Ancestry of
Howard Hughes

American Business Tycoon

William Stites

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Howard Hughes — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 388 
  • Father:
  • Richard Stites 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Underhill   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1676 
  • Birth Location:
  • Hempstead, Nassau, New York 
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  • Death Date:
  • 13 May 1727 
  • Death Location:
  • Springfield, New Jersey 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Revolutionary Burying Ground, Springfield, New Jersey 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Hall
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  • Child:

  John Stites (Ahnentafel No:194 )

• Sources for William Stites

  • ¹ Fairfield, CT: Families of Old Fairfield, Vol. 1, p. 251.
  • ² New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1897, Vol. 28, p. 166.
  • ³ 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.