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Ellen DeGeneres

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Ezekiel Fosdick

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Ellen DeGeneres — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 274 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Fosdick Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Susanna Turner   
  • Birth Date:
  • 17 Feb 1719/1720 
  • Birth Location:
  • Charlestown (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
  • 21 Feb 1719/1720 
  • Christening Location:
  • First Church, Charlestown (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Death Date:
  • 2 Jan 1786 
  • Death Location:
  • Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Abigail Wright
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 10 Sep 1745 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  Abigail Fosdick

  Clorinda Fosdick

  Alvin Fosdick

  Rhoda Fosdick (Ahnentafel No:137 )

• Additional marriages for Ezekiel Fosdick

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  • Spouse:
  • Anna Stillman
  • Marriage Date:
  • 22 Sep 1756
  • Marriage Location:
  • Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut

• Sources for Ezekiel Fosdick

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Wethersfield, p. 108, Marriage record (undated) for Ezekiel Fosdick and Abigail Wright.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Wethersfield, p. 108, Birth record for daughter Rhoda Fosdick.
  • ³ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Wethersfield, p. 108, Marriage record for Ezekiel Fosdick and widow Anna Wells.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Charlestown, Vol. 1, p. 241, Birth record for Ezekeil Fosdick.
  • ⁵ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1954, Vol. 108, p. 245.
  • ⁶ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1863, Vol. 17, p. 264.
  • ⁷ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1877, Vol. 31, p. 326, Baptism record for Ezekiel Fosdick.
  • ⁸ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1957, Vol. 111, pp. 221-222.
  • ⁹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1916, Vol. 70, p. 80.
  • ¹⁰ Connecticut Society of Genealogists, The Connecticut Nutmegger, 2010, Vol. 43, p. 163, Probate records for Ezekiel Fosdick.
  • ¹¹ Connecticut Society of Genealogists, The Connecticut Nutmegger, 2004, Vol. 37, p. 74, Probate records for Josiah Wells.
  • ¹² Crafts, James M. and William F. Crafts, The Crafts Family: A Genealogical and Biographical History of the Descendants of Griffin and Alice Craft . . ., Northampton, Massachusetts: Gazette Printing Company (1893), 64, incorrectly states Ezekiel married Abigail Wright, aunt of this Abigail.
  • ¹³ Fosdick, Raymond, B., Annals of the Fosdick Family, New York: The American Historical Company, Inc. (1953), 74, 158-159.
  • ¹⁴ Hill, Peter B., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 11, Part 1, 2nd edition, Edward Doty, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2009), 108-109.
  • ¹⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 356.
  • ¹⁶ Wright, William Henry and Gertrude Wright Ketcham, History of the Wright Family Who Are Descendants of Samuel Wright (1722-1789) of Lenox, Mass. . . ., Denver: The Williamson-Haffner Co. (1913), 45.

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