Ancestry of
Merrill C. Meigs
Publisher, Chicago Herald & Examiner
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- 5th Great-grandfather of Merrill C. Meigs — 8th Generation
- Ahnentafel No:
- 128
- Father:
- John Meigs
- Mother:
- Sarah Wilcockson
- Birth Date:
- 11 Nov 1670
- Birth Location:
- Christening Date:
- Christening Location:
- Death Date:
- 19 Feb 1717/1718
- Death Location:
- Burial Date:
- Burial Location:
- Hammonasset Cemetery, Madison, New Haven, Connecticut
- Spouse Name:
- Rebecca Hand
- Marriage Date:
- 20 Jul 1694
- Marriage Location:
- Child:
John Meigs (Ahnentafel No:64 )
- Notes:
The will of John Meigs was dated 18 FEB 1717/8, and proved 31 MAR 1718. Some published sources incorrectly give his date of death as 19 DEC 1718. This is probably a misreading of the month due to the Julian calendar in use at the time. (i.e. 12th month is February). His tombstone has the date as 19 FEB 1717/18. The dates of his will and probate support the date on the tombstone.
John Meigs
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- 1 Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/07/2019).
- 2 Meigs, Henry B., Record of the Descendants of Vincent Meigs, Who Came From Dorsetshire, England, to America About 1635, Baltimore, Maryland: John S. Bridges and Co. (1901), 13-14, 17, 184.