Ancestry of
Sarah Palin

9th Governor of Alaska

Knowles Godfrey

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Sarah Palin — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 496 
  • Father:
  • George Godfrey 
  • Mother:
  • (probable) Mercy Knowles   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1737 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 19 Jan 1766 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Jerusha Rider
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  • Child:

  Knowles Godfrey Jr. (Ahnentafel No:248 )

  • Notes: 

  • Knowles Godfrey died from smallpox.

• Sources for Knowles Godfrey

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1925, Vol. 79, p. 386.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1973, Vol. 127, pp. 41, 47-48.
  • ³ Austin, John D., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 6, 3rd ed., Stephen Hopkins, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), 415.
  • 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), 148.