Ancestry of
Chevy Chase

Comedian, Actor and Writer

John Kinnicut

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Chevy Chase — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 130 
  • Father:
  • John Kinnicut 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Luther   
  • Birth Date:
  • 23 Jun 1700 
  • Birth Location:
  • Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 3 Mar 1783 
  • Death Location:
  • Warren, Bristol, Rhode Island 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Hannah Gorham
  • Marriage Date:
  • 30 May 1737 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Warren, Bristol, Rhode Island 
  • Children:
  
  

  Shubael Kinnicut

  Hannah Kinnicut

  Lydia Kinnicut

  Hezekiah Kinnicut

  Rebecca Kinnicut

  Elizabeth Kinnicut (Ahnentafel No:65 )

  Sarah Kinnicut

  Thomas Kinnicut

  Edward Kinnicut

  Edward Kinnicut

• Additional marriages for John Kinnicut

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  • Spouse:
  • Ann Eddy
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 Feb 1725
  • Marriage Location:
  • Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts

• Sources for John Kinnicut

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Swansea, Vol. 1, p. 83, Birth record for John Kinnicut.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1900, Vol. 54, p. 169.
  • ³ Rhode Island Vital Records, 1636-1850 - Town and Church Records, Bristol County, Vol. 6, p. 1-24, Marriage intention for John Kinnecut and Hannah Gorham.
  • ⁴ Rhode Island Vital Records, 1636-1850 - Town and Church Records, Bristol County, Vol. 6, p. 2-22, Marriage record for John Kennicutt and Hannah Gorham.
  • ⁵ Luther, George A., editor and compiler, The Luther Genealogy: A History of the Descendants of Captain John Luther, Who Arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630-1635, Penobscot Press (2001), 82, 86, 223-224.
  • ⁶ Parsons, Gerald James and Louis William Hagen, The Gorham Family: Ancestors and Descendants of Ephraim Gorham (1753-1830): Revolutionary Soldier of . . ., Rochester, New York: Unknown (1955), 20.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 311.
  • ⁸ White, Elizabeth Pearson, John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 1, Camden, Maine: Picton Press (1990, 7th printing 2014), 415-417.

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