Ancestry of
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice

Dorothy Sheafe

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• • 7th Great-grandmother of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 931 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Sheafe 
  • Mother:
  • Marie Wilson   
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  • Death Date:
  • 1669 
  • Death Location:
  • England 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Henry Whitfield
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT 20 Sep 1617 
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  Dorothy Whitfield

  Sarah Whitfield (Ahnentafel No:465 )

  Abigail Whitfield

  Thomas Whitfield

  John Whitfield

  Nathaniel Whitfield

  Mary Whitfield

  Henry Whitfield

  Rebecca Whitfield

• Sources for Dorothy Sheafe

  • ¹ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 2, G-O, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 934.
  • ² Fitch, John T., Descendants of the Reverend James Fitch, 1622-1702, Vol. 1, The First Five Generations, 2nd Ed., Rockport, Maine: Picton Press (2003), 7.
  • ³ Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, Descendants of the Reverend Francis Higginson: First Teacher in the Massachusetts Bay Colony of . . ., Unknown: Privately printed (1910), 6.
  • ⁴ Meggison, Michael Thomas, "#71 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: The Immediate New England and Royal Ancestry of the Beach Boys", (accessed 11/21/2016).
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#48 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: The Ancestry of Novelist Thomas Pynchon", (accessed 11/28/2018).
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "The Royal Descents of Jane Pierce, Alice and Edith Roosevelt, Helen Taft, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Barbara Bush", (accessed 09/29/2014).
  • ⁷ Threlfall, John Brooks, The Ancestry of Reverend Henry Whitfield (1590-1657) and His Wife Dorothy Sheafe (159?-1669) of Guilford, Connecticut, Madison, Wisconsin: Unknown (1989), 7-17, 27, 30, 228, 253, 257.