Ancestry of
Eli Whitney

Inventor of the Cotton Gin

John Fay Jr.

View famous kin of John Fay

• • Great-grandfather of Eli Whitney — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 12 
  • Father:
  • John Fay 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Brigham   
  • Birth Date:
  • 30 Nov 1669 
  • Birth Location:
  • Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 5 Jan 1747 
  • Death Location:
  • Westborough, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Pine Grove Cemetery, Westborough, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Wellington
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1 Dec 1690 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Bathsheba Fay

  Eunice Fay

  Mary Fay

  John Fay

  James Fay

  Lydia Fay

  Dinah Fay

  Mehitable Fay

  Benjamin Fay (Ahnentafel No:6 )

• Additional marriages for John Fay Jr.

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  • Spouse:
  • Levinah Brigham
  • Marriage Date:
  • 16 Dec 1729

• Sources for John Fay Jr.

  • ¹ Encyclopedia of Connecticut Biography: Genealogical - Memorial, New York: The American Historical Society (1917), 250.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 09/22/2011).
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Marlborough Births, Vol. 1, p. 69.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Marlborough, Vol. 1, pp. 68-70, Births and baptisms for children of John and Elizabeth Fay.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Westborough, Vol. 1, pp. 38-41, Birth records for children of John and Elizabeth Fay.
  • ⁶ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, July 1936, Vol. 90, Page 289.
  • ⁷ Anderson, Robert Charles and others, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. I, A-B, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1999), 403.
  • ⁸ Cutter, William Richard, ed., New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of . . . Volume 4, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1914), 2119.
  • ⁹ Johnson, George Henry, One Branch of the Fay Family Tree: An Account of the Ancestors and Descendants of William and Elizabeth Fay, Columbus, Ohio: The Champlin Press (1913), 20-27.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 509.