Among the various “article series” into which past “Notable Kin”
columns readily divide, only two New England in Hollywood and American
Connections of the British Royal Family, the latter centered around The
Queen Mother, The Princess of Wales and The Duchess of York have
featured nearly as many women as men. The columns on New England
signers of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and on
New England-derived presidential royal descents and President Bush,
featured men exclusively and by necessity - there were no female signers
and no women among the 40 presidents to date. The columns on foreign
prime ministers and presidents covered the ancestry of Mrs. John George
Diefenbaker, the Countess of Avon (Lady Anthony Eden), Mrs. Georges E.B.
Clemenceau, and Mrs. Tomas C. Masaiyk in some detail, but only because
their husbands attained high office. The columns on the royal
descents of tycoon families also covered various wives, but only Hetty
Green in her own right. The only woman among 15 treated figures in “The
flowering of New England” was Harriet Beecher Stowe. Texans, folkloric
figures and “Molders and Mythologizers of the American West” included,
among women, Mercy Lavinia Warren Bump (Mrs. Tom Thumb), Lizzie Borden,
and Laura Ingalls Wilder, with nods to Mrs. Richard King, matriarch of
the King Ranch, and Georgia O’Keeffe, and a whole column on Pocahontas,
among whose noted descendants was First Lady Edith Boiling Gait Wilson.
“New England in Hollywood,” by contrast, featured Bette Davis, Jane
Fonda, Lillian Gish, Katharine Hepburn, Agatha Christie, and Marilyn
Monroe.
This column, and its successor, are designed not only to
redress the imbalance betwen men and women covered in “Notable Kin” -
comments about interesting descendants or near relatives of major
figures, and about the ancestry of their wives, plus the preponderance
of treated descents derived through mothers, grand mothers, great-grand
mothers, etc. (all ancestry, in fact, except the patrilineal descent)
make clear the centrality of female-derived kinships to genealogical
structure. My aim is also to explore the ancestry of some of the most
distinguished women in American history. In examining the lists of 500
Notable Americans compiled by Richard B. Morris and Henry Steele
Commager as a section of their Encyclopedia of American History, and
the biographies and classified lists in Notable American Women one
notices immediately, among the longest sketches especially, the
preponderance of New England (and Yankee-derived New York City and
state), of the nineteenth century, and of social reform. After the
nation was settled (in the colonial period), became independent (via the
Revolution), and grew prosperous (via mercantile federalism, some early
industralization, and to some extent the full development of plantation
life in the South), its women participated not only in pioneer westward
expansion. They also sought civic and voting rights, plus higher
education and full development of literary and artistic talent for
themselves, and the alleviation of suffering by the sick, the mentally
ill, and the families of alcoholics especially. Women also participated
in the abolition and peace movements, the expansion of religion and
missionary work, and the development of new sects and orders. They
founded kindergartens (and to some extent children’s and adolescent
literature), women’s clubs, charitable organizations and the tradition
of volunteerism in American life. Some entered professions or paved the
way for the professionalization of nursing, social work and home
economics. Some administered the colleges they founded. Many less well
known women, schoolteachers and family matriarchs especially, tried to
bring “culture” to the frontier West. In the nineteenth century, in
short, women became the “conscience of America.” Much of the legacy of
these early writers, feminists, social reformers, educators, religious
founders and clubwomen is now being reevaluated, and its value for
contemporary life reexamined, but the nineteenth century achievement in
its own time and terms was a remarkable flowering.
This column
treats literary figures L.ouisa May Alcott, Emily Elizabeth Dickinson,
(Sarah) Margaret Fuller (Marchesa d’Ossoli by marriage), and the Peabody
sisters, plus feminists Susan Brownell Anthony, (Mrs.) Lucretia Coffin
Molt, and (Mrs.) Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Alcott, together with Horatio
Alger, can almost be said to have founded adolescent fiction; Dickinson
is one of the great lyric poets in English literature, only very
marginally connected, via correspondent Thomas Wentworth Higginson, to
Boston’s “Flowering of New England”; transcendentalist and literary
critic Margaret Fuller also wrote Woman in The Nineteenth Century and
participated in liberal Italian politics (and nursing); and Elizabeth
Peabody Palmer, transcendentalist publisher and book dealer, founded the
first American kindergarten in 1860. Elizabeth’s sister, Mary Tyler
Peabody, married the educator Horace Mann, wrote a three-volume
biography of him, and after his death assisted her sister in leading the
kindergarten movement. Sophia Amelia Peabody, the third sister,
married the novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jr., illustrated some of his
early [155] work, and edited his notebooks. Anthony, Mrs. Molt
and Mrs. Stanton are perhaps the three greatest figures in
pro-contemporary American feminism. Mrs. Molt (a Quaker preacher) and
Mrs. Stanton organized the 1848 Women’s Rights convention in Seneca
Falls, New York; Anthony and Mrs. Stanton were closely associated after
1851, served as presidents of the National (and National American) Woman
Suffrage Association, and co-authored the four-volume History of
Woman Suffrage. In the next “Notable Kin” column we shall consider
the ancestry of humanitarian and asylum reformer Dorothea Lynde Dix,
temperance leader Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard, Red Cross founder
Clara Barton, Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy, educators Emma
Hart Willard and Mary Lyon, and feminist and clubwoman Julia Ward Howe,
author of “Battle Hymn of the Republic.”
Born between 1793 and
1832 (average year 1813), the nine figures treated below were natives
respectively of Germantown, Pennsylvania (Alcott, later associated with
Boston and Concord, Massachusetts); Amherst, Cambridgeport, Billerica
(E.P. Peabody), Cambridge (Mrs. Mann), Salem (Mrs. Hawthorne), and
Adams, Massachusetts (Anthony, later a resident of New York City,
Washington, D.C., and Rochester, New York); Johnstown, New York (Mrs.
Stanton, whose paternal grandparents were natives respectively of Lyme
and Kent, Connecticut); and Nantucket. Alcott’s father was noted
transcendentalist and educator Amos Bronson Alcott; Dickinson’s father
and paternal grandfather, both treasurers of Amherst College, were
graduates of Yale and Dartmouth respectively; Fuller’s father (a
congressman), paternal grandfather, a great-grandfather (Abraham
Williams, Jr.) and a great-great-great-grandfather (Robert Breck) were
graduates of Harvard; and the Peabody sisters, whose father was a
Dartmouth graduate (married to the daughter and granddaughter of Harvard
graduates), were great-granddaughters of revolutionary general Joseph
Palmer.
As to descendants and major figures among near kinsmen of
these women, Alcott was a second cousin once, twice and three times
removed, respectively, of wives of William Collins Whitney, the
financier, sportsman, and Secretary of the Navy, John Barrymore, the
actor, and Edwin Frank “Eddy” Duchin, and a third cousin of astronomer
and aeronautics pioneer Samuel Pierpont Langley, also a secretary of the
Smithsonian. Great-nephews of Margaret Fuller included world systems
engineer R(ichard) Buckminster Fuller, Jr., designer of the geodesic
dome, and novelist John Phillips Marquand. A third cousin of Margaret,
George Williams Gates, who migrated from Lunenburgh, Vermont to
Independence, Missouri, was a great-grandfather of First Lady Bess
Truman. Abigail Adams Cranch, a second cousin once removed of the
Peabody sisters, married William Greenleaf Eliot, founder of Washington
University in St. Louis; the poet Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot, their
grandson, was thus a fourth cousin of author Julian Hawthorne and Mrs.
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, “Mother Alphonsa.” Another second cousin once
removed of the Peabody sisters was Salem fortune founder and
Peabody-Endicott-Gardnor sire Joseph Peabody. Mrs. Mott, whose
grandchildren included geographer and geologist William Morris Davis and
the wife of wool merchant and abolitionist Richard Price Hallowell,
both DAB entrants, was a second cousin of British admiral and loyalist
Sir Isaac Coffin and a second cousin once removed of Susan Amory, wife
of the historian William Hickling Prescott. Among Mrs. Stanton’s
numerous Livingston kin, easily the single leading family of colonial
New York, the diplomat Robert R. Livingston, Jr., Secretary of State
Edward Livingston, and Mrs. Alexander Hamilton were all second cousins
once removed, Mrs. William Backhouse Astor (ancestress of both later
American and British Astors) was a third cousin, and third cousins once
removed included Arctic explorer Elish Kent Kane and wives of U.S. House
Speaker Robert Charles Winthrop and Columbia president Nicholas Murray
Butler. A daughter and granddaughter of Mrs. Stanton were social
reformer Mrs. Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch and civil engineer,
architect, and suffragette Mrs. Nora Stanton Blatch Barney, the latter
of whom married first Lee DeForest, the radio engineer and inventor.
Louisa May Alcott was of royal descent via Mrs. Alice Freeman
Thompson Parke, also an ancestress of The Princess of Wales and her
sons; via Cardners, Brewers or Sewalls was a kinswoman of the two
Presdents Adams, Pierce, probably Hayes, Cleveland, Ford and Bush;
shared Bronson forebears with Emily Dickinson, a sixth cousin once
removed; through Quincys and Wendells was a third cousin both once and
twice removed of the poet Oliver Wendell Holmes; was a
great-great-great-granddaughter of Judge Samuel Sewall, the diarist, and
a descendant, like Holmes, of colonial magistrate Daniel Gookin, New
York City mayor Thomas Willett, and of a sister of Harvard president
Leonard Hoar; and was descended matrilineally from the now-famous Anneke
Jans (van Flekkeroy), wife of Roelof Janszen van Marstrand and Dominic
Everardus Bogardus. Anneke’s descendants later claimed that her dower
rights included much of the area around Trinity Church and Wall Street
in Manhattan. One of Anneke’s daughters Catharina Roelofs, married Jan
Pieters van Brugh and figures in the matrilineal lines of both Alcott
and Peter Gansevoort, Melville’s maternal grand father. Thus the
authors of Moby Dick and Little Women were fifth cousins
once removed.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson, via Adamses, Squires,
Robert White and Bridget Allgar, Samuel Smith of South Hadley, Morses
and Days, was related to at least 11 American presidents - the two
Adamses, Fillmore, Grant, Hayes, Cleveland, Taft, Coolidge, Nixon, Ford
and Bush. Dickinson shares descent from Robert Blott with The Princess
of Wales and her sons, Bronson forebears with Louisa May Alcott, and
descent from William Ward of Sudbury with Margaret Fuller and Susan B.
Anthony, both sixth cousins. Sarah Margaret Fuller, Marchesa d’Ossoli,
had no royal or Mayflower descent, no kinship to The Princes of
Wales, no ancestor shared with two or more presidents, and no Salem
“witch” connection. As just [156] noted, however, she was a sixth
cousin of both Dickinson and Anthony via Wards of Sudbury; and among
ancestors shared with a single president, Francis and Philippa (Sewell)
Wainwright were forebears of Pierce (and of John Lothrop Motley), and
John and Susanna (___) Breck, of Bush.
The Peabody sisters, like
the two Presidents and Henry and Brooks Adams, the poets Bryant and
Longfellow, Orson Welles and (possibly) Marilyn Monroe, E.H. Childers
and Mrs. Tomas C. Masaryk, and A.H. “Shanghai” Pierce, were descendants
of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins of the Mayflower. The
sisters were descended also from a sister of Salem “wizard” John
Proctor, Jr., and very probably from “witch” (Mrs.) Susanna (North)
Martin. Their presidential cousins, via only Aldens, Basses, Cheneys,
Hunts, Whipples, and Hadley, include the two Adamses, Arthur, Taft,
Coolidge and FDR. Through the Potters of Salem Sophia Amelia Peabody
and the novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jr., her husband, were fourth
cousins once removed. Via the Whipples, also ancestors of Hawthorne,
the Peabodys and Susan B. Anthony were sixth cousins. Susan Brownell
Anthony was of royal descent through Acting Governor Jeremiah Clarke of
Rhode Island and Thomas Trowbridge of Connecticut; shares John and
Constant (Mitchell) Fobes with The Princess of Wales and her sons; was a
sixth cousin of Dickinson, Fuller, and the Peabody sisters, as already
noted; and via Richard sons, Shermans, James Davis and Cecily Thayer,
Millards, Carpenters, Whipples, Mitchells and Trowbridges is related to
Presidents Fillmore, Pierce, Hayes, Garfield, Taft, Coolidge, Hoover,
FDR, Ford and Bush. Distant kinsmen via the Shermans, as noted in
earlier colunms, also include A.P. Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, Sir
Winston Churchill, the Countess of Avon (Lady Anthony Eden) and Sir
Robert Laird Borden among British or Canadian prime ministers or their
wives, Harriet Beecher Stowe, James Russell Lowell, and possibly Marilyn
Monroe. Mrs. Lucretia Coffin Mott, whose highly inbred Nantucket
ancestry is covered in NEXUS 3(1986):26-27, was four times
descended from Nantucket “urfather” Tristram Coffin, an ancestor of Ford
and brother of an ancestor of Coolidge. Another forebear was Governor
Thomas Mayhew of Martha’s Vineyard, ancestor also of “Wild Bill” Hickok,
“Mrs. Tom Thumb,” Sir Charles Tupper, 1st Bt., President Bush, and
possibly Marilyn Monroe. Lastly, Mrs. Elizabeth Smith Cady Stanton was
of royal descent through the younger (or “the nephew”) Robert Livingston
of New York and Oliver Mainwaring of Connecticut; was a fourth cousin
of Herman Melville through the Ten Broecks; and via Livingstons, Lords,
Schuyhers, and Cornelis Maessen [Van Buren, maternal ancestor of the Ten
Broecks and Melville] is a kinswoman of Presidents Van Buren, Theodore
Roosevelt, Hoover, Ford, and Bush.
Outlined below, in the
customary format for this column, is the known ancestry of these nine
“nineteenth-century heroines” for five generations (parents,
grandparents and great- and great-great-grandparents, following the
figure and her birth and death years, with semi-colons separating
generations and commas separating couples of the same generalion from
the figure), with extensions to earlier generations to include all
ancestors mentioned above. As before, “RD" indicates an ancestor of
royal descent, “MP” a Mayflower passenger, “PW” an ancestor
shared with The Princess of Wales, “TP” an ancestor of two or three
presidents (as charted in Ancestors of American Presidents [19891)
and “FP” an ancestor of four or five presidents.
1. LOUISA MAY
ALCOTT, 1832-1888; Amos Bronson Alcott & Abigail May; Joseph
Chatfield Alcox & Anna Branson, Joseph May & Dorothy Sewall;
John Alcox (III) & Mary Chatfield, Amos Bronson & Anna
Blakeslee, Samuel May & Abigail Williams, Samuel Sewall &
Elizabeth Quincy; John Alcox, Jr. & Deborah Blakeslee, Solomon
Chatfield & Hannah Pierson, John Bronson, Jr. & Comfort Baldwin,
Jacob Blakeslee & Elizabeth Barnes, Ebenezer May & Abigail
Gore, Joseph Willams, Jr., & Martha Howell, Joseph Sewall &
Elizabeth Wallay, Edmund Quincy (IV) & Elizabeth Wendell; John
Bronson & Mary Hickok, John May (III) & Prudence Bridge, John
Gore & Sarah Gardner, Joseph Williams & Abigail Davis, Judge
Samuel Sewall & Hannah Hull, Edmund Quincy (III) (grandson
of Daniel Gookin) & Dorothy Flint (granddaughter of Thomas
Willett, great-niece of Leonard Boar), Abraham Wendell & Katrina
DeKay; Isaac Bronson & Mary Root, John May, Jr. & Sarah Brewer,
Peter Gardner & Rebecca Crooke, Stephen Williams & Sarah Wise, Henry
Sewall, Jr. (TP) & Jane Dummer (TP), Johannes
Wendell & Elizabeth Staets, Theunis DeKay & Helena
van Brugh; John Bronson & Frances Hills, Daniel Brewer (TP)
& Joanna ___ (TP), Thomas Gardner (TP) & ___ (TP),
Joseph Wise & Mary Thompson, Jan Pieters van Brugh &
Catharina Roelofs (parents of Catharine Annetje van Brugh, wife of
Hendrick van Rensselaer and great-great-great-grandmother of Herman
Melville); John Thornpson (PW) & Alice Freeman (PW,
RD), Roelof Janszen van Marstrand & Anneke Jans van Flekkeroy.
2. EMILY ELIZABETH DiCKINSON, 1830-1886; Edward Dickinson &
Emily Norcross; Samuel Fowler Dickinson & Lucretia Gunn, Joel
Norcross & Betsey Fay; Nathan Dickinson, Jr. & Esther Fowler,
Nathaniel Gunn (III) & Hannah Montague, William Norcross, Jr. &
Sarah Marsh, Jude Fay & Sally Fairbanks; Nathan Dickinson &
Thankful Warner, Nathaniel Gunn, Jr. & Dorothy Marsh, Richard
Montague & Lucy Cooley, William Norcross & Lydia Wheeler, Seth
Marsh & Rachel Ellis, Ebenezer Fay & Thankful Hyde, Eleazer
Fairbanks (III) & Prudence Cary; Nathaniel Gunn & Esther Belden,
Samuel Montague & Elizabeth White, Simon Cooley & Elizabeth
Gunn, Joseph Marsh, Jr. & Sarah Partridge, Samuel Ellis, Jr. &
Sarah Adams, Samuel Fay & Tabitha Ward, Eleazer Fairbanks, Jr. &
Martha Bullard; Samuel Gunn & Elizabeth Wyatt (parents of Nathaniel
& Elizabeth), John Montague & Hannah Smith, Nathaniel White,
Jr. & Elizabeth Savage, Nathaniel Partridge & Lydia Wight, Henry
Adams (III) & Prudence Frary, Increase Ward & Record Wheelock,
Eleazer Fairbanks & Martha Lovett; Nathaniel Gunn & Sarah Day,
John Wyatt & Mary Bronson, Chileab Smith & Hannah Hitchcock,
Nathaniel White & Elizabeth , Ephraim Wight & Lydia Morse, Henry
Adams, Jr. & Elizabeth Paine, William Ward & Elizabeth
___, Daniel Lovett & Joanna Blott; Robert Day (VP) & Editha
Stebbins (TP), John Bronson,: & Frances Hills, Samuel
Smith (TP) & Elizabeth Smith, (TP), John White
& Mary (Leavitt?), Daniel Morse & Lydia Fisher, [157] Henry
Adams (VP) & Edith Squire (VP), Robert Blott (PW) &
___ (PW); Robert White (FP) & Bridget Allgar (FP), Samuel
Morse (TP) & Elizabeth Jasper (TP), Henry Squire (FP)
& ___ (FP); Thomas Morse (TP) & Margaret King (TP);
Thomas Morse (FP) & Agnes ___ (FP).
3. (SARAH)
MARGARET FULLER, Marchesa d'Ossoli, 1810-1850; Timothy Fuller, Jr.
& Margaret Crane; Timothy Fuller & Sarah Williams, Peter Crane
& Elizabeth Jones; Jacob Fuller, Jr. & Abigail Houlton, Abraham
Williams, Jr. & Anne Buckminster, Henry Crane & Abigail Lyon,
(prob.) Ephraim Jones & Eleanor Andrews; Jacob Fuller & Mary
Bacon, Henry Houlton & Abigail Flint, Abraham Williams &
Elizabeth Breck, Joseph Buckminster (III) & Sarah Lawson, William
Crane & Abigail Puffer, Peter Lyon (III) & Waitstill Wyatt,
Timothy Jones & Elizabeth Eames, Samuel Andrews, Jr. & Mehitable
Trott; Wilham Williams & Elizabeth Larkin, Robert Breck &
Elizabeth Wainwright; Abraham Williams & Joanna Ward, John Breck &
Susanna ___, Simon Wainwright & Sarah Gilbert; William
Ward & ___, Francis Wainwright & Philippa Sewell.
4-6. ELIZABETH PALMER PEABODY, 1804-1894, (Mrs.) MARY TYLER PEABODY
MANN (Mrs. Horace Mann), 1806-1887, and (Mrs.) SOPHIA AMELIA PEABODY
HAWTHORNE (Mrs. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jr.), 1809-1871: Nathaniel Peabody
& Elizabeth Palmer; Isaac Peabody & Mary Potter, Joseph Pearse
Palmer & Elizabeth Hunt; Matthew Peabody & Sarah Dorman, Ezekiel
Potter & Mary Cummings, General Joseph Palmer & Mary Cranch,
John Hunt & Ruth Fessenden; Isaac Peabody & Sarah Estes, Seth
Dorman & Sarah Thayer, Thomas Potter & Susanna Hadlay, Isaac
Cummings (IV) & Abigail Boardman, John Palmer & Joan Pearse,
John Cranch & Elizabeth Pearse (sister of Joan), Samuel Hunt &
Mary Langdon, William Fessenden & Martha Wyeth; Ephraim Thayer &
Sarah Bass, Samuel Potter & Joanna Wood, (prob.) Samuel Hadley
& Jane Martin (but poss. John Hadley & Susanna Pettis), Thomas
Hunt & Judith Torrey, Nicholas Fessenden & Margaret Cheney; John
Bass & Ruth Alden, Anthony Potter & Elizabeth
Whipple, George Hadlay & Mary Proctor (sister of “wizard” John
Proctor, Jr.), (prob.) George Martin & Susanna North ("witch"
Susanna Martin), Ephraim Hunt & Anna Richards, Thomas Cheney
& Jane Atkinson; Samuel Bass (TP) & Anne Saveil or
Savil (TP), John Alden (MP, TP) & Priscilla
Mullins (MP, TP), John Whipple & Susanna ___, Enoch
Hunt (TP) & ___ (TP), William Cheney (TP) & Margaret
___ (TP); Matthew Whipple (TP) & Joan ___ (TP).
7. SUSAN BROWNELL ANTHONY, 1820-1906: Daniel Anthony & Lucy
Read; Humphrey Anthony & Hannah Lapham, Daniel Read & Susanna
Richardson; David Anthony & Judith Hicks, Joshua Lapham &
Hannah Sherman, Joshua Read & Elizabeth Barney, Jonathan Richardson
& Mary Woodward; William Anthony, Jr. & Alice Eddy, Thomas Hicks
(III) & Judith Akin, John Lapham, Jr. & Mary Russell, David
Sherman & Abigail Hathaway, Joseph Read & Hannah Titus, Daniel
Barney & Alice Wheaton, David Richardson & Remember Ward,
Ebenezer Woodward & Mindwell Stone; Thomas Hicks, Jr. & Anne
Clarke, Joseph Russell & Elizabeth Fobes, Edmund Sherman &
Dorcas Hicks, John Titus (III) & Hannah , Joseph Barney &
Constance Davis, Samuel Richardson, Jr. & Sarah Hayward, Jonathan
Ward & Abigail Hall, Ebenezer Stone & Margaret Trowbridge;
Weston Clarke & Mary Easton, John Fobes (PW) & Constant
Mitchell (PW), Philip Sherman & Sarah Odding, John
Titus, Jr. & Sarah Millard, James Davis, Jr. & Elizabeth Eaton,
Samuel Richardson & Joanna Thake, John Ward & Hannah Jackson,
Simon Stone, Jr. & Mary Whipple, James Trowbridge & Margaret
Atherton; Acting Gov. Jeremiah Clarke of RI. (RU) & Frances
Latham, Thomas Mitchell (PW, TP) & Margaret Willians (PW,
TP), Samuel Sherman & Philippa (Ward?), John Titus & Abigail
Carpenter, John Millard (TP) & Elizabeth ___, James
Davis (TP) & Cecily Thayer (TP), Thomas Richardson (TP)
& Katherine Duxford (TP), William Ward & ___, John
Whipple & Susanna ___ above (see #4-6), Thomas Trowbridge (RD)
& Elizabeth Marshall; Henry Sherman (TP) & Susan
Lawrence (TP), William Carpenter (TP) & Abigail ___ (TP);
Henry Sherman (TP) & Agnes (Butter?) (TP).
8.
(Mrs.) LUCRETIA COFFIN MOTT, 1793-1880: Thomas Coffin & Anna
Folger; Benjamin Coffin & Deborah Macy, William Folger & Ruth
Coffin; Nathaniel Coffin & Damaris Gayer (parents of Benjamin),
Thomas Macy & Deborah Coffin, Abishai Folger & Sarah Mayhew,
Richard Coffin & Ruth Bunker (parents of Ruth); James Coffin &
Mary Severance (parents of Nathaniel, John [husband of Hope Gardner] and
Elizabeth), William Gayer & Dorcas Starbuck, John Mary &
Deborah Gardner, John Coffin & Deborah Austin (parents of Deborah),
Nathan Folger & Sarah Church, Paine Mayhew & Mary Rankin, John
Coffin & Hope Gardner (parents of Richard), Jonathan Bunker &
Elizabeth Coffin; Tristram Coffin & Dionis Stevens (parents of James
and John [husband of Deborah Austin]), Matthew Mayhew & Mary
Skiffe; Peter Coffin (TP) & Joan Kember (TP), Thomas
Mayhew, Jr., & Jane Paine; Governor Thomas Mayhew & ___.
9. (Mrs.) ELIZABETH SMITH (CADY) STANTON, 1815-1902:
Daniel Cady & Margaret Chinn Livingston; Eleazer Cady & Tryphena
Beebe, James Livingston & Elizabeth Simpson; Ebenezer Cady &
Prudence Palmer, John Beebe & Ruth Pratt, John Livingston &
Catharina Ten Broeck; John Cady & Elizabeth Green, Jonathan Palmer
& Mercy Mainwaring, Benjamin Beebe & Hannah (Wheeler?), Joseph
Pratt & Sarah Collier, Robert Livingston the younger (RD)
& Margaretta Schuyler, Dirck Ten Broeck & Margarita Cuyler;
Nehemiah Palmer & Hannah Stanton, Oliver Mainwaring (RD)
& Hannah Raymond, Pieter Schuyler & Engeltje Van Schaick, Wessel
Ten Broeck & Cattryna Loockermans (parents of Anna Catharina
Ten Broeck, wife of Anthony Van Schaick and great-great-grandmother of
Herman Melville); Thomas Stanton & Anne Lord, Philip Pieterse
Schuyler & Margareta van Slichtenhorst, Dirck Wesselse Ten Broeck
& Christyna Van Buren; Thomas Lord (TP) & Dorothy Bird
(TP), Pieter Tjercks (TP) & Geertruyt Philips van
Schuylder (TP), Cornelis Maessen [Van Buren] &
Catalyntje Martense.
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Genealogy (1903), Samuel Morse section, pp. 1-4, 7-9; A.N. Adams, A
Genealogical History of Henry Adams (1898), pp. 5, 8, 10, 14, and
E.E. Adams, Ancestors and Descendants of Jeremiah Adams, 1794-1883 (1974),
pp. 1-13, 17-22; O.P. Fay, Fay Genealogy (1898), pp. 19, 173,
175, 180-81, 191-92; Charles Martyn, The William Ward Genealogy (1925),
pp. 3-58, 65, 72, 84; L.S. Fairbanks, Genealogy of the Fairbanks
Family in America, 1633-1897 (1897), pp. 31-34, 37-38, 47-48, 62-64,
91-92; A.T.B. Fenno Gendrot, The Ancestry and Allied Families of
Nathan Blake, 3rd and Susan (Torrey) Blake (1916), pp. 133-34
(Lovett, Blott). See also The New England Quarterly 60(1987):
363-81, for data on the immediate family of Emily’s mother.
3.
Fuller Madeleine B. Stern, The Life of Margaret Fuller (1942),
end paper charts (with some errors and omission corrected by the
following); W.H. Fuller, Genealogy of Some Descendants of Thomas
Fuller of Woburn (Fuller Genealogies, vol. 4) (1919), pp. 9-11,
142-47; Sidney Parley, The History of Salem,Massachusetts, vol. 2,1638-1670
(1926), pp. 299-300, 276 (Houlton, Flint); Sibley’s Harvard
Graduates (henceforth SHG), vol. 14, 1756-1760 (1968),
pp. 601-5 (Timothy Fuller), vol. 11, 1741-1745 (1960), pp.
498-502 (Abraham Williams), vol. 4, 1690-1700 (1933), pp. 515-18
(Robert Breck); Charles Hudson, History of the Town of Marlborough,
Middlesex County, Massachusetts (1862), pp. 469-71 (Williams);
Charles Martyn, op. cit. (see #2 above), pp. 3-58, 65-67; M.L.
Holman, Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and His Wife
Frances Helen Miller, vol. 1(1948, henceforth SM1), pp.
144-48 (Larkin); Samuel Breck, Genealogy of the Breck Fa:nily (1889),
pp. 11-17; Thomas Gamble, Jr., Data Concerning the Families of
Bancroft, Bradstreet... (1906), pp. 87-94 (Wainwright); William
Barry, A History of Framingham, Massachusetts (1847), pp. 199-201
(Buckminster); Crane data collected by Alicia Crane Williams, and E.F.
Vose, Robert Vose and His Descendants (1932), pp. 9-14, 17-20,
30-31,33-34 (Buckminster, Crane and Lyon); A.B. and G.W.A. Lyon, Lyon
Memorial, Massachusetts Families (1905), pp. 320-22, 324-32;
Stoughton and Canton VRs (Peter Crane; Elizabeth, Ephraim and Timothy
Jones), Dorchester and Boston VRs (in vols. 21 and 30 (1890, 1903) of A
Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston (marriages
of Mrs. Elizabeth Jones Wiser Crane, birth and marriage of Timothy
Jones), Register 40 (1886):21-23 (Andrews) and H.O. Thayer and
Frank Trott, History of the Trott Family, Mainly of Woolwich, Maine (1933),
pp. 2-3.
4-6. Peabody sisters: L.H. Tharp, The Peabody
Sisters of Salem (1950) and S.H. Peabody and C.H. Pope, Peabody
Genealogy (1909), pp. 1-3, 7-18, 20-21, 27, 4344, 85; W.G. Davis, The
Ancestry of Dudley Wildes (1959), pp. 163-67 (Dorman), W.C.
Sprague, “Thayer Family Genealogies” (mss. at the Society, 1949), pages
for Thomas1, Shadrach2 and Ephraim3
Thayer; C.T. Bass and E.L. Walton, Descendants of Deacon Samuel and
Ann Bass (1940), pp. 1-5,9, 19-20, Register 107 (I953):218-20
(Bass, Savil, reprinted in EO1:3:179-181), and H.K. Shaw and A.C.
Williams, Families of the Pilgrims: John Alden, William Mullins (1986),
pp. 1-4, 9-10; C.E. Potter, Genealogies of the Potter Fannilies and
Their Descendants in Amnerica (1888), part 1, pp. 1, 6, 14-15 and
ML. Holman, Ancestry of Charles Stimson Pillsbury and John Sargent
Pillsbury (1938, henceforth PA), pp. 4348; TAG 58(1982):193-204,
59 (1983): 17-19 (Hadley, Martin, North) and L.H. Procter, John
Proctor of Ipswich and Some of His Descendants (1985), pp. 6-7; Rev.
George Mooar, The Cummings Memorial (1903), pp. 1-4, 6-9, 14-16,
35-36 and Charlotte Goldthwaite, Boardman Genealogy, 1525-1895 (1895),
pp. 103-20; Nathaniel C. Peabody, “[Pearse-Palmer] Genealogy, cir.
1880” (typescript), pp. 252-61, 267-68; SHG, vol. 17, 1768-1771
(1975), pp. 584-90 (Joseph Pearse Palmer) and vol. 9, 1731-1735 (1956),
pp. 41 18 (John Hunt); T.R. Wyman, Jr., Genealogy of the Name and
Family of Hunt (1862-3), pp. 271, 273, 317, 309, 287; Register 30(1876):35
(Langdon); E.A. Fessenden, The Fessenden Family [159] in
America (1971), vol. 1, pp. 8-10, vol. 2, pp. 473-75, 772-73; C.H.
Pope, The Cheney Genealogy (1897), pp. 1742.
7. Anthony:
C.L. Anthony, Genealogy of the Anthony Family (1904), pp. 23-24,
63-67, 116, 130-31, 165-82; R.S.D. Story, The Eddy Family in America (1930),
pp. 3-13, 22-28, 34-38, 56-57, 92-93; Dartmouth, Mass. VRs (birth of
Mrs. Judith Hicks Anthony), W.M. Emery, The Howland Heirs (1919),
pp. 29-38 (the entire American ancestry ignore the English Hicks data
of Thomas Hicks (III) and Judith Akin), H.W. Hodge, Hicks (Hix)
Fanilies of Rehoboth and Swansea, Massachusetts (1976), pp. 5-7,
57-60, and GA. Morrison, Clarke Genealogies: The “Clarke” Families of
Rhode Island (1902), pp. 214-15, 221-22; TAG 24(1948):1-11,
183-86, 56 (1980):97-98 (Lapham, Russell, Mitchell) and D.L. Jacobus, The
Granberry Family and Allied Families (1945), pp. 216-18 (Fobes);
R.V. Sherman, Some of the Descendants of Philip Sherman, the First
Secretary of Rhode Island (1968), pp. 24-28, 293-95, B.L. Stratton, Transatlantic
Shermans (1969), and E.S. Versailles, Hathaways of America (1970),
pp. 4344; Lineage Book, N.S.D.A.R., vol. 120 (1931), p. 149
(Daniel Read and Jonathan Richardson); J.W. Reed, History of the Reed
Family in Europe and America (1861), pp. 186-87, 24-34; E.E.P.B.
Carrier, Healy History (1963), p. 73 (Mrs Hannah Titus Healy
Read), Rehoboth VRs and 1758 Bristol Co. probate file of John Titus, NYGBR
12(1881):92-96 (Titus), A.B. Carpenter, A Genealogical History
of the Rehoboth Branch of the Carpenter Family (1898), pp. 38-43,
47-48, and DSGRM 23(1959-60):5-10 (Millard); ME. Wesbrook, Descendants
of Jacob Barney, Salem, MA. 1634 (1982), pp. 1-2, 4, 123, SM1, pp.
281-88 (Barney) and PA, pp. 153-55, 1115, 43-48 (Davis,
Whipple); J.A. Vinton, The Richardson Memorial (1876), pp.
183-85, 187-89, 201-2, 228-29, and W.G. Davis, The Ancestry of Sarah
Hildreth (1958), pp. 24-27 (Richardson); Charles Martyn, op. cit.
(see #2 above), pp. 3-58, 65-66, 79, 92-93; N .S. Woodward, Descendants
of Richard Woodward of New England, 1589-1 982 (1982), pp. 6-7,
9-10, 22-23, 91-92, J.G. Bartlett, Simon Stone Genealogy (1926),
p. 41-56, 65-66, and F.B. Trowbridge, The Trowbridge Genealogy (1908),
pp. 48, 503-6.
8. Mrs. Mott Thomas C. Cornell, Adam and Annie
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sources listed in NEXUS 3(1986):26-27, esp. Louis Coffin, The
Coffin Family (1962), pp. 92, 183-84, 186-87, 194, 266 and Alexander
Starbuck, The History of Nantucket County, Island, and Town (1924,
reprint 1969), Coffin, Starbuck, Macy, Gardner, Folger and Bunker
sections, passim; Register 31(1877):297-302 and Pennsylvania
Genealogical Magazine 28(1973-1974):14-29 (Gayer); C.E. Banks, The
History of Martha’s Vineyard, Dukes County, Massachusetts, vol. 3
(1925, reprint 1966), pp. 298-304 (Mayhew).
9. Mrs. Stanton
O.P. Allen, Descendants of Nicholas Cady (1910), pp. 13-20,
29-31, 49, 92, 173-74, 320-21; E.W. Leavitt, Groups of Palmer
Families (1901), pp. 9-15, 25-28, 4446, 71-72; J.L.F. Bunce, Some
of the Ancestors of the Reverend John Selby Frame and His Wife Clara
Winchester Dana (1948), pp. 329-31, 335-36 (Stanton, Lord); NYGBR
51(1920):307, 314 (Mainwaring); Clarence Beebe, A Monograph of
the Descent of the Family of Beebe (1904), pp. 9-12, 15-16, 23, 30,
and W.H. Powers, Powers-Banks Ancestry (1921), pp. 49-59, partly
corrected by N.G. Parke II and D.L. Jacobus, The Ancestry of Lorenzo
Ackley and His Wife Emma Anabella Bosworth (1960), pp. 251-55,
258-61, 84-87 (Beebe, Pratt, Collier, etc.); Florence Van Rensselaer, The
Livingston Family in America (1949), p. 6-7, 301-3, 305-6 (and passim
for kinsmen), TG 4 (1983):238, 241, 244, 255, 257, 260-61
(Livingston, Schuyler, etc.) and Florence Christoph, Schuyler
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H.C.W. Van Buren Peckham History of Comelis Maessen Van Buren (1913),
pp. 17-30.
10. Mrs. Barrymore, Mrs. Duchin, Langley, Mrs.
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Cyclopaedia of American Biography, vol. 39 (1954), p. 501 (Mrs.
Barrymore); reports of the Harvard class of 1904 (for Charles DeLoosey
Oelrichs, father of Mrs. Duchin); W.J. Rhees, Register of the
District of Columbia Society Sons of the American Revolution (1896),
p. 109 (Langley); AM. Hemenway, The Vermont Historical Gazetteer, vol.
1 (1867), pp. 1021-23, 1870 death record of Samuel Gates, Jr. of
Lunenburgh, Vt., and Gates-Wallace-Truman sources listed in G.B.
Roberts, Ancestors of American Presidents (AAP) (preliminary
edition rev., 1989), p. 176; E. C. and H.W. Eliot, The Family of
William Greenleaf Eliot and Abby Adams Eliot of St. Louis,Missouri, 2nd
cd. (1931), pp.3-5, 11-13, 57-58 and chart at end; W.C. Endicott and
W.M. Whitehill, Captain Joseph Peabody, East India Merchant of Salem,
(7757-1844) (1962); Register 120 (1966):81 -83 or G.E.
Meredith, Tue Descendants of Hugh Amory, 1605-1805 (1901), chart
in end pocket (Mrs. Prescott); F.L. Weis and W.L. Sheppard, Ancestral
Roots of 60 Colonists, 6th ed. (1988), lines 29A, 4143, 34 and 11
for royal descents of Mrs. Alice Freeman Thompson Parke and Act. Gov.
Jeremiah Clarke; TG 9(1988):3-39 and TAG 57 (1981):31-33
for a royal descent of Thomas Trowbridge; AAP, p. 163, sources
cited therein, and Weis, Sheppard and Arthur Adams, Tue Magna Carta
Sureties, 1215, 3rd ed. (1979), line 42, for a royal descent for
Robert Livingston the younger; and AAP and G.B. Roberts and W.A.
Reitwiesner, American Ancestors and Cousins of The Princess of Wales (1984),
for presidential and Princess of Wales connections mentioned above.