Ancestry of
James Garfield

20th U.S. President

John Rockwood

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of James Garfield — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 106 
  • Father:
  • Richard Rockwood 
  • Mother:
  • Agnes -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 10 Dec 1641 
  • Birth Location:
  • Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • from 8 Jun 1724 to 10 Sep 1725 
  • Death Location:
  • Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Joanna Ford
  • Marriage Date:
  • 15 Sep 1662 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Joanna Rockwood (Ahnentafel No:53 )

  Joseph Rockwood

  • Notes: 

  • John Rockwood's surname is also seen as Rocket and Rockett.

• Sources for John Rockwood

  • ¹ Braintree, MA: Vital and Church Records, 1638-1850, Page 2790, Birth record for John Rocket.
  • ² Braintree, MA: Vital Records, 1643-1793, Vol. 1, Page 125, Marriage record for Joane Ffoard and John Rockwood.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Mendon, Vol. 1, p. 151, Birth record for son Joseph Rocket.
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 1945, Vol. 22, p. 209.
  • ⁵ Brogan, Hugh and Charles Mosley, American Presidential Families, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company (1993), 500.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 36.
  • ⁷ Rockwood, Vivian VaLera, Four Centuries of American Descendants of Richard Rockwood of Dorchester 1633, Braintree 1636, Massachusetts, Johnson City, Tennessee: Overmountain Press (2000), 8, 30-38, 1175.