Ancestry of
O. Henry

Short Story Writer

James Lusk

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of O. Henry — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 18 
  • Father:
  • Mother:
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1729 
  • Birth Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 17 Dec 1809 
  • Death Location:
  • Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Greenwood Cemetery, Avon, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Paterson
  • Marriage Date:
  • 30 Dec 1754 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Newington, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  Sarah Lusk (Ahnentafel No:9 )

  Rachel Lusk

  Rhoda Lusk

  • Notes: 

  • French and Indian War, and Revolutionary War veteran

• Additional marriages for James Lusk

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  • Spouse:
  • Mehitabel Mather
  • Marriage Date:
  • from 30 Jan 1776 to 7 Dec 1779

• Sources for James Lusk

  • ¹ Chauncey Lusk Papers, 1793-1858: Biographical Sketch, Old Sturbridge Village Research Library, Sturbridge, Massachusetts.
  • ² Connecticut, U.S., Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920, Death record for James Lusk.
  • ³ Connecticut, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1609-1999, Dated 22 APR 1806, Proved 28 DEC 1809, Will of James Lusk.
  • ⁴ Connecticut, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1609-1999, Hartford, Connecticut, Case #4127, Probate file for father-in-law John Paterson.
  • ⁵ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 12/06/2021).
  • ⁶ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1885, Vol. 39, p. 242, Baptism record for daughter Laura Lusk.
  • ⁷ New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1989, Vol. 120, pp. 171-172, Reader query regarding Laura Lusk.
  • ⁸ Connecticut Society of Genealogists, The Connecticut Nutmegger, 2006, Vol. 39, pp. 277-278, Extract of will of father-in-law Major John Paterson.
  • ⁹ Egleston, Thomas, The Life of John Paterson: Major-General in the Revolutionary Army, New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons (1894), 2.
  • ¹⁰ Jacobus, Donald Lines, The Bulkeley Genealogy: Rev. Peter Bulkeley, Being an Account of his Career, his Ancestry ..., New Haven, Connecticut: unknown (1933), 322.
  • ¹¹ Walworth, Reuben H., Hyde Genealogy; or the Descendants in the Female as well as in the Male Lines, from William Hyde, of Norwich (2 vols.), Albany, NY: J. Munsell (1864), 270.
  • ¹² Welles, Roger, Early Annals of Newington: Comprising the First Records of the Newington Ecclesiastical Society, and of . . ., Hartford, Connecticut: Press of the Case, Lockwood and Brainard Co. (1874), 106, Marriage record for James Lusk and Sarah Paterson.