Ancestry of
Bill Gates

Founder of Microsoft

Samuel Keeler

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Bill Gates — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1648 
  • Father:
  • Ralph Keeler 
  • Mother:
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  • Birth Date:
  • 1656 
  • Birth Location:
  • Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 19 May 1713 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Titicus Cemetery, Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah St. John
  • Marriage Date:
  • 10 Mar 1682 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  Joseph Keeler

  Jonah Keeler (Ahnentafel No:824 )

• Sources for Samuel Keeler

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 09/20/2011).
  • ² Boughton, James, A Genealogy of the Families of John Rockwell, of Stamford, Conn., 1641, and Ralph Keeler, of Hartford, Conn., 1639, New York: William F. Jones, Publisher (1903), 6, 9.
  • ³ Phoenix, S. Whitney, The Whitney Family of Connecticut, and its Affiliations . . . of Henry Whitney, from 1649 to 1878, Vol. 1, New York: Privately Printed (1878), 16.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#61 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: Notable Descendants of the Stanleys of Hartford", (accessed 11/11/2014).
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 461.

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