Ancestry of
Meriwether Lewis

Lewis and Clark Expedition

Mary Taliaferro

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• • Great-grandmother of Meriwether Lewis — 4th Generation
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  • Father:
  • John Taliaferro 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Smith   
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  • ABT 1686 
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  Francis Thornton

  Elizabeth Thornton (Ahnentafel No:7 )

  Mildred Thornton

  Mary Thornton

• Sources for Mary Taliaferro

  • ¹ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1987, Vol. 4, pp. 26-27.
  • ² Davis, Lottie Wright, Records of Lewis, Meriwether and Kindred Families; Genealogical Records of Minor, Davis, . . ., Columbia, MO: Artcraft Press (1951), 154.
  • ³ Dorman, John Frederick, ed., The Virginia Genealogist, 2003, Vol. 47, p. 177.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 6.
  • ⁵ Stanard, W. G., "The Thornton Family", The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 4, No. 2 (October 1895), 92.
  • ⁶ Tyler, Lyon G., ed, William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 22, Richmond, VA: Whittet & Shepperson (1914), 299.
  • ⁷ Tyler, Lyon G., ed., William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 20, Richmond, Virginia: Whittet and Shepperson, Publishers and Printers (1912), 270.
  • ⁸ Unknown, "The Taliaferro Family", The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 4 (April 1912), 270.
  • ⁹ Wikipedia, "Meriwether Lewis", (accessed 03/20/2010).
  • ¹⁰ Wurts, John S., Magna Charta, New York: Brookfield Publishing Company (1893), 491.