Person:John Backus (9)

Rev. John Backus, D.D.

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m. 8 Jun 1807

Facts and Events

Name	Rev. John Backus, D.D.
Gender	Male
Birth`^?`	Abt 1810	Albany, New York, United States
Residence^[1]		Baltimore (independent city), Maryland, United States

References

↑ Family Recorded, in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society).

[NEHGR, 15:220, Jul 1861]
... Eleazer Fitch, b. 13 Jan. 1779, at N., m. Harriet Whiting, b. 14 Sept. 1779, youngest dau. of Col. William Bradford Whiting and Amie Lathrop of Canaan, N.Y. They settled at Albany, where she d. 13 July, 1804, leaving one child. He then m. 8 June, 1807, Elizabeth Chester, b. 10 Nov. 1774, at Weathersfield, eldest dau. of Col. John Chester and Elizabeth Huntington, and had by her three children : Rev. Jonathan Trumbull Backus, D.D., Presbyterian clergyman at Schenectady, N.Y., Rev. John Backus, D.D., Presbyterian clergyman at Baltimore, Md., and Mary the wife of James Bayard, Esq., of Philadelphia ; ...