Ancestry of Sir
Benjamin Thompson

Physicist and Inventor, aka Count Rumford

Ruth Simonds

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• • Mother of Benjamin Thompson — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 3 
  • Father:
  • James Simonds 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Fowle   
  • Birth Date:
  • 10 Oct 1730 
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  • Death Date:
  • 18 Jun 1811 
  • Death Location:
  • Baldwin, Cumberland, Maine 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Benjamin Thompson
  • Marriage Date:
  • 30 May 1752 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Benjamin "Count Rumford" Thompson (Ahnentafel No:1 )

• Additional marriages for Ruth Simonds

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  • Spouse:
  • Josiah Pierce Jr.
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT 1 Jan 1756
  • Marriage Location:
  • Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts

• Sources for Ruth Simonds

  • ¹ Woburn, MA: Marriage Intentions, 2771, 2968.
  • ² 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), 586.
  • ³ 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), 640.
  • ⁴ Thompson, Rev. Leander, Memorial of James Thompson, of Charlestown, Mass., 1630-1642, and Woburn, Mass., 1642-1682; and Eight Generations . . ., Boston: Press of L. Barta and Co. (1887), 31, 42-43.
  • ⁵ 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.