Master Surname Index




James Merrill

Famous Kin of
James Merrill

Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet


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Charles Edward Merrill

Co-Founder of Merrill Lynch & Company

Father

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Abraham Shaw

(c1589/90 - 1638)
Great Migration Immigrant 1636

8th great-grandfather

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John Whitmarsh

(c1596 - c1643)
Marygould passenger 1635

8th great-grandfather

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John Alden

(c1599 - 1687)
Mayflower passenger 1620

8th great-grandfather

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John Warren

(c1585 - 1667)
Great Migration Immigrant 1630

8th great-grandfather

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John Dunham

(c1589 - 1668/9)
Great Migration Immigrant 1632

8th great-grandfather

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Gregory Stone

(c1592 - 1672)
Great Migration Immigrant 1635

9th great-grandfather

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Capt. John Alden

Accused of Witchcraft, Salem 1692

7th great-granduncle
via John Alden

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Simon Stone

(c1585/6 - 1665)
Increase passenger 1635

9th great-granduncle
via David Stone

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William Hammond

(c1575 - 1662)
Great Migration Immigrant 1631

9th great-granduncle
via Thomas Hammond

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John Adams

2nd U.S. President and Signer of the Declaration of Independence

3rd cousin 6 times removed
via John Alden

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Richard Cutting

(c1621/2 - 1695/6)
Elizabeth passenger 1634

3rd cousin 9 times removed
via Simon Stone

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Daniel Henry Chamberlain

76th Governor of South Carolina

4th cousin 4 times removed
via Robert Harrington

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John Quincy Adams

6th U.S. President

4th cousin 5 times removed
via John Alden

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John Trumbull

American Painter

4th cousin 5 times removed
via John Alden

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Deborah Samson

Female Revolutionary War Veteran

4th cousin 5 times removed
via John Alden

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Jonathan Trumbull, Jr.

20th Governor of Connecticut

4th cousin 5 times removed
via John Alden

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Jonas Galusha

6th and 8th Governor of Vermont

4th cousin 5 times removed
via John Warren

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Robert Treat Paine

Signer of the Declaration of Independence

4th cousin 6 times removed
via Edmund Sherman

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Lucretia (Rudolph) Garfield

First Lady of President James Garfield

5th cousin 3 times removed
via Mary Moore

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Clara Barton

Founder of the American Red Cross

5th cousin 3 times removed
via John Bigelow

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Frank Nelson Doubleday

Founder of Doubleday & Co.

5th cousin 3 times removed
via John Livermore

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Hannibal Hamlin

15th U.S. Vice-President

5th cousin 3 times removed
via Robert Harrington

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Isaac Taylor Tichenor

President of Auburn University

5th cousin 3 times removed
via Joseph Alden

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Austin Blair

13th Governor of Michigan

5th cousin 3 times removed
via Robert Harrington

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Nathaniel B. Baker

24th Governor of New Hampshire

5th cousin 3 times removed
via Robert Harrington

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Alpheus Felch

5th Governor of Michigan

5th cousin 3 times removed
via Robert Harrington

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Eli Whitney

Inventor of the Cotton Gin

5th cousin 4 times removed
via John Warren

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William Cullen Bryant

American “Fireside” Poet

5th cousin 4 times removed
via John Alden

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Cadwallader Washburn

Co-founder of General Mills and 11th Governor of Wisconsin

5th cousin 4 times removed
via John Livermore


James Merrill photo by Judith Moffett (CC BY 3.0)