Ancestry of
Archibald MacLeish

American Poet and Playwright

Frances Cotton

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• • 7th Great-grandmother of Archibald MacLeish — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 781 
  • Father:
  • Richard Cotton 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Mainwaring   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1573 
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  • Death Date:
  • ABT 1630 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • George Abell
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1 May 1599 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Wrenbury, Cheshire, England 
  • Child:

  Robert Abell (Ahnentafel No:390 )

• Sources for Frances Cotton

  • ¹ Abell, Horace A., The Abell Family in America: Robert Abell of Rehoboth, Mass., his English Ancestry and his Descendants . . ., Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle Publishing Company (1940), 41-42.
  • ² American Society of Genealogists, The Genealogist, Rockport, Maine: Picton Press, Spring 1988, Vol. 9, Iss. 1, Page 89.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 4.
  • ⁴ Luther, George A., editor and compiler, The Luther Genealogy: A History of the Descendants of Captain John Luther, Who Arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630-1635, Penobscot Press (2001), 81.
  • ⁵ Richardson, Douglas and Kimball G. Everingham, Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2011), Vol. 1, p. 93.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 312.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (2018), 500.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 663.
  • ⁹ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 66.
  • ¹⁰ Wikipedia, "Robert Abell", (accessed 02/12/2012).