Ancestry of
William Howard Taft

27th U.S. President

Edmund Sherman

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of William Howard Taft — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2030 
  • Father:
  • Edmund Sherman 
  • Mother:
  • Anne Pellett   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1572 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Dedham, Essex, England 
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  • Death Date:
  • from 29 Oct 1640 to May 1641 
  • Death Location:
  • New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Grace Makin
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1598 
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  Edmund Sherman

  Ann Sherman

  Joan Sherman

  Hester Sherman

  Richard Sherman

  Bezaleel Sherman

  John Sherman

  Grace Sherman (Ahnentafel No:1015 )

  Samuel Sherman

  Sherman

• Sources for Edmund Sherman

  • ¹ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1995, Vol. 12, p. 66.
  • ² NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1991, Vol. 8, p. 70.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2014, Vol. 168, pp. 17-21.
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 1945, Vol. 22, p. 209.
  • ⁵ The American Genealogist, 1986, Vol. 61, pp. 81-82.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1672.
  • ⁷ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. IV, I-L, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2005), 300.
  • ⁸ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VI, R-S, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 282-287, 293, 299.
  • ⁹ Frost, Josephine C., Ancestors of Henry Ward Beecher and His Wife Eunice White Bullard, Unknown: Unknown (1927), 93-94, 97.
  • ¹⁰ Pope, Charles Henry, ed., Paine Ancestry: The Family of Robert Treat Paine, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Including Maternal Lines, Boston: Printed for the Family (1912), 86-87.
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 83, 140, 175, 222.
  • ¹² Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 45.
  • ¹³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 463.
  • ¹⁴ Sherman, Thomas Townsend, Sherman Genealogy including Families of Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk, England, Some Descendants of the Immigrants . . ., New York: Tobias A. Wright, Printer and Publisher (1920), 105-111.
  • ¹⁵ Thwing, Walter Eliot, The Livermore Family of America, Boston: W. B. Clarke Company (1902), 5.