Ancestry of
Pete Seeger

American Folk Singer

John Thwing

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Pete Seeger — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 736 
  • Father:
  • Benjamin Thwing 
  • Mother:
  • Deborah -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 21 Nov 1644 
  • Birth Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
  • 1 Dec 1644 
  • Christening Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Death Date:
  • 6 Sep 1690 
  • Death Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
  •  
  • Burial Location:
  • King's Chapel Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Messenger
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1670 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Child:

  John Thwing Jr. (Ahnentafel No:368 )

  • Notes: 

  • Some sources state that John Thwing “married Mary (or Maria) Messinger, January 6, 1669, in Boston,” but no evidence has been found to support this.

• Sources for John Thwing

  • ¹ The American Genealogist, 1948, Vol. 24, p. 260.
  • ² Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VII, T-Y, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2011), 33.
  • ³ Thwing, Walter Eliot, Thwing: A Genealogical, Biographical and Historical Account of the Family, Boston: David Clapp and Son, Printers (1883), 15.