Ancestry of
Jimmy Carter

39th U.S. President

William Seal Muse

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Jimmy Carter — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 72 
  • Father:
  • William Seale 
  • Mother:
  • Sophia Pope Muse   
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  • ABT 1827 
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  • Judith -----
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  Spencer Seals (Ahnentafel No:36 )

  • Notes: 

  • William Seale Muse was the illegitimate son of William Seale and Sophia Pope Muse.

    Sometime after November 1785, William Seale Muse and his wife dropped the Muse and adopted Seales as their surname.

• Sources for William Seal Muse

  • ¹ Brogan, Hugh and Charles Mosley, American Presidential Families, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company (1993), 726.
  • ² Carter, Jeff, Ancestors of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, Inc. (2012), 66, 68-69.
  • ³ Dicken, Emma, Our Burnley Ancestors and Allied Families, New York: The Hobson Book Press (1946), 116.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 168.