Ancestry of Colonel
Robert Gould Shaw

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

Samuel Whiting

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Robert Gould Shaw — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 376 
  • Father:
  • John Whiting   
  • Mother:
  • Isabel -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 20 Nov 1597 
  • Birth Location:
  • Boston, Lincolnshire, England 
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  • Death Date:
  • 11 Dec 1679 
  • Death Location:
  • Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth St. John
  • Marriage Date:
  • 6 Aug 1629 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Boston, Lincolnshire, England 
  • Children:
  
  

  Elizabeth Whiting

  Samuel Whiting Jr. (Ahnentafel No:188 )

  Joseph Whiting

• Sources for Samuel Whiting

  • ¹ Early New England Families, 1641-1700 , Peter Hobart (m. 1628), p. 5, New England Historic Genealogical Society (Online Database).
  • ² The American Genealogist , New Haven, Connecticut: D. L. Jacobus (issues newer than 5 years not online) , 1977, Vol. 53, p. 163, New England Historic Genealogical Society (Online Database).
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles and others , The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. I, A-B< /a> , Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1999) , 463.
  • ⁴ Browning, Charles H. , Americans of Royal Descent: A Collection of Genealogies of American Families Whose Lineage i s Traced to . . ., 2nd Ed. , Philadelphia: Porter and Coates (1891) , 448.
  • ⁵ Richardson, Douglas and Kimball G. Everingham, editor , Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study i n Colonial and Medieval Families, 2011 Edition , Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2011) , 480.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd , Notable Ki n, Volume 1 , Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998) , 193.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd , Notable Ki n, Volume 2 , Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999) , 11, 118.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd , The Royal Descents of 600 Immig rants to the American Colonies or the United States , Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008) , 443, 574.
  • ⁹ 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) , 924.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp. , Ancestor s of American Presidents , Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009) , 498.
  • ¹¹ Weis, Frederick Lewis , Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England Between 1623 and 1650 , Lancaster, Mass: (1950) , 88.
  • 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) , Internet Archive (Digital Library).