Ancestry of
Christopher Reeve

Movie Actor

John Backus

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Christopher Reeve — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 778 
  • Father:
  • William Backus 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Pratt   
  • Birth Date:
  • 9 Feb 1662 
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  • Death Date:
  • 27 Mar 1744 
  • Death Location:
  • Windham, Windham Co., Connecticut 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Windham Center Cemetery, Windham, Windham Co., Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Bingham
  • Marriage Date:
  • 17 Feb 1692 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Windham, Windham Co., Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  Mary Backus (Ahnentafel No:389 )

  John Backus

  • Notes: 

  • John Backus's surname is also seen as Barkus.

• Sources for John Backus

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Windham, p. 16, Death record for John Backus.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Windham, p. 16, Marriage record for John Backus and Mary Bingham.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 03/21/2016).
  • 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), 429.
  • 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), 209.
  • 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), 75.
  • ⁷ Weeks, Lyman Horace, ed., Prominent Families of New York: Being an Account in Biographical Form of Individuals and Families Distinguished as . . ., New York: The Historical Company (1898), 31.

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