Ancestry of
Chevy Chase

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Mary Benedict

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• • 9th Great-grandmother of Chevy Chase — 12th Generation
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  • 3811 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Benedict 
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  • Mary Bridgum   
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  • Spouse Name:
  • John Olmstead
  • Marriage Date:
  • 17 Jul 1673 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Mary Olmstead (Ahnentafel No:1905 )

• Sources for Mary Benedict

  • ¹ Fairfield, CT: Families of Old Fairfield, Vol. 1, p. 454.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1905, Vol. 59, pp. 356-357.
  • ³ Benedict, Henry Marvin, The Genealogy of the Benedicts in America, Albany: Joel Munsell (1870), 24.
  • ⁴ Reed-Wright, Ella, Reed-Read Lineage: Captain John Reed of Providence, R.I., and Norwalk, Conn. and His Descendants Through . . ., Waterbury, Connecticut: The Mattatuck Press, Inc, 548.

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