This emigrant to Watertown is the ancestor of Coolidge and both Bushes. He is also a former ancestor of mine. In fact, I used to descend from Daniel Warren and Mary Barron just like the Bushes. Further research proved that wrong.
Other notable descendants include Eli Whitney and genealogist Mary Lovering Holman.
Another 17th century Englishman whose daughter and grandson emigrated to the U.S. and were ancestors of Coolidge and the Bushes.
This is a sixteenth century Englishman whose granddaughter and grandsons all emigrated to Massachusetts. Cecily Thayer married James Davis and emigrated to Haverhill. They were the ancestors of Coolidge and Ford. And Richard and Thomas Thayer emigrated to Braintree and were the ancestors of George W. Bush. In fact, Barbara Bush has five Thayer lines back to brothers Richard and Thomas.
Other notable descendant include Susan B. Anthony, Samuel Morse, and me.
Here is a chart that shows that John Putnam of Salem, Mass. was the third cousin of Roger Goodspeed of Barnstable, Mass. through the Goodspeed family (Putnam's mother was a Goodspeed). The first Mr. Goodspeed is therefore the ancestor of Coolidge, Hoover, and Ford.
In fact Hoover and Coolidge were 9th cousins through the Putnam family. Of course the paternity of Jacob Winn, Jr. is still in question so this is still speculation.
Other notable descendants include Lee de Forest and genealogist George Andrews Moriarty.
This emigrant ancestor has three presidential descendants: Harding, Nixon and Carter. Nixon and Carter are sixth cousins through their common ancestor Richard Morris (whose mother was an Almy).
Other notable descendants include William Ellery, Jr., Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, and Marilyn Monroe.
I have halted my analysis of the book Ancestors of the American Presidents for a few weeks because I am in the process of moving to Florida from Boston. Yes, no more winters. If my ancestors in New Hampshire could've retired to Florida they would've.
This does mean I will be unable to do any meaningful genealogical research. When I lived in San Francisco from 1999-2005 I was able to get on a flight for one hour and be in Salt Lake City and have the incredible resources there. Also there was the Sutro Library which had a good enough genealogical library.
But here in south Florida, I don't think there's much for a New Englander to do. Michael has some southern ancestry but confined to Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia. No deep south ancestors. My only tie to Florida is that my paternal grandfather died here in 1983.
But I do have more room than my previous residence so I can set up my library, which was severely diminished in a flood in July. I will have to see if I can think of genealogical topics to cover. But later today I close on my house and the die is cast for life in Florida.
Another emigrant who is ancestral to both Taft and the Bushes.
It should be noted that Barbara (Pierce) Bush is from another Pierce family the same that is ancestral to Franklin Pierce.
This chart combines two emigrant ancestors and shows their descent to Taft and the Bushes. I don't know whom is related the most to each other among the presidents, but Taft and the Bushes have at least five connections.
Jonathan Fairbanks of Dedham also has to his fame, the oldest house in America still in existence in Dedham, Mass.
Experience Mitchell is by his first wife (Jane Cooke, daughter of Mayflower passenger Francis Cooke) is the ancestor of both Bushes and by his second wife his is the ancestor of Taft.
Other notable descendants are genealogist George Moriarty, Marilyn Monroe, John Bartlett of Barlett's Quotations, Julia Child, Pete Seeger, Henry David Thoreau, and William Cullen Bryant.
This emigrant is the ancestor of Taft, Coolidge and George Walker Bush. He is the double ancestor of Taft whose great-grandparents were third cousins.
Other notable descendants include Harvard president Charles Eliot, Mrs. Tip O'Neill, William Crowninshield Endicott, and the first Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt.
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