Robert I, King of France

32nd great-grandfather

Alfred the Great

King of the Anglo-Saxons

33rd great-grandfather

Charlemagne

King of the Franks

35th great-grandfather

Increase Sumner

5th Governor of Massachusetts

1st cousin 3 times removed via Edward Sumner

Louisa May Alcott

Author of Little Women

3rd cousin via Joseph Williams Jr.

General Joseph Warren

Killed at Battle of Bunker Hill

3rd cousin 3 times removed via Robert Williams

William Williams

Signer of the Declaration of Independence

3rd cousin 3 times removed via Robert Williams

Robert Treat Paine

Signer of the Declaration of Independence

3rd cousin 4 times removed via Richard Treat

Fannie Farmer

Author of original Fannie Farmer Cookbook

4th cousin 1 time removed via Joseph Williams

Charles Dawes

30th U.S. Vice-President

4th cousin 1 time removed via Edward Sumner

Samuel Howard

Boston Tea Party Participant

4th cousin 2 times removed via William Sumner

Noah Webster

Published first American Dictionary

4th cousin 3 times removed via Richard Treat

Bill Weld

68th Governor of Massachusetts

4th cousin 3 times removed via Joseph Williams

Abraham Baldwin

Signer of the U.S. Constitution

4th cousin 3 times removed via Thomas Ford

Lewis Henry Morgan

Pioneering Anthropologist

5th cousin 1 time removed via John Deming

Mary Lyon

Founder of Mount Holyoke College

5th cousin 1 time removed via John Deming

Sumner Sewall

58th Governor of Maine

5th cousin 1 time removed via George Sumner

Nathan Hale

America's First Spy

5th cousin 2 times removed via Thomas Ford

Nelson Rockefeller

41st U.S. Vice-President

5th cousin 3 times removed via Stephen Williams

George Kennedy

Movie Actor

5th cousin 3 times removed via Samuel Clap

Pete Seeger

American Folk Singer

5th cousin 3 times removed via Samuel Clap

Linda Hunt

TV and Movie Actress

5th cousin 3 times removed via Stephen Williams

Robert Catesby

Leader of Gunpowder Plot

5th cousin 10 times removed via Sir John Throckmorton

General George B. McClellan

Union Army - U.S. Civil War

6th cousin via Robert Williams

James Russell Lowell

American “Fireside” Poet

6th cousin via William Sumner

James Youngs Smith

29th Governor of Rhode Island

6th cousin via Robert Williams

Thomas Waldo Story

English/American Sculptor

6th cousin via Robert Williams

Wilbur Wright

Wright Brothers - Aviation Pioneer

6th cousin 1 time removed via Robert Williams

Orville Wright

Wright Brothers - Aviation Pioneer

6th cousin 1 time removed via Robert Williams

Francis Edward Hinckley

Co-Founder of the University of Chicago

6th cousin 1 time removed via Robert Williams