Ancestry of
John Steinbeck

Author of The Grapes of Wrath

Priscilla Gould

View famous kin of Priscilla Gould

• • 7th Great-grandmother of John Steinbeck — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 677 
  • Father:
  • Richard Gould 
  • Mother:
  •  
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1585 
  • Birth Location:
  •  
  • Christening Date:
  •  
  • Christening Location:
  •  
  • Death Date:
  •  
  • Death Location:
  •  
  • Burial Date:
  •  
  • Burial Location:
  •  
  • Spouse Name:
  • John Putnam
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1711 
  • Marriage Location:
  •  
  • Children:
  
  

  Thomas Putnam

  Nathaniel Putnam (Ahnentafel No:338 )

  John Putnam

  • Notes: 

  • Some published sources suggest Priscilla is the daughter of Thomas Deacon of the parish of Corner Hall. More recent sources accept the argument that she is the daughter of Richard Gould of Bovingdon.

• Sources for Priscilla Gould

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2016, Vol. 170, p. 203.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1965, Vol. 119, pp. 174-176.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1993, Vol. 147, p. 20.
  • ⁴ Ferris, Mary Walton, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines: A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Wisconsin Cuneo Press (1931), Vol. 1, pp. 520-521.
  • ⁵ McLean, Hulda Hoover, Genealogy of the Herbert Hoover Family, Stanford, California: The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University (1967), fold-out chart between pages 4 and 5.
  • ⁶ Mudge, Florence A., John Mudge and Hannah Hutchinson, First Settlers of Plymouth, Vermont, Danvers, Massachusetts?: Unknown (1930), 11.
  • ⁷ Putnam, Eben, A History of the Putnam Family in England and America, Vol. 1, Salem, Massachusetts: The Salem Press Publishing and Printing Company (1891), 3, 7.
  • ⁸ Putnam, Read H., Putnam's Direct Line, Provo, Utah: J. G. Stevenson (1964), 7.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#66 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: New England Ancestors of Depression-Era Novelist John Steinbeck", (accessed 10/16/2014).