Ancestry of
James Taylor

Singer-Songwriter

David Forbush

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of James Taylor — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 162 
  • Father:
  • David Forbush 
  • Mother:
  • Ruth Wood   
  • Birth Date:
  • 24 Dec 1739 
  • Birth Location:
  • Acton, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 11 Apr 1819 
  • Death Location:
  • Peterborough, Hillsborough, New Hampshire 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Hayward
  • Marriage Date:
  • Nov 1762 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Acton, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Sally Forbush (Ahnentafel No:81 )

  • Notes: 

  • The Forbes and Forbush Genealogy tells the story of how David Forbush took part at the start of the Revolutionary War with "the shot heard round the world."

• Sources for David Forbush

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Acton, Vol. 1, p. 46, Birth record for David Forbush.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Acton, Vol. 1, p. 165, Marriage record for David Forbush and Sarah Hayward.
  • ³ New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, 1654-1969, Deaths F to 1901, p. 8497, Death record for David Forbush.
  • ⁴ Pierce, Frederick Clifton, Forbes and Forbush Genealogy: The Descendants of Daniel Forbush, Who Came from Scotland About the Year 1655 . . ., Chicago: Rand McNally and Co. (1892), 28, 43-45.