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Peter Tefft b.19 Dec 1699

Peter Tefft b.19 Dec 1699

Posted: 1 Jul 2004 9:51PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Tefft, Witter, Jenckes,
There are conflicting genealogies about this man and his parents. One believable source gives him as the son of Peter and Mary (Witter), son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Jenckes). Another equally believable source names him as the son of Peter and Sarah (Witter), son of Joshua (brother of Samuel) and Sarah (Greene?). Does anyone have any authentic source that would solve this confusion?? (I haven't been able to get any help from the Charles Stocking book or the M.E.M. Tifft book at the FHL .) I am a direct descendant through his son, John, and granddaughter Lovina who married William Richardson.

Re: Peter Tefft b.19 Dec 1699

Posted: 8 Oct 2011 7:18PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 8 Oct 2011 7:20PM GMT
I think there were two Peter Teffts. Either that or Samuel adopted Joshua's orphaned son whose mother, Sarah Greene, died when he was 2 days old. Joshua was executed in the King Phillip's War in 1676. I googled Joshua's name and got a lot of information. One source was a A. Craig Anthony. This Peter was born in 1672. I think your Peter was a son whose mother was Sarah Witter. There was a third Peter who was the son of this Peter and Anne Spicer. I'm a decendent of Joshua's. Interesting man.
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