Ancestry of
Richard Gere

Movie Actor

Caleb Abell

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• • 9th Great-grandfather of Richard Gere — 12th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 3250 
  • Father:
  • Robert Abell 
  • Mother:
  • Joanna -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1647 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 7 Aug 1731 
  • Death Location:
  • Norwich, New London, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Old Norwichtown Cemetery, Norwich, New London, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Margaret Post
  • Marriage Date:
  • Jul 1669 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Norwich, New London, Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  Experience Abell

  Joanna Abell

  Mary Abell (Ahnentafel No:1625 )

• Sources for Caleb Abell

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/09/2013).
  • ² Norwich CT: Vital Records of Norwich, 1659-1848, Vol. 1, p. 18, Birth records for children of Caleb and Margaret (Post) Abell.
  • ³ Abell, Horace A., The Abell Family in America: Robert Abell of Rehoboth, Mass., his English Ancestry and his Descendants . . ., Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle Publishing Company (1940), 49-52, 58.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 5.
  • ⁵ Brogan, Hugh and Charles Mosley, American Presidential Families, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company (1993), 522.
  • ⁶ Cutter, William Richard, ed., Genealogical and Family History of Northern New York: A Record of the Achievements of her People . . ., Vol. 2, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1910), 657.
  • ⁷ Luther, George A., editor and compiler, The Luther Genealogy: A History of the Descendants of Captain John Luther, Who Arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630-1635, Penobscot Press (2001), 81.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#74 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: The New England Ancestry of Actor Richard [Tiffany] Gere", (accessed 10/09/2014).
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 312.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (2018), 500.
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 474, 663.
  • ¹² Tracy, Evert E., M.D., comp., Tracy Genealogy: Ancestors and Descendants of Lieutenant Thomas Tracy of Norwich, Conn., 1660, Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers (1898), 28.
  • ¹³ Watkins, Walter K. and Eben Putnam, New England Ancestry of Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, Salem, Massachusetts: The Salem Press (1892), 13, 23.

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