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John Wayne

Movie Actor

Richard Sperry Jr.

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of John Wayne — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 722 
  • Father:
  • Richard Sperry 
  • Mother:
  • Dennis -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 20 Jan 1652 
  • Birth Location:
  • New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • ABT 1734 
  • Death Location:
  • New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Martha Mansfield
  • Marriage Date:
  • 16 Dec 1680 
  • Marriage Location:
  • New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  John Sperry

  Mary Sperry (Ahnentafel No:361 )

  James Sperry

  Jonathan Sperry

• Sources for Richard Sperry Jr.

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1912, Vol. 66, p. 308.
  • ² New Haven, CT: Families of Ancient New Haven, Vol. 7, pp. 1666-1670.
  • ³ New Haven, CT: Vital Records, 1649-1850, Vol. 1, p. 48, Marriage record for Richard Sperry and Martha Mansfield.
  • ⁴ New Haven, CT: Vital Records, 1649-1850, Vol. 1, p. 8, Birth record for Richard Sperry.
  • ⁵ The American Genealogist, 1934, Vol. 11, p. 106.
  • ⁶ Cutter, William Richard, ed., New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of . . . Volume 3, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1913), 1267.
  • ⁷ Frost, Josephine C., Ancestors of Henry Ward Beecher and His Wife Eunice White Bullard, Unknown: Unknown (1927), 102.
  • ⁸ Homer, Rodney Prestage, The Sperry Family Line of Jeremiah Sperry of Minnesota, 1802-1870, Porterville, California: Unknown (1969), 11, 21.