Ancestry of
John Forbes Nash, Jr.

“A Beautiful Mind” Mathematician

Betsey Forbush

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• • 2nd Great-grandmother of John Forbes Nash, Jr. — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 19 
  • Father:
  • Jonathan Forbush 
  • Mother:
  • Bettie Hayden   
  • Birth Date:
  • 23 Dec 1785 
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  • Death Date:
  • 10 Feb 1837 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Moses Cushman Marsh
  • Marriage Date:
  • 14 May 1810 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Grafton, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Mary Louise Marsh (Ahnentafel No:9 )

• Sources for Betsey Forbush

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Grafton, Vol. 1, p. 248, Marriage record for Moses Marsh and Betsey Forbush.
  • ² The Encyclopedia of the New West: Containing Fully Authenticated Information of the Agricultural, Mercantile, . . ., Marshall, Texas: The United States Biographical Publishing Company (1881), 335.
  • ³ Worcester County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1731-1881, Case No 21896, Probate file for estate of father Jonathan Forbush.
  • ⁴ 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), 55-56.
  • ⁵ Pierce, Frederick Clifton, History of Grafton, Worcester County, Massachusetts: From Its Early Settlement by the Indians in 1647 to the . . ., Worcester: Press of Chas. Hamilton (1879), 485.

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