William
Ainsworth
Born in Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut Colony
Ancestors 
Son of Edward Ainsworth II
and Joanna (Davis) Ainsworth
Brother of
Abigail (Ainsworth) Carpenter, Daniel Ainsworth, Alice (Ainsworth) Shumway, Edward Ainsworth III and Smith Ainsworth
Husband of
Mary (Marcy) Ainsworth
— married
29 May 1753 in Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut Colony
Descendants 
Father of
Marsylvia Ainsworth, Laban Ainsworth, Marsylvia Ainsworth, Louisa Ainsworth, Andrew Ainsworth, Luke Ainsworth and Oliver Ainsworth
Died
at age 81
in Wales, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 19 May 2011
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Biography
Ensign William Ainsworth served with 11th Regiment, Connecticut Militia during the American Revolution.
William Ainsworth is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A000903.
William Ainsworth Birth: 7-12-1733 Woodstock Worcester Co MA Death: 11-14-1815 South Brimfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts. Ensign, 10th Co, 11th Regiment, Connecticut Militia, American Revolution. [1]
Notes
Per Geni.com - died on November 14, 1815 in South Brimfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts. Modern sources will name the place of death as Wales, Massachusetts. South Brimfield changed its name to Wales in 1828, more than ten years after William's death. Year of birth may be 1733 or 1734.
William may have been a slave trader???? He certainly owned at least one slave, a female named Vilot, for whom a bill of sale was found in his records. He may have been a sailor. He was known as Captain, but no militia records have been found.
Sources
- ↑ Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 11 Jan 2022), "Record of William Ainsworth", Ancestor # A000903. citing records of the State of CT.
Ancestry Family Trees Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network. Family Data Collection - Individual Records : Author: Edmund West, comp.
Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910 showing parents of Laban Ainsworth marriage to Mary Minot 07/19/1757
"Genealogy of the Ainsworth families in America" by Francis J Parker 1894, privately printed. Available at at archive.org refers to sale of female slave Vliot. page 40.
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