Ancestry of
Archibald MacLeish

American Poet and Playwright

Benjamin Hillard

View famous kin of Benjamin Hillard

• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Archibald MacLeish — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 24 
  • Father:
  • (probable) Joshua Hillard 
  • Mother:
  • (probable) Esther Burgess   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1752 
  • Birth Location:
  •  
  • Christening Date:
  •  
  • Christening Location:
  •  
  • Death Date:
  • 5 May 1801 
  • Death Location:
  • Preston, New London, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
  •  
  • Burial Location:
  • Long Society Burying Ground, Preston, New London, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Sabra Smith
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 28 Sep 1780 
  • Marriage Location:
  •  
  • Child:

  Moses Hillard (Ahnentafel No:12 )

• Sources for Benjamin Hillard

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Stonington, p. 125, Birth record for son Moses Hillard.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1906, Vol. 60, p. 124, Cemetery record for Benjamin Hillard.
  • ³ The Mayflower Descendant, 2000, Vol. 50, pp. 128-129.
  • ⁴ Tuttle, Roger W., Biographies of Graduates of the Yale Law School, 1824-1899, New Haven: The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company (1911), 543.
  • ⁵ Woodworth-Barnes, Esther Littleford, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 2, John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2002), 162.