Since its inception in the February 1986 NEXUS - with two preview
columns in 1985 - “Notable Kin” has generated considerable response. In
this twenty-seventh “installment” of my ongoing reflections on Western
genealogical evolution, Anglo-American kinship and the “New England
family” especially, I wish to complete the unit of work undertaken to
date by summarizing corrections, adding three new figures of interest,
and further documenting the two preview columns and several Hollywood
figures treated in NEXUS 3(1986):178-80.
Various corrections to
“Notable Kin” have appeared in “Errata” or “Letters to the Editor”
sections of earlier issues, usually reported by members who have further
studied the line in question. I am very grateful for all such data,
which can be cited, credited and summarized as follows:
1.
NEXUS 4(1987):87 (Jean E. Irish Weare): The mother of New Hampshire
“signer” Matthew Thornton was probably Katherine , not Elizabeth
Jenkins.
2. 4:88 (John D. Heal, Jr.): The mother of Nathaniel
Beal (b. 1620/1), a great-great grandfather of Massachusetts “signer”
Elbridge Gerry, was Frances Ripley, first wife of John Beal and sister
of William Ripley of Hingham (not John Beal’s second wife, Mrs. Nazareth
Hobart Turner).
3. 4:171 (Alice Price Merriam): The wife of
John Emery, a great-grandfather of New Hampshire “signer” Josiah
Bartlett, was Mary ,not Shatswell.
4. 4:208 (L. David Dobson):
Further data on Virginia immigrant Edward Porteous, formerly of
Newbotttle, Scotland, a son of Robert Porteous and Elizabeth Keith, and
ancestor of H.M. Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and H.M. The Queca.
5. 5(1988):1 75, 214; 6(1989):74 (several correspondents,
especially Dr. Dorothy Branson, reporting published research by Neal S.
Southwick): New England immigrants Lawrence Southwick and Cassandra
Burnell, ancestors of Jennie Jerome, Sir Winston Churchill, and
President R.M. Nixon, were married at Kingswinford, Staffordshire 25
January 1623.
6. 6(1989):34 (Richard E. Brenneman): Agatha
Christie’s American great-grandmother, the wife of Alvah Miller, was
Martha Hillman, not Young, daughter of John Hillman (IV) and Patty
Bodmen, and a descendant, via Cottle and Look families of Martha’s
Vineyard, of Nantucket pioneer George Bunker.
7. 7(1990):34
(Dr. Douglas F. Hardy): Sarah, wife of Edward Thompson and
great-great-great grandmother of poet H.W. Longfellow, was a daughter of
John and Mary (ShatswelD Webster, also ancestors of President Franklin
Pierce.
8. 7:122 (N. Sherrill Foster): George Bancroft’s
ancestors Lion Gardiner of Gardiner’s Island and Samuel King married
respectively Mary Dirks dr. Deurcant and Frances , not necessarily
Ludlam.
In addition to the above corrections I noted some lesser
corrections in NEXUS 5:64, 98, 7:122, 218. I have also collected more
substantial changes, additions, or recent sources, several received from
valuable correspondents, which can likewise be briefly listed as
follows:
1. 3(1986):27, 237-38, 293-94: See 7(1990):28-29 for
Henry and Brooks Adams; my Ancestors of American Presidents, preliminary
ed. rev. (1989, henceforth AAP), esp. pp.3-6, 106-7 for John Adams, Jr.
(and note that a great-great grandmother, wife of John White of
Brookline, was Frances Jackson); and Elizabeth Pearson White, John
Howland of the Mayflowcr, Volume I, The First Five Generations:
Documented Descendants through his first child Desire Howland and her
husband Captain John Gorham (1990), pp. 1-12, 22-23, 85-86, 343-44, for
Nathaniel Gorham, Jr. Among “Nantucket Soup” figures see also NEXUS
4:242-43 for Mrs. H.L. Hunt and 7:157, 159 for Mrs. Lucretia Coffin
Mott.
2. 3:74-76: V.M. Meyer and J.F. Dorman, Adventurers of
Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5, 3rd ed. (1987, henceforth
APP3), pp. 507-513 argues against the identification of Pocahontas’s son
and Thomas Rolfe of North Carolina, and William Thorndike in The
Virginia Genealogist 34(1990):209-13 argues persuasively against Thomas
Rolfe, Pocahontas’s son, as the father of Anne Rolfe, wife of Peter
Elwyn of Thorning, Norfolk. A Supplement [to] Pocahontas’s Descendants,
also by Stuart E. Brown, Jr., Lorraine F. Myers, and Eileen M. Chappel,
was published in 1987.
3. 3:133-35: H.R.H. Prince Andrew Albert
Christian Edward of Great Britain was created Duke of York on his
wedding day; thus the former Sarah Margaret Ferguson is known as H.R.H.
The Duchess of York. Their daughters, H.R.H. Princess Beatrice Elizabeth
Mary and H.R.H. Princess Eugenie Victoria Helena of York, fifth and
sixth in succession to the British throne, were born in London 8 August
1988 and 23 March 1990, respectively.
4. 4(19871:24-28: Among
Virginia forebears of H.M. Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, for
Nicholas Martiau see APP3, pp. 417-31; for George Reade and Mrs. Mary
Towneley Warner, I4AP, pp. 138-39, 276; and for Richard Bernard, FL.
Weis, Arthur Adams, and W.L. Sheppard, Jr., Magna Charta Sureties, 1215,
4th ed. (1991, henceforth MCS4), line 46. For the Virginia [67]
immigrant Lawrence Smith, Mrs. Warner’s almost certain nephew, see David
A. Avant, Jr., Some Southern Colonial Families, vol. 1(1983), pp. 31
6-25.
6. 4:192: Like Mrs. W.H. Harriman, Mrs. T.F. Ryan and
Mrs. Paul Mellon, Mrs. Mary Lily Kenan Flagler (Bingham) was the later
spouse of a tycoon who left children by an earlier wife, and Florida
developer Henry Morrison Fhagher has living descendants. See National
Cyclopaedia of American Biography (henceforth NCAB), vol. 15 (1916), pp.
10-11,42 (1958), p. 147, for H.M. Flagher Sr. and Jr., the latter of
whom left three daughters.
6. 4:194-95: The late Ludlow Elliman
wrote that research he sponsored, not yet published, had disproved the
royal descent of John Underhill of Long Island. If so, and Mrs. T.F.
Ryan has no royal descent, another “tycoon” who left no grandchildren
but whose wife was of royal descent is Texan Robert Ralph Young, for
whom see 4:243-44.
7. 5(1988):58-59: A kinsman several times
over of Mrs. John George Diefenbaker, most closely a third cousin via
shared descent from Nathaniel Parker and Salome Whitman (parents of Mrs.
Charlotte Parker Freeman), was Cleveland banker and industrialist Cyrus
Stephen Eaton (1883-1979), a native of Nova Scotia. See A.W.H. Eaton,
The Eaton Family of Nova Scotia, 1760-1929 (1929), pp. 86-87, 133-35,
180-84, and C.H. Farnam, History of the Descendants of John Whitman of
Weynwuth, Mass. (1889), pp. 735,783-84,786.
8. 5:94: Abigail,
wife of the immigrant Timothy Jerome and ancestress of Sir Winston
Churchill, was the daughter of Nicholas (not NathanieD Rich and Abigail
Greca.
9. 6(1989):23-27, 156-59: Additional data on the ancestry
of President George Herbert Walker Bush appears in AAP, pp. 94-101,
132-37, 161-65 esp.; NEXUS 7:104,218 (the patrilineal Bush descent),
201-3 (Vander-burgh); 8:32 (Phillips); TAG 65 (1990):107-9 (McCune,
Shannon); The Mayflower Descendant 41(1991): 1-4, 6-7 (John Howland and
possible Francis Cooke descents); and MCS4, lines 42, 42B (revised royal
descent for Robert Livingston the elder of N.Y.)
10. Margaret
B. Moore of Athens, Georgia writes that Rachel, wife of Henry Phelps and
great-great grand-mother of the novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jr., was
Rachel Guppy, not Upton (NEXUS 6:110-12), as confirmed by Sidney Perley,
The History of Salem, Massachusetts, vol. 2,1638-1670(1926), p. 119 and
the Reading and Salem VRs.
11. 8(1991):28: A 29th figure among
the first 300 noted “royal cousins” of The Princess of Wales for whom
such kinship has been documented in a “Notable Kin” colunm is
Connecticut “signer” William Williams (see the entry for Mrs. Benjamin
Silliman below).
12. 8:30: #348, 5th line: Elizabeth Taliaferro
was the second wife, not the first, of Edward Bennett Close. His first
wife was the noted Marjorie Memweather Post. See E.B. Closets obituary
in the New York Times of 6 February 1955, p. 88. Additionally, as
Daniel MacGregor reminds me, Brooke Shields shares colonial Lathrop
forebears, and although not nearly related, is a distant cousin of M.M.
Post, Mm. Sturges, and Dina Merrill (8:29).
In addition to the
above additions and corrections I wish to document below the first set
of “Additional Noted American Cousins of The Princess of Wales,” the two
1985 NEXUS articles that previewed “Notable Km.” Also listed below are
further sources for ancestors of Humphrey Bogart, “Bing” Crosby, Jane
(and Peter and Bridget) Fonda, and Orson Welles, all treated in the
first “New England in Hollywood” column. Following these listings, and a
new Henry Howland line for “Bing” Crosby, are three new figures - John
Goodwin Tower, U.S. senator from Texas, 1961-85, an eleventh example of
the connection between “New England and Texas”; Francisco Silvela, prime
minister of Spain, 1897-1901, a sixth European head of government (for
more than a year) “with New England derived forebears or wives”; and the
deMilles, brothers and movie directors Cecil B[lount] and William
Churchill, and Agnes, W.C.’s daughter, the dancer and choreographer.
Tower, the first Republican Texas senator since Reconstruction, was the
great-grandson of a Vermont native who moved to Natchitoches and East
Point, Louisiana. Via Days of Gloucester, Massachusetts, Tower was a
third cousin four times removed of President Millard Fillmore, and via
Morses and Fiskes, a distant kinsman of Presidents Benjamin Harrison,
Taft, Coolidge, Nixon and Bush. Amalia Loring, wife of Francisco
Silvela and later Marquesa do Silvela, was a descendant of Samuel and
Martha (Lyford) Lincoln, immigrant ancestors of President Abraham
Lincoln, and of Edward Gilman of Hingham Norfolk (almost certainly
Samuel Lincoln’s maternal grand-father), also an ancestor of Presidents
Ford and Bush. Mrs. Cecil B. deMille (Constance Adams) was treated in
the second “New England in Hollywood” column, but the deMilles
themselves have much western Fairfield County, Connecticut ancestry.
Outlined below is their descent from William and Elizabeth (___) Tuttle
of New Haven, well known in colonial annals as parents of two murderers,
one murder victim (deMille ancestor Sarah [Tuttle] Slawson), two
children called insane, and one called incompetent. One of the “insane”
children was Elizabeth, wife of Richard Edwards of Hartford (son of the
royally-descended Mrs. Agnes Harris Spencer Edwards) and grandmother of
the famed Rev. Jonathan Edwards, whose ancestry and progeny was much
studied by early geneticists for “hereditary ability” (see NYGBR,
volumes 71-73, 90-94, esp. 71 [1940]: 221-4; TAG 40[1964]: 65-76,
63[1988]:33-45, and F.L Weis and W.L. Sheppard, Jr., Ancestral Roots of
Sixty Colonists, 6th ed. 119881, line 246E).
A final addendum
suggests a Sherman descent for Clara Barton; if correct, as seems
likely, Barton would be a kinswoman of Presidents Taft, Hoover, and
Bush; Sir Robert Laird Borden, Sir Winston Churchill and the Countess of
Avon (Lady Anthony Eden) among foreign prime ministers or their
spouses; and once more of Susan B. Anthony and Dorothea Lynde Dix.
The formats and abbreviations used below, for both further
documentatiom and new figures or lines, are the customary ones for this
colunm and will be familiar to all readers.
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With
these additions and corrections a sizable quantity of research is now
completed, many members have found themselves related to a wide variety
of notable Americans, the size and geographical range of the “New
England Family” has been evoked and explored, several aspects of
Anglo-American kinship have been examined, and most of my original goals
for the column have been met. Future columns may explore other ideas
and use different formats. Guest columns, especially those fully
examing the ancestry of major figures with at least some “Great
Migration” New England forebears, will be welcome.
NEXUS
2(1985):126-27:
22. Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard:
George Sheldon, A IIistory of Deerfield, Massachusetts, vol. 2 (1896),
Pp. 105-6, 292-93 (Catlin, Sheldon); M.L. Holman, Ancestry of Colonel
John Harrington Stevens and His Wife Frances Helen Miller, vol. 1 (1948)
(henceforth SMD, pp. 403-13 (Sheldon, Woodford, Blott).
75, 79. Mrs.
Harvey Samuel Firestone, Jr. and Mrs. William Clay Ford: SW.
McArthur, McArthur-Barnes Ancestral Lines (1964), PP. 106-7, 148-50,
153, 156, 166, 181.
40, 128, 129, 254, 303, 304, 314, 315. Abbott
L., Amy, Guy, James R, Percival, and Robert (T.S. IV) Lowell, Mrs.
Jacques Barzun and McGeorge Bundy: DR. Lowell, The Historic
Genealogy of the Lowells of America (1899), Pp. 22-23, 34-35, 58-64,
117-23, 21 8-27, 282-85; Champney, Turell and Blott sources as per NEXUS
6:206; Harvard College 1895 class book.s (F.E. LowelD, W’ho’s Who
entries for Barzun and Bundy, and NYC BR 92(1961):152 (R.T.S. Lowell
IV).
162. Potter Palmer: G.W. Edes, William Ricketson and
His Descendants, vol. 2 (1932), pp. 9-11, 40-44, and William Ricketson,
William Ricketson, Jr., and Their Descendants (1917), PP. 6-11; TAG
24(1948):7-9 (Russell, Fobes).
219. Mrs. James Joseph “Gene”
Tunney: HR. Stiles, The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor,
Connccticut, vol. 2 (1892, reprint 1976), pp. 665, 667 (Rowland).
237.
Paul Dudley While: Nahum Mitchell, History of the Early
Settlement of Bridgewater. . .Massachusctts (1840, variously reprinted,
henceforth MB), pp. 201, 159-60 (Hudson, Fobes).
248, 249. Wilbur
and Orville Wright: A.S. Andrews, The Andrews, Clapp, Stokes,
Wright, Van Cleve Genealogies, 1985 ed. (1984), pp. 422A-422B, 424,
449-50; Lebanon, Conn. VRs (1719 birth of Elizabeth Smith and 1716
marriage of George Smith and Elizabeth Lyman); CD. Cowles, Genaology of
the Cowles Family in America, vol. 1 (1929), Pp. 35-36, and SM1, pp.
386, 354-56 (Lyman, Ford).
284, 297. Paul Moore, Jr. and
Malcolm Wallop: LAW. Underhill, Descendants of Edward Small of New
England, rev. ed. (1934), pp. 40541, 1143-93 (Wallop, Moore, Small,
Roberts, White); TAG 56(1980):80-82 (Wise).
NEXUS 2:159-60:
305.
Mrs. Fred Astaire: Harvard College 1903 class books (H.W.
Baker); Florence van Rensselaer, The Livingston Family in America and
Its Scottish Origins (1949), pp. 152, 201-2; SW. Phoenix, The Whitney
Family of Connecticut, vol 2(1878), P. 1813 and chart opposite (Murray,
Bronson, Richards, Upson, Lao, Hart).
306, 320. George Fisher
Baker and Mrs. John Mortimer Schiff: EJ. Baker, Genealogy of Richard
Baker (1889), PP. 16, 22-23, 30-31, 35 and NCAB, vol. 43 (19b1), pp.
487-88 (G.E. Baker, Jr.); Ebenezer Clapp, The Clapp Memorial (1876), pp.
11, 212-13, 228-29; MW. Ferris, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines, vol.
1(1943), PP. 155-75, 294-302 (Clapp, Ford).
307. Mrs.
[Howard] Malcolm Baldrige, Jr.: Who Was Who, vol. 9 (1989), P. 18
(Baldrige); Caroline T. Lawrence, The Newbold Lawrence Family (1931)
(unpaged); Charles Platt, Jr., Newbold Genealogy in America (1964), pp.
60-61, 112; F.B. Trowbridge, The Trowbridge Genealogy (1908), p. 112;
ECU. Jones, The Brewster Genealogy, 1566-1907 (1908) (henceforth
Brewster), pp. 57-59, 91-92, 163, 349-50, 777, 1158; R.P.
Anderson, The Parke Scrapbook, Number 2 (1966, henceforth PS2), PP.
24-26,30, 50-51.
308. John Bartlett:
J.R. Totten, Thacher-Thatcher Genealogy (1910), PP. 351-54, 463, 634;
MB, PP. 179, 182; R.S. Wakefield, R.V. Wood, and others, Francis Cooke
of the Mayflower and The Descendants for Four Generations, 2nd ed.
(1987, henceforth FC), PP. 2-3, 9-10, 4243; TAG 59 (1983):28-31
(MitchelD.
309. Mrs. Asher Benjamin: Mrs. Edward
Hitchcock and Rev. D.W. Marsh, The Genealogy of the Hitchcock Family
(1894), p.423; 1.11. Warren, “Springfield Families,” vol. 3 (1934-35,
typescript), p. 754 (Wilhiston); B.W. Dwight, The History of the
Descendants of Elder John Strong of Northampton, Mass. (1871, reprint
1975, henceforth Strong), pp. 14-19, 1120-21, 1150-51.
310. Daniel
Hudson Burnham: Timothy Hopkins, John Hopkins of Cambridge,
Massachusetts, 1634, and Some of His Descendants (1932), pp. 17-22,
35-38, 74-80, 175-78; TAG 35(1959):1-3 (Strong).
311.
Alan MacGregor Cranston: Research of W.A. Reitwiesner of
Washington, D.C., based in part on Eleanor Fowle (his sister), The
Senator from California (ca. 1980), pp. 5-7; T.W. Bicknell, History and
Genealogy of the Bicknell Family (1913), p. 312 (Dixon); S.W. Abbott,
Woodruff Genealogy (1963, hence-forth Woodruff), PP. 50, 107-8; Alfred
Andrews, Genealogical History of Deacon Stephen Hart and His
Descendants, 1632-1875 (1875, henceforth Hart), pp. 3941, 164-65, 170;
DL. Jacobus and E.F. Waterman, Hale, House, and Related Families (1952,
reprint 1978), p. 782 (Mrs. Anne Fitch Hart Thompson).
312. Mrs.
Charles Warren Fairbanks: Harold John Witter, The Descendants of
William Witter and Hannah Churchman (1991, henceforth Witter), pp. 9-10,
14, 22, 24-25, 47-48, 60, 117, 222, and PS2, pp. 24-26, 30-31, 50-51,
92; N.H. Morgan, Morgan Genealogy (1869, henceforth Morgan). pp. 22,
25-27, 32, 42, and C.W. Spalding, The Spaulding Memorial, rev. (1897),
p. 63.
313. Katharine Hepburn: As per NEXUS 3:180, plus
Garlinghouse research by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Garlinghouse of Merritt
Island, Fla.; Witter, pp. 9-10, 16-17, 30 and PS2, pp. 24-26, 30, 50-51,
93; Brewster, pp.47-48, 72, 119-20; D.L Jacobus and E.E. Waterman, The
Granberry Family and Allied Families (1945), pp. 223-25 (Gager).
314.
Mrs. Rockwell Kent: Research of Harry W. Merritt of Lexington,
Ky., confirmed by NCAB, current vol. D (1934), Pp. 98-99 (Rockwell Kent)
and the 1890 Mass, birth record of Kathleen (Katherine) Whiting; H.E.
Henderson, A Contribution to the Genealogy of the Handerson Family
(1885), pp. 14-15, 19-23, 31-32; Alice M. Church, “A Genealogy
of...Richard Church of Hartford, Connecticut, and South Hadley,
Massachusetts” (typescript, 1911-1948), pp. 9, 18-19,3940; Strong, pp.
14-19, 1311-12, 1315-16, 1439-40, 1455.
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317.
Enoch Pratt: F.G. Pratt, Jr., The Pratt Family (1890), pp.
167-68; MB, pp. 207-1 0, 213 (Keith); FC, pp. 2-3, 9-10, 40-41 and
Mitchell as per #308 above.
318. Mrs. Thomas
Brackett Reed: Samuel Merrill, A Merrill Memorial, vol 1 (1917-28),
pp. 24; C.J.F. Binney, The History and Genealogy of the Prentice or
Prentiss Family in New England (1883), pp. 35-36, 68-69; Heman Howard,
The Howard Genealogy (1903), p. 13; MB, pp. 1 77-78 (Hayward) and
Mitchell as per #308 above.
319. Edwin Arlington Robinson:
Robinson Genealogical Society, Robinson Genealogy, vol. 2, Descentiants
of Gain Robinson and Moses Robinson (1933), pp. 11-12, 29-30; Waldo
Lincoln, Genealogy of the Waldo Fanrily, vol. 1(1902), pp. 12-21, 34-38,
79-82.
321. Mrs. Benjamin Silliman: C.W.
Bowen, The History of Woodstock, Connecticut: Genealogies of Woodstock
Families, vol. 7 (1943), pp. 513-14 (McClellan); NEXUS 3:237-38 (William
Williams) and sources cited therem.
322. John William
Sterling, Jr.: Strong, pp. 228-29, 596-97, 716-17, 720-2 1.
323.
Charles Sumner: W.S. Appleton, Record of the Descendants of
William Sumner (1879), pp. 176-77; Jedediah Dwelley and J.F. Simmons,
History of the Town of Hanover, Massachusetts with Family Genealogies
(1910), p. 239 (Jacobs); George Lincoln, History of the Town of Hingham,
Massachusetts, vol. 2 (1893, reprinted with vol. 3, 1982; henceforth
Hingham), pp. 302, 306 (I-Jersey); MB, pp. 241-42 (MitchelD.
324.
Henry David Thoreau: see NEXUS 6(1989):1 12.
325.
Wilford Woodruff: Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine
22(1931):53-62 and chart opposite p. 49; Hart, pp. 39-41, 164-65,
169-70, 180, 210 and Mrs. A.F.H. Thompson as per #311 above. For
disproof of any descent from Thomas Woodford and Mary Blott see E.F.
Starr, Various Ancestral Lines of James Goodwin and Lucy (Morgan)
Goodwin of Hartford, Connecticut, vol. 1 (1915), pp. 167-76.
NEXUS
3(1986):178-80:
1. Humphrey (DeForest) Bogart: J.P.
Warren, The Stanley Families of America (1887, henceforth Stanley), pp.
30-31, 35-38, 45-47, 56-57 (North, Stanley) and Ernest Flagg,
Genealogical Notes on the Founding of New England (1926, reprint 1973,
henceforth Flagg), pp. 341-45 (Stanley); Rev. W.W. Dowd, The Descendants
of Henry Doude (1885), pp. 6, 11, W.W. Norton, Some Descentants of John
Norton of Branford, 1622-1709 (1909, hence-forth Norton), pp. 43-44,
Alvan Talcott, Families of Early Guilford, Connecticut (1984), pp. 6-8
(Baldwin), N.G. Parke II and D.L Jacobus, The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley
and His Wife Emma Arabella Bosworth (1960), pp. 247-50 (Baldwin) and
TAG 26(1950): 12-25 (Bruen); GA. Perkins, The Family of John Perkins of
Ipswich (1889), pp. 32-33, 65, 119, W.A. Kingsley, Kingsley Family
America (1980), p. 82, Mrs. Curtis W. Hunter, The Family of John
Howland, Mayflower Passenger, Five Generations (1970), pp. 1-2, 126, and
S.C. Webber, A Genealogy of the Southtworths (Southards) (1905), pp.
1-28, 33-35; Louis Mitchell, The Woodbridge Record (1883), pp. 6-8,
10-22, 34-36, 61-65, 104-5, Dean Dudley, The History of the Dudley
Family (1886-98), p. 276, and E.L Leete, The Decendants of William
Leete, 2nd ed. (1934), pp. 1-2; R.H. Walworth, Hyde Genealogy,
vol.1(1864), pp. 129, 573-75 (Rogers), E.E. Tracy, Tracy Genealogy
(1898), pp. 24, 27, 36-37, 61, and F.E. Waterman and D.L. Jacobus, The
Waterman Family, vol. 1 (1939), pp. 695- 96, 619 (Tracy, Winslow). For
Bogart’s Woodford, Blott, Morgan, Parke and Hart descents, as outlined
in AACPW, see also Rev. H.O. Sheldon, The Sheldon: Magazine (1855), pp.
1, 2, 4, 10 and SMI, pp. 403-13 (as per 22 above); Morgan, p. 22, 25-27
and PS2, pp. 24-26, 30, 51; L. B. Barbour, Families of Early Hartford,
Connecticut (1977), p. 546, and Flagg, pp. 270-71, 258-59 (Porter,
Hart).
2. Harry Lillis “Bing” Crosby, 1903-1977;
Harry Lincoln Crosby & Catherine Helen Harrigan; Nathaniel Crosby
(V) & Cordehia Jane Smith; Nathaniel Crosby (IV) & Mary Lincoln;
Nathaniel Crosby (III) & Ruby Foster (traced earlier); Nathaniel
Crosby, Jr. & Mary Higgins; Nathaniel Crosby & Esther Young;
David Young & Anne Doane; John Young & Abigail Howland; Henry
Howland (TP) (brother of John Howland of the Mayflower) & Mary___
(TP); Henry Howland (FP) & Marçaret - (FP).
Sources: Alverta
Brown Martin, “Pacific Northwest Grand-fathers: Crosby...” (typescript,
1971), pp. 10-31; CA. Torrey, John Young of Eastham, Mass. and Some of
His Descendants (Five Generations) (1923), pp. 1-2, 8-10. See also D.P.
Holton, Winslow Memorial, vol 1 (1877), pp. 71-78, 89, 161-62 and NGSQ
75(1987):105-9, 115 (Howland; note the doubts concerning Mary Howland’s
marriage to Nathaniel Freeman, p. 109) for Crosby’s descent from
brothers of Mayflower passengers.
5. Jane [Seymour] Fonda,
plus Peter Fonda, b. 1940, Jane’s brother, and Bridget Fonda,
b. 1963 (Peter’s daughter by Susan Brewer): Norton, p. 16, Stanley, pp.
30-35, and Flagg, pp. 341-45 (as per Bogart above); C.H. Hubbard and
Justus Dart, History of the Town of Springfield, Vermont (1895), pp. 39
99 and C.L. and E.O. Davenport, The Genealogies of the Families of
Cohasset, Massachusetts (1909), p. 299 (Nichols); Boston Transcript of
July 28, 1Q20, #8216 and Winslow, pp. 71-78, 87-88.
10. (George)
Orson Welles: See NEXUS 4:243 (A.H. Pierce) for further Head,
Wilcox, Cooke, Warren, Little, Fobes, Pabodie and Alden Sources.
NEXUS
4(1987):240-44:
11. John (Goodwin) Tower, 1925-1991; Joseph Z.
Tower & Beryl Goodwin; Charles A. Tower & Helen V. Sanders;
Franklin R. Tower & Elizabeth Ettredge; Welcome Tower & Betsey
Rowe; Nathaniel Tower & Lucy Tingley; Thomas Tingley & Martha
Day; Timothy Tingley & Ruth Partridge, Benjamin Day & Martha
Robinsoni; Nathaniel Partridge & Lydia Wight, Nathaniel Day &
Ruth Rowe; Ephraim Wight & Lydia Morse; Daniel Morse & Lydia
Fisher; Samuel Morse (TP) & Elizabeth Jasper (TP), Anthony Fisher
& Mary ___; Thomas Morse (TP) & Margaret King (TP), ___ Fisher
& Mary Fiske; Thomas Morse (TP) & Agnes ___ (FP), Nicholas Fiske
(TP) & ___ (TP); Richard Fiske (TP) & ___ (TP).
Sources:
“Westward,” magazine of the Dallas Times Herald, Sun., 15 March 1981,
pp. 7-8; R.M. Tingley, The Tingley Family (1910), pp. 12-13, 17-18, 35,
91, 246,492 and Some Ancestral Lines (1935, covering the entire known
ancestry of Mrs. Lucy Tingley Tower), Tingley, Partridge, Wight, Morse,
Fisher, Fiske and Day sections.
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NEXUS
5(1988):94-98:
6. Francisco Silvela, 1843-1905 (wife,
Amalia Loring, Marquesa de Silvela; George Henry Loring, Marques de Casa
Loring, & Amalia Heredia; George Loring & Maria del Rosario;
Joseph Loring & Ruth James; Benjamin Loring & Jael Jacob, Philip
James & Mary Nichols; Peter Jacob & Hannah Allen, Nathaniel
Nichols & Elizabeth Lincoln; John Jacob & Margery Earnes, Daniel
Lincoln & Elizabeth Lincoln; Nicholas Jacob & Mary Gilman,
Samuel Lincoln & Martha Lyford [parents of Daniel]; Edward Gilman
[TP] & ___ [TP] [parents of Mary & Bridget], Edward Lincoln
& Bridget Gilman).
Sources: C.H. Pope & K.P. Loring,
Loring Genealogy (1917), pp. 46-47, 80, 139-40, 230-31; Hingham, vol. 2,
pp. 371-73, 380-81, 459-60 (Jacob, James, Lincoln), vol. 3, pp. 85-86
(Nichols); NYGBR 60(1929):1 15-17 (Lincoln-Lyford); TAG 1
1(1934-35):137-38, 193-94 (Lincoln-Gilman); W.C. Davis, The Ancestry of
Abel Lunt (1963), pp. 157-58 (Gilman).
NEXUS 5:168-71:
1. Cecil
Blount deMile, 1881-1959, William Churchill deMille,
1878-1955, movie diredors, and a daughter of the latter (by Anna Angela
George) Agnes [George] de-Mile, b. 1905, dancer and
choreographer; Henry Churchill deMille and Matilda Beatrice Samuel
(parents of C.B. & W.C.); William Edward deMille & Margaret
Blount Hoyt; Thomas Arnold deMill & Caroline Elizabeth Price; Peter
deMill & Sophia Mead; Joseph deMill & Elizabeth Arnold; John
Arnold & Mary Knapp; Peter Knapp & Elizabeth Slawson; John
Slawson, Jr. & Mary Holmes; John Slawson & Sarah Tuttle; William
Tuttle & Elizabeth ___. .
Sources: NCAB, vols. 41(1956), pp.
444-45,45 (1962), p. 382, and 47 (1963), pp. 614-15 (H.C., W.C. &
C.B. deMille) and Current Biography Yearbook 1985, pp. 79-83 (Agnes
deMille); A.A. Knapp, Nicholas Knapp Genealogy (1953), p. 30; CC.
Slawson, The Slason, Slauson, Slawson, Slosson Family (1946), pp. 12,
14, 18; DL. Jacobus, Families of Ancient Nero Haven (1922-32, reprint
1974), pp. 1881-85 (Tuttle). For this line I am much indebted to Rev.
Frank C. Baldwin of Oak Park, Illinois.
NEXUS 7(1990):208-.13:
3. Clarissa Hartowe “Clara” Barton: David Hammond & Mary
Platts (matrilineal great-great grand-parents); Thomas Hammond, Jr.
& Sarah Pickard; Thomas Hammond & Hannah Cross; John Cross &
Anna (very prob.) Sherman; Edmund Sherman & Joan ___; Edmund
Sherman & Anne Pellatte; Henry Sherman (TP) & Agnes (Butter?)
(TP).
Sources: G.E. Blodgette and A.F. Jewett, Early Settlers of
Rowley, Mtssachusetts (1933, reprint 1981), pp. 127-29 (Hammond); Henry
Bond, Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the
Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, 2nd ad. (1860, variously
reprinted), pp. 270 (Hammond), 189 (Cross); tentative identification by
Michael J. Wood of London of Anna, wife of John Cross, as Anna, daughter
of Edmund Sherman of Conn., based in part on the will of Mrs. Hannah
Cross Hammond, Anna’s only child. This identification may be the subject
of a future article.