Ancestry of
Chevy Chase

Comedian, Actor and Writer

Joseph Minor

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Chevy Chase — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 616 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Minor 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Comstock   
  • Birth Date:
  • 3 Mar 1690 
  • Birth Location:
  • New London, New London Co., Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 30 May 1781 
  • Death Location:
  • Lyme, New London, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Duck River Cemetery, Old Lyme, New London, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Grace Turner
  • Marriage Date:
  • 26 Feb 1713 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Child:

  Ezekiel Miner (Ahnentafel No:308 )

  • Notes: 

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

• Sources for Joseph Minor

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Lyme, p. 138, Death record for Joseph Minor.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, New London, p. 213, Birth record for Joseph Miner.
  • ³ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, New London, p. 212, Birth record for son Ezekiel Miner.
  • ⁴ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 04/27/2015).
  • ⁵ Portraits and Biographies of the Governors of Michigan, and of the Presidents of the United States, Chicago: Chapman Bros. (1885), 737.
  • ⁶ 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.

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