Ancestry of
John Wayne

Movie Actor

Ruth Bassett

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• • 8th Great-grandmother of John Wayne — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1453 
  • Father:
  • William Bassett 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1634 
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  • Death Date:
  • from 22 MAR 1693/1694 to 04 JAN 1700 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Samuel Fuller
  • Marriage Date:
  • NOT MARRIED 
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  • Child:

  (probable) John Sprague (Ahnentafel No:726 )

  • Notes: 
  • Ruth may have married second John Thomas of Marshfield.

• Additional marriages for Ruth Bassett

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  • Spouse:
  • John Sprague
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1655

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  • Spouse:
  • - - - - - - Thomas

• Sources for Ruth Bassett

  • ¹ Mayflower Descendant: A Journal of Pilgrim Genealogy and History, Summer 2019, Vol. 67, No. 2, pp. 144-146.
  • ² Mayflower Descendant: A Journal of Pilgrim Genealogy and History, 2022, Vol. 70, pp. 125-126.
  • ³ The American Genealogist, 1964, Vol. 41, p. 179.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 129.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1727.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 639, 680.
  • ⁷ Roser, Susan E., Mayflower Increasings, 2nd Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (1997), 108.
  • ⁸ Sprague, Warren Vincent, Sprague Families in America, Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Company, Printers (1913), 11.
  • ⁹ Wakefield, Robert S. and Russell L. Warner, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 14, Family of Myles Standish, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2007), 19.
  • ¹⁰ Williams, Alicia Crane, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1999), 163.