Ancestry of
William Howard Taft

27th U.S. President

Joseph Rockwood

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of William Howard Taft — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 86 
  • Father:
  • John Rockwood 
  • Mother:
  • Joanna Ford   
  • Birth Date:
  • 27 May 1671 
  • Birth Location:
  • Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • from 10 DEC 1718 to 17 FEB 1718/1719 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Hayward
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 31 Jul 1690 
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  Mary Rockwood (Ahnentafel No:43 )

  Joseph Rockwood

  • Notes: 

  • Joseph Rockwood's surname is also seen as Rocket and Rockett.

• Sources for Joseph Rockwood

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Mendon, Vol. 1, p. 151, Birth record for son Joseph Rocket.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Mendon, Vol. 1, p. 151, Birth record for Joseph Rocket.
  • ³ The American Genealogist, 1945, Vol. 22, pp. 207, 209.
  • ⁴ Rockwood, Vivian VaLera, Four Centuries of American Descendants of Richard Rockwood of Dorchester 1633, Braintree 1636, Massachusetts, Johnson City, Tennessee: Overmountain Press (2000), 36, 1175, 1177.
  • ⁵ Smith, Dean Crawford, The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, 1878-1908: Part 3, The Ancestry of Henry Clay Bartlett, 1832-1892, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2004), 246.