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Billie Jean King

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Billie Jean King

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    James Leland

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    • 7th Great-grandfather of Billie Jean King — 10th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 626 
    • Birth Date:
    • 20 Sep 1687 
    • Birth Location:
    • Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
    • Christening Date:
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    • Death Date:
    • 13 Feb 1768 
    • Death Location:
    • Grafton, Worcester, Massachusetts 
    • Burial Date:
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    • Burial Location:
    • Old Oak Street Burial Ground, Grafton, Worcester, Massachusetts 
    • Marriage Date:
    • 5 Apr 1710 
    • Marriage Location:
    • Watertown, MIddlesex, Massachusetts 
    • Children:

    • Jerusha Leland

      James Leland

      Hannah Leland

      Thankful Leland (Ahnentafel No:313 )

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  • Sources for James Leland

    • 9 Clarke, John B., Sketches of Successful New Hampshire Men, Manchester, New Hampshire: John B. Clarke (1882), 51.
    • 10 Cutter, William Richard and William Frederick Adams, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts, Volume 4, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1910), 2165.
    • 11 Leland, Sherman, The Leland Magazine, or a Genealogical Record of Henry Leland and His Descendants . . ., Boston: Wier and White (1850), 33-35.
    • 12 Leland, Sherman, The Leland Magazine, or a Genealogical Record of Henry Leland and His Descendants . . ., Boston: Wier and White (1850), 113-114.
    • 13 McDonald, Frank V., Inquiries Relating to the Ancestors and Descendants of Job Whipple, of Cumberland, Rhode Island, and Greenwich . . ., Cambridge: University Press, John Wilson and Son (1881), 31.
    • 14 Pierce, Frederick Clifton, History of Grafton, Worcester County, Massachusetts: From Its Early Settlement by the Indians in 1647 to the . . ., Worcester: Press of Chas. Hamilton (1879), 516-517.
    • 15 Powers, Amos H., The Powers Family: A Genealogical and Historical Record of Walter Power and Some of His Descendants . . ., Chicago: Fergus Printing Company (1884), 21.
    • 16 Smith, Dean Crawford, The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, 1878-1908: Part 4, The Ancestry of Linda Anna Powers 1839-1879, Boston: New England Historica Genealogical Society (2000), 22, 467.

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