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Donny Osmond

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Thomas Vail

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Donny Osmond — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 176 
  • Father:
  • Jeremiah Vail IV 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Youngs   
  • Birth Date:
  • 18 Aug 1734 
  • Birth Location:
  • Oyster Ponds (now Orient), Suffolk, New York 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 21 Oct 1807 
  • Death Location:
  • Pomfret, Windsor, Vermont 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Hewittville Cemetery, Pomfret, Windsor, Vermont 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Hannah Brown
  • Marriage Date:
  • 12 Apr 1759 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Oyster Ponds (now Orient), Suffolk, New York 
  • Child:

  Gamaliel Vail (Ahnentafel No:88 )

  • Notes: 

  • Some sources place Thomas Vail as the brother of Jeremiah Vail IV and not his son.

• Sources for Thomas Vail

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A116815.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 04/15/2015).
  • ³ New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1900, Vol. 31, p. 170.
  • ⁴ Griffin, Augustus, Griffin's Journal: First Settlers of Southold; the Names of the Heads of Those Families . . ., Orient, Long Island: Published by Augustus Griffin (1857), 220.
  • ⁵ Vail, Henry H., Genealogy of Some of the Vail Family Descended From Jeremiah Vail at Salem, Mass., 1639, New York: Unknown (1902), 42, 65-71.
  • ⁶ Vail, William Penn, M.D., Moses Vail of Huntington, L.I.: Showing His Descent from Joseph (2) Vail, Son of Thomas Vail at Salem, Massachusetts 1640, Unknown: Unknown (1947), 357.
  • ⁷ Youngs, Selah, Jr., Youngs Family: Vicar Christopher Yonges, His Ancestors in England and His Descendants in America, New York: n. p. (1907), 85.

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