Ancestry of
Walt Whitman

American Poet

Hannah Platt Brush

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• • Grandmother of Walt Whitman — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 5 
  • Father:
  • Tredwell Brush 
  • Mother:
  • Hannah Platt   
  • Birth Date:
  • 6 Oct 1753 
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  • Christening Date:
  • 9 Dec 1753 
  • Christening Location:
  • First Church, Huntington, Suffolk, New York 
  • Death Date:
  • 6 Jan 1834 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Jesse Whitman
  • Marriage Date:
  • 22 Apr 1775 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Queens Village (now Huntington), Suffolk, New York 
  • Child:

  Walter Whitman (Ahnentafel No:2 )

• Sources for Hannah Platt Brush

  • 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), 46, 107.