Famous Kin of
General
William Whipple
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
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Richard de Clare
Magna Carta Surety
15th great-granduncle via Maud de St. Hilary
Gilbert de Clare
Magna Carta Surety
1st cousin 16 times removed via Maud de St. Hilary
William de Huntingfield
Magna Carta Surety
1st cousin 16 times removed via Maud de St. Liz
William de Lanvallay
Magna Carta Surety
1st cousin 19 times removed via Maud de Mandeville
Jane (Appleton) Pierce
First Lady of President Franklin Pierce
2nd cousin 2 times removed via Col. Samuel Appleton Jr.
Eliphalet Remington
Founder of Remington Arms Company
2nd cousin 3 times removed via Col. Samuel Appleton Jr.
Calvin Coolidge
30th U.S. President
2nd cousin 5 times removed via John Whipple Jr.
Leverett Saltonstall
55th Governor of Massachusetts
2nd cousin 5 times removed via Col. Samuel Appleton Jr.
Marie-Chantal Miller
Crown Princess of Greece
2nd cousin 7 times removed via Col. Samuel Appleton Jr.
John Fitz Robert
Magna Carta Surety
2nd cousin 18 times removed via Aubrey de Vere
Ichabod Goodwin
27th Governor of New Hampshire
3rd cousin 2 times removed via Nicholas Frost
Susan B. Anthony
Women's Rights Advocate
3rd cousin 3 times removed via John Whipple
Colonel Robert Gould Shaw
Principal character of film Glory portrayed by Matthew Broderick
3rd cousin 3 times removed via Samuel Appleton
Grace (Goodhue) Coolidge
First Lady of President Calvin Coolidge
3rd cousin 4 times removed via John Whipple
Charles A. Pillsbury
Co-Founder of C.A. Pillsbury Co.
3rd cousin 4 times removed via John Whipple
Tennessee Williams
Author of A Streetcar Named Desire
3rd cousin 5 times removed via Joanna Lowell
Robert H. Goddard
Inventor of First Liquid-propelled Rocket
3rd cousin 5 times removed via John Whipple
Kyra Sedgwick
TV and Movie Actress
3rd cousin 7 times removed via Samuel Appleton
John Cena
Movie Actor and WWE Pro Wrestler
3rd cousin 9 times removed via Samuel Appleton
J.P. Morgan, Jr.
American Banker and Philanthropist
4th cousin 4 times removed via Matthew Whipple
Ellen Louise (Axson) Wilson
First Lady of President Woodrow Wilson
4th cousin 4 times removed via Matthew Whipple
Henry Sturgis Morgan
Co-Founder of Morgan Stanley
4th cousin 5 times removed via Matthew Whipple
Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd U.S. President
4th cousin 5 times removed via Matthew Whipple
Charles Dawes
30th U.S. Vice-President
4th cousin 5 times removed via Stephen Clarke
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology or Medicine
4th cousin 5 times removed via Matthew Whipple
John Adams Morgan
1952 Olympic Sailing Gold Medalist
4th cousin 6 times removed via Matthew Whipple
Bill Weld
68th Governor of Massachusetts
4th cousin 6 times removed via Matthew Whipple
Hugh le Bigod
Magna Carta Surety
4th cousin 15 times removed via Waltheof II of Northumbria
Anne Boleyn
2nd Wife of King Henry VIII
7th cousin 7 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Catherine Parr
6th Wife of King Henry VIII
7th cousin 7 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
King Henry VIII
King of England
7th cousin 8 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Elihu Yale
Benefactor and Namesake of Yale College
8th cousin 3 times removed via Gruffydd Fychan ap Gruffydd of Rhuddallt
Sir Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
8th cousin 7 times removed via John Everard
Catherine Howard
5th Wife of King Henry VIII
8th cousin 7 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Jane Seymour
3rd Wife of King Henry VIII
9th cousin 6 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Benjamin Harrison V
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
10th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Hugh Luttrell
Caleb Brewster
Member of the Culper Spy Ring during the American Revolution
10th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Hugh Luttrell
Charles Darwin
Theory of Evolution
10th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Philip Courtenay
Carter Braxton
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
10th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Hugh Luttrell
Lt. Gen. James Brudenell
Leader of the “Charge of the Light Brigade”
10th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Philip Courtenay
Sarah Ferguson
Duchess of York
10th cousin 8 times removed via Sir Philip Courtenay
Thomas Nelson
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
11th cousin via Sir Hugh Luttrell
General Robert E. Lee
Confederate Army - U.S. Civil War
11th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Hugh Luttrell
Henry Lee III
9th Governor of Virginia
11th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Hugh Luttrell
Benjamin Harrison
23rd U.S. President
11th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Hugh Luttrell
Lytton Strachey
Author and Co-Founder of Bloomsbury Group
11th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Walter Hungerford
Fitzhugh Lee
40th Governor of Virginia
11th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Hugh Luttrell
Sir Charles Tupper
6th Prime Minister of Canada
11th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Walter Hungerford
Guillermo Billinghurst
31st President of Peru
11th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Walter Hungerford
Eleanor Roosevelt
First Lady of President Franklin D. Roosevelt
11th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Hugh Luttrell
John D. Rockefeller
Founder of the Standard Oil Company
11th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Walter Hungerford
Edith (Bolling) Wilson
First Lady of President Woodrow Wilson
11th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Walter Hungerford
Admiral Richard Byrd
Polar Explorer
11th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Hugh Luttrell
Richard More
Mayflower Passenger
11th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Roger de Somery
Harry F. Byrd
50th Governor of Virginia
11th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Hugh Luttrell
Olivia De Havilland
Movie Actress
11th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Hugh Luttrell
Lewis Carroll
Author of Alice in Wonderland
11th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Walter Hungerford
Ray Bradbury
Author of The Martian Chronicles
11th cousin 5 times removed via Sir Walter Hungerford
Alice (Lee) Roosevelt
First Wife of President Theodore Roosevelt
11th cousin 5 times removed via Sir Walter Hungerford
Ernest Hemingway
Author of The Sun Also Rises
11th cousin 5 times removed via Gruffydd Fychan ap Gruffydd of Rhuddallt
E. M. Forster
English Novelist
11th cousin 5 times removed via Sir Walter Hungerford
Susana Ferrari Billinghurst
Argentine Aviation Pioneer
11th cousin 5 times removed via Sir Walter Hungerford
George H. W. Bush
41st U.S. President
11th cousin 6 times removed via Sir Walter Hungerford
Nelson Rockefeller
41st U.S. Vice-President
11th cousin 6 times removed via Sir Walter Hungerford
Queen Elizabeth II
Queen of the United Kingdom
11th cousin 7 times removed via Sir Hugh Luttrell
Mizuo Peck
TV and Movie Actress
11th cousin 7 times removed via Gruffydd Fychan ap Gruffydd of Rhuddallt
Endicott Peabody
62nd Governor of Massachusetts
11th cousin 7 times removed via Sir Walter Hungerford
Benedict Cumberbatch
Movie, Television and Stage Actor
11th cousin 7 times removed via Sir Walter Hungerford
John Kerry
68th U.S. Secretary of State
11th cousin 8 times removed via Sir Walter Hungerford
Edmund Waller
English Poet and Politician
12th cousin 3 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Robert Catesby
Leader of Gunpowder Plot
12th cousin 5 times removed via William de Braiose
Roger Sherman
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
13th cousin 1 time removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Jonathan Swift
Author of Gulliver's Travels
13th cousin 1 time removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Richard Henry Lee
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
13th cousin 1 time removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Francis Lightfoot Lee
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
13th cousin 1 time removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Rev. George Burroughs
Executed for Witchcraft, Salem 1692
13th cousin 2 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Major John Pitcairn
British Commander at Battle of Lexington
13th cousin 2 times removed via Edward I, King of England
George Clinton
4th U.S. Vice President
13th cousin 2 times removed via Edward I, King of England
William Howard Taft
27th U.S. President
13th cousin 6 times removed via John V le Strange
Cara Delevingne
Fashion Model and Movie Actress
13th cousin 6 times removed via Sir Hugh de Courtnay
Elizabeth Montgomery
TV Actress - “Bewitched”
13th cousin 8 times removed via John V le Strange
Sandra Day O'Connor
First Female U.S. Supreme Court Justice
13th cousin 8 times removed via John V le Strange
Grace Slick
Singer, Songwriter - Jefferson Airplane
13th cousin 8 times removed via Sir Gilbert Pecche
Thomas Sim Lee
2nd and 7th Governor of Maryland
14th cousin via Humphrey de Bohun
George Washington
1st U.S. President
14th cousin 1 time removed via Edward I, King of England
Abigail (Smith) Adams
First Lady of President John Adams
14th cousin 1 time removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Meriwether Lewis
Lewis and Clark Expedition
14th cousin 1 time removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Eli Whitney
Inventor of the Cotton Gin
14th cousin 1 time removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Robert Treat Paine
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
14th cousin 1 time removed via Humphrey de Bohun
William Floyd
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
14th cousin 1 time removed via Humphrey de Bohun
DeWitt Clinton
6th Governor of New York
14th cousin 1 time removed via Edward I, King of England
Edward Lloyd V
13th Governor of Maryland
14th cousin 1 time removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Charles Goldsborough
16th Governor of Maryland
14th cousin 1 time removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Charles Carroll
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
14th cousin 1 time removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Daniel Carroll
Signer of the U.S. Constitution
14th cousin 1 time removed via Edward I, King of England
John Carroll
Founder of Georgetown University
14th cousin 1 time removed via Edward I, King of England
John Quincy Adams
6th U.S. President
14th cousin 2 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Shubael D. Childs
Founder of S.D. Childs & Company
14th cousin 2 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Zachary Taylor
12th U.S. President
14th cousin 2 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
American “Fireside” Poet
14th cousin 2 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
J. A. Folger
Founder of Folger Coffee Company
14th cousin 3 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Richard Warren Sears
Co-Founder of Sears, Roebuck, & Co.
14th cousin 3 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Nicholas Gilman
Signer of the U.S. Constitution
14th cousin 3 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
C. W. Post
Founder of Post Cereals
14th cousin 3 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Jay Gould
American Railroad “Robber Baron”
14th cousin 3 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
William Marsh Rice
Founder of Rice University
14th cousin 3 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice
14th cousin 3 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Henry Lloyd
40th Governor of Maryland
14th cousin 3 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Lucretia (Rudolph) Garfield
First Lady of President James Garfield
14th cousin 4 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Henry Clay Folger
Founder of Folger Shakespeare Library and Chairman of Standard Oil
14th cousin 4 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Grover Cleveland
22nd and 24th U.S. President
14th cousin 4 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Hetty Green
“The Witch of Wall Street”
14th cousin 4 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Buckminster Fuller
Author, Architect, and Inventor
14th cousin 4 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Marjorie Post
Founder of General Foods
14th cousin 4 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Joseph Wharton
Founder of the Wharton School of Business
14th cousin 4 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Stephen A. Douglas
Participated in Lincoln-Douglas Debates
14th cousin 5 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
General Douglas MacArthur
U.S. Army - World War II
14th cousin 5 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Norman Rockwell
American Artist
14th cousin 5 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Shanghai Pierce
Texas Cattleman
14th cousin 5 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Orson Welles
Radio, Stage, and Movie Actor
14th cousin 5 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
General George C. Marshall
Author of “The Marshall Plan”
14th cousin 5 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Lee Harvey Oswald
Accused Assassin of President John F. Kennedy
14th cousin 6 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Lizzie Borden
Accused Murderess
14th cousin 6 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Frank Lloyd Wright
American Architect
14th cousin 6 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Abigail Folger
Charles Manson Murder Victim and Folger Coffee Heiress
14th cousin 6 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Allen Dulles
5th Director of the C.I.A.
14th cousin 6 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
John Foster Dulles
52nd U.S. Secretary of State
14th cousin 6 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Mamie (Doud) Eisenhower
First Lady of President Dwight Eisenhower
14th cousin 7 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Thomas Jefferson
3rd U.S. President and Signer of the Declaration of Independence
15th cousin via Edward I, King of England
Samuel Prescott
Completed Paul Revere's Midnight Ride
15th cousin via Sir Roger de Somery
Caesar Rodney
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
15th cousin via Edward I, King of England
John Hancock
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
15th cousin via Sir Roger de Somery
Harriet Martineau
Author of The Hour and the Man
15th cousin 1 time removed via Edward I, King of England
Fletcher Christian
Leader of the mutiny on the Bounty
15th cousin 1 time removed via Edward I, King of England
John Marshall
4th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
15th cousin 1 time removed via Edward I, King of England
Alexander Hamilton
1st U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
15th cousin 2 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Samuel Howard
Boston Tea Party Participant
15th cousin 2 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Helen Keller
Author and Activist
15th cousin 2 times removed via Edward I, King of England
William Ellery
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
15th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Roger de Somery
Noel Coward
Playwright, Actor, and Songwriter
15th cousin 2 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Poet
15th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Roger de Somery
George Mason
Father of the U.S. Bill of Rights
15th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Roger de Somery
William Greene
2nd Governor of Rhode Island
15th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Roger de Somery
Charles Carnan Ridgely
15th Governor of Maryland
15th cousin 2 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Theodore Roosevelt
26th U.S. President
15th cousin 3 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Francis Scott Key
Author of “The Star Spangled Banner”
15th cousin 3 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Robert Townsend
Member of the Culper Spy Ring during the American Revolution
15th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Roger de Somery
William Rufus Day
36th U.S. Secretary of State
15th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Roger de Somery
Johnny Mercer
Songwriter and Co-Founder of Capitol Records
15th cousin 4 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Jack London
Author of “The Call of the Wild”
15th cousin 4 times removed via Edward I, King of England
James Sherman
27th U.S. Vice-President
15th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Roger de Somery
Samuel Ward King
15th Governor of Rhode Island
15th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Roger de Somery
Abraham Baldwin
Signer of the U.S. Constitution
15th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Roger de Somery
Camilla Parker Bowles
Duchess of Cornwall
15th cousin 5 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Katharine Hepburn
Movie Actress
15th cousin 5 times removed via Sir Roger de Somery
Anthony West
Novelist and writer for the New Yorker
15th cousin 5 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Julia (Ward) Howe
Author of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”
15th cousin 5 times removed via Sir Roger de Somery
Alan Shepard
Mercury and Apollo Astronaut
15th cousin 5 times removed via Sir Roger de Somery
General James Longstreet
Confederate Army - U.S. Civil War
15th cousin 5 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Upton Sinclair
Pulitzer Prize Winning Novelist
15th cousin 5 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Alan Turing
WWII Codebreaker of Nazi Enigma Machine
15th cousin 5 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Harper Lee
Author of To Kill a Mockingbird
15th cousin 6 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Walt Disney
Co-Founder of The Walt Disney Company
15th cousin 6 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Sarah Palin
9th Governor of Alaska
15th cousin 6 times removed via Sir Roger de Somery
Button Gwinnett
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
16th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Humphrey de Bohun
Bathsheba (Ruggles) Spooner
First woman executed for murder in U.S. by non-British government
16th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Walter Fitzrobert
John Langdon
Signer of the U.S. Constitution
16th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Walter Fitzrobert
Barbara (Pierce) Bush
First Lady of President George H.W. Bush
16th cousin 5 times removed via Henry III, King of England
John Brown
American Abolitionist
16th cousin 5 times removed via Sir Walter Fitzrobert
William Stoughton
Chief Judge and Prosecutor, Salem Witch Trials 1692
17th cousin via Maud de St. Liz
Philip Livingston
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
17th cousin 1 time removed via Sir William Marshal
William C. C. Claiborne
1st Governor of Louisiana
17th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Humphrey de Bohun
Lyman Hall
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
17th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Saher IV de Quincy
Aaron Burr
Killed Alexander Hamilton
17th cousin 2 times removed via Maud de St. Hilary
J.P. Morgan
American Banker and Art Collector
17th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Humphrey de Bohun
Marshall Field
Founder of Marshall Field & Co.
17th cousin 3 times removed via John, King of England
Rutherford B. Hayes
19th U.S. President
17th cousin 4 times removed via John, King of England
Lou (Henry) Hoover
First Lady of President Herbert Hoover
17th cousin 4 times removed via Hugh de Vere
Benedict Arnold
Traitor of the American Revolution
17th cousin 4 times removed via Maud de St. Liz
Lewis Henry Morgan
Pioneering Anthropologist
17th cousin 4 times removed via Maud de St. Hilary
Helen (Herron) Taft
First Lady of President William H. Taft
18th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Saher IV de Quincy
General Hugh Mercer
American Revolution
18th cousin 1 time removed via Sir William Marshal
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
18th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Saher IV de Quincy
Wilbur Wright
Wright Brothers - Aviation Pioneer
18th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Saher IV de Quincy
Orville Wright
Wright Brothers - Aviation Pioneer
18th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Saher IV de Quincy
Edith (Carow) Roosevelt
First Lady of President Theodore Roosevelt
19th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Geoffrey FitzPiers
Frank Nelson Doubleday
Founder of Doubleday & Co.
19th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Geoffrey FitzPiers
Capt. William Lewis Herndon
Captain of the ill fated S.S. Central America
20th cousin 1 time removed via Henry of Huntingdon