Ancestry of
Emily Strayer

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Charles Ripley

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Emily Strayer — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 176 
  • Father:
  • Jeremiah Ripley Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Abigail -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 25 Feb 1732/1733 
  • Birth Location:
  • Windham, Windham Co., Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Tabitha Abbe
  • Marriage Date:
  • 16 Nov 1758 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Windham, Windham Co., Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Calvin Ripley (Ahnentafel No:88 )

  • Notes: 

  • Charles Ripley was said to have been killed by the keeper of a prison while he was a prisoner of war during the Revolutionary War.

• Sources for Charles Ripley

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Windham, p. 205, Birth record for son Calvin Ripley.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Windham, p. 205, Marriage of Charles Ripley and Tabitha Abbe.
  • ³ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Windham, p. 205, Birth record of Charles Ripley.
  • ⁴ Abbe, Cleveland and Josephine Genung Nichols, Abbe-Abbey Genealogy: In Memory of John Abbe and His Descendants, New Haven, Connecticut: The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company (1916), 19, 31.

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