Ancestry of
Walt Whitman

American Poet

Sarah Ketcham

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• • 2nd Great-grandmother of Walt Whitman — 5th Generation
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  • 17 
  • Father:
  • Edward Ketcham 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah -----   
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Joseph Whitman
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1660 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Huntington, Suffolk, New York 
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  Zebulon Whitman

  Nehemiah Whitman (Ahnentafel No:8 )

• Sources for Sarah Ketcham

  • 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 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.