Ancestry of
Ellen DeGeneres

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Samuel Wright Jr.

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Ellen DeGeneres — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1100 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Wright 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Butler   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1660 
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  • Death Date:
  • 12 Oct 1734 
  • Death Location:
  • Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Rebecca Crafts
  • Marriage Date:
  • 12 May 1686 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  Samuel Wright (Ahnentafel No:550 )

  Abigail Wright

• Additional marriages for Samuel Wright Jr.

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  • Spouse:
  • Abigail - - - - - -
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1 Aug 1723
  • Marriage Location:
  • Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut

• Sources for Samuel Wright Jr.

  • ¹ Connecticut, U.S., Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920, Baptism record for daughter Abigail Wright.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Wethersfield, p. 311, Marriage record for Samuel Wright and Rebecca Crafts.
  • ³ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Wethersfield, p. 312, Marriage record for Samuel Wright and Abigail Walker.
  • ⁴ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Wethersfield, p. 312, Death record for Samuel Wright.
  • ⁵ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Wethersfield, p. 307, Birth record for daughter Abigail Wright.
  • ⁶ Crafts, James M. and William F. Crafts, The Crafts Family: A Genealogical and Biographical History of the Descendants of Griffin and Alice Craft . . ., Northampton, Massachusetts: Gazette Printing Company (1893), 63-64.
  • ⁷ Wright, William Henry and Gertrude Wright Ketcham, History of the Wright Family Who Are Descendants of Samuel Wright (1722-1789) of Lenox, Mass. . . ., Denver: The Williamson-Haffner Co. (1913), 44-45.

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