Ancestry of
Phil Scott

82nd Governor of Vermont

Sophia Backus

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• • 3rd Great-grandmother of Phil Scott — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 55 
  • Father:
  • Mother:
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  • Birth Date:
  • 31 Jan 1801 
  • Birth Location:
  • Vermont 
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  • Death Date:
  • 24 Mar 1872 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Greenmount Cemetery, Burlington, Chittenden, Vermont 
  • Spouse Name:
  • William Blish
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 17 Dec 1822 
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Burlington, Chittenden, Vermont 
  • Child:

  Harriet L. Blish (Ahnentafel No:27 )

• Sources for Sophia Backus

  • ¹ American Repertory and Advertiser (Burlington, Vermont), 17 DEC 1822, p. 3, Marriage of William Blish and Sophia Backus.
  • ² Federal Census, VT, Chittenden County, 1850, Colchester, Image 58 of 62.
  • ³ Federal Census, VT, Chittenden County, 1860, Colchester, p. 213, Image 19 of 77.
  • ⁴ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 04/27/2025).
  • ⁵ Vermont, U.S., Vital Records, 1720-1908, Death record for daughter Harriet Strong.
  • ⁶ Blish, Matthew Rhodes, Supplement to Genealogy of the Blish Family in America, Fairfield, Connecticut: n. p. (1957), 3.