Ancestry of
Thomas Pynchon

American Novelist

Elizabeth Witter

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of Thomas Pynchon — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 149 
  • Father:
  • Ebenezer Witter 
  • Mother:
  • Dorothy Morgan   
  • Birth Date:
  • 3 Mar 1694 
  • Birth Location:
  • Preston, New London, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 21 Feb 1740/1741 
  • Death Location:
  • Preston, New London, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Benjamin Brewster
  • Marriage Date:
  • 10 or 16 OCT 1713 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Preston, New London, Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  William Brewster

  Grace Brewster

  Simon Brewster (Ahnentafel No:74 )

  Judah Brewster

  Abel Brewster

  Judah Brewster

  Elizabeth Brewster

  Amos Brewster

  Cyrus Brewster

• Sources for Elizabeth Witter

  • ¹ New England Ancestors Magazine, 2002, Vol. 3.5, p. 35.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1982, Vol. 136, p. 322.
  • ³ 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), 57-59.
  • ⁴ 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), 252.
  • ⁵ 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), 194.
  • ⁶ 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), 115-116.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#48 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: The Ancestry of Novelist Thomas Pynchon", (accessed 11/28/2018).
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 151, 178, 188, 231, 335, 570, 644, 692.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd and William Addams Reitwiesner, American Ancestors and Cousins of The Princess of Wales, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1984), 36.