Edward Rawson

1615 - 1693  (78 years)

• Name	Edward Rawson
  Birth	16 Apr 1615	Gillingham, Dorset, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	27 Aug 1693	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I40598	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of XYZ
  Last Modified	25 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	David Rawson,   b. of London, England d. Between 15 Jun 1616 and 25 Feb 1618
  Family ID	F23790	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Rachel Perne
  Children	+ 1. William Rawson,   b. 21 May 1651, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts d. 20 Sep 1726, Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age 75 years)
  Family ID	F23783	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 Apr 2024

  
  

• Notes

  He was in Newbury by 1638, and served as secretary for the colony, 1650-86. Edward Rawson (1615-1693) = Rachel Perne Grindall Rawson )1659-1715) = Susanna Wilson (1664-1748) Edmund Rawson (1689-1765) = Elizabeth Hayward (1683-1759) Abner Rawson (1721-1794) = Mary Allen (1722-1790) Rhoda Rawson (1749-1827) = Aaron Taft (1743-1808) Peter Rawson Taft (1785-1810) = Sylvia Howard (1792-1866) Alphonso Taft * (1810-1891) = Louisa Maria Torrey (1827-1907) William Howard Taft (1857-1930), 27th US president, and later 10th Chief Justice of the United States, the only person to have held both ofices William Howard Taft's father Alphonso Taft was US Secretary of War in 1876; US Attorney General 1876-77; minister to Austria-Hungary 1882-84; and minister to Russia 1884-85. President Taft's son Robert Taft (1889-1953) was senator from Ohio from 1939 to his death, and Senate Majority Leader in the last year of his life.

  
  

• Sources

  [S7518] An Account of John Glover of Dorchester and His Descendants by Anna Glover. Boston: David Clapp & Son, 1867. [S7519] Leslie Mahler, "Medieval Ancestors of Edward1 Rawson of Newbury, Massachusetts." The American Genealogist 83:207, 2008.