Ancestry of
Sarah Palin

9th Governor of Alaska

Mercy Knowles

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• • 7th Great-grandmother of Sarah Palin — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 993 
  • Father:
  • Richard Knowles 
  • Mother:
  • Martha Cobb   
  • Birth Date:
  • 9 Aug 1717 
  • Birth Location:
  • Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 14 May 1758 
  • Death Location:
  • Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • George Godfrey
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1 Nov 1733 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Richard Godfrey

  (probable) Knowles Godfrey (Ahnentafel No:496 )

  Mercy Godfrey

  Benjamin Godfrey

  George Godfrey

  James Godfrey

  Martha Godfrey

  Sarah Godfrey

  Jonathan Godfrey

  Molly Godfrey

• Sources for Mercy Knowles

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1925, Vol. 79, pp. 385-386.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1973, Vol. 127, pp. 41-42.
  • ³ Austin, John D., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 6, 3rd ed., Stephen Hopkins, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), 415-416, 455.
  • 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.
  • ⁵ Smith, William C., A History of Chatham, Massachusetts: Formerly the Constablewick or Village of Monomoit, Part III, Hyannis, Massachusetts: F. B. and F. P. Goss, Publishers (1917), 247.