Ancestry of
John Lithgow

Stage, TV, and Movie Actor

Cotton Graves

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of John Lithgow — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 56 
  • Father:
  • Daniel Graves 
  • Mother:
  • Maria Mattoon   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1762 
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  • Death Date:
  • 1 Nov 1847 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Lydia Newcomb
  • Marriage Date:
  • 24 Sep 1801 
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  • Child:

  Warren Mattoon Graves (Ahnentafel No:28 )

• Additional marriages for Cotton Graves

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  • Spouse:
  • Huldah Hubbard
  • Marriage Date:
  • 2 Mar 1794

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  • Spouse:
  • Ruth Brigham
  • Marriage Date:
  • 20 Dec 1839

• Sources for Cotton Graves

  • ¹ Cutter, William Richard and William Frederick Adams, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts, Volume 4, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1910), 2178.
  • ² Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 314.
  • ³ Root, James Pierce, Root Genealogical Records, 1600-1870: Comprising the General History of the Root and Roots Families in America, New York: R.C. Root, Anthony and Co. (1870), 227.
  • ⁴ Smith, John Montague, et. al., History of the Town of Sunderland, Massachusetts, 1673-1899: Which Originally Embraced Within Its Limits the . . ., Greenfield, Massachusetts: Press of E. A. Hall and Company (1899), 359-360.

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