Ancestry of
Walt Whitman

American Poet

Jesse Whitman

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• • Grandfather of Walt Whitman — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 4 
  • Father:
  • Nehemiah Whitman 
  • Mother:
  • Phoebe "Sarah" White   
  • Birth Date:
  • 29 Jan 1749 
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  • Death Date:
  • 12 Feb 1803 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Hannah Platt Brush
  • Marriage Date:
  • 22 Apr 1775 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Queens Village (now Huntington), Suffolk, New York 
  • Child:

  Walter Whitman (Ahnentafel No:2 )

• Sources for Jesse Whitman

  • ¹ Brush, Stuart C. and Russell B. Brush, The Descendants of Thomas and Richard Brush of Huntington, Long Island: A Source Book, Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc. (1982), 38.
  • ² LeMaster, J. R. and Donald D. Kummings, ed., The Routledge Encyclopedia of Walt Whitman, New York: Published by Routledge (1998), 808.
  • ³ Perry, Bliss, Walt Whitman, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company (1906), 4.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#58 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: Elizabeth Boyd Roberts: A Genealogical Tribute with 50 New . . .", (accessed 07/08/2017).
  • ⁵ Scudder, Moses L., Records of the First Church in Huntington, Long Island, 1723-1779: Being the Record Kept by the Rev. Ebenezer Prime . . ., Huntington, New York: Printed for Moses L. Scudder (1899), 107.