Ancestry of
Drew Brees

NFL Quarterback

Jerusha Wanzer

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of Drew Brees — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 131 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1745 
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  • Death Date:
  • 10 Apr 1839 
  • Death Location:
  • Big Flats, Chemung, New York 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Abraham Bennett Jr.
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1770 
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  • Child:

  Deborah Bennett (Ahnentafel No:65 )

  • Notes: 

  • Jerusha Wanzer is said to be the daughter of Thomas Wanzer and Sarah Tilson. Evidence is needed to support this claim.

• Sources for Jerusha Wanzer

  • ¹ Federal Census, NY, Orange County, 1800, Warwick, Image 7 of 17.
  • ² Federal Census, NY, Steuben County, 1820, Howard, Image 1 of 5.
  • ³ Federal Census, NY, Tioga County, 1810, Elmira.
  • ⁴ New Netherlands Connections, Berkeley, California: Dorothy A. Koenig (1996-2010), 2008, Vol. 13, p. 23.
  • ⁵ New York, Tax Assessment Rolls of Real and Personal Estates, 1799-1804, Tax record for Jerusha Bennit.
  • ⁶ Finch, Jessie Howell, The Ancestral Lines of Chester Everts Howell, 1867-1949, of Elmira, New York, U.S.A., n. p.: n. p. (1949), 22-23, 29.

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