Ancestry of
Ken Burns

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Salisbury Sherman

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Ken Burns — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 386 
  • Father:
  • Peleg Sherman Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Alice Fish   
  • Birth Date:
  • Nov 1712 
  • Birth Location:
  • Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island 
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  • Death Date:
  • ABT 1774 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Abigail Tisdale
  • Marriage Date:
  • 29 Nov 1739 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Alice Jane Sherman (Ahnentafel No:193 )

• Sources for Salisbury Sherman

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Swansea, Vol. 1, p. 205, Marriage record for Salsbury Shereman and Abigail Tisdil.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Dartmouth, Vol. 1, p. 219, Birth record for daughter Alice Shearman.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1945, Vol. 99, p. 295.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1870, Vol. 24, p. 71.
  • ⁵ Rhode Island Vital Records, 1636-1850 - Town and Church Records, Newport County, Vol. 4, p. 1-90, Birth record for Salsbury Shearman.
  • ⁶ Sherman, Roy V., Some of the Descendants of Philip Sherman, the First Secretary of Rhode Island, Akron, Ohio: Unknown (1968), 199.
  • ⁷ Tisdale, Rosa D., Meet the Tisdales: Descendants of John Tisdale of Taunton, Mass. 1634-1980, Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc. (1981), 56, 111.
  • ⁸ Tupper, Eleanor, Ph.D., Tupper Genealogy 1578-1971, North Conway, New Hampshire: The Reporter Press (1972), 61.

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