Ancestry of
Johnny Appleseed

aka John Chapman

James Simonds

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• • Grandfather of Johnny Appleseed — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 6 
  • Father:
  • James Simonds 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Fowle   
  • Birth Date:
  • 10 Mar 1717 
  • Birth Location:
  • Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Anna Lawrence
  • Marriage Date:
  • 12 May 1740 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Elizabeth Simonds (Ahnentafel No:3 )

• Sources for James Simonds

  • ¹ Woburn, MA: Vital Records to 1873, Page 10110.
  • ² Woburn, MA: Vital Records to 1873, Marriage record for James Simonds and Anna Lawrence.
  • ³ Bond, Henry, Family Memorials: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Vol. 2, Boston: Little, Brown & Company (1855), 827.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 94.
  • ⁵ Sewall, Samuel, The History of Woburn, Middlesex County, Mass.: From the Grant of its Territory to Charlestown, in 1640 to the Year 1860, Boston: Wiggin and Lunt, Publishers (1868), 639.
  • ⁶ Wheeler, Florence E., John Chapman's Line of Descent from Edward Chapman of Ipswich, Columbus, Ohio: (excerpted from the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly, vol. 48, no. 1, Jan 1939), 29, 32.