Ancestry of Colonel
Robert Gould Shaw

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

Nathaniel Bacon

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Robert Gould Shaw — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 408 
  • Father:
  • William Bacon 
  • Mother:
  • Ann -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1621 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Stretton, Rutland, England 
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  • Death Date:
  • BY 29 Oct 1673 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Barnstable, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Hannah Mayo
  • Marriage Date:
  • 4 Dec 1642 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Barnstable, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Nathaniel Bacon (Ahnentafel No:204 )

  Jeremiah Bacon

  Mercy Bacon

  John Bacon

• Sources for Nathaniel Bacon

  • ¹ Early New England Families, 1641-1700, Nathaniel Bacon (m.1642), pp. 1-5.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Barnstable, Vol. 1, p. 4, Birth records for children of Nathaniel Bacon and Hannah Mayo.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Barnstable, Vol. 1, p. 4, Marriage record for Nathaniel Bacon and Hannah Mayo.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Barnstable, Vol. 1, p. 4, Death record for Nathaniel Bacon.
  • ⁵ Cutter, William Richard, ed., New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of . . . Volum e 3, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1913), 1251.
  • ⁶ Hill, Peter B., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 11, Part 1, 2nd edition, Edward Doty, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2 009), 15.
  • ⁷ Otis, William A., A Genealogical and Historical Memoir of the Otis Family in America, Chicago: Unknown (1924), 70-71.
  • ⁸ White, Elizabeth Pearson, John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 1, Camden, Maine: Picton Press (1990, 7th printing 2014), 37.