William NEEDHAM

4 Dec 1772 - ____

• BIRTH: 4 Dec 1772, Billerica, Middlesex, MA

                                           _John NEEDHAM _____+
                   _William NEEDHAM ______|
                  |                       |_Mary JEFTS _______+
 _John NEEDHAM ___|
|                 |                        _Thomas BLANCHARD _+
|                 |_Mehittable BLANCHARD _|
|                                         |_Hannah GOWIN _____
|
|--William NEEDHAM 
|
|                                          _Samuel SHATTUCK __+
|                  _David SHATTUCK _______|
|                 |                       |_Elizabeth BLOOD __+
|_Phebe SHATTUCK _|
                  |                        _John VARNUM ______+
                  |_Dorothy VARNUM _______|
                                          |_Dorothy PRESCOTT _+

[64] "Vital Records of Billerica"
New England Historic Genealogical Society
in "Massachusetts Town Birth Records"
http://ancestry.com/search/rectype/vital/massrecords/

"History of Billerica, Massachusetts,
with a Genealogical Register"
Rev. Henry A. Hazen, Boston, MA, 1883.
pp. 99-100, NEEDHAM

Needham Family Genealogical Notes
Unpublished work; 1998
Virginia Joy Chism Nichols
Record #27

"Genealogy of the Needham Family"
Thomas Cushing, M.D.
Thomas Cushing reports William "was a seafaring man; was taken prisoner by the British and
confined in that infamous prison ship in New York harbor; and afterwards taken to England".