Ancestry of
William Rufus Day

36th U.S. Secretary of State

William Backus

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of William Rufus Day — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1016 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1606 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. near Sheffield, Yorkshire, England 
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  • Death Date:
  • BY 7 Jun 1664 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Norwich, New London, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth -----
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1627 
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  • Child:

  William Backus (Ahnentafel No:508 )

• Additional marriages for William Backus

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  • Spouse:
  • Anna Stenton
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1659
  • Marriage Location:
  • Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut

• Sources for William Backus

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1988, Vol. 142, pp. 253-254.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1937, Vol. 14, p. 242.
  • ³ Bingham, Brig. Gen. Theodore A., The Bingham Family in the United States, Especially of the State of Connecticut: Including Notes on the . . ., Easton, Pennsylvania: The Bingham Association (1927), vol. 1, part 3, p. 187.
  • ⁴ Perkins, Mary E., Old Families of Norwich, Connecticut, MDCLX to MDCCC, Genealogies, Vol. 1, Part 1, Cambridge: University Press - John Wilson and Son (1900), 31.
  • ⁵ Weeks, Lyman Horace, ed., Prominent Families of New York: Being an Account in Biographical Form of Individuals and Families Distinguished as . . ., New York: The Historical Company (1898), 31.