Ancestry of
James DeWolf

(c1764–1837)

James DeWolf

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Mark Anthony DeWolf 
  • Mother:
  • Abigail Potter   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1764 
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  • Death Date:
  • 21 Dec 1837 
  • Death Location:
  • New York, New York 
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  • U.S. Senator from 1821 to 1825

    Owner of the Yankee, the most successful privateer during the War of 1812.

    Engaged in the slave trade before founding the Arkwright Mill.

• Marriages for James DeWolf

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  • Spouse:
  • Nancy Ann Bowman Bradford
  • Marriage Date:
  • 7 Jan 1790

• Sources for James DeWolf

  • ¹ Albany Evening Journal (Albany, New York), 13 JAN 1838, p. 3, Death notice for James D'Wolf.
  • ² General Society of Mayflower Descendants Membership Applications, 1620-1920, General No 26860, Membership application for Frances DeWolf Gibson.
  • ³ Spectator (New York, New York), 11 JAN 1838, p. 3, Death notice for spouse Ann D'Wolf.
  • ⁴ Rhode Island Historical Society Manuscripts Division, DeWolf Papers: Merchant family, Bristol, R.I., 1751-1864.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 27.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 247, 358.