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Jill Biden

First Lady of President Joseph Biden

Jesse C. Godfrey

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Jill Biden — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 104 
  • Father:
  • Matthew Godfrey 
  • Mother:
  • Martha Corson   
  • Birth Date:
  • 5 Jan 1801 
  • Birth Location:
  • Cape May County, New Jersey 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 16 Oct 1880 
  • Death Location:
  • Dennis, Cape May, New Jersey 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Methodist Episcopal Church Cemetery, Petersburg, Cape May, New Jersey 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Rachel Townsend
  • Marriage Date:
  • 23 Jan 1823 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Cape May County, New Jersey 
  • Child:

  Swain T. Godfrey (Ahnentafel No:52 )

• Additional marriages for Jesse C. Godfrey

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  • Spouse:
  • Deborah Corson
  • Marriage Date:
  • 21 Aug 1831
  • Marriage Location:
  • Cape May County, New Jersey

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  • Spouse:
  • Phebe Sayre
  • Marriage Date:
  • 26 Feb 1853
  • Marriage Location:
  • Cape May County, New Jersey

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  • Spouse:
  • Rebecca Strong
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT 7 Mar 1857

• Sources for Jesse C. Godfrey

  • ¹ Federal Census, NJ, Cape May County, 1850, Dennis, Image 33 of 40.
  • ² Federal Census, NJ, Cape May County, 1860, Dennis, p. 42, Image 20 of 40.
  • ³ Federal Census, NJ, Cape May County, 1870, Dennis, p. 29, Image 29 of 41.
  • ⁴ Federal Census, NJ, Cape May County, 1880, Dennis, E.D. 69, p. 20, Image 20 of 38.
  • ⁵ New Jersey, U.S., Deaths and Burials Index, 1798-1971, Death record for Jesse C Godfrey.
  • ⁶ New Jersey, U.S., Marriage Records, 1670-1965, Marriage record for Jesse C Godfrey and Phebe Sayre.
  • ⁷ New Jersey, U.S., Marriage Records, 1670-1965, Marriage record for Jesse Godfrey and Rachel Townsend.
  • ⁸ New Jersey, U.S., Marriage Records, 1670-1965, Marriage record for Jesse Godfrey and Deborah Corson.
  • ⁹ Corson, Orville, Three Hundred Years with the Corson Families in America: Including the Staten Island-Pennsylvania Corsons . . ., Vol. 2, Burlington, Vermont: Free Press Interstate Printing Corporation (1939), 85, 132.
  • ¹⁰ Hoffman, Sara Robbins, The Lores of Cumberland County, New Jersey, Cumberland County, New Jersey: S. R. Hoffman (1996), 57.