The Slovak Yankee

Ancestors of American Presidents Wrap Up

Those are all the ancestors of 3, 4, and 5 presidents.  The book then  goes into detail for ancestors of just 2 presidents.  That's 76 pages worth of charts.  I will just go into those who are also my ancestors as well.

William Cheney of Roxbury, Mass.: FDR and Taft

Thomas Lawrence of St. Albans: FDR and Taft

Peter Coffin of Brixton, Devonshire: Coolidge and Ford

John Moore of Sudbury, Mass.: Coolidge and George W. Bush

John Johnson and Mary Heath of Roxbury, Mass.: Pierce and FDR

Peter Worden of Yarmouth, Mass.: Hayes and Coolidge

John Wilson of  Woburn, Mass.: Cleveland and Coolidge

Edward Winn of Woburn, Mass.: Cleveland and Hoover

Michael's Dutch ancestry gets several people too.

AAP: Thomas Blossom of Plymouth, Mass.

Another emigrant to New England who is the ancestor of the Bushes and Obama.  Another notable descendant is Wild Bill Hickok.

There's no love loss between Presidents Obama and Trump. I wonder if Trump is  jealous that he is a mere immigrant (mother born in Scotland, paternal grandparents born in Germany) in comparison with Obama, whose mother's ancestry is vast and American.  Obama is a cousin to seven previous presidents: Madison, Truman, LBJ, Ford, Carter and the two Bushes.  Who'da guessed that the black guy was more connected than the white guy?

 

 

AAP: Samuel Hinckley of Barnstable, Mass.

Samuel and his wife Sarah Soole were immigrants to New England that were ancestors of the Bushes and Barack Obama.  The Bushes line goes through Thomas Hinckley, the governor of Plymouth Colony and the Obama line manages to go through a generation with a John Smith.

Other Hinckley descendants include Galusha Aaron Grow and genealogist Henry Edwards Scott.

AAP: Dirck Vanderburgh of New York City

Another Dutchman and this man is the ancestor of Ford and the Bushes.  In fact, the Bushes have a double descent from him.

 

200,000 hits

I just passed 200,000 page views on this blog.  That means an indeterminate amount of people have clicked 200,000 times to get to my blog.  Now that's not a lot for some webpages that get 200,000 hits per day or per hour.  But for a  little genealogical blog it's interesting.  The  person who was #200,000 was searching for Shadrach Hapgood.  I hope he found the information useful.  In  fact, I hope  all the 200,000 hits found what I wrote useful and helpful.

I'm close to 1,000 postings also.

 

AAP: Thomas Richards and Richard Palgrave

These two immigrants are the ancestors of FDR and the Bushes.  You'll notice that the vast New England ancestry of some of the presidents means they are related over and over again.  Dr. Richard Palgrave was of royal descent as well.

Other notable descendants of Thomas Richards include George McClellan and George Eastman.  Notable descendants of Richard Palgrave include Hetty Howland Robinson Green, Eli Whitney, Max Perkins, and Roger Sherman.

AAP: John Jenney of Plymouth, Mass.

This immigrant is the double ancestor of both FDR and the Bushes.  FDR has double lines to him and both Bushes have double lines as well.

Other notable descendants include genealogist Henry Edwards Scott.

AAP: Anne Marbury Hutchinson

Anne Marbury, the wife of William Hutchinson was well known in colonial times.  Few women made their mark in the 17th century, but she did.  She was also of royal descent.  She is the ancestress of FDR and the Bushes.  Elisa Hutchinson of Boston, Mass. had children by two wives and each had a presidential branch, thus making FDR and the Bushes cousins of the half blood.

Other notable descendants include Nicholas Gilman, Mitt Romney, genealogist Samuel Gardner Drake, genealogist James Savage, genealogist Elizabeth French Bartlett, Benny Goodman's wife, Marilyn Monroe, Dubose Hayward, Ted Danson, William Barton Rogers, First Lady Lucretia Garfield, John Singleton Copley's wife, Erskine Hamilton Childers, Stephen Douglas, Melville Weston Fuller, Charles William Eliot, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Robert Lowell among others.

AAP: Wilhelmus Beekman

Another Dutch immigrant who is the ancestor of FDR and the Bushes.  Eleanor Roosevelt was also a Beekman descendant.

 

AAP: The Kendall Siblings

Here are two siblings, Mabel Kendall and her brother Francis Kendall.  Their parents are unknown, but they both came to Woburn, Mass.  Mabel married William Reade.  Together Mabel and Francis are ancestors of Hoover and the Bushes.  George W. Bush in fact has three lines to the Kendalls, two through his father and one through his mother.

Other notable descendants include Elias Howe, Lee de Forest, and genealogist John Farmer.