Ancestry of
Richard Gere

Movie Actor

Joshua Hempstead

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Richard Gere — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 800 
  • Father:
  • Robert Hempstead 
  • Mother:
  • Joan -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 1 Sep 1678 
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  • Death Date:
  • 22 Dec 1758 
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  • Abigail Bayley
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  Stephen Hempstead (Ahnentafel No:400 )

  Nathaniel Hempstead

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  • Joshua Hempstead is noted for having written a diary from 1711 until his death in 1758 that is considered one of the best sources about colonial life in New London, Connecticut. The diary also details the life of a slave in the household named Adam Jackson.

    The Joshua Hempstead house in New London, Connecticut, is one of the oldest and most well documented houses in New England that survives to this day. It is one of the few buildings that survived the great fire of 1781 that burned most of New London.

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  • Spouse:
  • Elizabeth Larrabee

• Sources for Joshua Hempstead

  • ¹ New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1920, Vol. 51, pp. 261-263.
  • ² The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 28, New York: James T. White and Company (1940), 184, states Joshua's father is himself and his first wife Elizabeth as his mother.
  • ³ The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 28, New York: James T. White and Company (1940), 184.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#74 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: The New England Ancestry of Actor Richard [Tiffany] Gere", (accessed 10/09/2014).

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