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Merrill C. Meigs

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William Thomas

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Merrill C. Meigs — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 62 
  • Father:
  • Nathan Thomas 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Foster   
  • Birth Date:
  • 31 Jan 1727 
  • Birth Location:
  • Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachuetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 31 Jul 1798 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Cedar Grove Cemetery, Marshfield, Plymouth, Massacusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Hill
  • Marriage Date:
  • 28 Mar 1747 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Mary Thomas (Ahnentafel No:31 )

• Additional marriages for William Thomas

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  • Spouse:
  • Abiah Thomas
  • Marriage Date:
  • 11 Mar 1754

• Sources for William Thomas

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/07/2019).
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Marshfield, Vol. 1, p. 101, Birth record for daughter Mary Thomas.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Malden, Vol. 1, p. 304, Marriage record for William Thomas and Mary Hill.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Marshfield, Vol. 1, p. 88, Birth record for William Thomas.
  • ⁵ Briggs, L. Vernon, History of Shipbuilding on North River, Plymouth County, Massachusetts: With Genealogies of the Shipbuilders . . ., n. p.: L. Vernon Briggs (1889), 152, 158-159.
  • ⁶ Jacobus, Donald Lines, The Waterman Family: Vol. I, Descendants of Robert Waterman of Marshfield, Massachusetts, New Haven, Connecticut: Edgar F. Waterman (1939), 306.
  • ⁷ Wakefield, Robert S. and Judith H. Swan, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 18, Part 1, Richard Warren, 146.
  • ⁸ Williams, Alicia Crane, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1999), 237.