Ancestry of
John Forbes Nash, Jr.

“A Beautiful Mind” Mathematician

John Coombs Jr.

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of John Forbes Nash, Jr. — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 634 
  • Father:
  • John Coombs 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Priest   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1632 
  • Birth Location:
  • Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • BY 29 May 1668 
  • Death Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth -----
  • Marriage Date:
  • 24 Feb 1661/1662 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Elizabeth Coombs (Ahnentafel No:317 )

  John Coombs

  Mary Coombs

• Sources for John Coombs Jr.

  • ¹ The American Genealogist, 1970, Vol. 45, p. 130.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1996, Vol. 71, p. 248.
  • ³ The American Genealogist, 1970, Vol. 46, pp. 130-133.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 2018.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 6, 195, 346, 361, 536, 680, 775, 805.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 571.
  • ⁷ Townsend, Mrs. Charles Delmar, et. al., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 8, 2nd ed., Degory Priest, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2008), 7, 18.
  • ⁸ Van Antwerp, Lee Douglas and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 9, Francis Eaton, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1996), 12.
  • 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), 17.
  • ¹⁰ Williams, Alicia Crane, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1999), 414.

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