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Bill Weld

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Bill Weld

68th Governor of Massachusetts


    Margaret Smith

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    • 9th Great-grandmother of Bill Weld — 12th Generation
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    • Family tradition states that Margaret was a Peggy Smith who traveled with John Watson from England to the colonies. It is said that she fell overboard and John saved her life. They married upon reaching New England.

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  • Sources for Margaret Smith

    • 2 Barbour, Lucius Barnes, Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut, Baltimore, Maryland: Reprinted for Clearfield Co., Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co. (2001), 391.
    • 3 Watson, Thomas, John Watson, of Harford, Conn., and His Descendants: A Genealogy, New York: Press of J. M. Bradstreet (1865), 5-11.

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