Ancestry of Colonel
Robert Gould Shaw

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

Elizabeth St. John

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• • 6th Great-grandmother of Robert Gould Shaw — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 377 
  • Father:
  • Oliver St. John 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Bulkeley   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1605 
  • Birth Location:
  • Cayshoe, Befordshire, England 
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  • Death Date:
  • 3 Mar 1676/1677 
  • Death Location:
  • Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Samuel Whiting
  • Marriage Date:
  • 6 Aug 1629 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Boston, Lincolnshire, England 
  • Children:
  
  

  Elizabeth Whiting

  Samuel Whiting Jr. (Ahnentafel No:188 )

  Joseph Whiting

• Sources for Elizabeth St. John

  • ¹ Early New England Families, 1641-1700, Peter Hobart (m. 1628), p. 5.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1969, Vol. 123, pp. 162, 165.
  • ³ The American Genealogist, 1977, Vol. 53, p. 163.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles and others, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. I, A-B, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1999), 463.
  • ⁵ 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.
  • ⁶ Richardson, Douglas and Kimball G. Everingham, editor, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd edition, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2011), 480.
  • 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), 11, 118.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 443, 574.
  • 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), 924.
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 498.
  • ¹² Weis, Frederick Lewis, Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England Between 1623 and 1650, Lancaster, Mass: (1950), 88.
  • ¹³ Whiting, William, Memoir of Rev. Samuel Whiting, D.D., and of his wife, Elizabeth St. John, Boston: Press of Rand, Avery, and Company (1873).