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Wild Bill Hickok

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Wild Bill Hickok

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    Josiah Root

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    • 4th Great-grandfather of Wild Bill Hickok — 7th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 68 
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    • Birth Date:
    • ABT 1615 
    • Birth Location:
    • Great Chart, Kent, England 
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    • Death Date:
    • 4 Jun 1683 
    • Death Location:
    • Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts 
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    • Marriage Date:
    • ABT 1640 
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  • Sources for Josiah Root

    • 1 Eardeley, William Applebie, Chronology and Ancestry of Chauncey M. Depew: with Fifty-four other Affiliated Families of New York, New Jersey and . . ., New York: Unknown (1918), 91.
    • 2 Jacobus, Donald Lines, comp., History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, Vol. 1, Baltimore: Reprinted for Clearfield Company (2007, originally published 1930-1932), 505.
    • 3 Root, James Pierce, Root Genealogical Records, 1600-1870: Comprising the General History of the Root and Roots Families in America, New York: R.C. Root, Anthony and Co. (1870), 51-52.