Ancestry of
P.T. Barnum

Co-Founder of Barnum & Bailey Circus

Mary Sherwood

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• • Grandmother of P.T. Barnum — 3rd Generation
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  • Father:
  • Abel Sherwood 
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  • Hannah Fountain   
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  • Phineas Taylor
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  Irena Taylor (Ahnentafel No:3 )

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  • Mary Sherwood's given name is also seen as Molly.

• Sources for Mary Sherwood

  • 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), 1120.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 94.