Ancestry of
Warren G. Harding

29th U.S. President

Isaac Tripp

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Warren G. Harding — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 68 
  • Father:
  • Job Tripp 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1704 
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  • Death Date:
  • 16 Dec 1778 
  • Death Location:
  • Battle of Wyoming, Wyoming, Luzerne, Pennsylvania 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Susannah Spencer
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  Ruth Tripp

  William Tripp (Ahnentafel No:34 )

  • Notes: 

  • Isaac was killed by Indians during the Wyoming, Pennsylvania, massacre in December 1778. He tried to run from the Indians but being an elderly man, he was quickly overtaken. He was speared nine times and scalped. His son-in-law Jonathan Slocum was also killed.

• Additional marriages for Isaac Tripp

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  • Spouse:
  • Sarah Dow

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  • Spouse:
  • Sarah Sweet
  • Marriage Date:
  • Jun 1729
  • Marriage Location:
  • North Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island

• Sources for Isaac Tripp

  • ¹ American Society of Genealogists, The Genealogist, Rockport, Maine: Picton Press, 1983, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 72, 88-90.
  • ² Hayden, Rev. Horace Edwin, ed., Genealogical and Family History of the Wyoming and Lackawanna Valleys, Pennsylvania, Vol. 1, New York and Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company (1906), 430-431.
  • ³ Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, The Massacre of Wyoming: The Acts of Congress for the Defense of the Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania, 1776-1778, Wilkes-Barré, Pennsylvania: Printed for the Society (1895), 57-59.