Ancestry of
Chevy Chase

Comedian, Actor and Writer

Martin Minor

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Chevy Chase — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 154 
  • Father:
  • Ezekiel Miner 
  • Mother:
  • Margaret Wait   
  • Birth Date:
  • 1 Sep 1750 
  • Birth Location:
  • Lyme, New London, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Davis
  • Marriage Date:
  • 11 Jun 1772 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Lyme, New London, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Joanna Minor (Ahnentafel No:77 )

  • Notes: 

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

• Sources for Martin Minor

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Lyme, p. 138, Birth record for Martin Minor.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Lyme, p. 138, Marriage record for Martin Minor and Elizabeth Davis.
  • ³ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Lyme, p. 138, Birth record for daughter Joanna Minor.
  • ⁴ Connecticut Society of Genealogists, The Connecticut Nutmegger, 2010, Vol. 43, p. 269.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 312.

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