Ancestry of
Sidney Dillon Ripley

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Betsey Otis

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• • 2nd Great-grandmother of Sidney Dillon Ripley — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 23 
  • Father:
  • Isaac Otis 
  • Mother:
  • Ruth Brown   
  • Birth Date:
  • 19 May 1796 
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  • Death Date:
  • ABT 1885 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • James Smith
  • Marriage Date:
  • 23 Mar 1816 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Pelham, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Hannah Smith (Ahnentafel No:11 )

• Sources for Betsey Otis

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Pelham, Vol. 1, p. 71, Birth record for daughter Hannah Smith.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Pelham, Vol. 1, p. 133, Marriage intention for James Smith and Betsey Otis.
  • ³ Otis, William A., A Genealogical and Historical Memoir of the Otis Family in America, Chicago: Unknown (1924), 214.
  • ⁴ Parmenter, C. O., History of Pelham, Mass.: From 1738 to 1898, Including the Early History of Prescott, Amherst, Massachusetts: Press of Carpenter and Morehouse (1898), 461, 477.