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Peggy Whitson

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Joshua Booth Elderkin Jr.

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Peggy Whitson — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 114 
  • Father:
  • Joshua Booth Elderkin 
  • Mother:
  • Lydia Denison   
  • Birth Date:
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  • Christening Date:
  • 3 Jan 1779 
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  • Death Date:
  • AFT 7 Aug 1820 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Meadville, Crawford, Pennsylvania 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Goodwin
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1798 
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Chelsea, Orange, Vermont 
  • Child:

  Mary Elderkin (Ahnentafel No:57 )

  • Notes: 

  • Joshua Booth Elderkin is said to have moved from Vermont to Meadville, Pennsylvania, about 1814.

• Sources for Joshua Booth Elderkin Jr.

  • ¹ Boston Evening Transcript: Genealogy Pages, 1911-1940, 10 DEC 1919, p. 10, No. 7835.
  • ² Boston Evening Transcript: Genealogy Pages, 1911-1940, 02 MAY 1912, No. 8822.
  • ³ Federal Census, VT, Orange County, 1810, Corinth, Image 12 of 13.
  • ⁴ Federal Census, PA, Crawford County, 1820, Meadville, Image 4 of 4.
  • ⁵ Elderkin, Dyer White, Genealogy of the Elderkin Family with Intermarriages: Containing Family Records from John 1st, Who Came England in . . ., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Press of Fisher, Stewart and Co. Ltd. (1888), 23.
  • ⁶ Weaver, William L., Elderkin Historical Series, No. 1, History of Ancient Windham, Genealogy, Elderkin, n. p.: Republished by Roland D. Elderkin (1949), 22.

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