Ancestry of
Mary Eggleston

(1702–1789)

William Kelsey

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• • Great-grandfather of Mary Eggleston — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 10 
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  • ABT 1609 
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  • Death Date:
  • from 1 Jun 1675 to 21 Sep 1676 
  • Death Location:
  • Killingworth, Middlesex, Connecticut 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Indian River Cemetery, Clinton, Middlesex, Connecticut 
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  Mark Kelsey

  Hester Kelsey (Ahnentafel No:5 )

  John Kelsey

  Priscilla Kelsey

  Mary Kelsey

  Abigail Kelsey

  Stephen Kelsey

  Daniel Kelsey

  • Notes: 

  • There have been a number of claims regarding the identity of William Kelsey's wife. All have been discarded by researchers as false. However, there is some circumstantial evidence that her given name may have been Hester.

• Sources for William Kelsey

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 12/24/2020).
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1946, Vol. 100, p. 275.
  • ³ The American Genealogist, 1993, Vol. 68, pp. 210-215.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 2, G-O, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 768, 1117-1119.
  • ⁵ Claypool, Edward A., et. al., A Genealogy of the Descendants of William Kelsey: Who Settled at Cambridge, Mass., in 1632; . . ., Vol. 1, New Haven, Connecticut: The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company (1928), 38-39.