Ancestry of
John Torrey

Co-founder, NY Academy of Science

William Torrey

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• • Father of John Torrey — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • John Torrey 
  • Mother:
  • Susanna Bowditch   
  • Birth Date:
  • 15 Sep 1759 
  • Birth Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
  • 19 Nov 1759 
  • Christening Location:
  • First Church Boston 
  • Death Date:
  • 8 Oct 1831 
  • Death Location:
  • New York, New York 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Margaret Nichols
  • Marriage Date:
  • 30 Jul 1793 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Children:
  
  

  John Torrey (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  William Torrey

  • Notes: 

  • Revolutionary War veteran

    D.A.R. Ancestor #A115157

• Sources for William Torrey

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A115157.
  • ² New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1880, Vol. 11, p. 45, Marriage record for William Torrey and Margaret Nichols.
  • ³ Gray, Asa, Memoir of John Torrey, 1796-1873, n.p.: n.p. (n.d.), https://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/torrey-john.pdf, 267.
  • ⁴ Rothenberg, Marc, ed., The History of Science in the United States: An Encyclopedia, New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc. (2001), 558.
  • ⁵ Torrey, Frederic Crosby, The Torrey Families and Their Children in America, Vol. 1, Lakehurst, New Jersey: n. p. (1924), 195-197.
  • ⁶ Woodworth-Barnes, Esther Littleford, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 4, John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2015), 48.