Ancestry of
Elisha Otis

Founder of the Otis Elevator Company

Dorothy Thomas

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• • 2nd Great-grandmother of Elisha Otis — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 17 
  • Father:
  • Nathaniel Thomas Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Deborah Jacob   
  • Birth Date:
  • 6 Nov 1670 
  • Birth Location:
  • Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 10 Jan 1755 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Joseph Otis
  • Marriage Date:
  • 20 Nov 1688 
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  Nathaniel Otis

  James Otis (Ahnentafel No:8 )

  Joseph Otis

  Rachel Otis

• Sources for Dorothy Thomas

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Marshfield, Vol. 1, p. 18, Birth record for Dorothy Thomas.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1850, Vol. 4, pp. 164-165.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2000, Vol. 154, p. 25.
  • ⁴ Harvey, Oscar Jewell, A History of Wilkes-Barré, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania: From Its First Beginnings to the Present Time . . ., Volume 2, Wilkes-Barré, Pennsylvania: Oscar J. Harvey (1909), 807.
  • ⁵ Otis, William A., A Genealogical and Historical Memoir of the Otis Family in America, Chicago: Unknown (1924), 71-72.
  • ⁶ Otis, William A., A Genealogical and Historical Memoir of the Otis Family in America, Chicago: Unknown (1924), 85-87.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 42.
  • ⁸ Rogers, James Swift, James Rogers of New London, Ct., and His Descendants, Boston: James Swift Rogers (1902), 51.
  • ⁹ Thomas, Lawrence Buckley, The Thomas Book: Giving the Genealogies of Sir Rhys ap Thomas, K.G., the Thomas Family Descended from . . ., New York: The Henry T. Thomas Company (1896), 152.
  • ¹⁰ White, Elizabeth Pearson, John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 1, Camden, Maine: Picton Press (1990, 7th printing 2014), 129.