Ancestry of
Julia Child

American Chef, Author and TV Personality

Ebenezer Witter

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Julia Child — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 470 
  • Father:
  • Josiah Witter 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Wheeler   
  • Birth Date:
  • 25 Mar 1668 
  • Birth Location:
  • Stonington, New London, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 31 Jan 1711/1712 
  • Death Location:
  • Preston, New London, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Dorothy Morgan
  • Marriage Date:
  • 5 May 1693 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Preston, New London, Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  Elizabeth Witter

  Mary Witter

  Josiah Witter

  Joseph Witter

  Ebenezer Witter

  Dorothy Witter

  Hannah Witter (Ahnentafel No:235 )

  William Witter

  Abigail Witter

• Sources for Ebenezer Witter

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Stonington, p. 289, Birth record for Ebenezer Witter.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Preston, p. 218, Birth record for son William Witter.
  • ³ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Preston, Vol. 216, Marriage record for Ebenezer Witter and Dorothy Morgan.
  • ⁴ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Preston, p. 217, Birth record for daughter Mary Witter.
  • ⁵ New England Ancestors Magazine, 2002, Vol. 3.5, p. 35.
  • ⁶ New England Ancestors Magazine, 2001, Vol. 2.1, p. 40.
  • ⁷ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1982, Vol. 136, pp. 308, 322.
  • ⁸ The Journal of American History, 1918, Vol. 12, No. 4, p. 491.
  • ⁹ Jones, Emma C. Brewster, The Brewster Genealogy, 1566-1907: A Record of the Descendants of William Brewster of the "Mayflower" . . ., Vol. 1, New York: The Grafton Press Genealogical Publishers (1908), 47, 57.
  • ¹⁰ Jordan, John W., Genealogical and Personal History of Northern Pennsylvania, Volume 2, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1913), 865.
  • ¹¹ McGhan, Judith, Genealogies of Connecticut Families: From the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 1, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2006), 563.
  • ¹² Merrick, Barbara Lambert and Scott Andrew Bartley, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 24, Part 1, William Brewster, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2014), 250-252.
  • ¹³ Merrick, Barbara Lambert, comp., Mayflower Families in Progress: William Brewster of the Mayflower and His Descendants for Four Generations, 3rd edition, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2000), 64-65, 115.
  • ¹⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#48 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: The Ancestry of Novelist Thomas Pynchon", (accessed 11/28/2018).
  • ¹⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 20.
  • ¹⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 644.
  • ¹⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd and William Addams Reitwiesner, American Ancestors and Cousins of The Princess of Wales, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1984), 36.
  • ¹⁸ Tracy, Evert E., M.D., comp., Tracy Genealogy: Ancestors and Descendants of Lieutenant Thomas Tracy of Norwich, Conn., 1660, Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers (1898), 29.
  • ¹⁹ Wheeler, Albert Gallatin, Jr., The Genealogical and Encyclopedic History of the Wheeler Family in America, Boston, Massachusetts: American College of Genealogy (1914), 290.

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