Ancestry of
James Roosevelt

(1828–1900)

Abigail Burt

View famous kin of Abigail Burt

• • 2nd Great-grandmother of James Roosevelt — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 29 
  • Father:
  • John Burt 
  • Mother:
  • Abigail Cheever   
  • Birth Date:
  • 28 Mar 1718 
  • Birth Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
  • 30 Mar 1718 
  • Christening Location:
  • New North Church, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Death Date:
  • 22 Jul 1766 
  • Death Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
  •  
  • Burial Location:
  • Copp's Hill Burial Ground, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Nathaniel Howland Jr.
  • Marriage Date:
  • 22 Nov 1739 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Joseph Howland (Ahnentafel No:14 )

• Additional marriages for Abigail Burt

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  • Spouse:
  • Richard Lane

• Sources for Abigail Burt

  • ¹ Boston Church Records, New North Church, Page 58.
  • ² Boston, MA: Church Records, 1630-1895, New North Church, p. 165, Baptism for son Joseph Howland.
  • ³ Boston, MA: Marriages, 1700-1809, Vol. 1, Page 211.
  • ⁴ Boston, MA: Old Cemeteries of Boston, 1649-1920, Cemetery records for Nathaniel and Abigail Burt (both buried in Shaw Family Tomb).
  • ⁵ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Boston, Marriages 1649-1800, Image 182 of 304.
  • ⁶ New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1942, Vol. 73, No. 3, Pages 159-166 and accompanying chart.
  • ⁷ Aspinwall, Algernon Aikin, comp., The Aspinwall Genealogy, Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Company (1901), 75.
  • ⁸ Johnson, Alvin Page, Franklin D. Roosevelt's Colonial Ancestors: Their Part in the Making of American History, Boston: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard (1933), 83, 87.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 6, 185, 261.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 308.
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 446.
  • ¹² Wakefield, Robert S. and Ann Smith Lainhart, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 23, Part 1, John Howland, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2006), 164-165.