Ancestry of
Walt Whitman

American Poet

Joseph Whitman

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Walt Whitman — 5th Generation
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  • 16 
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  • ABT 1643 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Ketcham
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  • ABT 1660 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Huntington, Suffolk, New York 
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  Zebulon Whitman

  Nehemiah Whitman (Ahnentafel No:8 )

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  • Some sources list Zacharia and Sarah Whitman, who came over on the ship Truelove in 1635, as the parents of Joseph Whitman. Robert Charles Anderson's "The Great Migration" series does not confirm this. The only known child of Zachariah and Sarah Whitman is their son Zachariah. Their son is believed to have died before he was 8 years old as he is not found in their household in 1640.

• Sources for Joseph Whitman

  • ¹ Dutchess County, NY: The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Vol. 7, p. 470.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1933, Vol. 10, p. 258.
  • ³ The American Genealogist, 1933/1934, Vol. 10, p. 258.
  • ⁴ Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Vol. 3, p. 1657, Marriage record for Joseph Whitman and Sarah Ketcham.
  • ⁵ Brush, Maria Annette Bowers, Genealogy: Brush-Bowers, New York: Press of Mail and Express Job Print (1904), 45.
  • ⁶ LeMaster, J. R. and Donald D. Kummings, ed., The Routledge Encyclopedia of Walt Whitman, New York: Published by Routledge (1998), 807.
  • ⁷ Perry, Bliss, Walt Whitman, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company (1906), 2-3.
  • ⁸ Ross, Peter, A History of Long Island: From its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. 1, New York and Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company (1902), 112.