Ancestry of
Bill Weld

68th Governor of Massachusetts

Ruth Allen

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of Bill Weld — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 95 
  • Father:
  • Edward Allen 
  • Mother:
  • Ruth Hodges   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1759 
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  • Death Date:
  • 16 Jun 1849 
  • Death Location:
  • Brooklyn, Kings, New York 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Thomas Porter
  • Marriage Date:
  • 29 Dec 1785 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Salem, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Mary Porter (Ahnentafel No:47 )

• Sources for Ruth Allen

  • ¹ Essex Antiquarian, 1899, Vol. 3, No. 12, p. 192.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Salem, Vol. 4, p. 211, Marriage record for Thomas Porter and Ruth Allin.
  • ³ New York Evening Post: Death Notices, 1801-1890, Vol. 25, p. 97, Bklyn Sun June 17, Death notice for Ruth Porter.
  • ⁴ New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1881, Vol. 12, p. 171.
  • ⁵ Haskell Family Association, Descendants of William Hascall of Fontmel Magna (1490-1542), (accessed 06/05/2020).
  • ⁶ Porter, Joseph W., A Genealogy of the Descendants of Richard Porter, Who Settled at Weymouth, Mass., 1635, and Allied Families, Bangor: Burr and Robinson, Printers (1878), 251, 269.
  • ⁷ 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), 229.

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