Ancestry of Colonel
Robert Gould Shaw

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Dorcas Chester

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• • 8th Generation — 5th Great-grandmother of Robert Gould Shaw
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 189 
  • Father:
  • Leonard Chester   
  • Mother:
  • Mary Sharpe   
  • Birth Date:
  • 5 Nov 1637 
  • Birth Location:
  • Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 15 or 16 FEB 1712/1713 
  • Death Location:
  • Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Samuel Whiting Jr.
  • Marriage Date:
  • 12 Nov 1656 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Charlestown (now Boston), Suffolk, England 
  • Child:
  • Samuel Whiting 

• Sources for Dorcas Chester

  • ¹ Charlestown, MA: Vital Records to 1850, Vol. 1, p. 20, Marriage record for Samuel Whiting and Dorcas Chester, New England Historic Genealogical Society (Online Database).
  • ² Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850 (Online Datebase), New England Historic Genealogical Society (2001-2008), Billerica Births, Vol. 1, p. 200, Birth record for son Samuel Whiting.
  • ³ Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850 (Online Datebase), New England Historic Genealogical Society (2001-2008), Billerica Deaths, Vol. 1, p. 402.
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, New Haven, Connecticut: D. L. Jacobus (issues newer than 5 years not online), 1977, Vol. 53, p. 74, New England Historic Genealogical Society (Online Database).
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 348.
  • ⁶ Browning, Charles H., Americans of Royal Descent: A Collection of Genealogies of American Families Whose Lineage is Traced to . . ., 2nd Ed., Philadelphia: Porter and Coates (1891), 448.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 193.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 118.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 443.
  • ¹⁰ 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), 758.
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 498.
  • ¹² Whiting, William, Memoir of Rev. Samuel Whiting, D.D., and of his wife, Elizabeth St. John, Boston: Press of Rand, Avery, and Company (1873), 196-199, 205-206, Internet Archive (Digital Library).