Ancestry of
Ali Wentworth

TV Actress and Comedienne

John Eliot

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Ali Wentworth — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 896 
  • Father:
  • Bennett Eliot 
  • Mother:
  • Lettice Alger   
  • Birth Date:
  • 5 Aug 1604 
  • Birth Location:
  • Widford, Hertfordshire, England 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 21 May 1690 
  • Death Location:
  • Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts  
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Eliot Burying Ground, Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts  
  • Spouse Name:
  • Ann Mountford
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 4 Sep 1632 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts  
  • Child:

  Joseph Eliot (Ahnentafel No:448 )

  • Notes: 

  • John Eliot was known as the “Apostle to the Indians.”

• Sources for John Eliot

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 09/22/2011).
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2007, Vol. 161, Page 191.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 630-632.
  • 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), 1429.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 105.
  • ⁶ Eliot, William Horace, Jr., et. al., Genealogy of the Descendants of John Eliot, "Apostle to the Indians," 1598-1905, New Haven, Connecticut: The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Press (1905), 15-16.
  • ⁷ Jacobus, Donald Lines, ed., The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley and his Wife Emma Arabella Bosworth, Woodstock, Vermont: N. Grier Parke, II (1960), 204.
  • ⁸ Wight, William Ward, The Wights: A Record of Thomas Wight of Dedham and Medfield and of his Descendants 1635-1890, Milwaukee: Swain and Tate, Printers (1890), 3.
  • ⁹ Wikipedia, "John Eliot (missionary)", (accessed 09/22/2011).

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