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Christopher Reeve

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Christopher Reeve

Movie Actor


    Mehitable Dwight

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    • 6th Great-grandmother of Christopher Reeve — 9th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 391 
    • Birth Date:
    • 2 Nov 1705 
    • Birth Location:
    • Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
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    • Death Date:
    • 20 Nov 1767 
    • Death Location:
    • Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut 
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    • Marriage Date:
    • 31 Jan 1728 
    • Marriage Location:
    • Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut 
    • Notes: 
    • Some sources state Mehitable's birthdate as 11 NOV 1697. Perhaps this was a sister who died young.

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  • Sources for Mehitable Dwight

    • 4 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.
    • 5 Lainhart, Ann Smith and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 22, William Bradford, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2004), 303.
    • 7 Stearns, Ezra S., Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire: A Record of the Achievements of Her People . . ., Vol. 2, New York and Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company (1908), 770.

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