Ancestry of Colonel
Robert Gould Shaw

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

Martha Woodbridge

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of Robert Gould Shaw — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 93 
  • Father:
  • John Woodbridge 
  • Mother:
  • Mercy Dudley   
  • Birth Date:
  • 15 Jun 1658 
  • Birth Location:
  • Barford St. Martin's, Wiltshire, England 
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  • Death Date:
  • 3 Jul 1738 
  • Death Location:
  • Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Samuel Ruggles Jr.
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 Jul 1680 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Samuel Ruggles (Ahnentafel No:46 )

  Timothy Ruggles

  Hannah Ruggles

  Sarah Ruggles

• Sources for Martha Woodbridge

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Roxbury, Vol. 1, p. 302, Birth record for son Timothy Ruggles.
  • ² NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1987, Vol. 4, p. 72.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1878, Vol. 32, p. 293.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1871, Vol. 25, p. 313.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VII, T-Y, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2011), 507.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 193.
  • ⁷ Watson, Marston, Royal Families: Americans of Royal and Noble Ancestry, Volume 1, Governor Thomas Dudley and Descendants . . ., 2nd Ed., Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (2004), 10, 29-30.
  • ⁸ Williams, Alicia Crane, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1999), 516.