Ancestry of
William Howard Taft

27th U.S. President

Hannah Shepard

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• • 6th Great-grandmother of William Howard Taft — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 473 
  • Father:
  • John Shepard 
  • Mother:
  • Margaret Squire   
  • Birth Date:
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  • Christening Date:
  • 23 Feb 1630/1631 
  • Christening Location:
  • Kingweston, Somersetshire, England 
  • Death Date:
  • 28 Aug 1668 
  • Death Location:
  • Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Thomas Holbrook
  • Marriage Date:
  • 28 May 1656 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  John Holbrook (Ahnentafel No:236 )

• Sources for Hannah Shepard

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Medfield Deaths, Vol. 1, p. 218.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Medfield Marriages, Vol. 1, p. 149.
  • ³ The American Genealogist, 1993, Vol. 68, p. 145.
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 1945, Vol. 22, pp. 208-209.
  • ⁵ Bent, Gilbert O., Who Begot Thee?: Some Genealogical and Historical Notes made in an effort to trace the American progenitors . . ., Boston: David Clapp & Son (1903), 60.
  • ⁶ Morse, Rev. Abner, A Genealogical Register of the Inhabitants and History of the Towns of Sherborn and Holliston, Boston: Damrell & Moore (1856), 140.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 433.