Ancestry of
John Steinbeck

Author of The Grapes of Wrath

Mary Putnam

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of John Steinbeck — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 169 
  • Father:
  • Nathaniel Putnam 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Hutchinson   
  • Birth Date:
  • 15 Sep 1668 
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  • ABT 1758 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • John Tufts
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 26 May 1690 
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  Peter Tufts (Ahnentafel No:84 )

  Benjamin Tufts

• Sources for Mary Putnam

  • ¹ Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001, Birth record for son Peter Tufts.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1897, Vol. 51, p. 301.
  • ³ Society of Colonial Wars in Massachusetts Membership Applications, 1560-1970, Gen. Soc. No. 8542, Membership application for Alvan Tufts Fuller.
  • ⁴ Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Volume 4, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1908), 1753.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#66 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: New England Ancestors of Depression-Era Novelist John Steinbeck", (accessed 10/16/2014).
  • ⁶ Wakefield, Robert S. and Margaret Harris Stover, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 17, Isaac Allerton, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2015), 98.