Ancestry of
Willis Carrier

Inventor of Air Conditioning

Elnathan Tew

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• • 6th Great-grandmother of Willis Carrier — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 489 
  • Father:
  • Richard Tew 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Clarke   
  • Birth Date:
  • 15 Oct 1644 
  • Birth Location:
  • Newport, Newport Co., Rhode Island 
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  • Death Date:
  • 11 Jan 1718 
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  • Burial Location:
  • North Burial Ground, Providence, Providence Co., Rhode Island 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Thomas Harris
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 Nov 1664 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Providence, Providence Co., Rhode Island 
  • Child:

  Richard Harris (Ahnentafel No:244 )

  • Notes: 

  • Elnathan Tew is buried in either the North Burial Ground in Providence, Rhode Island, or she buried in Johnston, Rhode Island.

• Sources for Elnathan Tew

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 07/10/2016).
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2013, Vol. 167, p. 102.
  • ³ Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island, Vol. 2, Chicago: J. H. Beers and Co. (1908), 757.
  • ⁴ Rhode Island Vital Records, 1636-1850 - Town and Church Records, Vol. 7, p. 63, Birth record for son Richard Harris.
  • ⁵ Austin, John Osborne, The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island: Comprising Three Generations of Settlers Who Came Before 1690, Albany, New York: Joel Munsells Sons (1887), 266.
  • ⁶ Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Family History of Central New York: A Record of the Achievements of Her People . . ., Vol. 2, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1912), 1004.
  • ⁷ Morrison, George Austin, Jr., King Genealogy: Clement King, of Marshfield, Mass., 1668, and his Descendants, Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers (1898), 8.
  • ⁸ Ullmann, Helen Schatvet, Thomas and Nicholas Harris of Providence, RI, 1-5.