Ancestry of
Chevy Chase

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Joseph Minor

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Chevy Chase — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1232 
  • Father:
  • Clement Minor 
  • Mother:
  • Frances Burcham   
  • Birth Date:
  • 6 Aug 1666 
  • Birth Location:
  • New London, New London Co., Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 6 Apr 1752 
  • Death Location:
  • New London, New London Co., Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Comstock
  • Marriage Date:
  • 12 Mar 1689 
  • Marriage Location:
  • New London, New London Co., Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Joseph Minor (Ahnentafel No:616 )

  • Notes: 

  • Joseph Minor's surname is also seen as Miner.

• Additional marriages for Joseph Minor

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  • Spouse:
  • Susanna Keeney
  • Marriage Date:
  • 20 Aug 1706
  • Marriage Location:
  • New London, New London Co., Connecticut

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  • Spouse:
  • Mary Bushnel
  • Marriage Date:
  • 2 Oct 1750
  • Marriage Location:
  • New London, New London Co., Connecticut

• Sources for Joseph Minor

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, New London, p. 213, Birth record for son Joseph Miner.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, New London, p. 213, Marriage record for Joseph Miner and Elizabeth Comstock.
  • ³ Portraits and Biographies of the Governors of Michigan, and of the Presidents of the United States, Chicago: Chapman Bros. (1885), 737.
  • ⁴ Merrick, Barbara Lambert, comp., Mayflower Families in Progress: William Brewster of the Mayflower and His Descendants for Four Generations, 3rd edition, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2000), 45.
  • ⁵ Selleck, Lillian Lounsberry (Miner), One Branch of the Miner Family: With Extensive Notes on the Wood Lounsberry Rogers and Fifty Other Related Families . . ., New Haven, Connecticut: The Tuttle, Morehouse, and Taylor Company (1928), 118.

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