Ancestry of
Maria Mitchell

Astronomer

Peleg Mitchell

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• • Grandfather of Maria Mitchell — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 4 
  • Father:
  • Richard Mitchell 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Starbuck   
  • Birth Date:
  • 9 Feb 1759 
  • Birth Location:
  • Nantucket, Nantucket Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 2 Nov 1831 
  • Death Location:
  • Nantucket, Nantucket Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Lydia Cartwright
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  • Child:

  William Mitchell (Ahnentafel No:2 )

• Sources for Peleg Mitchell

  • ¹ General Society of Mayflower Descendants Membership Applications, 1620-1920, General No. 28347, Membership application for James Greenleaf Adams.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Nantucket, Vol. 221, p. 230, Death record for son William Mitchell.
  • ³ Austin, John Osborne, American Authors' Ancestry: Including some others who have influenced life wisely . . ., Providence, Rhode Island: Freeman Company, Printers (1915), 64.
  • ⁴ Hills, Rev. Aaron Merritt, Life and Labors of Mrs. Mary A. Woodbridge: Who Was for Six Years President of the Ohio W. C. T. U. for . . ., Ravenna, Ohio: F. W. Woodbridge (1895), 29, 400-401.
  • ⁵ Howe, Julia Ward, ed., Representative Women of New England, Boston: New England Historical Publishing Company (1904), 481.