Ancestry of
Phil Knight

Co-Founder, Nike Inc.

Jehiel Beardsley

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Phil Knight — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 90 
  • Father:
  • Jehiel Beardsley 
  • Mother:
  • Hannah Gifford   
  • Birth Date:
  • 6 Nov 1772 
  • Birth Location:
  • Vermont 
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  • Death Date:
  • 25 Sep 1851 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Beardsley Graveyard, Au Sable, Clinton, New York 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Jane White
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  • Child:

  Eliza Beardsley (Ahnentafel No:45 )

• Sources for Jehiel Beardsley

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 12/04/2020).
  • ² New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1993, Vol. 124, p. 167.
  • ³ Beardsley, Isaac Haight, Genealogical History of the Beardsley-lee Family in America, Denver, Colorado: John Dove, Printer and Publisher (1902), 225-226.
  • 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, 105.

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