Ancestry of
William Howard Taft

27th U.S. President

Hopestill Holbrook

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of William Howard Taft — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 205 
  • Father:
  • William Holbrook 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Pitts   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1668 
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  • Death Date:
  • 12 Jan 1706 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Old Cemetery, Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Samuel Read
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1688 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Samuel Read Jr. (Ahnentafel No:102 )

  Ebenezer Read

• Sources for Hopestill Holbrook

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine, 1918, Vol 52, p. 53.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 04/21/2015).
  • ³ The American Genealogist, 1945, Vol. 22, Pages 208-209.
  • ⁴ Chamberlain, George Walter, History of Weymouth Massachusetts, in Four Volumes, Vol. 3, Genealogy of Weymouth Families, Weymouth, Massachusetts: Weymouth Historical Society (1923), 270.
  • ⁵ 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), 25.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 459.