Ancestry of
Benton MacKaye

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Gideon Stetson

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Benton MacKaye — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 56 
  • Father:
  • Robert Stetson 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Collamore   
  • Birth Date:
  • 19 Jul 1709 
  • Birth Location:
  • Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
  • 24 Jul 1709 
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  • Death Date:
  • ABT 1761 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Lydia Pitcher
  • Marriage Date:
  • 5 Jun 1735 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Amos Stetson (Ahnentafel No:28 )

• Sources for Gideon 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 Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Scituate, Vol. 2, p. 282, Marriage record for Gideon Stutson and Lydia Pitcher.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Scituate, Vol. 1, p. 332, Birth record for Gideon Stetson.
  • 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), 17, 20.