Ancestry of
John Brown

American Abolitionist

Oliver Humphrey

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• • Great-grandfather of John Brown — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 14 
  • Father:
  • Jonathan Humphrey 
  • Mother:
  • Mercy Ruggles   
  • Birth Date:
  • 13 Apr 1720 
  • Birth Location:
  • Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 30 Oct 1793 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Dyer Cemetery, Canton, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Garrett
  • Marriage Date:
  • 28 Jan 1744/1745 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Ruth Humphrey (Ahnentafel No:7 )

  • Notes: 

  • Oliver Humphrey's surname is also seen as Humphreys.

• Sources for Oliver Humphrey

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Simsbury, p. 93, Marriage record for Oliver Humphrey and Sarah Garrat.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Simsbury, p. 93, Birth record for Oliver Humphrey.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 04/02/2015).
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1927, Vol. 81, p. 408.
  • ⁵ The American Genealogist, 1959, Vol. 35, p. 20.
  • ⁶ Johnson, Mary Coffin, The Higleys and their Ancestry: An Old Colonial Family, New York: D. Appleton and Company (1896), 442.