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Phil Knight

Ancestry of
Phil Knight

Co-Founder, Nike Inc.


    Elizabeth -----

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    • 9th Great-grandmother of Phil Knight — 12th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 2869 
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    • Death Date:
    • 11 Sep 1691 
    • Death Location:
    • Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut 
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    • BEF 1641 
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    • Samuel Butler (Ahnentafel No:1434 )

      Nathaniel Butler

      Joseph Butler

      Daniel Butler

      Elizabeth Butler

      Hannah Butler

    • Notes: 
    • Elizabeth's maiden name may have been Bigelow but evidence is needed to confirm this.

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  • Sources for Elizabeth -----

    • 1 American Ancestry: Giving the Name and Descent in the Male Line of Americans Whose Ancestors Settled in the U.S., Vol. 12, (Albany, NY: Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers (1899)), 11.
    • 3 Cutter, William Richard, ed., New England Families: Genealogical and Memorial, Volume 2, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1913), 613.
    • 4 Jacobus, Donald Lines, ed., The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley and his Wife Emma Arabella Bosworth, Woodstock, Vermont: N. Grier Parke, II (1960), 141-142.
    • 5 Olmsted, Henry King and Rev. George K. Ward, Genealogy of the Olmsted Family in America: Embracing the Descendants of James and Richard Olmsted and . . ., New York: A.T. De La Mare Printing and Publishing Company, Ltd. (1912), 17.

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