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Janis Joplin

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Jacob Sherman

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Janis Joplin — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 240 
  • Father:
  • David Sherman 
  • Mother:
  • Abigail Hathaway   
  • Birth Date:
  • 8 Nov 1713 
  • Birth Location:
  • Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • Nov 1778 
  • Death Location:
  • Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Margaret Faunce
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 May 1738 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  David Sherman (Ahnentafel No:120 )

• Sources for Jacob Sherman

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Dartmouth, Vol. 1, p. 225, Birth record for Jacob Shearman.
  • ² Sherman, Roy V., Some of the Descendants of Philip Sherman, the First Secretary of Rhode Island, Akron, Ohio: Unknown (1968), 295, 302.