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Johnny Carson

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Lydia Willets

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of Johnny Carson — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 199 
  • Father:
  • Timothy Willets 
  • Mother:
  • Judith -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 16 Jan 1726 
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  • Death Date:
  • AFT 3 Jun 1798 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Anthony Smith
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 16 May 1746 
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  Judith Smith

  Margery Smith (Ahnentafel No:99 )

• Sources for Lydia Willets

  • ¹ Brogan, Hugh and Charles Mosley, American Presidential Families, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company (1993), 706.
  • ² Hook, James W., Smith, Grant and Irons Families of New Jersey's Shore Counties: Including the Related Families of Willets and Birdsall, New Haven, Connecticut: Unknown (1955), 66-70, 102-103.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 126.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 608, 625.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 147, 447, 558.