Ancestry of
P.T. Barnum

Co-Founder of Barnum & Bailey Circus

Phineas Taylor

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• • Grandfather of P.T. Barnum — 3rd Generation
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  • Father:
  • Nathan Taylor Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Weed   
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  • ABT 1760 
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  • 7 Oct 1837 
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  • Mary Sherwood
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  Irena Taylor (Ahnentafel No:3 )

• Sources for Phineas Taylor

  • ¹ Fairfield, CT: Families of Old Fairfield, Vol. 2, p. 845 [footnote].
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1961, Vol. 115, p. 288.
  • ³ 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), 1119-1120.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 94.