Ancestry of
Amelia Earhart

Aviation Pioneer

John Otis

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Amelia Earhart — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 768 
  • Father:
  • Richard Otis 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1581 
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  • Death Date:
  • 31 May 1657 
  • Death Location:
  • Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Margaret -----
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1610 
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  Hannah Otis

  John Otis Jr. (Ahnentafel No:384 )

• Additional marriages for John Otis

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  • Spouse:
  • Elizabeth Whitman
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT 1653

• Sources for John Otis

  • ¹ History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts, Vol. 2, Genealogical, Hingham, Massachusetts: Published by the Town (1893), 268.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1897, Vol. 51, p. 329.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 248.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. V, M-P, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2007), 322-326.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VI, R-S, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 576.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VII, T-Y, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2011), 362.
  • ⁷ Otis, William A., A Genealogical and Historical Memoir of the Otis Family in America, Chicago: Unknown (1924), 43.

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