Ancestry of
John Forbes Nash, Jr.

“A Beautiful Mind” Mathematician

Thomas Forbush

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of John Forbes Nash, Jr. — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 152 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Forbush 
  • Mother:
  • Dorcas Rice   
  • Birth Date:
  • 14 Oct 1695 
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  • BY 16 Sep 1783 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Hannah Bellows
  • Marriage Date:
  • 6 Jan 1719 
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  David Forbush (Ahnentafel No:76 )

• Sources for Thomas Forbush

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Westborough, Vol. 1, p. 48., Birth record for son David Forbush.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Marlbough Vol. 1, p. 73, Baptism record for son David Forbess.
  • ³ Pierce, Frederick Clifton, Forbes and Forbush Genealogy: The Descendants of Daniel Forbush, Who Came from Scotland About the Year 1655 . . ., Chicago: Rand McNally and Co. (1892), 21, 27.

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