Ancestry of General
George B. McClellan

Union Army - U.S. Civil War

Mary Backus

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• • 3rd Great-grandmother of George B. McClellan — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 39 
  • Father:
  • John Backus 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Bingham   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1692 
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  • Death Date:
  • 19 Oct 1770 
  • Death Location:
  • Windham, Windham Co., Connecticut 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Windham, Windham Co., Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Joshua Ripley Jr.
  • Marriage Date:
  • 8 Dec 1712 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Windham, Windham Co., Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  Mary Ripley (Ahnentafel No:19 )

  Elizabeth Ripley

  Ebenezer Ripley

  Joshua Ripley

• Sources for Mary Backus

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Windham, p. 205, Birth record for son Ebenezer Ripley.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Windham, p. 16, Marriage record for Joshua Ripley and Mary Backus.
  • ³ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1995, Vol. 12, p. 66.
  • ⁴ The Mayflower Descendant, 1930, Vol. 28, pp. 99, 102.
  • 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), 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), 75-77.
  • 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, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 222.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 74, 113, 327, 451, 478.
  • ¹⁰ Williams, Alicia Crane, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1999), 446.