Ancestry of
John Lithgow

Stage, TV, and Movie Actor

Elizabeth -----

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• • 9th Great-grandmother of John Lithgow — 12th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2513 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1620 
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  • Death Date:
  • 5 Mar 1661/1662 
  • Death Location:
  • Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Richard Cutter
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 15 Jul 1645 
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  Elisabeth Cutter

  William Cutter

  Gershom Cutter (Ahnentafel No:1256 )

  • Notes: 

  • There is no evidence to support that Elizabeth is the daughter of Robert Williams as is often claimed.

• Sources for Elizabeth -----

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1855, Vol. 9, p. 167, Birth record for daughter Elisabeth Cutter.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1999, Vol. 74, pp. 292-298.
  • ³ Cutter, Dr. Benjamin and William Richard Cutter, A History of the Cutter Family of New England, Boston: David Clapp and Son (1871), 9-10, 21-37.
  • ⁴ Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Volume 1, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1908), 283.
  • ⁵ Locke, John Goodwin, Book of Lockes: A Genealogical and Historical Record of the Descendants of William Locke, of Woburn, Boston and Cambridge: James Munroe and Company (1853), 21-22.
  • ⁶ Williams, Edward H., Jr., Robert Williams of Roxbury, Mass. and His Descendants, Newport, Rhode Island: Reprinted from The Magazine of New England History (1891), 5-7, no evidence to support Elizabeth was daughter of Robert Williams.

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