Ancestry of
Charles Evans Hughes

36th Governor of New York

Lydia Merrihew

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• • Great-grandmother of Charles Evans Hughes — 4th Generation
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  • 13 
  • Father:
  • Amos Merrihew 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Spooner   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1769 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • William Connelly
  • Marriage Date:
  • 24 Dec 1789 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Bangall Baptist Church, Washington, D.C. 
  • Child:

  William Connelly Jr. (Ahnentafel No:6 )

• Sources for Lydia Merrihew

  • ¹ Dutchess County, NY: The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Vol. 8, p. 750.
  • ² U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, S.A.R. #18977, Membership application for Charles Evans Hughes.
  • ³ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, S.A.R. #65827, Membership application for Charles Evans Hughes Jr.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 58.
  • ⁵ Spooner, Thomas, Records of William Spooner of Plymouth, Mass., and His Descendants, Vol. 1, Cincinnati, Ohio: Press of F. W. Freeman (1883), 129.