Ancestry of
John Forbes Nash, Jr.

“A Beautiful Mind” Mathematician

Mary Lothrop

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• • 7th Great-grandmother of John Forbes Nash, Jr. — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 623 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Lothrop 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Learned   
  • Birth Date:
  • 4 Oct 1640 
  • Birth Location:
  • Barnstable, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • AFT 1735 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • William French
  • Marriage Date:
  • 6 May 1669 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Mary French

  Sarah French

  Abigail French

  Hannah French (Ahnentafel No:311 )

  • Notes: 

  • Mary Lothrop's maiden name is also seen as Lathrop.

• Additional marriages for Mary Lothrop

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  • Spouse:
  • John Stearns
  • Marriage Date:
  • 20 Nov 1656
  • Marriage Location:
  • Barnstable, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts

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  • Spouse:
  • Isaac Mixer
  • Marriage Date:
  • 29 Jun 1687
  • Marriage Location:
  • Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts

• Sources for Mary Lothrop

  • ¹ Barnstable, MA: Vital Records 1625-1903, (2008), 693.
  • ² Early New England Families, 1641-1700, Thomas Lothrop (m. 1639), p. 3.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Billerica, Vol. 1, p. 85, Birth record for daughter Sarah French.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2023, Vol. 177, p. 43.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1749.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. V, M-P, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2007), 134.
  • ⁷ Anderson, Robert Charles and others, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. II, C-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2001), 591.
  • ⁸ Bond, Henry, Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts . . ., 2nd ed., Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic-Genealogical Society (1860), 367.
  • ⁹ Crosby, Eleanor Davis, Simon Crosby the Emigrant: His English Ancestry, and Some of His American Descendants, Boston: Press of Geo. H. Ellis Co. (1914), 66, 92.
  • ¹⁰ Huntington, E. B., A Genealogical Memoir of the Lo-Lathrop Family in this Country, Ridgefield, Connecticut: M. Huntington (1884), 45.
  • ¹¹ Learned, William Law, comp., The Learned Family (Learned, Larned, Learnard, Larnard and Lerned) Being Descendants of William Learned . . . 2nd Ed., Albany: Weed-Parsons Printing Company, Printers (1898), 20.
  • ¹² Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 455.

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