Ancestry of
Merrill C. Meigs

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Ralph Smith

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Merrill C. Meigs — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 416 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1616 
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  • Death Date:
  • 14 Sep 1685 
  • Death Location:
  • Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Grace -----
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 15 Feb 1640/1641 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Smith

  Samuel Smith (Ahnentafel No:208 )

  John Smith

  Daniel Smith

  Thomas Smith

  Deborah Smith

  • Notes: 

  • There are claims that Ralph Smith had a first wife before Grace and that his first wife was the mother of his children. There has been no evidence found to support any wife other than Grace.

• Sources for Ralph Smith

  • ¹ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1697-1699.
  • ² Austin, John D., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 6, 3rd ed., Stephen Hopkins, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), 21-22, gives Ralph's death as 27 OCT 1685.