Ancestry of
P.T. Barnum

Co-Founder of Barnum & Bailey Circus

Samuel Beardsley

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of P.T. Barnum — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 34 
  • Father:
  • William Beardsley 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Harvey   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1638 
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  • Death Date:
  • 24 Dec 1706 
  • Death Location:
  • Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Abigail Clark
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1664 
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  William Beardsley

  Sarah Beardsley (Ahnentafel No:17 )

  • Notes: 

  • Samuel Beardsley's surname is also seen as Bearsley.

• Sources for Samuel Beardsley

  • ¹ Dutchess County, NY: The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Vol. 2, p. 389.
  • ² Fairfield, CT: Families of Old Fairfield, Vol. 1, pp. 48-49.
  • ³ The American Genealogist, 1932, Vol. 9, p. 56.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles and others, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. I, A-B, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1999), 226.
  • 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.