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P.T. Barnum

Ancestry of
P.T. Barnum

Co-Founder of Barnum & Bailey Circus

    Thomas Taylor

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    • 3rd Great-grandfather of P.T. Barnum — 6th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 44 
    • Birth Date:
    • ABT 1643 
    • Birth Location:
    • prob. Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 
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    • Death Date:
    • Jan 1735 
    • Death Location:
    • Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut 
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    • Marriage Date:
    • 14 Feb 1677 
    • Marriage Location:
    • Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut 
    • Children:

      • Joseph Taylor (Ahnentafel No:22 )

      Nathan Taylor

      Rebecca Taylor

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  • Sources for Thomas Taylor

    • 1 Fairfield, CT: Families of Old Fairfield, Vol. 1, pp. 599-600.
    • 2 NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1995, Vol. 12, p. 65.
    • 3 Benedict, Henry Marvin, The Genealogy of the Benedicts in America, Albany: Joel Munsell (1870), 366.
    • 4 Chance, Dorothy Jane, The Ketcham/Ketchum Family in America, 1635-1991: Descendants of Nathaniel Ketcham of Huntington, Long Island . . ., Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press, Inc. (1991), 7-8.
    • 5 Ferris, Mary Walton, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines: A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Wisconsin Cuneo Press (1931), Vol. 2, p. 787.
    • 6 Hickok, Charles Nelson, The Hickok Genealogy: Descendants of William Hickoks of Farmington, Connecticut with Ancestry of Charles Nelson Hickok, Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle Publishing Co. (1938), 23.
    • 7 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), 599-600.
    • 8 Marvin, George Franklin and William T.R. Marvin, Descendants of Reinold and Matthew Marvin of Hartford, Ct., 1638 and 1635 . . ., Boston: T.R. Marvin and Son, Publishers (1904), 301.