Ancestry of
Bill Weld

68th Governor of Massachusetts

John Babcock Hillard

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Bill Weld — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 44 
  • Father:
  • William Hillard 
  • Mother:
  • Hannah Babcock   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1785 
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  • Death Date:
  • 5 Sep 1869 
  • Death Location:
  • Brooklyn, Kings, New York 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Rebecca Allyn Stillman
  • Marriage Date:
  • 10 Aug 1811 
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  • Children:
  
  

  John Babcock Hillard Jr. (Ahnentafel No:22 )

  Francis Allen Hillard

  • Notes: 

  • Some sources give Westerly, Rhode Island and Bridgeport, Connecticut as John Hillard's birth location. His death record and the federal census mortality schedule point to Virginia.

• Additional marriages for John Babcock Hillard

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  • Spouse:
  • Sarah Stillman

• Sources for John Babcock Hillard

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A110009.
  • ² Federal Census, NY, Kings County, 1850, Brooklyn Ward 10, Image 276 of 282.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Grand Lodge of Masons Membership Cards, 1733-1990, Membership record for John Babcock Hillard.
  • ⁴ New York, New York, U.S., Extracted Death Index, 1862-1948, Death record for John B Hillard.
  • ⁵ U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1885, NY, Kings County, 1870, Brooklyn, p. 87, Image 215 of 359.
  • ⁶ Clements Library, University of Michigan, "Hillard-Low family papers (1817-1935, bulk 1829-1897)".
  • ⁷ Haskell Family Association, Descendants of William Hascall of Fontmel Magna (1490-1542), (accessed 06/05/2020).
  • ⁸ Hill, Peter B., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 11, Part 1, 2nd edition, Edward Doty, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2009), 113.
  • ⁹ Johnston, Sarah Hall, Lineage Book: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Volume 34, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Telegraph Printing Company (1912), 168.
  • ¹⁰ Porter, Joseph W., ed., The Bangor Historical Magazine, Bangor, Maine: Benjamin A. Burr, Printer, Vol. 5, JUL 1889 to JUN 1890, p. 27.
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 142.
  • ¹² Stiles, Henry R., Families of Ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut, Baltimore, Maryland: Reprinted for Clearfield Company, Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1999, original 1904), 674.

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