Ancestry of
Taylor Swift

Singer and Songwriter

Salmon Kingsley

View famous kin of Salmon Kingsley

• • 6th Great-grandfather of Taylor Swift — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 304 
  • Father:
  • Ezra Kingsley 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Wight   
  • Birth Date:
  • 27 Sep 1723 
  • Birth Location:
  • Windham, Windham Co., Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
  •  
  • Christening Location:
  •  
  • Death Date:
  • 17 Feb 1813 
  • Death Location:
  • Urbana, Steuben, New York 
  • Burial Date:
  •  
  • Burial Location:
  • North Baptist Urbana Cemetery, Urbana, Steuben, New York 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Lydia Burgess
  • Marriage Date:
  • 24 Jan 1743 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Windham, Windham Co., Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  Orin Kingsley (Ahnentafel No:152 )

  Jonathan Kingsley

  • Notes: 

  • Revolutionary War veteran

• Sources for Salmon Kingsley

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A065211.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 12/24/2016).
  • ³ Austin, John D., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 6, 3rd ed., Stephen Hopkins, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), 143.
  • ⁴ Kingsley, William Arthur, Kingsley Family of America: Ancestry, Records, Sketches of John Kingsley of Dorchester and Rehoboth, Mass. with . . ., Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press (1980), 91-92.
  • ⁵ Originally compiled by Harriet W. Hodge; Revised by Robert S. Wakefield and John Bradley Arthaud, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 21, John Billington, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2014), 164.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 377-378, 787-788.
  • ⁷ 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, Birth record for son Oren Kingsley.

Taylor Swift photo by Eva Rinaldi (CC BY-SA 2.0)