Ancestry of
Bill Gates

Founder of Microsoft

John Fobes

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Bill Gates — 10th Generation
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  • 1660 
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  • Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Constant Mitchell
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  William Fobes

  Caleb Fobes (Ahnentafel No:258 )

  Elizabeth Fobes

  Edward Fobes

• Sources for John Fobes

  • ¹ New England Ancestors Magazine, 2007, Vol. 8.5, p. 39.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1982, Vol. 136, p. 100.
  • ³ The American Genealogist, 1948, Vol. 24, pp. 7-8.
  • ⁴ Evans, Richard K., The Ancestry of Diana, Princess of Wales, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2007), 216.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#77 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: An Assortment of Famous Actors", (accessed 10/04/2014).
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd and William Addams Reitwiesner, American Ancestors and Cousins of The Princess of Wales, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1984), 30.
  • ⁷ Thomas, Alfred A., Some Family Genealogies, Dayton, Ohio: Unknown (1908), 21-22.
  • ⁸ Williams, Alicia Crane, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1999), 62.

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