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Janis Joplin

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Abigail Hathaway

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• • 6th Great-grandmother of Janis Joplin — 9th Generation
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  • 481 
  • Father:
  • John Hathaway 
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  • Hannah Burt   
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  • Spouse Name:
  • David Sherman
  • Marriage Date:
  • 27 Dec 1710 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts 
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  Jacob Sherman (Ahnentafel No:240 )

  Hannah Sherman

• Sources for Abigail Hathaway

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Dartmouth Marriages, Vol. 2, Page 291, Marriage record for daughter Hannah Sherman.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Taunton Marriages, Vol. 2, Page 432, Marriage record for David Sherman and Abigail Hathaway.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Dartmouth, Vol. 1, p. 225, Birth record for son Jacob Shearman.
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 1948, Vol. 24, Page 183.
  • ⁵ The American Genealogist, April 2000, Vol. 75, Page 112.
  • ⁶ Hathaway, Charles F., Tribe Hathaway, New York: Unknown (1909), a2.
  • ⁷ Sherman, Roy V., Some of the Descendants of Philip Sherman, the First Secretary of Rhode Island, Akron, Ohio: Unknown (1968), 293, 295.