Ancestry of
P.T. Barnum

Co-Founder of Barnum & Bailey Circus

Mary Weed

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• • Great-grandmother of P.T. Barnum — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 13 
  • Father:
  • Jonathan Weed 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Ferris   
  • Birth Date:
  • 23 Mar 1721/1722 
  • Birth Location:
  • Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut 
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  • Nathan Taylor Jr.
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  Phineas Taylor (Ahnentafel No:6 )

• Sources for Mary Weed

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Stamford, p. 238, Birth record for Mary Weed.
  • ² Connecticut Society of Genealogists, The Connecticut Nutmegger, 2001, Vol. 34, p. 116.
  • ³ Mead, Spencer P., Abstract of Probate Records for the District of Stamford, County of Fairfield, and State of Connecticut, 1729-1802, n. p.: typed manuscript (1919), 1730, Vol. 1, p. 32, Probate abstract for father Jonathan Weed.
  • ⁴ Mead, Spencer P., Abstract of Probate Records for the District of Stamford, County of Fairfield, and State of Connecticut, 1729-1802, n. p.: typed manuscript (1919), Miscellaneous papers not copied, p. 342, Probate abstract for father Jonathan Weed.
  • ⁵ Olson, Raymond L., Ancestry and Descendants of Ezra Sisson (1824-1898) and Amelia Plemon (1828-1914): Plus Descendants of Elihu . . ., Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc. (1991), 312.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 94.