Ancestry of
John Forbes Nash, Jr.

“A Beautiful Mind” Mathematician

Nathaniel Whitney

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of John Forbes Nash, Jr. — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 616 
  • Father:
  • John Whitney Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Ruth Reynolds   
  • Birth Date:
  • 1 Feb 1646/1647 
  • Birth Location:
  • Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 7 Jan 1732/1733 
  • Death Location:
  • Weston, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Hagar
  • Marriage Date:
  • 12 Mar 1673/1674 
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  • Child:

  Nathaniel Whitney (Ahnentafel No:308 )

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  • Sarah - - - - - -

• Sources for Nathaniel Whitney

  • ¹ Weston, MA: Vital Records to 1850, p. 580, Whitney family vital statistics.
  • ² Stearns, Ezra S., History of Ashburnham, Massachusetts from the Grant of Dorchester Canada to the Present Time, 1734-1886 . . ., Ashburnham, Massachusetts: Published by the Town (1887), 958.
  • ³ 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), 7, 9.

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