Sedgwick family

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The Sedgwick family is a predominantly American family originating in England. Members of the family and their descendants have been influential in politics, law, business, and the arts.[1] The earliest known member of the Sedgwick family to have gone to the New World from England was Robert Sedgwick of Yorkshire, England who arrived in 1636 in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, as part of the Great Migration.[2] Sedgwick, Maine was named in his honor.[3] Sedgwick Pie is the family's cemetery located in Stockbridge Cemetery, Stockbridge, Massachusetts in rural Western Massachusetts.

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Ancestors[]

  • Major General Robert Sedgwick (1611–1656)
    • William Sedgwick (c. 1643–1674)
      • Samuel Sedgwick, Cpt. (1667–?)
        • Benjamin Sedgwick, Deacon (1716–1757)

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  • Theodore Sedgwick (1746–1813), an American attorney, politician and jurist
    • Elizabeth Mason Sedgwick (1775–1827)
    • Frances Pamela Sedgwick (1778-1842)
    • Theodore Sedgwick Jr. (1780–1839) married to Susan Anne Ridley Sedgwick
    • Henry Dwight Sedgwick I (1785–1831)
      • Henry Dwight Sedgwick II (1824–1903)
        • Ellery Sedgwick (1872–1960) magazine editor
          • Ellery Sedgwick, Jr. (1908–1991)
          • Henry Dwight Sedgwick III (1861–1957), lawyer and author
            • Francis Minturn Sedgwick (1904–1967)
            • Robert Minturn Sedgwick (1899–1976)
            • Henry Dwight Sedgwick IV (1896–1914)
    • Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789–1867) novelist


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References[]

  1. ^ https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2007-02-04-0702020456-story.html
  2. ^ (Dwight 1874, pp. 735–739)
  3. ^ Chadbourne, Ava H. (Apr 20, 1949). "Many Maine towns bear names of military men". Lewiston Evening Journal. pp. A-2. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
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