Ancestry of
P.T. Barnum

Co-Founder of Barnum & Bailey Circus

Sarah Beardsley

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• • 2nd Great-grandmother of P.T. Barnum — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 17 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Beardsley 
  • Mother:
  • Abigail Clark   
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  • AFT 17 Dec 1730 
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  • Thomas Barnum
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  Thomas Barnum

  Ephraim Barnum (Ahnentafel No:8 )

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  • Some published sources claim Sarah is the daughter of Samuel Beardsley and Abigail Clark, while other sources don't give her parents at all. Sarah Barnum is mentioned among the heirs of Samuel Beardley when the third of his estate given to his widow was divided among the heirs on 02 MAY 1727.

• Sources for Sarah Beardsley

  • ¹ Dutchess County, NY: The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Vol. 2, pp. 388-389.
  • ² Fairfield, CT: Families of Old Fairfield, Vol. 1, pp. 32-33, 47.
  • ³ Barnum, Eben Lewis and Rev. Francis Barnum, Genealogical Record of the Barnum Family Presenting a Conspectus of the Male Descendants of Thomas Barnum 1625-1695, Gardner, Massachusetts: Meals Printing Co. (1912), 7.
  • ⁴ Jacobus, Donald Lines, comp., History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, Vol. 1, Baltimore: Reprinted for Clearfield Company (2007, originally published 1930-1932), 32-33.
  • ⁵ Orcutt, Rev. Samuel, A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut, Part II, New Haven, Connecticut: Press of Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor (1886), 1118.