Ancestry of Colonel
Robert Gould Shaw

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

Thomas Sturgis

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Robert Gould Shaw — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 24 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Sturgis 
  • Mother:
  • Martha Russell   
  • Birth Date:
  • 22 Jul 1722 
  • Birth Location:
  • Barnstable, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 16 Oct 1785 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Paine
  • Marriage Date:
  • 24 Jan 1745 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Barnstable, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Russell Sturgis (Ahnentafel No:12 )

  Samuel Sturgis

  William Sturgis

  • Notes: 

  • Revolutionary War veteran

• Sources for Thomas Sturgis

  • ¹ Boston, MA: Inhabitants and Estates of the Town of Boston, 1630-1822 (Thwing Collection), pp. 17038-17039, Record for son Russell Sturgis.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Barnstable, Vol. 1, p. 97-98, Birth records for children of Thos Sturgis Jur and Sarah Pain.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Barnstable, Vol. 1, p. 97, Marriage record for Thomas Sturgis Jr and Sarah Paine.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Barnstable, Vol. 1, p. 61, Birth record for Thomas Sturgis.
  • ⁵ Austin, John D., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 6, 3rd ed., Stephen Hopkins, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), 183.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 328.
  • ⁷ 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.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 159.
  • ⁹ Russell, Gurdon Wadsworth, An Account of Some of the Descendants of John Russell, The Emigrant from Ipswich, England, Who . . ., Hartford, Connecticut: The Case, Lockwood and Brainard Co. (1910), 129.
  • ¹⁰ Sturgis, Francis Shaw, The Descendants of Nath'l Russell Sturgis: With a Brief Introductory Sketch of His Ancestors in England and . . ., Boston: Printed by G. H. Ellis (1925), Introduction prior to page 1.