Ancestry of
William Howard Taft

27th U.S. President

Elizabeth Bishop

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of William Howard Taft — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 229 
  • Father:
  • James Bishop 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Lewen   
  • Birth Date:
  • 3 Jul 1657 
  • Birth Location:
  • New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Eleazer Giles
  • Marriage Date:
  • 25 Sep 1677 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Salem, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  John Giles (Ahnentafel No:114 )

• Sources for Elizabeth Bishop

  • ¹ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Salem, Marriage record for Eliez Giles and Elizabeth Bishop.
  • ² New Haven, CT: Families of Ancient New Haven, Vol. 1, p. 201.
  • ³ The American Genealogist, 1945, Vol. 22, pp. 205, 207.
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 1997, Vol. 72, p. 300.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 2, G-O, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 765.
  • ⁶ Perley, Sidney, The History of Salem, Massachusetts, Volume 1, 1626-1637, Salem, Massachusetts: Sidney Perley (1924), 281.