Ancestry of
P.T. Barnum

Co-Founder of Barnum & Bailey Circus

Jonathan Weed

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of P.T. Barnum — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 26 
  • Father:
  • Jonas Weed Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Bethia Holly   
  • Birth Date:
  • 15 Apr 1684 
  • Birth Location:
  • Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 19 Dec 1728 
  • Death Location:
  • Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Ferris
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1710 
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  Jonathan Weed

  Mary Weed (Ahnentafel No:13 )

• Sources for Jonathan Weed

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Stamford, p. 237, Birth record for Jonathan Weed.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Stamford, pp. 237-238, Birth records for children of Jonathan and Mary Weed.
  • ³ The American Genealogist, 1965, Vol. 41, pp. 209-211.
  • ⁴ Connecticut Society of Genealogists, The Connecticut Nutmegger, 2001, Vol. 34, p. 116.
  • ⁵ 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. 10, Probate record abstract for father-in-law Joseph Ferris.
  • ⁶ 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 Jonathan Weed.
  • ⁷ 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 Jonathan Weed.