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George Henry Bissell

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George Henry Bissell

Father of the American Oil Industry


    John Dwight

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    • 5th Great-grandfather of George Henry Bissell — 8th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 184 
    • Father:
    • Mother:
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    • Birth Date:
    • ABT 1601 
    • Birth Location:
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    • Death Date:
    • 24 Jan 1660/1661 
    • Death Location:
    • Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
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    • Marriage Date:
    • BEF 1626 
    • Marriage Location:
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    • Children:

    • Hannah Dwight

      John Dwight

      Timothy Dwight (Ahnentafel No:92 )

      Mary Dwight

      Sarah Dwight

    • Notes: 
    • John Dwight may be the son of William Dwight and Alice Vunter of Freston and Woolverstone, Suffolk.

  • Additional marriages for John Dwight


    • Spouse:
    • Elizabeth - - - - - -
    • Marriage Date:
    • 20 Jan 1657/1658
    • Marriage Location:
    • Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts

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  • Sources for John Dwight

    • 3 Child, Elias, Genealogy of the Child, Childs and Childe Families, of the Past and Present in the United States and the Canadas, Utica, NY: Curtiss and Childs, Printers (1881), 336.
    • 4 Draper, Thomas Waln-Morgan, The Drapers in America: Being a History and Genealogy of Those of That Name and Connection, New York: John Polhemus Printing Company (1892), 20.
    • 5 Dwight, Benjamin W., The History of the Descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass., Vol. 1, New York: John F. Trow and Sons (1874).
    • 6 Lazell, Theodore S., comp., Whiting Genealogy: Nathaniel Whiting of Dedham, Mass., 1641, and Five Generations of his Descendants, Boston, Massachusetts: Theodore S. Lazell (1902), 11.
    • 8 Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 58, 94.
    • 10 Stearns, Ezra S., Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire: A Record of the Achievements of Her People . . ., Vol. 2, New York and Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company (1908), 769.
    • 11 Wheeler, Henry M., Genealogy of Some of the Descendants of Obadiah Wheeler of Concord, and Thomas Thaxter of Hingham, Worcester, Massachusetts: Franklin P. Rice, Publisher (1898), 51.