Ancestry of
Hugh Hefner

Founder of Playboy Magazine

Joseph Woodward

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Hugh Hefner — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 88 
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  • Birth Date:
  • 28 Feb 1725 
  • Birth Location:
  • Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • ABT 1805 
  • Death Location:
  • Castleton, Rutland, Vermont 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Bradford
  • Marriage Date:
  • 31 May 1748 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Asa Woodward (Ahnentafel No:44 )

• Sources for Joseph Woodward

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A129286.
  • ² Order of the Descendants of Colonial Governors Prior to 1750, Roll of Members in the State of Michigan (1897), 39.
  • ³ Hinman, Royal R., A Catalogue of the Names of the Early Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut, Hartford: Press of Case, Tiffany and Company (1852), 313.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 359.

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