Ancestry of
Bill Weld

68th Governor of Massachusetts

John Backus

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Bill Weld — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 236 
  • Father:
  • John Backus 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Bingham   
  • Birth Date:
  • Jan 1698 
  • Birth Location:
  • Windham, Windham Co., Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • Jun 1769 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sybil Whiting
  • Marriage Date:
  • 15 Jan 1725 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Windham, Windham Co., Connecticut 
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  Ebenezer Backus (Ahnentafel No:118 )

  Lucretia Backus

• Sources for John Backus

  • ¹ Lainhart, Ann Smith and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 22, William Bradford, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2004), 209-210.
  • ² Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 71, 143, 406.

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