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Robert Gould Shaw

Ancestry of Colonel
Robert Gould Shaw

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


    Martha Russell

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    • 3rd Great-grandmother of Robert Gould Shaw — 6th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 49 
    • Birth Date:
    • 27 Jan 1696/1697 
    • Birth Location:
    • Barnstable, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts 
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    • Death Date:
    • 17 Jun 1774 
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    • Burial Location:
    • Lothrop Hill Cemetery, Barnstable, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts 
    • Marriage Date:
    • 26 Dec 1717 
    • Marriage Location:
    • Barnstable, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts 

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  • Sources for Martha Russell

    • 5 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.
    • 6 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.
    • 7 White, Elizabeth Pearson, John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 1, Camden, Maine: Picton Press (1990, 7th printing 2014), 388.