Ancestry of
Benton MacKaye

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Amos Stetson

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Benton MacKaye — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 28 
  • Father:
  • Gideon Stetson 
  • Mother:
  • Lydia Pitcher   
  • Birth Date:
  • 9 Jun 1741 
  • Birth Location:
  • Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
  • 24 Jan 1742 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Pray
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1 Jul 1762 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Jesse Stetson (Ahnentafel No:14 )

• Additional marriages for Amos Stetson

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  • Spouse:
  • Lydia Richardson
  • Marriage Date:
  • 17 Aug 1780
  • Marriage Location:
  • Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts

• Sources for Amos Stetson

  • ¹ Annals of an Era, Percy MacKaye and the MacKaye Family, 1826-1932: A Record of Biography and History, Hanover, New Hampshire: Published under the Auspices of Dartmouth College (1932), 435.
  • ² Quincy, MA: Vital and Church Records, 1672-1870, p. 17704, Marriage record for Amos Stetson and Lydia Richardson.
  • ³ Quincy, MA: Vital and Church Records, 1672-1870, p. 17720, Marriage record for Amos Stutson and Elizabeth Pray.
  • ⁴ Barry, John Stetson, A Genealogical and Biographical Sketch of the Name and Family of Stetson: from the year 1634 to the year 1847, Boston: W.A. Hall and Company (1847), 20, 28.