Ancestry of
Samuel Colt

Inventor of the Colt Revolver

Samuel Colt

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Christopher Colt 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Caldwell   
  • Birth Date:
  • 19 Jul 1814 
  • Birth Location:
  • Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 10 Jan 1862 
  • Death Location:
  • Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut 
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  • Notes: 

  • Inventor of the Colt revolver and founder of Colt's Manufacturing Company

• Marriages for Samuel Colt

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  • Spouse:
  • Elizabeth Jarvis
  • Marriage Date:
  • 5 Jun 1856

• Sources for Samuel Colt

  • ¹ Loomis, Elisha S., Descendants of Joseph Loomis in America: And His Antecedents in the Old World, Berea, Ohio: unknown (1909), 127.
  • ² Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 110.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 271.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd and William Addams Reitwiesner, American Ancestors and Cousins of The Princess of Wales, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1984), 39.
  • ⁵ Wikipedia, "Samuel Colt", (accessed 10/24/2014).