Ancestry of Sir
Benjamin Thompson

Physicist and Inventor, aka Count Rumford

James Simonds

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• • Great-grandfather of Benjamin Thompson — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 12 
  • Father:
  • William Simonds 
  • Mother:
  • Judith Phippen   
  • Birth Date:
  • 1 Nov 1658 
  • Birth Location:
  • Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 15 Sep 1717 
  • Death Location:
  • Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Susanna Blodgett
  • Marriage Date:
  • 29 Dec 1685 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  James Simonds (Ahnentafel No:6 )

• Sources for James Simonds

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Woburn, Vol. 1, p. 236, Birth record for James Simonds.
  • ² Woburn, MA: Vital Records to 1873, pp. 10078, 25635.
  • ³ Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts, Volume 1, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1910), 121.
  • ⁴ Ferris, Mary Walton, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines: A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Wisconsin Cuneo Press (1931), Vol. 1, p. 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), 32.