Ancestry of
Phil Knight

Co-Founder, Nike Inc.

Jehiel Beardsley

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Phil Knight — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 180 
  • Father:
  • John Beardsley 
  • Mother:
  • Keziah Wheeler   
  • Birth Date:
  • 24 Feb 1734 
  • Birth Location:
  • Ripton (now Stratford), Fairfield, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • ABT 1846 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Hannah Gifford
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  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut 
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  Jehiel Beardsley (Ahnentafel No:90 )

  Eunice Beardsley

  John Beardsley

  • Notes: 

  • Revolutionary War veteran

    A granddaughter of Jehiel Beardsley wrote that Jehiel Beardsley lived to an incredible age of 112 years old.

• Sources for Jehiel Beardsley

  • ¹ New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1993, Vol. 124, p. 167.
  • ² Beardsley, Isaac Haight, Genealogical History of the Beardsley-lee Family in America, Denver, Colorado: John Dove, Printer and Publisher (1902), 225, 233.
  • ³ Connecticut Society of Genealogists, The Connecticut Nutmegger, 2010, Vol. 43, p. 111, Birth record for Jehiel Beardsley.
  • ⁴ Holt, Nellie Beardsley and Charles Eleazer Holt, Beardsley Genealogy: The Family of William Beardsley, One of the First Settlers of Connecticut, West Hartford, Connecticut: n. p. (1951), 51.

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