Ancestry of
Bill Gates

Founder of Microsoft

Richard Brush

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Bill Gates — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1632 
  • Father:
  • John Brush 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1640 
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  • Death Date:
  • BY 10 Nov 1714 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Huntington, Suffolk, New York 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Joanna Sammis
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1668 
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  • Child:

  Robert Brush (Ahnentafel No:816 )

• Sources for Richard Brush

  • ¹ Genealogies of Long Island Families: From the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (1987), Vol. 1, pp. 177-179.
  • ² Brush, Stuart C. and Russell B. Brush, The Descendants of Thomas and Richard Brush of Huntington, Long Island: A Source Book, Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc. (1982), 10, 13.

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