Ancestry of
Pete Seeger

American Folk Singer

Samuel Thwing

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Pete Seeger — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 46 
  • Father:
  • James Thwing 
  • Mother:
  • Martha Clap   
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  • Death Date:
  • 4 Aug 1810 
  • Death Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Homans
  • Marriage Date:
  • 19 Nov 1795 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Sarah Homans Thwing (Ahnentafel No:23 )

• Sources for Samuel Thwing

  • ¹ A Volume of Records Relating to the Early History of Boston, Containg Boston Marriages From 1752 to 1809, Boston: Municipal Printing Office (1903), p. 154, Marriage record for Samuel Thwing Jr. and Sarah Homans.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1905, Vol. 59, p. 374.
  • ³ Portsmouth, N.H.: Abstracts from Newspapers, 1776-1800, Marriages, p. 422, Marriage announcement for Samuel Thwing and Miss Homans.
  • ⁴ Clapp, Ebenezer, comp., The Clapp Memorial: Record of the Clapp Family in America Containing Sketches of the Original Six Emigrants . . ., Boston: David Clapp and Son, Printers (1876), 21.
  • ⁵ Hurd, D. Hamilton, History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, With Biographica Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, Vol. 1, Philadelphia: J. W. Lewis and Co. (1890), 427.
  • ⁶ Thwing, Walter Eliot, Thwing: A Genealogical, Biographical and Historical Account of the Family, Boston: David Clapp and Son, Printers (1883), 35, 48-49.
  • ⁷ Whittier, Charles Collyer, Genealogy of the Stimpson Family of Charlestown, Mass., and Allied Lines, Boston: Press of David Clapp and Son (1907), 76.