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Gail Borden III

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Gail Borden III

Inventor of Condensed Milk, Founder of the Borden Company


    Samuel Wright

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    • 3rd Great-grandfather of Gail Borden III — 6th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 60 
    • Birth Date:
    • 14 Feb 1637 
    • Birth Location:
    • Dorchester (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
    • Christening Date:
    • 12 May 1638 
    • Christening Location:
    • Dorchester (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
    • Death Date:
    • 26 Feb 1716/1717 
    • Death Location:
    • Providence, Providence Co., Rhode Island 
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    • Notes: 
    • Robert Charles Anderson, in his The Great Migration series of books, say that there is “no further record,” after the baptism of Samuel Wright, son of Henry and Elizabeth Wright. This would cast some doubt on him being the same Samuel whose father was Henry Wright of Dorchester.

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  • Sources for Samuel Wright

    • 1 American Ancestry: Giving the Name and Descent in the Male Line of Americans Whose Ancestors Settled in the U.S., Vol. 12, (Albany, NY: Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers (1899)), 94.
    • 2 Publications of the Rhode Island Historical Society, New Series, Providence: The Standard Printing Co., 1896, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 190-191.