Ancestry of
John Foster Dulles

52nd U.S. Secretary of State

Joseph Backus

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of John Foster Dulles — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 178 
  • Father:
  • William Backus 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Pratt   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1667 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Norwich, New London, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Huntington
  • Marriage Date:
  • 9 Apr 1690 
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  Samuel Backus

  Ann Backus (Ahnentafel No:89 )

• Sources for Joseph Backus

  • ¹ Norwich CT: Vital Records of Norwich, 1659-1848, Vol. 1, p. 46, Birth record for son Samuell Backus.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1937, Vol. 14, p. 242.
  • ³ Backus, William W., A Genealogical Memoir of the Backus Family, Norwich, Connecticut: Press of the Bulletin Co. (1889), 9.
  • ⁴ Chapman, Rev. Frederick W., The Pratt Family: Or the Descendants of Lieut. William Pratt, One of the First Settlers of Hartford and Say-Brook . . ., Hartford: Case, Lockwood and Company (1864), 54-56.
  • ⁵ Huntington, E. B., A Genealogical Memoir of the Lo-Lathrop Family in this Country, Ridgefield, Connecticut: M. Huntington (1884), 59.
  • ⁶ Perkins, Mary E., Old Houses of the Antient [sic] Town of Norwich, 1660-1800, Norwich, Connecticut: Press of The Bulletin Co. (1895), 476.
  • ⁷ Reynolds, Cuyler, ed., Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York and the Hudson River Valley, Vol. 3, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1914), 1254.