Ancestry of
John Steinbeck

Author of The Grapes of Wrath

Peter Tufts

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of John Steinbeck — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 84 
  • Father:
  • John Tufts 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Putnam   
  • Birth Date:
  • 10 May 1697 
  • Birth Location:
  • Charlestown (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • 5 Dec 1776 
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  • Lydia Bucknam
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  Timothy Tufts (Ahnentafel No:42 )

• Sources for Peter Tufts

  • ¹ Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001, Birth record for Peter Tufts.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1897, Vol. 51, pp. 301, 304-305.
  • ³ 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.
  • ⁴ Putnam, Eben, A History of the Putnam Family in England and America, Vol. 1, Salem, Massachusetts: The Salem Press Publishing and Printing Company (1891), 63.
  • 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).