Ancestry of
Bill Weld

68th Governor of Massachusetts

Samuel Williams

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Bill Weld — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 868 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Williams 
  • Mother:
  • Theoda Parke   
  • Birth Date:
  • 15 Apr 1655 
  • Birth Location:
  • Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 8 Aug 1735 
  • Death Location:
  • Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah May
  • Marriage Date:
  • 24 Feb 1679/1680 
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  • Children:
  
  

  John Williams (Ahnentafel No:434 )

  Elizabeth Williams

• Additional marriages for Samuel Williams

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  • Spouse:
  • Mary Payson
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 Feb 1713/1714
  • Marriage Location:
  • Dorchester (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts

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  • Spouse:
  • Dorothy Weld
  • Marriage Date:
  • 28 Apr 1720
  • Marriage Location:
  • Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts

• Sources for Samuel Williams

  • ¹ Early New England Families, 1641-1700, Vol. John Capen (m.1637), p. 5.
  • ² Watson, Marston, Royal Families: Americans of Royal and Noble Ancestry, Volume 1, Governor Thomas Dudley and Descendants . . ., 2nd Ed., Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (2004), 88.
  • ³ Williams, Edward H., Jr., Robert Williams of Roxbury, Mass. and His Descendants, Newport, Rhode Island: Reprinted from The Magazine of New England History (1891), 13-14.

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