Ancestry of
Phil Knight

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Joseph Beardsley

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Phil Knight — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1440 
  • Father:
  • William Beardsley 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Harvey   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1634 
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  • Death Date:
  • BY 29 May 1712 
  • Death Location:
  • Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut 
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  John Beardsley (Ahnentafel No:720 )

  Thomas Beardsley

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  • Secondary sources disagree on who Joseph Beardsley's wife was giving both Phebe Dayton and Abigail ______ as possibilities.

• Sources for Joseph Beardsley

  • ¹ Fairfield, CT: Families of Old Fairfield, Vol. 1, pp. 46-47.
  • ² Anderson, Robert Charles and others, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. I, A-B, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1999), 226.
  • ³ Beardsley, Isaac Haight, Genealogical History of the Beardsley-lee Family in America, Denver, Colorado: John Dove, Printer and Publisher (1902), 23-24.
  • ⁴ Orcutt, Rev. Samuel, A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut, Part II, New Haven, Connecticut: Press of Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor (1886), 1130-1131.

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