Famous Kin of
Wilbur Wright
Wright Brothers - Aviation Pioneer
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Robert I, King of France
29th great-grandfather
General Joseph Warren
Killed at Battle of Bunker Hill
2nd cousin 4 times removed via Samuel Williams
William Williams
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
2nd cousin 4 times removed via Samuel Porter
Thomas Edmund Dewey
47th Governor of New York
3rd cousin 1 time removed via Edmund Freeman
Lyman Hall
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
3rd cousin 4 times removed via Richard Lyman
Oliver Wolcott
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
3rd cousin 5 times removed via Thomas Newberry
Bathsheba (Ruggles) Spooner
First woman executed for murder in U.S. by non-British government
3rd cousin 5 times removed via James Skeffe
Sir Charles Tupper
6th Prime Minister of Canada
4th cousin 2 times removed via Deborah Skeffe
Abraham Baldwin
Signer of the U.S. Constitution
4th cousin 3 times removed via Thomas Ford
Increase Sumner
5th Governor of Massachusetts
4th cousin 3 times removed via Thomas Ford
Commodore Matthew C. Perry
Led Black Ships Expedition to Japan
4th cousin 4 times removed via Edmund Freeman
Oliver Hazard Perry
Hero of Lake Erie during the War of 1812
4th cousin 4 times removed via Edmund Freeman
John Hancock
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
4th cousin 4 times removed via Nicholas Jacob
Colonel Robert Gould Shaw
U.S. Civil War leader of film “Glory” fame
5th cousin 1 time removed via Rev. Jonathan Russell