Ancestry of
Ken Burns

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Eldad Tupper

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Ken Burns — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 192 
  • Father:
  • Prince Tupper 
  • Mother:
  • Jane Ellis   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1754 
  • Birth Location:
  • Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 1832 
  • Death Location:
  • Brockville, Ontario 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Alice Jane Sherman
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT 1 Oct 1774 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Lemuel Tupper (Ahnentafel No:96 )

  • Notes: 

  • Eldad Tupper was a Loyalist who fled to Nova Scotia, Canada. After the American Revolution he moved to Osnabruck, Ontario, and later Brockville, Ontario. He is said to have conducted the enemy at Dartmouth, Massachusetts, and assisted the enemy invasion of Nantucket, Massachusetts.

• Sources for Eldad Tupper

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1945, Vol. 99, pp. 126, 295.
  • ² Sherman, Roy V., Some of the Descendants of Philip Sherman, the First Secretary of Rhode Island, Akron, Ohio: Unknown (1968), 199.
  • ³ Tupper, Eleanor, Ph.D., Tupper Genealogy 1578-1971, North Conway, New Hampshire: The Reporter Press (1972), 20, 61-63.

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