Famous Kin of
Zach Braff

TV, Film and Stage Actor

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Exclude: Great Migration Magna Carta Royalty

Robert Day

(c1605 - 1683)
Hopewell passenger 1635

9th great-grandfather

Edward Doty

(c1599 - 1655)
Mayflower passenger 1620

10th great-grandfather

William Brewster

(c1566 - 1644)
Mayflower passenger 1620

11th great-grandfather

Thomas Holbrook

(c1589 - c1676/7)
Marygould passenger 1635

11th great-grandfather

William Hatch

(c1599 - 1651)
Hercules passenger 1635

11th great-grandfather

Thomas Gardner

(c1592 - 1674)
Great Migration Immigrant 1624

11th great-grandfather

John Balch

(c1605 - 1648)
Great Migration Immigrant 1624

11th great-grandfather

Thomas Hatch

(c1596 - c1646)
Great Migration Immigrant 1638

11th great-granduncle
via William Hatch

Nathaniel Tilden

(c1583 - 1641)
Hercules passenger 1635

1st cousin 14 times removed
via Richard Tilden

Nicholas Gilman

Signer of the U.S. Constitution

3rd cousin 6 times removed
via Robert Lord Jr.

John Taylor Gilman

5th Governor of New Hampshire

3rd cousin 6 times removed
via Robert Lord Jr.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

Author of The Scarlet Letter

4th cousin 5 times removed
via Robert Lord Jr.

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Samuel J. Tilden

25th Governor of New York

4th cousin 6 times removed
via Rebecca

Edmund Sears

Boston Tea Party Participant

4th cousin 8 times removed
via William Brewster

Nathaniel Gorham

Signer of the U.S. Constitution

4th cousin 8 times removed
via Thomas Gardner

John Dewey

Philosopher and Education Reformer

5th cousin 5 times removed
via Wrestling Brewster

Eliphalet Remington

Founder of Remington Arms Company

5th cousin 6 times removed
via Edward Doty

Lizzie Doten

American Poet

5th cousin 6 times removed
via Edward Doty

Zachary Taylor

12th U.S. President

5th cousin 7 times removed
via William Brewster

Lucretia (Coffin) Mott

Abolitionist and Women's Rights Advocate

5th cousin 7 times removed
via Thomas Gardner

Jonathan Worth

39th Governor of North Carolina

5th cousin 7 times removed
via Thomas Gardner

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Kenyon Cox

Painter and Illustrator

6th cousin 4 times removed
via Rebecca

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Admiral William Halsey

U.S. Navy - World War II

6th cousin 4 times removed
via Wrestling Brewster

Lucretia (Rudolph) Garfield

First Lady of President James Garfield

6th cousin 5 times removed
via Samuel Waite

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

American “Fireside” Poet

6th cousin 5 times removed
via Love Brewster

Ralph Waldo Emerson

American Poet

6th cousin 5 times removed
via Samuel Waite

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Lavinia Warren

Dwarf Circus Performer

6th cousin 5 times removed
via Edward Doty

Ezra Cornell

Co-Founder of Cornell University,
Founder of Western Union

6th cousin 6 times removed
via Thomas Holbrook

Gen. Joseph Gardner Swift

First Graduate of West Point Military Academy

6th cousin 6 times removed
via Jane Gates

Rowland H. Macy

Founder of Macy's

6th cousin 6 times removed
via Thomas Gardner

Zach Braff photo by AdamJaz