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Glenn Close

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Joseph Close

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Glenn Close — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 256 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Close 
  • Mother:
  • Rebecca Tompkins   
  • Birth Date:
  • 20 Sep 1702 
  • Birth Location:
  • Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 4 Jan 1760 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Eunice Hoyt
  • Marriage Date:
  • 29 May 1728 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Joseph Close (Ahnentafel No:128 )

• Additional marriages for Joseph Close

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  • Spouse:
  • Mary Merritt
  • Marriage Date:
  • 26 Jul 1744

• Sources for Joseph Close

  • ¹ Early Connecticut Marriages, Greenwich, Marriage record for Joseph Close Jr and Unis Hoit.
  • ² Mead, Spencer Percival, Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich, County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, New York: The Knickerbocker Press (1911), 519-520.
  • ³ White, Lorraine Cook, ed., Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection), originally published as The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vols. 1-55, Greenwich, Birth record for Joseph Close.

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