Ancestry of Colonel
Robert Gould Shaw

U.S. Civil War leader of film “Glory” fame

James Perkins

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Robert Gould Shaw — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 26 
  • Father:
  • Edmund Perkins 
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  • Esther Frothingham   
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  • 8 May 1773 
  • Death Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Elizabeth Peck
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  Elizabeth Perkins (Ahnentafel No:13 )

  Thomas Handasyd Perkins

• Sources for James Perkins

  • ¹ Boston, MA: Inhabitants and Estates of the Town of Boston, 1630-1822 (Thwing Collection), pp. 17038-17039, Record for son-in-law Russell Sturgis.
  • ² Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Birth record for daughter Elizabeth Perkins.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1938, Vol. 92, p. 84.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1856, Vol. 10, pp. 201-202.
  • ⁵ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1930, Vol. 84, p. 368, Marriage record for Russell Sturgis and daughter Betsey Perkins.
  • ⁶ Sturgis, Francis Shaw, The Descendants of Nath'l Russell Sturgis: With a Brief Introductory Sketch of His Ancestors in England and . . ., Boston: Printed by G. H. Ellis (1925), Introduction prior to page 1.