Ancestry of
Cadwallader Washburn

Co-founder of General Mills and 11th Governor of Wisconsin

Nathaniel Bright

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Cadwallader Washburn — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 58 
  • Father:
  • Henry Bright 
  • Mother:
  • Anna Goldstone   
  • Birth Date:
  • 5 May 1647 
  • Birth Location:
  • Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • AFT 22 Sep 1725 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Coolidge
  • Marriage Date:
  • 21 Jul 1681 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Mary Bright (Ahnentafel No:29 )

• Sources for Nathaniel Bright

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Watertown, Vol. 1, p. 49, Marriage record for Nathaniel Bright and Mary Cooledg [sic].
  • ² Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 242, incorrectly gives Nathaniel's marriage year as 1691.
  • ³ Benjamin, Mary Louise, A Genealogy of the Family of Lieut. Samuel Benjamin and Tabitha Livermore, His Wife, Early Settlers of Livermore, Maine, n. p.: n. p. (1900), 42-43.