Ancestry of
John Steinbeck

Author of The Grapes of Wrath

Samuel Tower

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of John Steinbeck — 9th Generation
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  • 21 Mar 1724 
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  • Cohasset, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Silence Damon
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  Silence Tower

  Margaret Tower

  Martha Tower (Ahnentafel No:181 )

• Sources for Samuel 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 daughter Martha Tower.
  • ³ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Birth record for daughter Margaret Tower.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Cohasset, Vol. 1, p. 232, Death record for Samuel Tower.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#66 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: New England Ancestors of Depression-Era Novelist John Steinbeck", (accessed 10/15/2014).
  • ⁶ 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.
  • ⁷ Sprague, Warren Vincent, Sprague Families in America, Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Company, Printers (1913), 146.