Ancestry of
Nelson Rockefeller

41st U.S. Vice-President

Jerusha Morgan

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of Nelson Rockefeller — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 137 
  • Father:
  • William Morgan 
  • Mother:
  • Margaret Avery   
  • Birth Date:
  • 14 Jan 1703 
  • Birth Location:
  • Groton, New London, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 20 Sep 1763 
  • Death Location:
  • Groton, New London, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • New Poquetanuck Cemetery, Preston, New London, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Humphrey Avery
  • Marriage Date:
  • 01 or 05 FEB 1724 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Groton, New London, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Solomon Avery (Ahnentafel No:68 )

• Sources for Jerusha Morgan

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Groton, p. 13, Marriage record for Humphrey Avery and Jerusha Morgan.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Groton, p. 103, Birth record for Jerusha Morgan.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 11/23/2012).
  • ⁴ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1987, Vol. 4, p. 71.
  • ⁵ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1982, Vol. 136, p. 327.
  • ⁶ Avery, Elroy McKendree and Catharine Hitchcock (Tilden) Avery, The Groton Avery Clan, Cleveland: n. p. (1912), Vol. 1, pp. 156-158.
  • ⁷ Morgan, Nathaniel H., Morgan Genealogy: A History of James Morgan, of New London, Conn., and His Descendants; From 1607 to 1869, Hartford: Press of Case, Lockwood and Brainard (1869), 30.
  • ⁸ Sweet, Homer De Lois, The Averys of Groton, Syracuse, New York: Rice-Taylor Print. Co. (1894), 560.
  • ⁹ Watson, Marston, Royal Families: Americans of Royal and Noble Ancestry, Volume 4, Pelham - Avery - West . . ., Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (2017), 26.