Ancestry of
Bill Weld

68th Governor of Massachusetts

John Barnard

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Bill Weld — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 222 
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  • 12 Dec 1746 
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  • 12 Dec 1778 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Lowell
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  • 14 Nov 1766 
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  Mary Barnard (Ahnentafel No:111 )

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  • Capt. John Barnard was in command of an American ship on 12 DEC 1778 when he was overtaken by a British man-of-war and shot dead by one of its officers on his own quarter deck after he had surrendered. The officer was subsequently tried at New Orleans and hung on the yard-arm of his own vessel.

• Sources for John Barnard

  • ¹ Blake, Samuel, Blake Family: A Genealogical History of William Blake, of Dorchester, and His Descendants . . ., Boston: Ebenezer Clapp, Jr. (1857), 44.
  • ² Holman, Mary Lovering, Ancestors and Descendants of John Coney of Boston, England and Boston, Massachusetts, Concord: The Rumford Press (1928), 90-91.
  • ³ Lowell, Delmar R., The Historic Genealogy of the Lowells of America from 1639 to 1899, Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Company, Printers (1899), 36-39.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 143.

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