Ancestry of
Eli Whitney

Inventor of the Cotton Gin

Thomas Brigham

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Eli Whitney — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 50 
  • Father:
  • John Brigham 
  • Mother:
  • Constance Watson   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1603 
  • Birth Location:
  • England 
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  • Death Date:
  • 8 Dec 1653 
  • Death Location:
  • Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mercy -----
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1641 
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  Thomas Brigham

  Mary Brigham (Ahnentafel No:25 )

  Hannah Brigham

  Samuel Brigham

  • Notes: 
  • Thomas was a first cousin to Constance (Brigham) Crosby, wife of Robert Crosby, and of Anne (Brigham) Crosby, wife of Simon Crosby.

• Sources for Thomas Brigham

  • ¹ Early New England Families, 1641-1700, William Shattuck (m. 1643), p. 5.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Cambridge, Vol. 1, p. 89, Birth record for son Samuel Brigham.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, July 1936, Vol. 90, Page 289.
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 1954, Vol. 30, p. 101.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 41.
  • ⁶ 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), 401-404.
  • ⁷ Davis, Horace, Ancestry of John Davis, Governor and U. S. Senator and Eliza Bancroft His Wife, Both of Worcester, Massachusetts, San Francisco, California: n. p. (1897), 11.
  • ⁸ 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), 17.
  • ⁹ Little, George Thomas, comp., Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine, Volume 1, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1909), 245.
  • ¹⁰ Martyn, Charles, The William Ward Genealogy: The History of the Descendants of William Ward of Sudbury, Mass., 1638-1925, New York: Artemas Ward (1925), 69, 73.
  • ¹¹ Virkus, Frederick Adams, ed., The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy: First Families of America: A Genealogical Encyclopedia of the . . ., Chicago: multiple publishers (1925-), Vol. 3, p. 593.