Ancestry of
William Henry Moore

Co-Founder, U.S. Steel and Nabisco

Josiah Backus

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of William Henry Moore — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 42 
  • Father:
  • Nathaniel Backus 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Tracy   
  • Birth Date:
  • 10 Oct 1710 
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  • Death Date:
  • 18 Jun 1779 
  • Death Location:
  • Bozrah, New London, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Love Kingsbury
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 Nov 1732 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Norwich, New London, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Rachel Backus (Ahnentafel No:21 )

• Sources for Josiah Backus

  • ¹ Norwich CT: Vital Records of Norwich, 1659-1848, Vol. 1, p. 138, Birth record for daughter Rachel Backus.
  • ² Norwich CT: Vital Records of Norwich, 1659-1848, Vol. 1, p. 138, Marriage record for Josiah Backus and Love Kingsbery.
  • ³ Kingsbury, Frederick John and Mary Kingsbury Talcott, The Genealogy of the Descendants of Henry Kingsbury of Ipswich and Haverhill, Mass., Hartford Press: The Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company (1905), 212-213.