Ancestry of
James Willard Maxwell

(1901–1960)

Elizabeth Whitney

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of James Willard Maxwell — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 189 
  • Father:
  • John Whitney 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Smith   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1684 
  • Birth Location:
  • Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 17 Mar 1763 
  • Death Location:
  • Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Ridgebury Cemetery, Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Joseph Keeler
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  • Children:
  
  

  Elizabeth Keeler

  Silas Keeler (Ahnentafel No:94 )

  Elijah Keeler

• Sources for Elizabeth Whitney

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Ridgefield, p. 53, Birth record for son Elijah Keeler.
  • 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), 9-10, 14.
  • 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), 16-17.
  • 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.