William d'Aubeney

Magna Carta Surety

23rd great-grandfather

Robert de Ros

Magna Carta Surety

23rd great-grandfather

Richard de Clare

Magna Carta Surety

26th great-grandfather

William the Conqueror

King of England

27th great-grandfather

Robert I, King of France

32nd great-grandfather

Alfred the Great

King of the Anglo-Saxons

34th great-grandfather

Charlemagne

King of the Franks

37th great-grandfather

Robert Treat Paine

Signer of the Declaration of Independence

3rd cousin 6 times removed via Simon Willard

Edmund Sears

Boston Tea Party Participant

3rd cousin 7 times removed via Richard Willard

Return J. Meigs, Jr.

4th Governor of Ohio

4th cousin 5 times removed via Simon Willard

Nathan Hale

America's First Spy

4th cousin 6 times removed via Rev. William Noyes

Jane (Appleton) Pierce

First Lady of President Franklin Pierce

5th cousin 5 times removed via Martha Reade

John Davis

14th and 17th Governor of Massachusetts

5th cousin 5 times removed via Richard Willard

Edmund Waller

English Poet and Politician

5th cousin 11 times removed via John Brome

James Brolin

TV and Movie Actor

6th cousin 2 times removed via Ephraim Wetherbee

Josh Brolin

TV and Movie Actor

6th cousin 3 times removed via Ephraim Wetherbee

Hannibal Hamlin

15th U.S. Vice-President

6th cousin 4 times removed via Richard Willard

Anne Boleyn

2nd Wife of King Henry VIII

6th cousin 14 times removed via Sir John Howard

Catherine Howard

5th Wife of King Henry VIII

6th cousin 14 times removed via Sir John Howard

Tennessee Williams

Author of A Streetcar Named Desire

7th cousin via Simon Dakin

Eugene Foss

45th Governor of Massachusetts

7th cousin via John Wetherbee

Helen Keller

Author and Activist

7th cousin 2 times removed via Nicholas Noyes

Ethan Hawke

Actor, Director, Screenwriter, Novelist

7th cousin 2 times removed via Simon Dakin

Richard Warren Sears

Co-Founder of Sears, Roebuck, & Co.

7th cousin 3 times removed via Richard Willard

Lucretia (Rudolph) Garfield

First Lady of President James Garfield

7th cousin 4 times removed via Edmund Reade

General George B. McClellan

Union Army - U.S. Civil War

7th cousin 4 times removed via Edmund Reade

James Youngs Smith

29th Governor of Rhode Island

7th cousin 4 times removed via Edmund Reade

Thomas Waldo Story

English/American Sculptor

7th cousin 4 times removed via Edmund Reade

Elizabeth I, Queen of England

7th cousin 13 times removed via Sir John Howard

Bette Davis

Movie Actress

8th cousin via Peter Cheney