Ancestry of
Harry Chapin

Singer and Songwriter

Samuel Ely

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Harry Chapin — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1032 
  • Father:
  • Nathaniel Ely 
  • Mother:
  • Martha -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1634 
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  • Death Date:
  • 17 Mar 1691/1692 
  • Death Location:
  • Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Day
  • Marriage Date:
  • 28 Oct 1659 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts 
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  Joseph Ely (Ahnentafel No:516 )

  John Ely

• Sources for Samuel Ely

  • ¹ Springfield, MA: Vital Records to 1850, Vol. 1, p. 21, Marriage record for Samuell Ely and Mary Day.
  • ² Springfield, MA: Vital Records to 1850, Vol. 1, p. 69, Death record for Samuel Ely Senior.
  • ³ Springfield, MA: Vital Records to 1850, Vol. 1, p. 18, Birth record for son Joseph Elye.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles and others, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. II, C-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2001), 328, 438.
  • ⁵ Beach, Moses S. and Rev. William Ely, The Ely Ancestry: Lineage of Richard Ely of Plymouth, England, Who Came to Boston, Mass., About 1655 . . ., New York: The Calumet Press (1902), 185.
  • ⁶ Ely, Heman, Records of the Descendants of Nathaniel Ely, The Emigrant, Who Settled First in Newtown, now Cambridge, Mass., Cleveland, Ohio: Short and Forman, Printers and Stationers (1885), 5-6.
  • ⁷ Frost, Josephine C., Ancestors of Henry Ward Beecher and His Wife Eunice White Bullard, Unknown: Unknown (1927), 33, 39-40.
  • ⁸ Reynolds, Cuyler, ed., Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York and the Hudson River Valley, Vol. 3, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1914), 1220-1221.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#58 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: Elizabeth Boyd Roberts: A Genealogical Tribute with 50 New . . .", (accessed 07/07/2017).
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 175.

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