Ancestry of
Viggo Mortensen

Movie Actor

Phebe Gates

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of Viggo Mortensen — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 121 
  • Father:
  • John Gates 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Meach   
  • Birth Date:
  • 23 Mar 1778 
  • Birth Location:
  • Groton, New London, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 23 Aug 1837 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Old Marcellus Village Cemetery, Marcellus, Onondaga, New York 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Elisha Chapman
  • Marriage Date:
  • 24 Jun 1799 
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  • Child:

  Lincoln Chapman (Ahnentafel No:60 )

  • Notes: 

  • Phebe Gates's tombstone gives her birth location as North Branford, Connecticut. However, her birth is recorded in the Groton, Connecticut vital records.

• Sources for Phebe Gates

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Groton, p. 69, Birth record for Phebe Gates.
  • ² Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A020875 and #A043490.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 09/19/2018).
  • ⁴ Chapman, Rev. Frederick William, The Chapman Family: Or the Descendants of Robert Chapman, One of the First Settlers of Say-Brook, Conn. . . ., Hartford: Case, Tiffany and Company (1854), 279.
  • ⁵ Cody, Lydia S., The Cody Family in America 1698: Descendants of Philip and Martha, Massachusetts: Biographical and Genealogical, Kissimmee, Florida: Cody Publications, Inc. (1954), 25.

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