Ancestry of
John Forbes Nash, Jr.

“A Beautiful Mind” Mathematician

Bettie Hayden

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• • 3rd Great-grandmother of John Forbes Nash, Jr. — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 39 
  • Father:
  • Jonathan Hayden 
  • Mother:
  • Hannah Cushman   
  • Birth Date:
  • 9 Sep 1762 
  • Birth Location:
  • Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 2 May 1813 
  • Death Location:
  • Grafton, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Old Oak Street Burial Ground, Grafton, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Jonathan Forbush
  • Marriage Date:
  • 5 Nov 1782 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Grafton, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Betsey Forbush (Ahnentafel No:19 )

  • Notes: 

  • Bettie Hayden's given name is also seen as Betsey.

• Sources for Bettie Hayden

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 06/22/2022).
  • ² Massachusetts, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, Worcester County, 16 MAR 1788, Probate records for father Jonthan Hayden.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Bridgewater, Vol. 1, p. 142, Birth record for Bettie Hayden.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Grafton, Vol. 1, p. 206, Marriage of Jonathan Forbush, "a minor," and Betty Hayden.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Grafton, Vol. 1, p. 336, Death record for Betsey Forbush.
  • ⁶ Worcester County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1731-1881, Case No 21896, Probate file for estate of spouse Jonathan Forbush.
  • ⁷ 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), 39, 55-58.
  • ⁸ 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.
  • ⁹ Wakefield, Robert S. and Margaret Harris Stover, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 17, Isaac Allerton, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2015), 163.

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