Ancestry of
George H. W. Bush

41st U.S. President

Samuel Prescott Phillips Fay

View famous kin of Samuel Prescott Phillips Fay

• • 3rd Great-grandfather of George H. W. Bush — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 36 
  • Father:
  • Jonathan Fay Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Lucy Prescott   
  • Birth Date:
  • 10 Jan 1778 
  • Birth Location:
  • Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 18 May 1856 
  • Death Location:
  • Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Harriet Howard
  • Marriage Date:
  • 26 Sep 1803 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Trinity Church, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Samuel Howard Fay (Ahnentafel No:18 )

  • Notes: 
  • Sources list Samuel's full name as both Samuel Phillips Prescott Fay and Samuel Prescott Phillips Fay.

• Sources for Samuel Prescott Phillips Fay

  • ¹ Boston Church Records, Trinity Church, page 204.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 03/11/2013).
  • ³ Massachusetts: Grand Lodge of Masons Membership Cards, 1733-1990, Vol. Faa-Fle Surnames, Page 1990.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Cambridge Births, Vol. 1, Page 243, Birth record for son Samuel Howard Fay.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Concord Births, Vol. 1, Page 256, Birth record for Samual Prescott Fay.
  • ⁶ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Vol. 103, Page 39.
  • ⁷ Middlesex County, MA: Index to Probate Records, 1648-1871, 17579.
  • ⁸ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, July 1856, Vol. 10, Page 291.
  • ⁹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, July 1936, Vol. 90, Page 289.
  • ¹⁰ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, SAR #32602, Application for Bertrand Fay.
  • ¹¹ Chamberlain, General Joshua L., editor-in-chief, Universities and their Sons: History, Influence and Characteristics of American Universities . . ., Vol. 3, Boston: R. Herndon Co. (1899), 47.
  • ¹² Pierce, Edward Lillie, Major John Lillie, 1755-1801: The Lillie Family of Boston, 1663-1896, Cambridge: John Wilson and Son (1896), 109.
  • ¹³ Reitwiesner, William Addams, "Ancestry of George W. Bush", (accessed 03/12/2013).
  • ¹⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 419, 434, 443.
  • ¹⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 431, 435, 453, 455, 460, 470, 482, 497-500, 502, 505, 509, 662.