Ancestry of
Treat Williams

TV & Movie Actor

Martha Seymour Cowles

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of Treat Williams — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 127 
  • Father:
  • Solomon Cowles Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Polly Gleason   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1796 
  • Birth Location:
  • Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
  • 3 Jun 1821 
  • Christening Location:
  • Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Death Date:
  • 22 Oct 1876 
  • Death Location:
  • Brooklyn, Kings, New York 
  • Burial Date:
  • 25 Oct 1876 
  • Burial Location:
  • Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Amzi Benedict
  • Marriage Date:
  • 5 Oct 1824 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Susan H. Benedict (Ahnentafel No:63 )

  • Notes: 

  • Martha Seymour Cowles's baptism record mentions her being an adult.

• Sources for Martha Seymour Cowles

  • ¹ Connecticut Herald (New Haven, Connecticut), 19 OCT 1824, Wedding notice for Rev. Amzi Benedict and Martha Cowles.
  • ² Connecticut, U.S., Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920, Baptism record for Martha Seymour Cowles, adult.
  • ³ Connecticut, U.S., Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920, Marriage record for Rev. Amzi Benedict and Martha Cowles.
  • ⁴ Connecticut: Society of the Cincinnati, Vol. 1, p. 460.
  • ⁵ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Farmington, p. 13, Marriage record for Amzi Benedict and Martha Cowles.
  • ⁶ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 01/18/2019).
  • ⁷ New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949, Death record for daughter Susan Benedict Hutchins.
  • ⁸ New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949, Death record for Martha Seymour Benedict.
  • ⁹ New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949, Death record for daughter Susan Benedict Hutchison.
  • ¹⁰ Revolutionary War Pensions, Pension file for father Gen. Solomon Cowles.
  • ¹¹ Kelly, Howard A., M.D. and Walter L. Burrage, M.D., American Medical Biographies, Baltimore: The Norman Remington Company (1920), 586.

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