Robert de Ros

Magna Carta Surety

22nd great-grandfather

Robert I, King of France

31st great-grandfather

Alfred the Great

King of the Anglo-Saxons

34th great-grandfather

Charlemagne

King of the Franks

36th great-grandfather

Rev. James Pierpont

Founder of Yale University

1st cousin 8 times removed via John Stow

Lucretia (Rudolph) Garfield

First Lady of President James Garfield

4th cousin 3 times removed via Nathaniel Stone

Aaron Burr

Killed Alexander Hamilton

4th cousin 5 times removed via John Stow

Rutherford B. Hayes

19th U.S. President

5th cousin 2 times removed via John Burgess

Ralph Waldo Emerson

American Poet

5th cousin 3 times removed via John Waite

Sir Charles Tupper

6th Prime Minister of Canada

5th cousin 3 times removed via Thomas Tupper

John Davis

14th and 17th Governor of Massachusetts

5th cousin 3 times removed via William Ward

Johnny Appleseed

aka John Chapman

5th cousin 4 times removed via Gregory Stone

Nicholas Gilman

Signer of the U.S. Constitution

5th cousin 4 times removed via Samuel Waite of Wethersfield, Essex, England

Brigham Young

2nd President of the Mormon Church

5th cousin 4 times removed via John Bent

Alice (Lee) Roosevelt

First Wife of President Theodore Roosevelt

6th cousin 1 time removed via Benjamin Nye

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Author of Tarzan and John Carter

6th cousin 2 times removed via Edward Rice

Emily Dickinson

American Poet

6th cousin 2 times removed via William Ward

Elias Howe

Inventor, Lockstitch Sewing Machine

6th cousin 2 times removed via Edward Rice

Lavinia Warren

Dwarf Circus Performer

6th cousin 2 times removed via Thomas Tupper

J.P. Morgan

American Banker and Art Collector

6th cousin 3 times removed via John Stow

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Author of The Scarlet Letter

6th cousin 3 times removed via Samuel Waite of Wethersfield, Essex, England

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

6th cousin 3 times removed via John Stow

Edwin Bryant

California Expedition Journalist

6th cousin 3 times removed via Joseph Hills

Eliphalet Adams Bulkeley

Founder of Aetna Insurance

6th cousin 3 times removed via Joseph Hills

William Rufus Day

36th U.S. Secretary of State

7th cousin via Benjamin Nye

Nelson Rockefeller

41st U.S. Vice-President

7th cousin 1 time removed via Thomas Stow

Winthrop Rockefeller

37th Governor of Arkansas

7th cousin 1 time removed via Thomas Stow

Norman Rockwell

American Artist

7th cousin 1 time removed via John Burgess

Julius Sterling Morton

Founder of Arbor Day

7th cousin 1 time removed via William Ward

Gilbert Clifford Noble

Co-Founder of Barnes & Noble

7th cousin 1 time removed via Edward Rice