Ancestry of
Christopher Reeve

Movie Actor

Ebenezer Ripley

View famous kin of Ebenezer Ripley

• • 5th Great-grandfather of Christopher Reeve — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 194 
  • Father:
  • Joshua Ripley Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Backus   
  • Birth Date:
  • 22 or 27 JUN 1729 
  • Birth Location:
  • Windham, Windham Co., Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
  • 29 Jun 1729 
  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 11 Jun 1811 
  • Death Location:
  • West Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Old Feeding Hills Cemetery, Agawam, Hampden, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Mehitable Burbank
  • Marriage Date:
  • 11 Jun 1752 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  Jerusha Ripley (Ahnentafel No:97 )

  Abraham Ripley

• Sources for Ebenezer Ripley

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Suffield, p. 42, Marriage record for Ebenezer Ripley and Mehetable Burbank.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Windham, p. 205, Birth record for Ebenezer Ripley.
  • ³ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Windham, p. 205, Birth record for son Abraham Ripley.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, West Springfield, Vol. 2, p. 278, Death record for Ebenezer Ripley.
  • ⁵ Dwight, Benjamin W., The History of the Descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass., Vol. 1, New York: John F. Trow and Sons (1874), 428-429.
  • ⁶ Lainhart, Ann Smith and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 22, William Bradford, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2004), 77, 303-304.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#77 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: An Assortment of Famous Actors", (accessed 10/02/2014).
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 327.

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