Ancestry of
Gilbert Clifford Noble

Co-Founder of Barnes & Noble

Thankful Woodruff

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• • 3rd Great-grandmother of Gilbert Clifford Noble — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 57 
  • Father:
  • Nathaniel Woodruff 
  • Mother:
  • Thankful Wright   
  • Birth Date:
  • 14 Apr 1722 
  • Birth Location:
  • Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Ezekiel Shepard
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT 25 Sep 1742 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Ezekiel Shepard Jr. (Ahnentafel No:28 )

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  • Spouse:
  • Alexander Thompson
  • Marriage Date:
  • 17 Aug 1747
  • Marriage Location:
  • Litchfield, Litchfield Co, Connecticut

• Sources for Thankful Woodruff

  • ¹ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Birth record for son Ezekiel Shepard.
  • ² Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Marriage intention for Ezekiel Shepard and Thankful Woodruff.
  • ³ Abbott, Susan Woodruff, Woodruff Genealogy: Descendants of Mathew Woodruff of Farmington, Connecticut, New Haven, Connecticut: The Harty Press, Inc. (1963), 19.
  • ⁴ Shepard, Gerald Faulkner and Donald Lines Jacobus, The Shepard Families of New England, Vol. 3: Additional Family Groups, North Haven, Connecticut: The New Haven Colony Historical Society (1973), 98.
  • ⁵ White, Lorraine Cook, ed., Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection), originally published as The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vols. 1-55, Litchfield, Birth record for son Ezekiel Woodruff.
  • ⁶ Woodruff, George C., A Genealogical Register of the Inhabitants of the Town of Litchfield, Conn . . ., Hartford: Hartford Press, The Case, Lockwood and Brainerd Company (1900), 196.