record for Gideon Downer.
  • ⁵ Downer, David R., The Downers of America: With Genealogical Record, Newark, New Jersey: n. p. (1900), 19-20.
  • ⁶ Merrill, Samuel, A Merrill Memorial: An Account of the Descendants of Nathaniel Merrill, An Early Settler of Newbury, Massachusetts, Cambridge, Massachusetts: n.p. (1928), 193.