Ancestry of
Ernest Hemingway

Author of The Sun Also Rises

Mercy Thompson

View famous kin of Mercy Thompson

• • 5th Great-grandmother of Ernest Hemingway — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 131 
  • Father:
  • John Thompson 
  • Mother:
  • Mercy Mansfield   
  • Birth Date:
  • 21 Feb 1696 
  • Birth Location:
  • New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
  •  
  • Christening Location:
  •  
  • Death Date:
  • 5 Sep 1743 
  • Death Location:
  • East Haven, New Haven, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
  •  
  • Burial Location:
  • Old Cemetery, East Haven, New Haven, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Joseph Tuttle
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1717 
  • Marriage Location:
  •  
  • Child:

  Mercy Tuttle (Ahnentafel No:65 )

• Sources for Mercy Thompson

  • ¹ East Haven, CT Register, Part 3: Deaths, p. 328, Death record for Mercy Tuttle.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/11/2013).
  • ³ Hemingway, Patricia S., The Hemingways: Past and Present and Allied Families, Rev. Ed., Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc. (1988), 39, 741, 750-751.
  • ⁴ Jacobus, Donald Lines, Families of Ancient New Haven; originally published as New Haven Genealogical Magazine, (Online database. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008), Vol. 8, Page 1899.
  • ⁵ Sanford, Carlton E., Thomas Sanford, the Emigrant to New England: Ancestry, Life and Descendants, 1632-4 (2 vols.), Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Company, Printers (1911), 105, 126.
  • ⁶ Tuttle, George Frederick, The Descendants of William and Elizabeth Tuttle, Who Came from Old to New England in 1635, and Settled in New Haven . . ., Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle and Company (1883), 280-281.
  • ⁷ White, Emma Siggins and Martha Humphreys Maltby, Genesis of the White Family: A Connected Record of the White Family Beginning in . . ., Kansas City, Missouri: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co. (1920), 223.
  • ⁸ White, Emma Siggins and Martha Humphreys Maltby, Genesis of the White Family: A Connected Record of the White Family Beginning in . . ., Kansas City, Missouri: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co. (1920), 231.