Ancestry of
Helen (Herron) Taft

First Lady of President William H. Taft

Abigail Platt

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• • 3rd Great-grandmother of Helen (Herron) Taft — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 63 
  • Father:
  • John Platt 
  • Mother:
  • Phebe Bressie   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1711 
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  • Death Date:
  • 30 Jul 1744 
  • Death Location:
  • Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Timothy Wilcockson
  • Marriage Date:
  • 24 Apr 1740 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Joanna Wilcockson (Ahnentafel No:31 )

• Sources for Abigail Platt

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Stratford, p. 158, Marriage record for Timothy Wilcoxson and Abigail Platt.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Stratford, p. 155, Death record for Abigail Wilcoxson.
  • ³ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Stratford, p. 157, Birth record for daughter Joannah Wilcoxson.
  • ⁴ Platt, Charles, Jr., Platt Genealogy in America From the Arrival of Richard Platt in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1638, New Hope, Pennsylvania: Unknown (1963), 75.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "The Royal Descents of Jane Pierce, Alice and Edith Roosevelt, Helen Taft, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Barbara Bush", (accessed 09/30/2014).
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 109.
  • ⁷ Wilcox, Thomas, Descendants of William Wilcoxson of Derbyshire, England, and Stratford, Conn., Los Angeles: Unknown (1963), 29.