Ancestry of
Kyra Sedgwick

TV and Movie Actress

Francis Cabot

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Kyra Sedgwick — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 170 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Cabot 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Higginson   
  • Birth Date:
  • 14 Jun 1757 
  • Birth Location:
  • Salem, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • ABT 1832 
  • Death Location:
  • Natchez, Adams, Mississippi 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Nancy Clarke
  • Marriage Date:
  • 28 Jun 1780 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Salem, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Mary Ann Cabot (Ahnentafel No:85 )

  • Notes: 

  • Francis Cabot is said to have been an aide to Gen. Lincoln during Shay's Rebellion.

• Sources for Francis Cabot

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Salem, Vol. 3, p. 180, Marriage record for Francis Cabot and Nancy Clarke.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, July 1922, Vol. 76, p. 208.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1906, Vol. 60, p. 224.
  • ⁴ Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, Descendants of the Reverend Francis Higginson: First Teacher in the Massachusetts Bay Colony of . . ., Unknown: Privately printed (1910), 21.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "The Royal Descents of Jane Pierce, Alice and Edith Roosevelt, Helen Taft, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Barbara Bush", (accessed 09/29/2014).
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (2018), 923.

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