Ancestry of
Howard Hughes

American Business Tycoon

John Stites

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Howard Hughes — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 194 
  • Father:
  • William Stites 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Hall   
  • Birth Date:
  • 5 May 1706 
  • Birth Location:
  • Springfield, New Jersey 
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  • Death Date:
  • 21 Apr 1782 
  • Death Location:
  • Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Revolutionary Burying Ground, Springfield, New Jersey 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Margaret Hampton
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  • Children:
  
  

  Sarah Stites (Ahnentafel No:97 )

  Richard Stites

  • Notes: 

  • Mayor of Elizabethtown, New Jersey

• Additional marriages for John Stites

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  • Spouse:
  • Abigail Rushmore

• Sources for John Stites

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A110249.
  • ² New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1897, Vol. 28, pp. 237-238.
  • ³ Gano, Rev. John, Biographical Memoirs of the Late Rev. John Gano, of Frankfort, (Kentucky) Formerly of the City of New York, New York: Southwick and Hardcastle (1806), 79.
  • ⁴ Woodruff, Francis Eben, The Woodruffs of New Jersey Who Came From Fordwich, Kent, England, By Way of Lynn, Massachusetts, and . . ., New York: The Grafton Press, Publishers (1909), 120-121.