Ancestry of
Thomas Pynchon

American Novelist

James Fitch

View famous kin of James Fitch

• • 7th Great-grandfather of Thomas Pynchon — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 628 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Fitch 
  • Mother:
  • Anne Reeve   
  • Birth Date:
  • 22 Dec 1622 
  • Birth Location:
  • Bocking, Essex, England 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 18 Nov 1702 
  • Death Location:
  • Lebanon, New London, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Lebanon, New London, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Abigail Whitfield
  • Marriage Date:
  • 16 Oct 1648 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  James Fitch Jr. (Ahnentafel No:314 )

  Abigail Fitch

  Samuel Fitch

  Dorothy Fitch

• Additional marriages for James Fitch

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  • Spouse:
  • Priscilla Mason
  • Marriage Date:
  • 8 Oct 1664
  • Marriage Location:
  • Norwich, New London, Connecticut

• Sources for James Fitch

  • ¹ American Ancestors Magazine, 2017, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 54-55.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Windham, p. 90, Birth record for son John Fitch.
  • ³ Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, 1921, Vol. 8, p. 103.
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 1963, Vol. 40, pp. 53-54.
  • ⁵ The American Genealogist, 1937, Vol. 14, p. 88.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 2, G-O, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1229.
  • ⁷ Connecticut Society of Genealogists, The Connecticut Nutmegger, 1996, Vol. 29, pp. 197, 200.
  • ⁸ Fitch, John T., Descendants of the Reverend James Fitch, 1622-1702, Vol. 1, The First Five Generations, 2nd Ed., Rockport, Maine: Picton Press (2003), 7-9.
  • ⁹ Lainhart, Ann Smith and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 22, William Bradford, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2004), 17, 27.
  • ¹⁰ Meggison, Michael Thomas, "#71 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: The Immediate New England and Royal Ancestry of the Beach Boys", (accessed 11/21/2016).
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#48 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: The Ancestry of Novelist Thomas Pynchon", (accessed 11/28/2018).
  • ¹² Threlfall, John Brooks, The Ancestry of Reverend Henry Whitfield (1590-1657) and His Wife Dorothy Sheafe (159?-1669) of Guilford, Connecticut, Madison, Wisconsin: Unknown (1989), 17, 253-256, 261.
  • ¹³ Vinton, John Adams, The Giles Memorial: Genealogical Memoirs of the Families Bearing the Names of Giles, Gould, Holmes, Jennison . . ., Boston: Henry W. Dutton and Son (1864), 510.
  • ¹⁴ Wheeler, Richard Anson, History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut, From its First Settlement in 1649 to 1900, New London, Connecticut: Press of the Day Publishing Company (1900), 461.