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Peggy Whitson

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Rachel Wetmore

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• • 6th Great-grandmother of Peggy Whitson — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 457 
  • Father:
  • Israhiah Wetmore 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Booth   
  • Birth Date:
  • 2 Oct 1723 
  • Birth Location:
  • Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • BY 19 Dec 1800 
  • Death Location:
  • Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Joshua Elderkin
  • Marriage Date:
  • 31 Jul 1749 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Windham, Windham Co., Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Joshua Booth Elderkin (Ahnentafel No:228 )

• Sources for Rachel Wetmore

  • ¹ Boston Evening Transcript (Boston, Massachusetts), 19 MAY 1909, p. 25, No. 521, confuses Rachel with her grandmother.
  • ² Connecticut, U.S., Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920, Communicant record for Rachel Elderkin.
  • ³ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Windham, p. 83, Marriage of Joshua Elderkin and Rachel Wetmore.
  • ⁴ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Middletown, p. 486, Birth record for Rachel Wetmore.
  • ⁵ Windham Herald (Windham, Connecticut), 19 DEC 1800, p. 3, Obituary for Rachel Elderkin.
  • ⁶ Weaver, William L., Elderkin Historical Series, No. 1, History of Ancient Windham, Genealogy, Elderkin, n. p.: Republished by Roland D. Elderkin (1949), 18-19.

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