Ancestry of
James Garfield

20th U.S. President

Joanna Rockwood

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• • 3rd Great-grandmother of James Garfield — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 53 
  • Father:
  • John Rockwood 
  • Mother:
  • Joanna Ford   
  • Birth Date:
  • 25 Aug 1669 
  • Birth Location:
  • Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Nicholas Cook
  • Marriage Date:
  • 4 Nov 1684 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Josiah Cook

  Daniel Cook (Ahnentafel No:26 )

  • Notes: 

  • Joanna Rockwood's maiden name is also seen as Rocket and Rockett.

• Sources for Joanna Rockwood

  • ¹ Dutchess County, NY: The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Vol. 3, p. 618.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Mendon, Vol. 1, p. 52, Birth record for son Daniel Cook.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Mendon, Vol. 1, p. 151, Birth record for Joane Rocket.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Mendon, Vol. 1, p. 373, Marriage record for Nicolus Cook and Johannah Rockit.
  • ⁵ Bartlett, Joseph Gardner, John Hill of Dorchester, Mass., 1633, and Five Generations of His Descendants: Also Ancestral Lines of . . ., Boston: Printed for private circulation by Lew C. Hill (1904), 53.
  • ⁶ Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Volume 2, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1908), 964.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 481.
  • ⁸ Rockwood, Vivian VaLera, Four Centuries of American Descendants of Richard Rockwood of Dorchester 1633, Braintree 1636, Massachusetts, Johnson City, Tennessee: Overmountain Press (2000), 35-36, 1175.
  • ⁹ Smith, Dean Crawford, The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, 1878-1908: Part 3, The Ancestry of Henry Clay Bartlett, 1832-1892, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2004), 246.