Ancestry of
Bill Weld

68th Governor of Massachusetts

Sarah Backus

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• • 3rd Great-grandmother of Bill Weld — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 59 
  • Father:
  • Ebenezer Backus 
  • Mother:
  • Mercy Edwards   
  • Birth Date:
  • 29 Jul 1777 
  • Birth Location:
  • Windham, Windham Co., Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • ABT 1845 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Joseph Kirkland Jr.
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1795 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Louisa Kirkland

  Sarah Backus Kirkland (Ahnentafel No:29 )

• Sources for Sarah Backus

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A004345.
  • ² New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949, Death record for daughter Louisa Kirkland Tracy.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 23.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 143, 406.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd and William Addams Reitwiesner, American Ancestors and Cousins of The Princess of Wales, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1984), 50.

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