Ancestry of
William Howard Taft

27th U.S. President

Silence Holbrook

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• • 3rd Great-grandmother of William Howard Taft — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 59 
  • Father:
  • John Holbrook Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Ruth Hill   
  • Birth Date:
  • 23 Mar 1723/1724 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Samuel Goodale
  • Marriage Date:
  • 20 Oct 1743 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Grafton, Worcester Co., Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Sarah Goodale (Ahnentafel No:29 )

• Sources for Silence Holbrook

  • ¹ The American Genealogist, 1945, Vol. 22, pp. 207-208.
  • ² Benedict, Rev. William A. and Rev. Hiram A. Tracy, History of the Town of Sutton, Massachusetts, From 1704 to 1876; Including Grafton until 1735, Millbury until 1813; . . ., Worcester: Sanford & Company (1878), 651.
  • ³ Grafton (Mass.), Vital Records of Grafton, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849, Worcester, MA: Franklin P. Rice (1906), 213, 228.
  • ⁴ Morse, Rev. Abner, A Genealogical Register of the Inhabitants and History of the Towns of Sherborn and Holliston, Boston: Damrell & Moore (1856), 143.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 433.