Ancestry of
James Sherman

27th U.S. Vice-President

Thomas Lake

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of James Sherman — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 502 
  • Father:
  • Richard Lake 
  • Mother:
  • Anne Morelly   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1615 
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  • Death Date:
  • 14 Aug 1676 
  • Death Location:
  • Kennebec County, Maine 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Copp's Hill Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Goodyear
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1649 
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  Anne Lake (Ahnentafel No:251 )

  Thomas Lake

  • Notes: 

  • Thomas Lake was slain by Indians while attempting to escape his fort on Arrowsic Island at Kennibeck, Maine, in 1676. It is said that his body was not found until 7 months later.

• Sources for Thomas Lake

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 12/21/2016).
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1907, Vol. 61, p. 189.
  • ³ The American Genealogist, 1940, Vol. 16, pp. 193-195, 197-198.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. V, M-P, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2007), 89.
  • ⁵ Betham, Rev. William, The Baronetage of England, or the History of the English Baronets, and such Baronets of Scotland . . ., Vol. 3, London: W. S. Betham (1803), 157.
  • ⁶ Putnam, Elizabeth Cabot and James Jackson Putnam, The Hon. Jonathan Jackson and Hannah (Tracy) Jackson: Their Ancestors and Descendants, Unknown: Privately printed (1907), 7.