Rebecca (Towne) Nurse

Executed for Witchcraft, Salem 1692

7th great-grandmother

James Chilton

Mayflower Passenger

9th great-grandfather

Edward I, King of England

20th great-grandfather

Henry III, King of England

21st great-grandfather

John de Lacy

Magna Carta Surety

22nd great-grandfather

Gilbert de Clare

Magna Carta Surety

22nd great-grandfather

William Malet

Magna Carta Surety

22nd great-grandfather

Hugh le Bigod

Magna Carta Surety

23rd great-grandfather

Richard de Clare

Magna Carta Surety

23rd great-grandfather

Henry de Bohun

Magna Carta Surety

23rd great-grandfather

Saher de Quincy

Magna Carta Surety

24th great-grandfather

Roger le Bigod

Magna Carta Surety

24th great-grandfather

Louis VI, King of France

25th great-grandfather

William the Conqueror

King of England

26th great-grandfather

Robert I, King of France

31st great-grandfather

Alfred the Great

King of the Anglo-Saxons

33rd great-grandfather

Charlemagne

King of the Franks

36th great-grandfather

Mary (Towne) Eastey

Executed for Witchcraft, Salem 1692

7th great-grandaunt via William Towne

Sarah (Towne) Cloyce

Accused of Witchcraft, Salem 1692

7th great-grandaunt via William Towne

Edward Winslow

Mayflower Passenger

8th great-granduncle via Edward Winslow

Deborah Samson

Female Revolutionary War Veteran

3rd cousin 7 times removed via Alice Carpenter

Salmon P. Chase

25th U.S. Secretary of the Treasury

4th cousin 3 times removed via Moses Chase

Horatio Alger

Author

4th cousin 3 times removed via Joseph Keith

Eli Whitney

Inventor of the Cotton Gin

4th cousin 4 times removed via Daniel Warren

Cadwallader Washburn

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

4th cousin 4 times removed via Edward Fobes

Israel Washburn

29th Governor of Maine

4th cousin 4 times removed via Edward Fobes

Elihu Washburne

25th U.S. Secretary of State

4th cousin 4 times removed via Edward Fobes

Aaron Burr

Killed Alexander Hamilton

4th cousin 5 times removed via Agnes Harris

Nicholas Gilman

Signer of the U.S. Constitution

4th cousin 5 times removed via John Winslow

William Cullen Bryant

American “Fireside” Poet

4th cousin 5 times removed via John Howard