Ancestry of Colonel
Robert Gould Shaw

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

William Parkman

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Robert Gould Shaw — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 56 
  • Father:
  • Elias Parkman 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Trask   
  • Birth Date:
  • 29 Mar 1658 
  • Birth Location:
  • Salem, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 28 Nov 1730 
  • Death Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Adams
  • Marriage Date:
  • 18 May 1680 
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  John Parkman

  Ebenezer Parkman (Ahnentafel No:28 )

• Sources for William Parkman

  • ¹ Boston, MA: Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 1630-1699, p. 207, Birth record for son John Parkman.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Gloucester Deaths, Vol. 3, p. 228, Death record for son Capt. John Parkman.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1870, Vol. 24, p. 150.
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 1977, Vol. 53, p. 73.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 193.