Ancestry of
Benton MacKaye

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Lydia Pitcher

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• • 3rd Great-grandmother of Benton MacKaye — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 57 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Pitcher 
  • Mother:
  • Mary -----   
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  • Christening Date:
  • 24 Nov 1717 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Gideon Stetson
  • Marriage Date:
  • 5 Jun 1735 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Amos Stetson (Ahnentafel No:28 )

• Sources for Lydia Pitcher

  • 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 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.