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James Garfield

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James Garfield

20th U.S. President


    Richard Rockwood

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    • 5th Great-grandfather of James Garfield — 8th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 212 
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    • Birth Date:
    • ABT 1604 
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    • Death Date:
    • 6 Jul 1660 
    • Death Location:
    • Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
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    • Marriage Date:
    • BEF 9 Mar 1636/1637 
    • Marriage Location:
    • Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
    • Notes: 
    • There is no evidence that Richard Rockwood had a daughter Lydia who married Edward Adams. The wife of Edward Adams is believed to be Lydia Penniman, daughter of James Penniman. (See Robert Charles Anderson's The Great Migration Begins 3:1429-1430)

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  • Sources for Richard Rockwood

    • 1 Braintree, MA: Vital and Church Records, 1638-1850, Page 2790, Birth record for son John Rocket.
    • 3 Flagg, Charles A., The Descendants of Benjamin Rockwood, Sr. of Grafton, Mass.: with Some Early Account of his Ancestry and . . ., Washington, D.C.: Press of Gibson Bros. (1905), 23-29.
    • 4 Rockwood, Vivian VaLera, Four Centuries of American Descendants of Richard Rockwood of Dorchester 1633, Braintree 1636, Massachusetts, Johnson City, Tennessee: Overmountain Press (2000), 1-9.