Ancestry of
Chevy Chase

Comedian, Actor and Writer

Ruth Wood

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• • 8th Great-grandmother of Chevy Chase — 11th Generation
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  • 1225 
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  • Thomas Wood 
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  • Ann -----   
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  • 29 Nov 1734 
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  • Joseph Jewett Jr.
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  Priscilla Jewett

  Joseph Jewett III (Ahnentafel No:612 )

• Sources for Ruth Wood

  • ¹ Genealogical and Biographical Record of New London County, Connecticut: Containing Biographical Sketches of . . ., Chicago: J. H. Beers and Co. (1905), 119.
  • ² Boynton, John Farnham and Caroline (Harriman) Boynton, The Boynton Family: A Genealogy of the Descendants of William and John Boynton, Who Emigrated from Yorkshire . . ., n. p.: n. p. (1897), 54.
  • ³ Connecticut Society of Genealogists, The Connecticut Nutmegger, 2010, Vol. 43, p. 267.
  • ⁴ Jewett, Frederic Clarke, M.D., History and Genealogy of the Jewetts of America, Vol. I, New York: The Grafton Press (1908), 17.
  • ⁵ McLean, Hulda Hoover, Genealogy of the Herbert Hoover Family, Stanford, California: The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University (1967), fold-out chart between pages 4 and 5.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 476.

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