Ancestry of
Christopher Reeve

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John Smith

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Christopher Reeve — 11th Generation
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  • 1796 
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  • ABT 1710 
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  • Susanna Hinckley
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  • BEF 1644 
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  Samuel Smith (Ahnentafel No:898 )

  Sarah Smith

  Ebenezer Smith

  Mary Smith

  Dorcas Smith

  John Smith

  Shubal Smith

  John Smith

  Benjamin Smith

  Ichabod Smith

  Elizabeth Smith

  Joseph Smith

• Sources for John Smith

  • ¹ Early New England Families, 1641-1700, John Dunham (m. 1642), p. 4.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Barnstable, Vol. 1, p. 60, Birth record for son Samuel Smith.
  • ³ New England Ancestors Magazine, Fall 2008, Vol. 9, Issue 4, pp. 45-46.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1856, Vol. 10, p. 39.
  • ⁵ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1859, Vol. 13, p. 208.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. III, G-H, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2003), 333.
  • ⁷ Cass, Earle Millard, Beulah Ball Cass: A Descendant of Samuel Hinckley, New Castle, Pennsylvania: Published Privately (1945), 1.
  • ⁸ Judd, Peter Haring, Four American Ancestries: White, Griggs, Cowles, Judd, including Haring, Phelps, Denison, Clark, Foote . . ., New York, New York: First Google Books Edition (2009), 978.
  • ⁹ MacGunnigle, Bruce Campbell, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 4, 3rd ed., Edward Fuller, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2006), 23.
  • ¹⁰ McCourt, Martha J. F., et. al., The American Descendants of Rev. John Smith: Who Married 13 JUN 1643 Susanna Hinckley, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society [distributor] (1997), 1-2H.
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 511.
  • ¹² Wakefield, Robert S. and Judith H. Swan, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 18, Part 1, Richard Warren, 137.
  • ¹³ Wakefield, Robert S., ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 20, Part 1, Henry Samson, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2000), 24.
  • ¹⁴ Wheeler, Richard Anson, History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut, From its First Settlement in 1649 to 1900, New London, Connecticut: Press of the Day Publishing Company (1900), 429.
  • ¹⁵ White, Elizabeth Pearson, John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 2, Camden, Maine: Picton Press (1993, 4th printing 2008), 66.

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