Ancestry of Colonel
Robert Gould Shaw

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

Elizabeth Whiting

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• • 3rd Great-grandmother of Robert Gould Shaw — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 47 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Whiting 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Read   
  • Birth Date:
  • 26 Apr 1688 
  • Birth Location:
  • Dunstable, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 29 Jul 1727 
  • Death Location:
  • Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Samuel Ruggles
  • Marriage Date:
  • 19 Dec 1710 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Elizabeth Ruggles (Ahnentafel No:23 )

• Sources for Elizabeth Whiting

  • ¹ Dudley, Dean, History of the Dudley Family: With Genealogical Tables, Pedigrees, &c., Number 1, Boston: David Clapp and Son, Printers (1886), 896.
  • ² Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 193.
  • ³ Watson, Marston, Royal Families: Americans of Royal and Noble Ancestry, Volume 1, Governor Thomas Dudley and D escendants . . ., 2nd Ed., Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (2004), 29, 88, 247.
  • ⁴ Watson, Marston, Royal Families: Americans of Royal and Noble Ancestry, Volume 3, Samuel Appleton and His Wif e Judith Everard . . ., Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (2007), 53.