Ancestry of
Thomas Edmund Dewey

47th Governor of New York

Robert Lay Jr.

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Thomas Edmund Dewey — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 90 
  • Father:
  • Robert Lay Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Grinnell   
  • Birth Date:
  • 20 Dec 1705 
  • Birth Location:
  • Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 1 Jan 1790 
  • Death Location:
  • Westbrook, Middlesex, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Jemima Pratt
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 Nov 1729 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  Lydia Lay (Ahnentafel No:45 )

  Phebe Lay

• Additional marriages for Robert Lay Jr.

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  • Spouse:
  • Elizabeth Kelsey
  • Marriage Date:
  • 24 Jun 1768
  • Marriage Location:
  • Westbrook, Middlesex, Connecticut

• Sources for Robert Lay Jr.

  • ¹ The Mayflower Descendant, 2011, Vol. 60, p. 149.
  • ² Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 59, 793.
  • ³ White, Elizabeth Pearson, John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 1, Camden, Maine: Picton Press (1990, 7th printing 2014), 469.
  • ⁴ Williams, Alicia Crane, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1999), 284.
  • ⁵ Woodworth-Barnes, Esther Littleford, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 2, John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2002), 306-308.