Ancestry of
Bill Weld

68th Governor of Massachusetts

Benjamin Akin

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Bill Weld — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 348 
  • Father:
  • John Akin 
  • Mother:
  • Hannah Sherman   
  • Birth Date:
  • 18 May 1715 
  • Birth Location:
  • Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 10 Apr 1802 
  • Death Location:
  • New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Eunice Taber
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1738 
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Benjamin Akin Jr. (Ahnentafel No:174 )

  Jacob Akin

  Sarah Akin

  Elizabeth Akin

  Jerusha Akin

  Lois Akin

  Stephen Akin

  Bartholomew Akin

  Eunice Akin

  Lydia Akin

• Additional marriages for Benjamin Akin

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  • Spouse:
  • Lydia Wing
  • Marriage Date:
  • 27 May 1763
  • Marriage Location:
  • Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts

• Sources for Benjamin Akin

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Dartmouth, Vol. 1, p. 15, Birth record for son Benjamin Akin.
  • 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), 141.
  • ³ Wood, Ralph V., Jr., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 12, Francis Cooke, Revised Edition, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press (2011, revised edition 3rd printing), 544.

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