Ancestry of
Thomas Pynchon

American Novelist

Giles Woodworth

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Thomas Pynchon — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 22 
  • Father:
  • Elisha Woodworth 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Harris   
  • Birth Date:
  • 28 Aug 1798 
  • Birth Location:
  • Bozrah, New London, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • AFT 25 Jul 1870 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Philury Hyde
  • Marriage Date:
  • 27 Nov 1823 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Brooklyn, Windham, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Elizabeth A. Woodworth (Ahnentafel No:11 )

• Sources for Giles Woodworth

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Bozrah, p. 57, Birth record for Giles Woodworth.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Brooklyn, pp. 38, 78, Marriage record for Giles Woodworth and Philury Hyde.
  • ³ Federal Census, NY, Queens County, 1870, Oyster Bay, p. 200, Image 200 of 266.
  • ⁴ New York, U.S., State Census, 1855, Kings County, Brooklyn City, Ward 6, E.D. 2, Image 52 of 129.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#48 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: The Ancestry of Novelist Thomas Pynchon", (accessed 11/28/2018).
  • ⁶ Woodworth, William Atwater, Descendants of Walter Woodworth of Scituate, Mass., White Plains, New York: n. p. (1898), 94-96.