Ancestry of
Return Jonathan Meigs

(1740–1823)

Return Jonathan Meigs

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Return Meigs 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Hamlin   
  • Birth Date:
  • 17 Dec 1740 
  • Birth Location:
  • Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 28 Jan 1823 
  • Death Location:
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  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Garrison Cemetery, Dayton, Rhea, Tennessee 
  • Notes: 

  • Revolutionary War veteran

    Middletown, Connecticut, vital record give Return Meigs's birth date 17 DEC 1740, while other sources give the date as 12 or 19 DEC 1740.

• Marriages for Return Jonathan Meigs

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  • Spouse:
  • Joanna Winborn
  • Marriage Date:
  • 14 FEB 1765 [sic]
  • Marriage Location:
  • Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut

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  • Spouse:
  • Grace Starr
  • Marriage Date:
  • 22 Dec 1774
  • Marriage Location:
  • Connecticut

• Sources for Return Jonathan Meigs

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Middletown, p. 304, Birth record for Return Jonathan Meigs.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Middletown, p. 304, Marriage record for Return Meigs and Joanna Winborn.
  • ³ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Birth record for Return Jonathan Meigs.
  • ⁴ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/08/2019).
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Grand Lodge of Masons Membership Cards, 1733-1990, Membership card for Col. Return J. Meigs Sr..
  • ⁶ Andrews, H. Franklin, The Hamlin Family: A Genealogy of Capt. Giles Hamlin of Middletown, Connecticut, 1654-1900, Exira, Iowa: Published by the Author (1900), 77.
  • ⁷ Meigs, Henry B., Record of the Descendants of Vincent Meigs, Who Came From Dorsetshire, England, to America About 1635, Baltimore, Maryland: John S. Bridges and Co. (1901), 24, 34-35.
  • ⁸ Wikipedia, "Return J. Meigs Sr.", (accessed 05/08/2019).