Ancestry of
James Henry Sheldon

(1816–1871)

Abigail Davis

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of James Henry Sheldon — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 183 
  • Father:
  • William Davis 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1633 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Edward Richmond
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT Jun 1658 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Newport, Newport Co., Rhode Island 
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  Abigail Richmond (Ahnentafel No:91 )

  John Richmond

  Elizabeth Richmond

  Silvester Richmond

• Sources for Abigail Davis

  • ¹ Dutchess County, NY: The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Vol. 10, p. 840.
  • ² Anderson, Robert Charles and others, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. II, C-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2001), 318-319.
  • ³ Baker, Peggy M., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 19, 2nd ed., Thomas Rogers, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2013), 78.
  • ⁴ Richmond, Joshua Bailey, The Richmond Family, 1594-1896 and Pre-American Ancestors, 1040-1594, Boston: Joshua Bailey Richmond (1897), 5-7, gives Abigail's father as James Davis.
  • ⁵ Robinson, Caroline E. and Daniel Goodwin, ed., The Gardiners of Narragansett: Being a Genealogy of the Descendants of George Gardiner The Colonist, 1638, Providence: Printed by the Editor (1919), 5.
  • ⁶ 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), 177.