Ancestry of
Richard Gere

Movie Actor

John Buell

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Richard Gere — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 308 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Buell 
  • Mother:
  • Deborah Griswold   
  • Birth Date:
  • 17 Feb 1671/1672 
  • Birth Location:
  • Killingworth, Middlesex, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 22 Apr 1746 
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  • Burial Location:
  • West Cemetery, Litchfield, Litchfield Co., Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Loomis
  • Marriage Date:
  • 20 Nov 1695 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  Mary Buell

  Deborah Buell

  Ebenezer Buell (Ahnentafel No:154 )

  Solomon Buell

  Jonathan Buell

  • Notes: 

  • Some published genealogies give the death date for John Buell as 09 APR 1746, but his tombstone has 22 APR 1746.

• Sources for John Buell

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Windsor, p. 177, Marriage record for John Buell and Mary Loomis.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 07/13/2015).
  • ³ Loomis, Elisha S., Descendants of Joseph Loomis in America: And His Antecedents in the Old World, Berea, Ohio: unknown (1909), 134.
  • ⁴ Marsh, Dwight Whitney, Marsh Genealogy: Giving Several Thousand Descendants of John Marsh of Hartford, Ct., 1636-1895, Amherst, Massachusetts: Press of Carpenter and Morehouse (1895), 29.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#74 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: The New England Ancestry of Actor Richard [Tiffany] Gere", (accessed 10/10/2014).
  • ⁶ Welles, Albert, History of the Buell Family in England: From the Remotest Times Ascertainable from Our Ancient Histories, and in America, New York: Society Library (1881), 33-34.

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