Ancestry of
William Howard Taft

27th U.S. President

James Emerson

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of William Howard Taft — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 66 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Emerson 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Woodmansey   
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  • prob. Wells, York, Maine 
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  • Death Date:
  • ABT 1756 
  • Death Location:
  • Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts 
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  • Sarah -----
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  Elizabeth Emerson (Ahnentafel No:33 )

  James Emerson

• Sources for James Emerson

  • ¹ Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915, Birth record for daughter Eliz. Emmerson.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Ipswich, Vol. 1, p. 129, Birth record for son James Emmerson.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Ipswich, Vol. 1, p. 129, Birth record for daughter Elizabeth Emmerson.
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 1945, Vol. 22, p. 206.
  • ⁵ Emerson, P. H., The English Emersons: A Genealogical Historical Sketch of the Family from the Earliest Times to the End of the . . ., London: D. Nutt (1898), 24.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 94.
  • ⁷ Torry, Clarence, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 250.
  • ⁸ Washburn, Mabel Thacher Rosemary, Ancestry of William Howard Taft, New York: Frank Allaben Genealogical Company (1908), 49.