Ancestry of
Rainn Wilson

TV and Movie Actor

Increase Hewitt

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Rainn Wilson — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 424 
  • Father:
  • Henry Hewitt 
  • Mother:
  • Joanna Denison   
  • Birth Date:
  • 2 Nov 1742 
  • Birth Location:
  • Stonington, New London, Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
  • 6 Apr 1746 
  • Christening Location:
  • Second Congregational Church, Stonington, New London, Connecticut 
  • Death Date:
  • 30 Aug 1829 
  • Death Location:
  • Pomfret, Windsor, Vermont 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Tyler
  • Marriage Date:
  • 28 Feb 1765 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Brooklyn, Windham, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Amos Hewitt (Ahnentafel No:212 )

• Sources for Increase Hewitt

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Canterbury, p. 90, Birth record for son Amos Hewitt.
  • ² General Society of Mayflower Descendants Membership Applications, 1620-1920, General No 49554, Membership application for Lula Phyllis (Lester) Wright.
  • ³ Vermont, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1749-1999, Will of Increase Hewitt, dated 23 APR 1827, proved 03 OCT 1829.
  • ⁴ Swan, Marvel G., et. al., Early Families of Rutland, Vermont, Rutland, Vermont: The Rutland Historical Society, Inc. (1990), 205.
  • ⁵ White, Elizabeth Pearson, John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 1, Camden, Maine: Picton Press (1990, 7th printing 2014), 461.

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