Ancestry of
William Rufus Day

36th U.S. Secretary of State

Joshua Ripley Jr.

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of William Rufus Day — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 126 
  • Father:
  • Joshua Ripley 
  • Mother:
  • Hannah Bradford   
  • Birth Date:
  • 13 May 1688 
  • Birth Location:
  • Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 18 NOV 1773 or 1774 
  • Death Location:
  • Windham, Windham Co., Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Backus
  • Marriage Date:
  • 8 Dec 1712 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Windham, Windham Co., Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  Mary Ripley (Ahnentafel No:63 )

  Phineas Ripley

  Hannah Ripley

  Nathaniel Ripley

  Elizabeth Ripley

  Joshua Ripley

  Ebenezer Ripley

  William Ripley

  John Ripley

• Sources for Joshua Ripley Jr.

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Windham, p. 205, Birth record for son Ebenezer Ripley.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Windham, p. 16, Marriage record for Joshua Ripley and Mary Backus.
  • ³ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Windham, p. 205, Birth record for Joshua Ripley at Hingham.
  • ⁴ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1995, Vol. 12, p. 66.
  • ⁵ The Mayflower Descendant, 1930, Vol. 28, pp. 99, 102.
  • ⁶ Dwight, Benjamin W., The History of the Descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass., Vol. 1, New York: John F. Trow and Sons (1874), 429.
  • ⁷ Lainhart, Ann Smith and Robert S. Wakefield, ""Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 22, William Bradford, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2004), 21, 75-77.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "No. 77 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: An Assortment of Famous Actors", (accessed 10/02/2014).
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 222.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 74, 113, 327, 451, 478.
  • ¹¹ Roser, Susan E., Mayflower Increasings, 2nd Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (1997), 23.
  • ¹² Weeks, Lyman Horace, ed., Prominent Families of New York: Being an Account in Biographical Form of Individuals and Families Distinguished as . . ., New York: The Historical Company (1898), 477.
  • ¹³ 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), 446.