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Edgar Rice Burroughs

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Joseph Rockwell

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Edgar Rice Burroughs — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 140 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Rockwell 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Norton   
  • Birth Date:
  • 22 May 1670 
  • Birth Location:
  • Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 26 Jun 1733 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Drake
  • Marriage Date:
  • 23 Jan 1694 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  Joseph Rockwell

  Benjamin Rockwell (Ahnentafel No:70 )

• Sources for Joseph Rockwell

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Windsor, p. 246, Birth record for son Benjamin Rockwell.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Windsor, p. 247, Marriage record for Joseph Rockwell and Elizabeth Drake.
  • ³ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Windsor, p. 247, Birth record for Joseph Rockwell.
  • ⁴ History of Berkshire County, Massachusetts, with Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men, Vol. 2, New York: J. B. Beers and Co. (1885), 216.
  • ⁵ Andrews, Henry Porter, The Descendants of John Porter of Windsor, Conn. 1635-9, Vol. 1, Saratoga Springs: G. W. Ball, Book and Job Printer (1893), 264.
  • ⁶ Rockwell, Henry Ensign, The Rockwell Family in America: A Genealogical Record from 1630 to 1873, Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, Publishers (1873), 58.