Ancestry of
Claire Danes

TV and Movie Actress

Margaret Stevenson

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• • 9th Great-grandmother of Claire Danes — 12th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2179 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1615 
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  • Death Date:
  • 22 Sep 1692 
  • Death Location:
  • Salem, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Benjamin Scott
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 28 Jul 1642 
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Mary Scott (Ahnentafel No:1089 )

  • Notes: 

  • Margaret (Stevenson) Scott was hanged during the 1692 Salem Witch Trials for being guilty of "certain detestable acts called Witchcraft and Sorceries."

    Margaret Stevenson's maiden name is also seen as Stephenson.

• Sources for Margaret Stevenson

  • ¹ New England Marriages to 1700, Vol. 2, p. 1340, Marriage record for Benjamin Scott and Margaret Stephenson.
  • ² Holman, Mary Lovering, The Scott Genealogy, Boston, Massachusetts: n. p. (1919), 325-326.
  • ³ Lash, David Chapman, A Transcript of Notes to 1958 Relating to the American Ancestry of David Chapman Lash and His Wife Emma Shrives Lash, Beverly, Massachusetts: typed manuscript (1959), 89, 92.
  • ⁴ Norton, Mary Beth, In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692, New York: Alfred A. Knopf (2002), 254, 256, 276-278, 317.

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