Ancestry of
John Forbes Nash, Jr.

“A Beautiful Mind” Mathematician

Mercy Robinson

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• • 6th Great-grandmother of John Forbes Nash, Jr. — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 309 
  • Father:
  • William Robinson 
  • Mother:
  • Elisabeth Cutter   
  • Birth Date:
  • 6 Sep 1676 
  • Birth Location:
  • Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 31 Dec 1740 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Nathaniel Whitney
  • Marriage Date:
  • 7 Nov 1695 
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  Nathaniel Whitney (Ahnentafel No:154 )

• Sources for Mercy Robinson

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Cambridge, Vol. 1, p. 607, Birth record for Mercy Robinson.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1857, Vol. 11, p. 226.
  • ³ Weston, MA: Vital Records to 1850, p. 580, Whitney family vital statistics.
  • ⁴ Whitney, Henry Austin, A Brief Account of the Descendants of John and Elinor Whitney of Watertown, Mass., Boston: Henry W. Dutton and Son, Printers (1857), 15.

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