Ancestry of
William Howard Taft

27th U.S. President

William Torrey

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of William Howard Taft — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 192 
  • Father:
  • Philip Torrey 
  • Mother:
  • Alice Richards   
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  • Christening Date:
  • 21 Dec 1608 
  • Christening Location:
  • Combe St. Nicholas, Somersetshire, England 
  • Death Date:
  • 10 Jun 1690 
  • Death Location:
  • Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Frye
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT 27 Apr 1639 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Micajah Torrey

  Josiah Torrey

  Angel Torrey (Ahnentafel No:96 )

  Naomi Torrey

  Mary Torrey

  Judith Torrey

• Additional marriages for William Torrey

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  • Spouse:
  • Agnes Combe
  • Marriage Date:
  • 17 Mar 1629
  • Marriage Location:
  • Combe St. Nicholas, Somersetshire, England

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  • Spouse:
  • Jane Haviland
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1630

• Sources for William Torrey

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2009, Vol. 163, p. 86.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1945, Vol. 22, p. 209.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 339.
  • ⁴ Carleton, Hiram, ed., Genealogical and Family History of the State of Vermont, New York: The Lewis Publishing Company (1903), 236-237.
  • ⁵ Chamberlain, George Walter, History of Weymouth Massachusetts, in Four Volumes, Vol. 4, Genealogy of Weymouth Families, Weymouth, Massachusetts: Weymouth Historical Society (1923), 677-678.
  • ⁶ Fenno-Gendrot, Almira Torrey Blake, The Ancestry and Allied Families of Nathan Blake 3rd and Susan (Torrey) Blake, Early Residents of East Corinth, Vermont, Boston, Massachusetts: Published by the Author, at the Stanhope Press (1916), 82-84.
  • ⁷ Holton, David-Parsons and Mrs. Frances K. (Forward) Holton, Winslow Memorial: Family Records of Winslows and Their Descendants in America . . ., Kenelm Winslow, Vol. 1, New York: David-Parsons Houlton, M.D., Publisher (1877), 218.
  • ⁸ Richardson, Douglas and Kimball G. Everingham, editor, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd edition, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2011), Vol. 2, pp. 379-380.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 180.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (2018), 351.
  • ¹¹ Torrey, Frederic Crosby, The Torrey Families and Their Children in America, Vol. 1, Lakehurst, New Jersey: n. p. (1924), 13-17, 344.