Ancestry of
John Fitch

Inventor of 1st U.S. Steamboat

John Fitch

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Fitch 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Shaler   
  • Birth Date:
  • 21 Jan 1743 
  • Birth Location:
  • East Windsor (now South Windsor), Hartford, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 2 Jul 1798 
  • Death Location:
  • Bardstown, Nelson, Kentucky 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Bardstown Courthouse Square, Bardstown, Nelson, Kentucky 
  • Notes: 

  • John Fitch was an Inventor, clockmaker, engineer who invented the first steamboat in the U.S.

• Marriages for John Fitch

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  • Spouse:
  • Lucy Roberts
  • Marriage Date:
  • 29 Dec 1766
  • Marriage Location:
  • Wintonbury (now Bloomfield), Hartford, Connecticut

• Sources for John Fitch

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 12/04/2017).
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1937, Vol. 14, pp. 181-182.
  • ³ Barbour, Lucius Barnes, Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut, Baltimore, Maryland: Reprinted for Clearfield Co., Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co. (2001), 246.
  • ⁴ National Navy League of the United States, Admiral Bunce Section, John Fitch: The First in the World's History to Invent and Apply Steam Propulsion of Vessels Through Water, Hartford, Connecticut: R. S. Peck and Co., Inc. (1912).
  • ⁵ Selleck, Rev. Charles Melbourne, Norwalk, Norwalk, Connecticut: Harry M. Gardner, Printer (1896), 40.
  • ⁶ Wikipedia, "John Fitch (inventor)", (accessed 12/04/2017).