Ancestry of
John Batterson Stetson

Inventor of the Cowboy Hat

Cornelius Stetson

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of John Batterson Stetson — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 16 
  • Father:
  • Isaac Stetson 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Pray   
  • Birth Date:
  • Nov 1708 
  • Birth Location:
  • Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • ABT 1772 
  • Death Location:
  • Westerley, Washington, Rhode Island 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Thankful Saunders
  • Marriage Date:
  • 25 Oct 1733 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Westerley, Washington, Rhode Island 
  • Child:

  Stephen Stetson (Ahnentafel No:8 )

• Sources for Cornelius Stetson

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Pembroke, Vol, 1, p. 197, Birth record for Cornelius Studson.
  • ² Crandall, John Cortland, Elder John Crandall of Rhode Island and his Descendants, Woodstock, New York: Unknown (1949), 12.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 111.
  • ⁴ Stetson, Oscar Frank, ed., The Descendants of Cornet Robert Stetson of Scituate, Massachusetts, 1634, Vol. 1, Nos. 1-3, Unknown: Stetson Kindred of America, Inc. (1933), 56, 101-102.