Ancestry of
Betsey Forbush

(1785–1837)

Jonathan Forbush

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• • Father of Betsey Forbush — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • David Forbush 
  • Mother:
  • Annah Whitney   
  • Birth Date:
  • 22 Feb 1762 
  • Birth Location:
  • Grafton, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
  • 18 Apr 1762 
  • Christening Location:
  • Grafton, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Death Date:
  • 7 Feb 1798 
  • Death Location:
  • Grafton, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
  •  
  • Burial Location:
  • Old Oak Street Burial Ground, Grafton, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Bettie Hayden
  • Marriage Date:
  • 5 Nov 1782 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Grafton, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Betsey Forbush (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  • Notes: 

  • Jonathan Forbush's surname is also seen as Fourbush and Furbush.

• Sources for Jonathan Forbush

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 06/22/2022).
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Grafton, Vol. 1, pp. 54-55, Birth records for Jonathan Forbush/Fourbush.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Grafton, Vol. 1, pp. 54-56, Birth and baptism records for Jonathan Furbush.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Grafton, Vol. 1, p. 206, Marriage of Jonathan Forbush, "a minor," and Betty Hayden.
  • ⁵ Worcester County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1731-1881, Case No 21861, Probate for for estate of father David Forbush.
  • ⁶ Worcester County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1731-1881, Case No 21896, Probate file for estate of Jonathan Forbush.
  • ⁷ 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), 39, 55-58.
  • ⁸ Pierce, Frederick Clifton, History of Grafton, Worcester County, Massachusetts: From Its Early Settlement by the Indians in 1647 to the . . ., Worcester: Press of Chas. Hamilton (1879), 485.