Ancestry of
Elias Howe

Inventor, Lockstitch Sewing Machine

Sylvester Bemis

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• • Grandfather of Elias Howe — 3rd Generation
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  • 6 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Bemis Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Ruth Simons   
  • Birth Date:
  • 25 Nov 1761 
  • Birth Location:
  • Waltham, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Molly Bemis
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  Polly Bemis (Ahnentafel No:3 )

• Sources for Sylvester Bemis

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Waltham, Vol. 1, p. 15, Birth record for Sylvester Bemis.
  • ² Draper, Col. Thomas Waln-Morgan, The Bemis History and Genealogy: Being an Account, in Greater Part of the Descendants of Joseph Bemis of . . ., San Francisco, California: The Stanley-Taylor Co., Printers (1900), 68.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 42.