Ancestry of
Harry Chapin

Singer and Songwriter

Aaron Forbush

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Harry Chapin — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 160 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Forbush 
  • Mother:
  • Dorcas Rice   
  • Birth Date:
  • 13 Apr 1693 
  • Birth Location:
  • Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • from 6 Jul 1752 to 20 Oct 1752 
  • Death Location:
  • Worcester, Worcester Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Susannah Morse
  • Marriage Date:
  • 13 Jan 1718/1719 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Stephen Forbush (Ahnentafel No:80 )

  • Notes: 

  • Aaron Forbush is said to have had a second wife by the name of Joanna or Suzannah.

• Sources for Aaron Forbush

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Westborough, Vol. 1, p. 50, Birth record for son Stephen Forbush.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Marlborough, Vol. 1, p. 73, Birth record for Aaron Forbush.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Marlborough, Vol. 1, p. 252, Marriage record for Aaron Forbush and Susana Morse.
  • ⁴ Morse, J. Howard and Miss Emily W. Leavitt, comp., Morse Genealogy Comprising the Descendants of Samuel, Anthony, William and Joseph Morse and John Moss, Springfield, Massachusetts: Springfield Printing and Binding Company (1903), Joseph Morse Section, p. 14.
  • ⁵ Pierce, Frederick Clifton, Forbes and Forbush Genealogy: The Descendants of Daniel Forbush, Who Came from Scotland About the Year 1655 . . ., Chicago: Rand McNally and Co. (1892), 21, 26.
  • ⁶ Ward, Andrew Henshaw, A Genealogical History of the Rice Family: Descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice, Who Came From Berkhamstead, England . . ., Boston: C. Benjamin Richardson (1858), 21.

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