Ancestry of
John Steinbeck

Author of The Grapes of Wrath

Martha Tower

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of John Steinbeck — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 181 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Tower 
  • Mother:
  • Silence Damon   
  • Birth Date:
  • 20 Jul 1693 
  • Birth Location:
  • Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 19 Sep 1719 
  • Death Location:
  • Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Joseph Whiton
  • Marriage Date:
  • 10 Dec 1713 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Elijah Whiton (Ahnentafel No:90 )

  Abigail Whiton

• Sources for Martha Tower

  • ¹ Commemorative Biographical Record of Tolland and Windham Counties, Connecticut: Containing Biographical Sketches . . ., Chicagl: J. H. Beers and Co. (1903), 91.
  • ² Hingham, MA: Vital Records, 1637-1845, Vol. 1, p. 36, Birth record for Martha Tower.
  • ³ Hingham, MA: Vital Records, 1637-1845, Vol. 1, p. 62, Birth record for daughter Abagail Whiton.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#66 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: New England Ancestors of Depression-Era Novelist John Steinbeck", (accessed 10/15/2014).
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 611.