Ancestry of
John Steinbeck

Author of The Grapes of Wrath

Nathaniel Putnam

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of John Steinbeck — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 338 
  • Father:
  • John Putnam 
  • Mother:
  • Priscilla Gould   
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  • Christening Date:
  • 11 Oct 1619 
  • Christening Location:
  • Aston Abbots, Buckinghamshire, England 
  • Death Date:
  • 23 Jul 1700 
  • Death Location:
  • Salem, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Hutchinson
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  Elizabeth Putnam

  Benjamin Putnam

  Mary Putnam (Ahnentafel No:169 )

• Sources for Nathaniel Putnam

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Salem, Vol. 6, p. 171, Death record for Nathaniel Putnam.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Salem, Vol, 2, p. 210, Birth record for daughter Elizabeth Putnam.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1865, Vol. 19, p. 18.
  • ⁴ Society of Colonial Wars in Massachusetts Membership Applications, 1560-1970, Gen. Soc. No. 8542, Membership application for Alvan Tufts Fuller.
  • ⁵ Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Volume 1, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1908), 267.
  • ⁶ Mudge, Florence A., John Mudge and Hannah Hutchinson, First Settlers of Plymouth, Vermont, Danvers, Massachusetts?: Unknown (1930), 11.
  • ⁷ Putnam, Eben, A History of the Putnam Family in England and America, Vol. 1, Salem, Massachusetts: The Salem Press Publishing and Printing Company (1891), 22-28.
  • ⁸ Putnam, Read H., Putnam's Direct Line, Provo, Utah: J. G. Stevenson (1964), 7.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#66 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: New England Ancestors of Depression-Era Novelist John Steinbeck", (accessed 10/16/2014).