Famous Kin of
Carter Braxton
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
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Benjamin Harrison V
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
1st cousin via Col. Robert "King" Carter
Thomas Nelson
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
1st cousin 1 time removed via Col. Robert "King" Carter
General Robert E. Lee
Confederate Army - U.S. Civil War
1st cousin 2 times removed via Col. Robert "King" Carter
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Singer and Songwriter
1st cousin 8 times removed via Col. Robert "King" Carter
Robert FitzWalter
Magna Carta Surety
1st cousin 18 times removed via Maud de St. Liz
Theodore Roosevelt
26th U.S. President
3rd cousin 6 times removed via John Carter of Christchurch, London, England
Lee Harvey Oswald
Accused Assassin of President John F. Kennedy
3rd cousin 7 times removed via John Carter of Christchurch, London, England
Jimmy Carter
39th U.S. President
3rd cousin 8 times removed via John Carter of Christchurch, London, England
Caleb Brewster
Member of the Culper Spy Ring during the American Revolution
4th cousin via Thomas Ludlow
Eleanor Roosevelt
First Lady of President Franklin D. Roosevelt
4th cousin 5 times removed via Thomas Ludlow
Ferdinand II of Aragon
1st King of a united Spain
4th cousin 7 times removed via Diego Gomez de Toledo
Susan B. Anthony
Women's Rights Advocate
6th cousin 4 times removed via William Pyle
Hetty Green
“The Witch of Wall Street”
6th cousin 4 times removed via William Pyle
Marilyn Monroe
Actress, Model, and Singer
6th cousin 6 times removed via William Pyle
Kate Upton
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Cover Model
6th cousin 8 times removed via William Pyle
Benedict Cumberbatch
Movie, Television and Stage Actor
6th cousin 9 times removed via Sir Andrews de Windsor
Edmund Waller
English Poet and Politician
7th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Thomas Blount
Anne Boleyn
2nd Wife of King Henry VIII
7th cousin 6 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
King Henry VIII
King of England
7th cousin 7 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Richard More
Mayflower Passenger
8th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Walter Blount
Lt. Gen. James Brudenell
Leader of the “Charge of the Light Brigade”
8th cousin 4 times removed via John Andrews
Catherine Howard
5th Wife of King Henry VIII
8th cousin 6 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Catherine Parr
6th Wife of King Henry VIII
8th cousin 6 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Sir Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
8th cousin 7 times removed via John Andrews
Queen Elizabeth II
Queen of the United Kingdom
8th cousin 8 times removed via John Andrews
George Washington
1st U.S. President
9th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Thomas Blount
Nicholas Gilman
Signer of the U.S. Constitution
9th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Thomas Blount
Lucretia (Rudolph) Garfield
First Lady of President James Garfield
9th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Thomas Blount
J. A. Folger
Founder of Folger Coffee Company
9th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Thomas Blount
Joseph Wharton
Founder of the Wharton School of Business
9th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Thomas Blount
Henry Clay Folger
Founder of Folger Shakespeare Library and Chairman of Standard Oil
9th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Thomas Blount
Stephen A. Douglas
Participated in Lincoln-Douglas Debates
9th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Thomas Blount
Shanghai Pierce
Texas Cattleman
9th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Thomas Blount
Jane Seymour
3rd Wife of King Henry VIII
9th cousin 5 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd U.S. President
9th cousin 5 times removed via Sir Thomas Blount
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice
9th cousin 5 times removed via Sir Thomas Blount
George Romney
43rd Governor of Michigan
9th cousin 6 times removed via Sir Thomas Blount
Abigail Folger
Charles Manson Murder Victim and Folger Coffee Heiress
9th cousin 6 times removed via Sir Thomas Blount
Amelia Earhart
Aviation Pioneer
9th cousin 6 times removed via Sir Thomas Blount
Willis Carrier
Inventor of Air Conditioning
9th cousin 6 times removed via Sir Thomas Blount
General George S. Patton
U.S. Army - World War II
9th cousin 7 times removed via Sir Thomas Blount
George H. W. Bush
41st U.S. President
9th cousin 8 times removed via Sir Thomas Blount
Ted Danson
TV Actor - “Cheers”, “CSI”
9th cousin 8 times removed via Sir Thomas Blount
Kit Harington
TV Actor - “Game of Thrones”
9th cousin 9 times removed via Sir Thomas Blount
Cara Delevingne
Fashion Model and Movie Actress
9th cousin 11 times removed via Sir Thomas Blount
General William Whipple
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
10th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Hugh Luttrell
George Clinton
4th U.S. Vice President
10th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Walter Blount
George Mason
Father of the U.S. Bill of Rights
10th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Walter Blount
Bathsheba (Ruggles) Spooner
First woman executed for murder in U.S. by non-British government
10th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Walter Blount
John Langdon
Signer of the U.S. Constitution
10th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Walter Blount
DeWitt Clinton
6th Governor of New York
10th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Walter Blount
Jane (Appleton) Pierce
First Lady of President Franklin Pierce
10th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Hugh Luttrell
C. W. Post
Founder of Post Cereals
10th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Walter Blount
Grover Cleveland
22nd and 24th U.S. President
10th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Walter Blount
Marjorie Post
Founder of General Foods
10th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Walter Blount
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
American “Fireside” Poet
10th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Walter Blount
Colonel Robert Gould Shaw
Principal character of film Glory portrayed by Matthew Broderick
10th cousin 5 times removed via Sir Walter Blount
John Brown
American Abolitionist
10th cousin 5 times removed via Sir Walter Blount
William Marsh Rice
Founder of Rice University
10th cousin 5 times removed via Sir Walter Blount
Tennessee Williams
Author of A Streetcar Named Desire
10th cousin 6 times removed via Sir Hugh Luttrell
Dr. H. H. Holmes
Serial Killer aka “Devil in the White City”
10th cousin 6 times removed via Sir Walter Blount
Lizzie Borden
Accused Murderess
10th cousin 6 times removed via Sir Walter Blount
John Kerry
68th U.S. Secretary of State
10th cousin 6 times removed via Sir Walter Blount
Allen Dulles
5th Director of the C.I.A.
10th cousin 6 times removed via Sir Walter Blount
John Foster Dulles
52nd U.S. Secretary of State
10th cousin 6 times removed via Sir Walter Blount
Elizabeth Montgomery
TV Actress - “Bewitched”
10th cousin 7 times removed via Sir Walter Blount
James Sherman
27th U.S. Vice-President
10th cousin 7 times removed via Sir Walter Blount
Illeana Douglas
TV and Movie Actress
10th cousin 7 times removed via Sir Walter Blount
John Adams Morgan
1952 Olympic Sailing Gold Medalist
10th cousin 7 times removed via Sir Walter Blount
Herbert Hoover
31st U.S. President
10th cousin 8 times removed via Sir Walter Blount
Alan Shepard
Mercury and Apollo Astronaut
10th cousin 8 times removed via Sir Walter Blount
Adlai Stevenson III
U.S. Senator from Illinois
10th cousin 8 times removed via Sir Walter Blount
George Hamilton
TV and Movie Actor
10th cousin 8 times removed via Sir Walter Blount
J. K. Simmons
TV and Movie Actor
10th cousin 8 times removed via Sir Walter Blount
Kyra Sedgwick
TV and Movie Actress
10th cousin 9 times removed via Sir Walter Blount
Robert Catesby
Leader of Gunpowder Plot
12th cousin 4 times removed via William de Braiose
Roger Sherman
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
13th cousin via Humphrey de Bohun
Richard Henry Lee
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
13th cousin via Humphrey de Bohun
Francis Lightfoot Lee
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
13th cousin via Humphrey de Bohun
James Madison
4th U.S. President
13th cousin 1 time removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Rev. George Burroughs
Executed for Witchcraft, Salem 1692
13th cousin 1 time removed via Edward I, King of England
Major John Pitcairn
British Commander at Battle of Lexington
13th cousin 1 time removed via Edward I, King of England
Thomas Sim Lee
2nd and 7th Governor of Maryland
13th cousin 1 time removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Abigail (Smith) Adams
First Lady of President John Adams
13th cousin 2 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Meriwether Lewis
Lewis and Clark Expedition
13th cousin 2 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Eli Whitney
Inventor of the Cotton Gin
13th cousin 2 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Robert Treat Paine
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
13th cousin 2 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
William Floyd
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
13th cousin 2 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Edward Lloyd V
13th Governor of Maryland
13th cousin 2 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Charles Goldsborough
16th Governor of Maryland
13th cousin 2 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
John Quincy Adams
6th U.S. President
13th cousin 3 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Shubael D. Childs
Founder of S.D. Childs & Company
13th cousin 3 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Zachary Taylor
12th U.S. President
13th cousin 3 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Richard Warren Sears
Co-Founder of Sears, Roebuck, & Co.
13th cousin 4 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Jay Gould
American Railroad “Robber Baron”
13th cousin 4 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Buckminster Fuller
Author, Architect, and Inventor
13th cousin 5 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology or Medicine
13th cousin 5 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
John D. Rockefeller
Founder of the Standard Oil Company
13th cousin 6 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
General Douglas MacArthur
U.S. Army - World War II
13th cousin 6 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
General George C. Marshall
Author of “The Marshall Plan”
13th cousin 6 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Mamie (Doud) Eisenhower
First Lady of President Dwight Eisenhower
13th cousin 8 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Thomas Jefferson
3rd U.S. President and Signer of the Declaration of Independence
14th cousin 1 time removed via Edward I, King of England
Caesar Rodney
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
14th cousin 1 time removed via Edward I, King of England
Harriet Martineau
Author of The Hour and the Man
14th cousin 2 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Samuel Prescott
Completed Paul Revere's Midnight Ride
14th cousin 2 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Fletcher Christian
Leader of the mutiny on the Bounty
14th cousin 2 times removed via Edward I, King of England
John Marshall
4th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
14th cousin 2 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Alexander Hamilton
1st U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
14th cousin 3 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Samuel Howard
Boston Tea Party Participant
14th cousin 3 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Helen Keller
Author and Activist
14th cousin 3 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Noel Coward
Playwright, Actor, and Songwriter
14th cousin 3 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Lytton Strachey
Author and Co-Founder of Bloomsbury Group
14th cousin 3 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Charles Carnan Ridgely
15th Governor of Maryland
14th cousin 3 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Francis Scott Key
Author of “The Star Spangled Banner”
14th cousin 4 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Edith (Bolling) Wilson
First Lady of President Woodrow Wilson
14th cousin 4 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Poet
14th cousin 4 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Ichabod Goodwin
27th Governor of New Hampshire
14th cousin 4 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Johnny Mercer
Songwriter and Co-Founder of Capitol Records
14th cousin 5 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Jack London
Author of “The Call of the Wild”
14th cousin 5 times removed via Edward I, King of England
William Rufus Day
36th U.S. Secretary of State
14th cousin 5 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Charles A. Pillsbury
Co-Founder of C.A. Pillsbury Co.
14th cousin 6 times removed via Edward I, King of England
William Howard Taft
27th U.S. President
14th cousin 6 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Camilla Parker Bowles
Duchess of Cornwall
14th cousin 6 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Anthony West
Novelist and writer for the New Yorker
14th cousin 6 times removed via Edward I, King of England
General James Longstreet
Confederate Army - U.S. Civil War
14th cousin 6 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Upton Sinclair
Pulitzer Prize Winning Novelist
14th cousin 6 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Alan Turing
WWII Codebreaker of Nazi Enigma Machine
14th cousin 6 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Ray Bradbury
Author of The Martian Chronicles
14th cousin 7 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Harper Lee
Author of To Kill a Mockingbird
14th cousin 7 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Walt Disney
Co-Founder of The Walt Disney Company
14th cousin 7 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Ellen Louise (Axson) Wilson
First Lady of President Woodrow Wilson
14th cousin 7 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Katharine Hepburn
Movie Actress
14th cousin 7 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Button Gwinnett
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
15th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Humphrey de Bohun
Elihu Yale
Benefactor and Namesake of Yale College
15th cousin 3 times removed via John FitzGilbert (the Marshal)
Sir Charles Tupper
6th Prime Minister of Canada
15th cousin 5 times removed via Henry III, King of England
Endicott Peabody
62nd Governor of Massachusetts
15th cousin 5 times removed via Henry III, King of England
Barbara (Pierce) Bush
First Lady of President George H.W. Bush
15th cousin 6 times removed via Henry III, King of England
William C. C. Claiborne
1st Governor of Louisiana
16th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Humphrey de Bohun
J.P. Morgan
American Banker and Art Collector
16th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Humphrey de Bohun
J.P. Morgan, Jr.
American Banker and Philanthropist
16th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Humphrey de Bohun
Marshall Field
Founder of Marshall Field & Co.
16th cousin 4 times removed via John, King of England
Henry Sturgis Morgan
Co-Founder of Morgan Stanley
16th cousin 5 times removed via Sir Humphrey de Bohun
Rutherford B. Hayes
19th U.S. President
16th cousin 5 times removed via John, King of England
Philip Livingston
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
17th cousin via Sir William Marshal
Lyman Hall
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
17th cousin via Sir Saher IV de Quincy
Helen (Herron) Taft
First Lady of President William H. Taft
17th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Saher IV de Quincy
William Ellery
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
17th cousin 2 times removed via Henry II, King of England
General Hugh Mercer
American Revolutionary War Hero
17th cousin 2 times removed via Sir William Marshal
William Greene
2nd Governor of Rhode Island
17th cousin 2 times removed via Henry II, King of England
Robert Townsend
Member of the Culper Spy Ring during the American Revolution
17th cousin 3 times removed via Henry II, King of England
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
17th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Saher IV de Quincy
Wilbur Wright
Wright Brothers - Aviation Pioneer
17th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Saher IV de Quincy
Orville Wright
Wright Brothers - Aviation Pioneer
17th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Saher IV de Quincy
Samuel Ward King
15th Governor of Rhode Island
17th cousin 4 times removed via Henry II, King of England
John Hancock
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
18th cousin via John FitzGilbert (the Marshal)
Edith (Carow) Roosevelt
First Lady of President Theodore Roosevelt
18th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Geoffrey FitzPiers
Frank Nelson Doubleday
Founder of Doubleday & Co.
18th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Geoffrey FitzPiers
Eliphalet Remington
Founder of Remington Arms Company
19th cousin 1 time removed via Maud de St. Liz
Capt. William Lewis Herndon
Captain of the ill fated S.S. Central America
19th cousin 2 times removed via Henry of Huntingdon