Ancestry of
James Taylor

Singer-Songwriter

Ruth -----

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• • 9th Great-grandmother of James Taylor — 12th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 3031 
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  • Death Date:
  • 17 Oct 1662 
  • Death Location:
  • Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
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  • John Whitman
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  Thomas Whitman

  Sarah Whitman

  Judith Whitman (Ahnentafel No:1515 )

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  • Some have said that Ruth was Ruth Reed the wife of John Whitman's son also named John. However that cannot be as the eldest child for son John and his wife Ruth (Reed) Whitman was born in 1663, after this Ruth’s death. So Ruth, wife of John Whitman, must be the wife of the elder John Whitman.

• Sources for Ruth -----

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Weymouth Deaths, Vol. 2, p. 371.
  • ² Chamberlain, George Walter, History of Weymouth Massachusetts, in Four Volumes, Vol. 3, Genealogy of Weymouth Families, Weymouth, Massachusetts: Weymouth Historical Society (1923), 351-352.
  • ³ Chamberlain, George Walter, History of Weymouth Massachusetts, in Four Volumes, Vol. 4, Genealogy of Weymouth Families, Weymouth, Massachusetts: Weymouth Historical Society (1923), 753.
  • ⁴ Eells, Rev. Myron, Marcus Whitman: Pathfinder and Patriot, Seattle: The Alice Harriman Company (1909), 22.
  • ⁵ Farnam, Charles H., History of the Descendants of John Whitman of Weymouth, Mass., New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor, Printers (1889), 9.
  • ⁶ Lea, James Henry and John Robert Hutchinson, The Ancestry of Abraham Lincoln, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company (1909), 89.