Ancestry of
John Forbes Nash, Jr.

“A Beautiful Mind” Mathematician

David Forbush

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of John Forbes Nash, Jr. — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 76 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Forbush 
  • Mother:
  • Hannah Bellows   
  • Birth Date:
  • 20 JUN 1720 or 1721 
  • Birth Location:
  • Westborough, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
  • 17 Sep 1721 
  • Christening Location:
  • Marlborough, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Death Date:
  • from 25 Sep 1787 to 16 Feb 1788 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Grafton, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Annah Whitney
  • Marriage Date:
  • 4 May 1749 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Westborough, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Jonathan Forbush (Ahnentafel No:38 )

• Additional marriages for David Forbush

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  • Spouse:
  • Sarah - - - - - -
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT 4 Jan 1785

• Sources for David Forbush

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Grafton, Vol. 1, pp. 54-55, Birth records for son Jonathan Forbush/Fourbush.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Westborough, Vol. 1, p. 48., Birth record for David Forbush.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Marlbough Vol. 1, p. 73, Baptism record for David Forbess.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Grafton, Vol. 1, p. 56, Baptism record for son Jonathan Furbush.
  • ⁵ Worcester County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1731-1881, Case No 21861, Probate for for estate of David Forbush.
  • ⁶ 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), 27, 37-39.

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