Ancestry of
Ken Burns

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Prince Tupper

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Ken Burns — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 384 
  • Father:
  • Eldad Tupper 
  • Mother:
  • Martha Wheaton   
  • Birth Date:
  • 24 Jul 1716 
  • Birth Location:
  • Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 5 Feb 1798/1799 
  • Death Location:
  • Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Jane Ellis
  • Marriage Date:
  • 18 Nov 1750 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Eldad Tupper (Ahnentafel No:192 )

  Ellis Tupper

  • Notes: 

  • In 1779 Prince Tupper was arrested and imprisoned. He was suspected of being Loyalist and was said to have eventually fled to Canada. However after the American Revolution he is found back in his hometown of Sandwich, Massachusetts.

• Sources for Prince Tupper

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Sandwich, Vol. 2, p. 1436, Death record for Prince Tupper.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Sandwich, Vol. 1, p. 176, Marriage record for Prince Tupper and Jane Ellis.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1945, Vol. 99, pp. 63, 126.
  • ⁴ Tupper, Eleanor, Ph.D., Tupper Genealogy 1578-1971, North Conway, New Hampshire: The Reporter Press (1972), 8, 20-21.

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