Ancestry of Colonel
Robert Gould Shaw

U.S. Civil War leader of film “Glory” fame

Bennett Freeman

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of Robert Gould Shaw — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 101 
  • Father:
  • John Freeman 
  • Mother:
  • Mercy Prence   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 5 Mar 1670/1671 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 30 May 1716 
  • Death Location:
  • Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • John Paine
  • Marriage Date:
  • 14 Mar 1688/1689 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  John Paine

  Mary Paine

  William Paine (Ahnentafel No:50 )

  Benjamin Paine

  Sarah Paine

  Paine

  Elizabeth Paine

  Theophilus Paine

  Josiah Paine

  Nathaniel Paine

  Rebecca Paine

  Mercy Paine

  Benjamin Paine

• Sources for Bennett Freeman

  • ¹ The Mayflower Descendant, 1906, Vol. 8, pp. 4, 14, Death record for Bennet Paine.
  • ² Austin, John D., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 6, 3rd ed., Stephen Hopkins, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), 41-43, 71, 102, 337, 382.
  • ³ Merrick, Barbara Lambert and Scott Andrew Bartley, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 24, Part 1, William Brewster, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2014), 305-308.
  • ⁴ Merrick, Barbara Lambert, comp., Mayflower Families in Progress: William Brewster of the Mayflower and His Descendants for Four Generations, 3rd edition, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2000), 99.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 32, 159, 228, 328, 428.