Ancestry of
William Howard Taft

27th U.S. President

Hopestill Read

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• • 3rd Great-grandmother of William Howard Taft — 6th Generation
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  • 51 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Read Jr. 
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  • Deborah Chapin   
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  • 1 Apr 1698 
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  • William Holbrook
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  Deborah Holbrook (Ahnentafel No:25 )

• Sources for Hopestill Read

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine, 1918, Vol 52, p. 53.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1945, Vol. 22, Pages 208-209.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 459.
  • ⁴ Rockwood, Vivian VaLera, Four Centuries of American Descendants of Richard Rockwood of Dorchester 1633, Braintree 1636, Massachusetts, Johnson City, Tennessee: Overmountain Press (2000), 1176.