Ancestry of
Herbert Hoover

31st U.S. President

John Grout

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Herbert Hoover — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 220 
  • Father:
  • Jonathan Grout 
  • Mother:
  • Abigail Dix   
  • Birth Date:
  • 14 Oct 1704 
  • Birth Location:
  • Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • ABT Jun 1771 
  • Death Location:
  • Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Joanna Boynton
  • Marriage Date:
  • 23 Nov 1726 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  John Grout Jr. (Ahnentafel No:110 )

• Sources for John Grout

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Groton, Vol. 2, p. 33, Marriage record for John Grout and Joanna Boynton.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Sudbury, Vol. 1, p. 61, Birth record for John Grout.
  • 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), 54-55.
  • ⁴ 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.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 115, 463, 476.
  • ⁶ Schutz, John A., Legislators of the Massachusetts General Court 1691-1780: A Biographical Dictionary, Boston: Northeastern University Press (1997), p. 3130, Death record for John Grout.
  • ⁷ 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), 59.