Ancestry of
Herbert Hoover

31st U.S. President

John Grout Jr.

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Herbert Hoover — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 110 
  • Father:
  • John Grout 
  • Mother:
  • Joanna Boynton   
  • Birth Date:
  • 13 Jun 1731 
  • Birth Location:
  • Lunenburg, Worcester, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Phebe Spofford
  • Marriage Date:
  • 22 Oct 1750 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Lunenburg, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Phebe Grout (Ahnentafel No:55 )

• Sources for John Grout Jr.

  • ¹ Canada, Quaker Meeting Records, 1786-1988, Quaker records for family of Jacob and daughter Phebe (Grout) Winn.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1854, Vol. 8, p. 341.
  • ³ Boynton, John Farnham and Caroline (Harriman) Boynton, The Boynton Family: A Genealogy of the Descendants of William and John Boynton, Who Emigrated from Yorkshire . . ., n. p.: n. p. (1897), 55.
  • ⁴ Brogan, Hugh and Charles Mosley, American Presidential Families, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company (1993), 634.
  • ⁵ McLean, Hulda Hoover, Genealogy of the Herbert Hoover Family, Stanford, California: The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University (1967), fold-out chart between pages 4 and 5.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 214.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (2018), 370.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 114, 360, 442,463, 476, 478, 535, 663.
  • ⁹ Spofford, Dr. Jeremiah and Aphia T. Spofford, A Genealogical Record, Including Two Generations in Female Lines . . . Descendants of John Spofford and Elizabeth Scott, Boston: Alfred Mudge and Son (1888), 46, 59.