Ancestry of
Bill Weld

68th Governor of Massachusetts

Thomas Richards

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• • 9th Great-grandfather of Bill Weld — 12th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 3806 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Richards 
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  • Christening Date:
  • 15 Apr 1596 
  • Christening Location:
  • Pitminster, Somersetshire, England 
  • Death Date:
  • from 17 DEC 1650 to 18 JAN 1650/1651 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Welthian -----
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1620 
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  Mary Richards

  Ann Richards

  Alice Richards (Ahnentafel No:1903 )

  James Richards

  John Richards

• Sources for Thomas Richards

  • ¹ Early New England Families, 1641-1700, Thomas Hinckley (m. 1641, 1660), p. 2.
  • ² NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1995, Vol. 12, p. 66.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1997, Vol. 151, p. 201.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 208.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1575-1579.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 282.
  • ⁷ Chamberlain, George Walter, History of Weymouth Massachusetts, in Four Volumes, Vol. 3, Genealogy of Weymouth Families, Weymouth, Massachusetts: Weymouth Historical Society (1923), 313.
  • ⁸ Jacobus, Donald Lines, The Waterman Family: Vol. I, Descendants of Robert Waterman of Marshfield, Massachusetts, New Haven, Connecticut: Edgar F. Waterman (1939), 626.
  • ⁹ Lainhart, Ann Smith and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 22, William Bradford, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2004), 5.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 222.
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 43.
  • ¹² Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 508.
  • ¹³ Whittemore, Henry, The Signers of the Mayflower Compact and their Descendants, New York: Mayflower Publishing Co. (1899), 11.

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