Ancestry of
John Wellborn Root

1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition Architect

Salmon Root

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• • Grandfather of John Wellborn Root — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 4 
  • Father:
  • Moses Root 
  • Mother:
  • Anna Bardwell   
  • Birth Date:
  • 13 Aug 1780 
  • Birth Location:
  • Montague, Franklin, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 20 Apr 1849 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Craftsbury Common Cemetery, Craftsbury, Orleans, Vermont 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Carpenter
  • Marriage Date:
  • 4 Nov 1807 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Amanda Root

  Sidney Root (Ahnentafel No:2 )

  • Notes: 

  • Some secondary sources give 21 APR 1849 as Salmon Root's date of death, however his tombstone has 20 APR 1849.

• Sources for Salmon Root

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 02/12/2016).
  • ² NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1991, Vol. 8, p. 30.
  • ³ Carpenter, Amos B., A Genealogical History of the Rehoboth Branch of the Carpenter Family in America, Amherst, Massachusetts: Press of Carpenter and Morehouse (1898), 266.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 256, 314.
  • ⁵ Root, James Pierce, Root Genealogical Records, 1600-1870: Comprising the General History of the Root and Roots Families in America, New York: R.C. Root, Anthony and Co. (1870), 166, 227.
  • ⁶ Smith, John Montague, et. al., History of the Town of Sunderland, Massachusetts, 1673-1899: Which Originally Embraced Within Its Limits the . . ., Greenfield, Massachusetts: Press of E. A. Hall and Company (1899), 370.