Famous Kin of
Robert Townsend
Member of the Culper Spy Ring during the American Revolution
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Julia (Ward) Howe
Author of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”
4th cousin 2 times removed via William Almy
Susan B. Anthony
Women's Rights Advocate
4th cousin 3 times removed via Robert Titus
Anne Boleyn
2nd Wife of King Henry VIII
4th cousin 7 times removed via Katherine Pabenham
Jane Seymour
3rd Wife of King Henry VIII
4th cousin 7 times removed via Katherine Pabenham
Catherine Howard
5th Wife of King Henry VIII
4th cousin 7 times removed via Katherine Pabenham
King Henry VIII
King of England
6th cousin 10 times removed via Sir Hugh I de Audley
Catherine Parr
6th Wife of King Henry VIII
7th cousin 9 times removed via Sir Hugh I de Audley
Samuel Prescott
Completed Paul Revere's Midnight Ride
9th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Humphrey Stafford
General Douglas MacArthur
U.S. Army - World War II
9th cousin 5 times removed via Sir Humphrey Stafford
Sir Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
9th cousin 6 times removed via Sir Humphrey Stafford
Caesar Rodney
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
10th cousin 1 time removed via Katherine Pabenham
Lt. Gen. James Brudenell
Leader of the “Charge of the Light Brigade”
10th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Humphrey Stafford
Richard More
Mayflower Passenger
10th cousin 4 times removed via Ralph de Stafford
General George S. Patton
U.S. Army - World War II
10th cousin 6 times removed via Sir Humphrey Stafford
Edmund Waller
English Poet and Politician
10th cousin 6 times removed via John de Botetourte
General George C. Marshall
Author of “The Marshall Plan”
10th cousin 6 times removed via Sir Humphrey Stafford
Adlai Stevenson III
U.S. Senator from Illinois
10th cousin 7 times removed via Sir Humphrey Stafford
Robert Treat Paine
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
11th cousin 1 time removed via Katherine Pabenham
Rev. George Burroughs
Executed for Witchcraft, Salem 1692
11th cousin 3 times removed via Ralph de Stafford
Charles Darwin
Theory of Evolution
11th cousin 3 times removed via Katherine Pabenham
John D. Rockefeller
Founder of the Standard Oil Company
11th cousin 5 times removed via Katherine Pabenham
Edith (Bolling) Wilson
First Lady of President Woodrow Wilson
11th cousin 5 times removed via Katherine Pabenham
Frank Lloyd Wright
American Architect
11th cousin 6 times removed via Katherine Pabenham
Norman Rockwell
American Artist
11th cousin 6 times removed via Katherine Pabenham
Nelson Rockefeller
41st U.S. Vice-President
11th cousin 7 times removed via Katherine Pabenham
Ted Danson
TV Actor - “Cheers”, “CSI”
11th cousin 8 times removed via Sir Thomas Aylesbury
Carly Fiorina
CEO of Hewlett-Packard
11th cousin 9 times removed via Sir Thomas Aylesbury
Elihu Yale
Benefactor and Namesake of Yale College
12th cousin 6 times removed via Roger de Somery
George Washington
1st U.S. President
13th cousin 1 time removed via Ralph de Stafford
Benjamin Harrison V
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
13th cousin 1 time removed via Ralph de Stafford
Thomas Nelson
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
13th cousin 1 time removed via Ralph de Stafford
George Clinton
4th U.S. Vice President
13th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Hugh I de Audley
Major John Pitcairn
British Commander at Battle of Lexington
13th cousin 4 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Fletcher Christian
Leader of the mutiny on the Bounty
14th cousin via Ralph de Stafford
George Mason
Father of the U.S. Bill of Rights
14th cousin via Ralph de Stafford
Bathsheba (Ruggles) Spooner
First woman executed for murder in U.S. by non-British government
14th cousin via Ralph de Stafford
General Robert E. Lee
Confederate Army - U.S. Civil War
14th cousin 1 time removed via Ralph de Stafford
Harriet Martineau
Author of The Hour and the Man
14th cousin 1 time removed via Ralph de Stafford
Jane (Appleton) Pierce
First Lady of President Franklin Pierce
14th cousin 1 time removed via Ralph de Stafford
Nicholas Gilman
Signer of the U.S. Constitution
14th cousin 1 time removed via Ralph de Stafford
Thomas Jefferson
3rd U.S. President and Signer of the Declaration of Independence
14th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Hugh I de Audley
DeWitt Clinton
6th Governor of New York
14th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Hugh I de Audley
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
American “Fireside” Poet
14th cousin 2 times removed via Ralph de Stafford
Stephen A. Douglas
Participated in Lincoln-Douglas Debates
14th cousin 3 times removed via Ralph de Stafford
Roger Sherman
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
14th cousin 3 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Caleb Brewster
Member of the Culper Spy Ring during the American Revolution
14th cousin 3 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Colonel Robert Gould Shaw
Principal character of film Glory portrayed by Matthew Broderick
14th cousin 3 times removed via Ralph de Stafford
Jonathan Swift
Author of Gulliver's Travels
14th cousin 3 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice
14th cousin 3 times removed via Ralph de Stafford
Charles A. Pillsbury
Co-Founder of C.A. Pillsbury Co.
14th cousin 4 times removed via Ralph de Stafford
Dr. H. H. Holmes
Serial Killer aka “Devil in the White City”
14th cousin 4 times removed via Ralph de Stafford
Barbara (Pierce) Bush
First Lady of President George H.W. Bush
14th cousin 5 times removed via Sir Warin Trussell
Tennessee Williams
Author of A Streetcar Named Desire
14th cousin 5 times removed via Ralph de Stafford
Walt Disney
Co-Founder of The Walt Disney Company
14th cousin 5 times removed via Ralph de Stafford
Mamie (Doud) Eisenhower
First Lady of President Dwight Eisenhower
14th cousin 6 times removed via Ralph de Stafford
Sandra Day O'Connor
First Female U.S. Supreme Court Justice
14th cousin 6 times removed via Ralph de Stafford
John Marshall
4th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
15th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Hugh I de Audley
General William Whipple
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
15th cousin 2 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Patrick Henry
“Give me liberty, or give me death!”
15th cousin 2 times removed via Edward I, King of England
John Hancock
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
15th cousin 3 times removed via Roger de Somery
William Floyd
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
16th cousin via Sir Hugh I de Audley
Lytton Strachey
Author and Co-Founder of Bloomsbury Group
16th cousin via Sir Hugh I de Audley
Abigail (Smith) Adams
First Lady of President John Adams
16th cousin 1 time removed via Edward I, King of England
Eli Whitney
Inventor of the Cotton Gin
16th cousin 1 time removed via Edward I, King of England
Button Gwinnett
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
16th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Edmund Mortimer
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Poet
16th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Hugh I de Audley
Hetty Green
“The Witch of Wall Street”
16th cousin 1 time removed via John de Botetourte
Joseph Wharton
Founder of the Wharton School of Business
16th cousin 1 time removed via John de Botetourte
Ichabod Goodwin
27th Governor of New Hampshire
16th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Hugh I de Audley
Lucretia (Rudolph) Garfield
First Lady of President James Garfield
16th cousin 2 times removed via John de Botetourte
Queen Elizabeth II
Queen of the United Kingdom
16th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Hugh I de Audley
Philip Livingston
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
16th cousin 2 times removed via Gilbert de Clare
Francis Scott Key
Author of “The Star Spangled Banner”
16th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Hugh I de Audley
Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd U.S. President
16th cousin 3 times removed via John de Botetourte
Anthony West
Novelist and writer for the New Yorker
16th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Hugh I de Audley
General James Longstreet
Confederate Army - U.S. Civil War
16th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Gilbert de Clare
Upton Sinclair
Pulitzer Prize Winning Novelist
16th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Hugh I de Audley
Ray Bradbury
Author of The Martian Chronicles
16th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Hugh I de Audley
Camilla Parker Bowles
Duchess of Cornwall
16th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Hugh I de Audley
Ellen Louise (Axon) Wilson
First Lady of President Woodrow Wilson
16th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Gilbert de Clare
John McCain
U.S. Senator from Arizona
16th cousin 4 times removed via John de Botetourte
Lee Harvey Oswald
Accused Assassin of President John F. Kennedy
16th cousin 5 times removed via Sir Hugh I de Audley
Lou (Henry) Hoover
First Lady of President Herbert Hoover
16th cousin 5 times removed via Sir Gilbert de Clare
Shubael D. Childs
Founder of S.D. Childs & Company
17th cousin via Edward I, King of England
Alexander Hamilton
1st U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
17th cousin via Edward I, King of England
Noel Coward
Playwright, Actor, and Songwriter
17th cousin via Edward I, King of England
James Russell Lowell
American “Fireside” Poet
17th cousin via Edward I, King of England
J. A. Folger
Founder of Folger Coffee Company
17th cousin 1 time removed via Edward I, King of England
Theodore Roosevelt
26th U.S. President
17th cousin 1 time removed via Edward I, King of England
Richard Warren Sears
Co-Founder of Sears, Roebuck, & Co.
17th cousin 1 time removed via Edward I, King of England
Gloria Vanderbilt
Fashion Designer
17th cousin 1 time removed via Edward I, King of England
Jay Gould
American Railroad “Robber Baron”
17th cousin 1 time removed via Roger de Somery
Henry Clay Folger
Founder of Folger Shakespeare Library and Chairman of Standard Oil
17th cousin 2 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Eleanor Roosevelt
First Lady of President Franklin D. Roosevelt
17th cousin 2 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Anderson Cooper
Television Journalist
17th cousin 2 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Johnny Mercer
Songwriter and Co-Founder of Capitol Records
17th cousin 3 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Valerie Bertinelli
Television Actress
17th cousin 3 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Lyman Hall
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
17th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Saher IV de Quincy
Abigail Folger
Charles Manson Murder Victim and Folger Coffee Heiress
17th cousin 4 times removed via Edward I, King of England
General Hugh Mercer
American Revolutionary War Hero
18th cousin via Gilbert de Clare
Eliphalet Remington
Founder of Remington Arms Company
18th cousin via Roger de Somery
William C. C. Claiborne
1st Governor of Louisiana
18th cousin 1 time removed via William de Braiose
Alice (Lee) Roosevelt
First Wife of President Theodore Roosevelt
18th cousin 2 times removed via Roger de Somery
Sir Charles Tupper
6th Prime Minister of Canada
18th cousin 2 times removed via Henry III, King of England
Endicott Peabody
62nd Governor of Massachusetts
18th cousin 3 times removed via Henry III, King of England
J.P. Morgan
American Banker and Art Collector
19th cousin via Isabelle of Angouleme
J.P. Morgan, Jr.
American Banker and Philanthropist
19th cousin 1 time removed via Isabelle of Angouleme
Aaron Burr
Killed Alexander Hamilton
19th cousin 1 time removed via Roger de Clare
Helen (Herron) Taft
First Lady of President William H. Taft
19th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Saher IV de Quincy
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
20th cousin via Sir Saher IV de Quincy
Wilbur Wright
Wright Brothers - Aviation Pioneer
20th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Saher IV de Quincy
Orville Wright
Wright Brothers - Aviation Pioneer
20th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Saher IV de Quincy
Lewis Henry Morgan
Pioneering Anthropologist
20th cousin 1 time removed via Roger de Clare