Ancestry of
Anderson Cooper

Television Journalist

Peter Rutgers Kissam

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Anderson Cooper — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 100 
  • Father:
  • Benjamin Kissam 
  • Mother:
  • Catherina Rutgers   
  • Birth Date:
  • 4 Jul 1756 
  • Birth Location:
  • Westfield, Union, New Jersey 
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  • Death Date:
  • 8 Jun 1799 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Deborah Townsend
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 Jul 1779 
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  • Child:

  Samuel Kissam (Ahnentafel No:50 )

• Sources for Peter Rutgers Kissam

  • ¹ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1996, Vol. 13, p. 22.
  • ² U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, SAR #4064, Membership application for George W. Vanderbilt.
  • ³ Duyckinck, Whitehead Cornell and Rev. John Cornell, The Duyckinck and Allied Families: Being a Record of the Descendants of Evert Duyckinck Who Settled in . . ., New York: Tobias A. Wright, Publisher (1908), 12, 20-21.
  • ⁴ Kissam, Edward, The Kissam Family in America from 1644 to 1825, New York: Dempsey and Carroll's Art Press (1892), 20, 28.

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