Ancestry of
John Forbes Nash, Jr.

“A Beautiful Mind” Mathematician

Rebecca Perriman

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• • 7th Great-grandmother of John Forbes Nash, Jr. — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 609 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1640 
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  • Death Date:
  • 3 May 1677 
  • Death Location:
  • Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Daniel Forbush
  • Marriage Date:
  • 26 Mar 1660 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Thomas Forbush (Ahnentafel No:304 )

  • Notes: 

  • Rebecca Perriman may have been the sister of Thomas Perriman of Weymouth, and Frances Perriman, wife of Isaac Andrew of Cambridge.

• Sources for Rebecca Perriman

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Cambridge, Vol. 1, p. 240, Birth record for son Thomas Farrabas.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Cambridge, Vol. 2, p. 135, Marriage record for Daniel Farrabas and Rebeccah Perriman.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1853, Vol. 7, pp. 135-136.
  • ⁴ Crane, Ellery Bicknell, ed., Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, Vol. 1, New York and Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company (1907), 353.
  • ⁵ 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), 17-20.
  • ⁶ Ward, Andrew Henshaw, A Genealogical History of the Rice Family: Descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice, Who Came From Berkhamstead, England . . ., Boston: C. Benjamin Richardson (1858), 21-22.

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