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William Tecumseh Sherman

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William Preston

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of William Tecumseh Sherman — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 68 
  • Father:
  • Adam Preston 
  • Mother:
  • Isabel Braithwaite   
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  • Christening Date:
  • 28 Jan 1590/1591 
  • Christening Location:
  • Giggleswick, Yorkshire, England 
  • Death Date:
  • from 9 Jul 1647 to 30 Aug 1647 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary -----
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1635 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Hachaliah Preston (Ahnentafel No:34 )

  Eliasaph Preston

• Additional marriages for William Preston

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  • Spouse:
  • Elizabeth Sale
  • Marriage Date:
  • 11 Oct 1613
  • Marriage Location:
  • Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England

• Sources for William Preston

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1948, Vol. 102, p. 102.
  • ² New Haven, CT: Families of Ancient New Haven, Vol. 5, p. 1122.
  • ³ The American Genealogist, 1945, Vol. 22, pp. 188-190.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. IV, I-L, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2005), 164.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. V, M-P, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2007), 519-525.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VI, R-S, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 144.
  • ⁷ Andrews, Henry Porter, The Descendants of John Porter of Windsor, Conn. 1635-9, Vol. 1, Saratoga Springs: G. W. Ball, Book and Job Printer (1893), 54.
  • ⁸ Jacobus, Donald Lines and Edgar Francis Waterman, Hale, House and Related Families: Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1978, reprinted from 1952), 668.
  • ⁹ Swanson, Earle and Patricia, The Dorchester Family Chronicles, Fort Wayne, Indiana: Unknown (1995), 6.