Ancestry of
John Foster Dulles

52nd U.S. Secretary of State

William Backus

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of John Foster Dulles — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 356 
  • Father:
  • William Backus 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth -----   
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  • Christening Date:
  • 30 Nov 1634 
  • Christening Location:
  • Sheffield, Yorkshire, England 
  • Death Date:
  • BY 17 Apr 1721 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Pratt
  • Marriage Date:
  • 11 May 1660 
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  • Children:
  
  

  John Backus

  Joseph Backus (Ahnentafel No:178 )

  Hannah Backus

  • Notes: 

  • William Backus is listed on a cenotaph located in the Founders Cemetery in Norwich, Connecticut.

• Additional marriages for William Backus

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  • Spouse:
  • Sarah Charles

• Sources for William Backus

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1988, Vol. 142, pp. 253-254.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1937, Vol. 14, pp. 242-243.
  • ³ Bingham, Brig. Gen. Theodore A., The Bingham Family in the United States, Especially of the State of Connecticut: Including Notes on the . . ., Easton, Pennsylvania: The Bingham Association (1927), vol. 1, part 3, p. 197.
  • ⁴ Caulkins, Frances Manwaring, History of Norwich, Connecticut: From Its Possession by the Indians to the Year 1866, Privately Printed (1874), 165.
  • ⁵ 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.
  • ⁶ Ferris, Mary Walton, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines: A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Wisconsin Cuneo Press (1931), Vol. 2, p. 680.
  • ⁷ Jacobus, Donald Lines and Edgar Francis Waterman, Hale, House and Related Families: Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1978, reprinted from 1952), 721.
  • ⁸ Weeks, Lyman Horace, ed., Prominent Families of New York: Being an Account in Biographical Form of Individuals and Families Distinguished as . . ., New York: The Historical Company (1898), 31.