Ancestry of
Archibald MacLeish

American Poet and Playwright

Elias Brewster Hillard

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• • Grandfather of Archibald MacLeish — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 6 
  • Father:
  • Moses Hillard 
  • Mother:
  • Martha Brewster   
  • Birth Date:
  • 6 Sep 1825 
  • Birth Location:
  • Preston, New London, Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 1 Mar 1895 
  • Death Location:
  • Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • West Cemetery, Plymouth, Litchfield, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Julia Whittlesey
  • Marriage Date:
  • 10 Sep 1855 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Cuyahoga County, Ohio 
  • Child:

  Martha Hillard (Ahnentafel No:3 )

• Sources for Elias Brewster Hillard

  • ¹ Connecticut, U.S., Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934, Death and burial record for spouse Julia Whittlesey Hillard.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Preston, p. 108, Birth record for Elias Brewster Hillard.
  • ³ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A125573.
  • ⁴ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 11/28/2018).
  • ⁵ Illinois, U.S., Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947, Death record for daughter Martha Hillard Macleish.
  • ⁶ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1982, Vol. 136, p. 322.
  • ⁷ Ohio, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1774-1993, Marriage record for Elias B Hillard and Julia Whttlesey.
  • ⁸ The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 13, New York: James T. White and Company (1906), 289.
  • ⁹ Dexter, Franklin Bowditch, Biographical Notices of Graduates of Yale College: Including Those Graduated in Classes Later Than 1816 . . ., New Haven: n. p. (1913), 100.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 178.
  • ¹¹ Tuttle, Roger W., Biographies of Graduates of the Yale Law School, 1824-1899, New Haven: The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company (1911), 543.
  • ¹² Wikipedia, "Andrew MacLeish", (accessed 11/28/2018).