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Burl Ives

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John Willis

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Burl Ives — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 170 
  • Father:
  • John Willis 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Brett   
  • Birth Date:
  • 24 Dec 1701 
  • Birth Location:
  • Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 18 Jul 1776 
  • Death Location:
  • West Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Old Graveyard, West Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Patience Hayward
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1724 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Children:
  
  

  Susanna Willis (Ahnentafel No:85 )

  Daniel Willis

• Sources for John Willis

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 06/23/2019).
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Bridgewater, Vol. 1, p. 354, Birth record for daughter Susanna Willis.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Bridgewater, Vol. 1, p. 351, Birth record for son Daniel Willis.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Bridgewater, Vol. 1, p. 352, Birth record for John Willis.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, West Bridgewater, Vol. 1, p. 221, Death record for John Willis.
  • ⁶ Johnson, Paul Franklin, et. al., Genealogy of Captain John Johnson of Roxbury, Massachusetts: Generations I to XIV, Los Angeles, California: Privately printed by The Commonwealth Press, Inc. (1951), 38.
  • ⁷ Mitchell, Nahum, History of the Early Settlement of Bridgewater, in Plymouth County, Massachusetts: Including an Extensive Family Register, Boston: Kidder and Wright (1840, 1897 reprint), 365-366.
  • ⁸ Mitchell, Nahum, History of the Early Settlement of Bridgewater, in Plymouth County, Massachusetts: Including an Extensive Family Register, Boston: Kidder and Wright (1840), 178, 347-348.