Ancestry of
William Howard Taft

27th U.S. President

Mary Wood

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of William Howard Taft — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 179 
  • Father:
  • Nicholas Wood 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Pidge   
  • Birth Date:
  • 25 Dec 1642 
  • Birth Location:
  • Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 23 Nov 1726 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • John Thurston
  • Marriage Date:
  • 4 Oct 1660 
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  Bethiah Thurston (Ahnentafel No:89 )

  Esther Thurston

• Sources for Mary Wood

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Roxbury, Vol. 1, p. 392, Birth or baptism records for Mary and Sarah Wood (twins).
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1886, Vol. 40, p. 324.
  • ³ The American Genealogist, 1945, Vol. 22, pp. 209-210.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1465.
  • ⁵ Bass, Charissa Taylor, Descendants of Deacon Samuel and Ann Bass, Freeport, IL: Privately printed (1940), 11.
  • ⁶ Boyden, Wallace C., et. al., Thomas Boyden and His Descendants, Boston, Massachusetts: Privately Printed (1901), 13.
  • ⁷ Chapin, Gilbert Warren, The Chapin Book of Genealogical Data with Brief Sketches of the Descendants of Deacon Samuel Chapin, Vol. 1, Hartford, Connecticut: Chapin Family Association (1924), 23.
  • ⁸ Thurston, Brown, Thurston Genealogies, 2nd Edition, Portland, Maine: Published by Brown Thurston (1892), 357, 359-361.