Ancestry of
Harry Chapin

Singer and Songwriter

John Wing

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Harry Chapin — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 34 
  • Father:
  • Silvanus Wing Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Ward   
  • Birth Date:
  • 24 Nov 1777 
  • Birth Location:
  • Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 8 May 1857 
  • Death Location:
  • New York, New York 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Ormsbee
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1806 
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  • Child:

  Sarah Hunt Wing (Ahnentafel No:17 )

• Sources for John Wing

  • ¹ Massachusetts, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, Probate file for father Silvanus Wing.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Rehoboth, Vol. 1, p. 784, Birth record for John Wing.
  • ³ New York Evening Post: Death Notices, 1801-1890, Vol. 34, p. 20, 11 MAY 1857, Obituary for John Wing.
  • ⁴ The Owl: Genealogical Quarterly Magazine, Kewaunee, Wisconsin: George Dikeman Wing, Publisher, 1917, Vol. 18, No. 3, p. 1670.
  • ⁵ Walker, James Bradford Richmond, Memorial of the Walkers of the Old Plymouth Colony: Embracing Genealogical and Biographical Sketches . . ., Northampton: Metcalf and Company, Printers (1861), 143.
  • ⁶ Wing, Rev. Conway P., A Historical and Genealogical Register of John Wing, of Sandwich, Mass., and His Descendants 1632-1888, 2nd Edition, New York: The De Vinne Press (1888), 475-476.

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