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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  John Benjamin was born on 25 Dec 1751 in Preston, New London, Connecticut; was christened on 11 Mar 1752 in First Church, Preston, New London, Connecticut (son of John Benjamin and Margaret Jameson); died on 24 Jun 1781; was buried in North Lyme Cemetery, Lyme, New London, Connecticut.

    Notes:

    Said to have served in General Waterbury's brigade of the Connecticut militia during the Revolution, and to have been killed "near Horse's Neck, Connecticut" (West Greenwich).

    John married Grace Waite on 29 Jun 1775 in Hopkinton, Washington, Rhode Island. Grace (daughter of Thomas Waite and Bridget) was born on 4 Jun 1756 in Hopkinton, Washington, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. Rufus Augustus Benjamin was born on 15 Dec 1775 in Preston, New London, Connecticut; died on 15 May 1841 in Hunter, Greene, New York.

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  John Benjamin was born on 31 Oct 1714 in Preston, New London, Connecticut; was christened on 6 Jan 1715 in First Church, Preston, New London, Connecticut (son of John Benjamin and Phebe Larabee); died on 7 May 1791 in Preston, New London, Connecticut.

    Notes:

    He was a cordwainer and a farmer.

    John married Margaret Jameson on 3 Jan 1740 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut. Margaret (daughter of John Jameson and Abigail Carter) was born on 21 Jun 1716 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut; died on 13 Oct 1769 in Preston, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Margaret Jameson was born on 21 Jun 1716 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut (daughter of John Jameson and Abigail Carter); died on 13 Oct 1769 in Preston, New London, Connecticut.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: 18 Oct 1769, Preston, New London, Connecticut

    Notes:

    Also called Margaret Jennison; Jemison.

    Children:
    1. 1. John Benjamin was born on 25 Dec 1751 in Preston, New London, Connecticut; was christened on 11 Mar 1752 in First Church, Preston, New London, Connecticut; died on 24 Jun 1781; was buried in North Lyme Cemetery, Lyme, New London, Connecticut.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  John Benjamin was born about 1682 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts (son of Joseph Benjamin and Sarah); died on 2 Aug 1716 in Preston, New London, Connecticut.

    John married Phebe Larabee on 7 Aug 1705 in Preston, New London, Connecticut. Phebe (daughter of Greenfield Larribee and Alice Parke) was born on 13 Dec 1680 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  Phebe Larabee was born on 13 Dec 1680 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut (daughter of Greenfield Larribee and Alice Parke).
    Children:
    1. 2. John Benjamin was born on 31 Oct 1714 in Preston, New London, Connecticut; was christened on 6 Jan 1715 in First Church, Preston, New London, Connecticut; died on 7 May 1791 in Preston, New London, Connecticut.

  3. 6.  John Jameson was born on 27 Oct 1686 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachussets (son of William Jameson and Sarah Price).

    Notes:

    He was a tailor.

    John married Abigail Carter on 5 May 1709. Abigail (daughter of Samuel Carter and Eunice Brooks) was born on 30 May 1690 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 27 Mar 1747 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 7.  Abigail Carter was born on 30 May 1690 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts (daughter of Samuel Carter and Eunice Brooks); died on 27 Mar 1747 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut.

    Notes:

    Their marriage was officiated by the Rev. Cotton Mather.

    Children:
    1. 3. Margaret Jameson was born on 21 Jun 1716 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut; died on 13 Oct 1769 in Preston, New London, Connecticut.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  Joseph Benjamin was born about 1634 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts (son of John Benjamin and Abigail Eddy); died on 27 Apr 1704 in Preston, New London, Connecticut.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate birth: 15 Sep 1633
    • Alternate birth: 16 Sep 1633, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts
    • Alternate death: Bef 27 Apr 1704, Preston, New London, Connecticut

    Notes:

    He was a watchman at Charlestown in 1665. He lived in Barnstable and removed to Yarmouth before 1668. In Yarmouth, his farm was near the Meadows. He moved to Preston, Connecticut in 1696, ten years after it was established. In Preston, his land bordered that of Thomas Parke, whose granddaughter Phebe Larabee married his son John Benjamin.

    Joseph married Sarah before 7 Dec 1668. Sarah died after 1715. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 9.  Sarah died after 1715.

    Notes:

    The Benjamin Family in America (citation details below) shows her as a daughter of Lt. William Clarke and Sarah Lumbert/Lumbard, but this seems to be without proof. Robert Charles Anderson (citation details below) calls her only "Sarah _____".

    Children:
    1. Jemima Benjamin died after Nov 1732.
    2. 4. John Benjamin was born about 1682 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts; died on 2 Aug 1716 in Preston, New London, Connecticut.

  3. 10.  Greenfield Larribee was born on 20 Apr 1648 in Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut (son of Greenfield Larribee and Phebe Browne); died on 4 Feb 1739 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut.

    Greenfield married Alice Parke on 16 Mar 1673. Alice (daughter of Thomas Parke and Dorothy Tompson) was born in near Stonington, New London, Connecticut; died on 24 Nov 1729 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 11.  Alice Parke was born in near Stonington, New London, Connecticut (daughter of Thomas Parke and Dorothy Tompson); died on 24 Nov 1729 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut.
    Children:
    1. 5. Phebe Larabee was born on 13 Dec 1680 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut.

  5. 12.  William Jameson died on 25 Feb 1714.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: Bef 16 Apr 1714

    Notes:

    He was a tailor.

    William married Sarah Price on 18 Oct 1677. Sarah (daughter of Matthew Price and Elizabeth) died on 24 Mar 1691 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachussets. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  6. 13.  Sarah Price (daughter of Matthew Price and Elizabeth); died on 24 Mar 1691 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachussets.
    Children:
    1. 6. John Jameson was born on 27 Oct 1686 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachussets.

  7. 14.  Samuel Carter was born on 8 Aug 1640 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts (son of Rev. Thomas Carter and Mary Parkhurst); died in 1693.

    Notes:

    Graduate of Harvard, 1660; schoolteacher; town officer; later, minister at Lancaster and Groton.

    Samuel married Eunice Brooks in 1672. Eunice (daughter of John Brooks and Eunice Mousall) was born on 10 Oct 1655 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  8. 15.  Eunice Brooks was born on 10 Oct 1655 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts (daughter of John Brooks and Eunice Mousall).

    Notes:

    She outlived three husbands, of whom Samuel Carter was the first, but her actual death date is unknown.

    Children:
    1. 7. Abigail Carter was born on 30 May 1690 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 27 Mar 1747 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut.


Generation: 5

  1. 16.  John Benjamin was born about 1595; died on 14 Jun 1645 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts.

    Notes:

    Arrived 16 Sep 1632 on the Lyon. He was literate; his inventory included many books of a legal and ecclesiastical nature. In a letter, Bay Colony governor John Winthrop said "Mr. Benjamin's mansion was unsurpassed in elegance and comfort by any in the vicinity." It seems likely that he was of gentry origins, but nothing has been discovered to indicate the identity of his parents.

    John married Abigail Eddy before 1620. Abigail (daughter of Rev. William Eddy and Mary Fosten) was born in Cranbrook, Kent, England; was christened in Oct 1601 in Cranbrook, Kent, England; died on 20 May 1687 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachussets. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 17.  Abigail Eddy was born in Cranbrook, Kent, England; was christened in Oct 1601 in Cranbrook, Kent, England (daughter of Rev. William Eddy and Mary Fosten); died on 20 May 1687 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachussets.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: 20 Mar 1687, Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachussets

    Children:
    1. John Benjamin was born about 1620; died on 22 Dec 1706 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
    2. 8. Joseph Benjamin was born about 1634 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 27 Apr 1704 in Preston, New London, Connecticut.

  3. 20.  Greenfield Larribee was born between 1610 and 1620; died before 5 Dec 1661.

    Greenfield married Phebe Browne. Phebe (daughter of William Browne and Jane Burgis) was born before 1 Oct 1620; was christened on 1 Oct 1620 in Rusper, Sussex, England; died on 24 Dec 1664 in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 21.  Phebe Browne was born before 1 Oct 1620; was christened on 1 Oct 1620 in Rusper, Sussex, England (daughter of William Browne and Jane Burgis); died on 24 Dec 1664 in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts.
    Children:
    1. 10. Greenfield Larribee was born on 20 Apr 1648 in Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut; died on 4 Feb 1739 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut.

  5. 22.  Thomas Parke was born in of Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut; was christened in 1616 in Hitcham, Suffolk, England (son of Robert Parke and Martha Chaplin); died on 30 Jul 1709 in Preston, New London, Connecticut.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate birth: Abt 1619

    Notes:

    McArthur-Barnes Ancestral Lines and Clifford L. Stott's article "The Chaplin Family of Co. Suffolk" (citation details below) both state that he was baptized at Hitcham, Suffolk on 13 Feb 1615, but Randy A. West ("Alice Freeman", etc., citation details below) points out that the same child is recorded in that parish register as being buried 25 Feb 1616.

    Thomas Parke = Dorothy Thompson
    Robert Parke = Mary Rose
    Margaret Parke = Benjamin Rockwell
    Margaret Rockwell = Josiah Blodgett, Jr.
    Hannah Blodgett = David Burroughs
    Tyler Burroughs = Anna Pratt
    Abner Tyler Burroughs = Mary Rice
    George Tyler Burroughs = Mary Evaline Zieger
    Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)

    (Thus, ERB is a seventh cousin twice removed to TSW.)

    Thomas married Dorothy Tompson before 28 Oct 1644 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Dorothy (daughter of John Tompson and Alice Freeman) was born before 5 Jul 1624; was christened on 5 Jul 1624 in Preston Capes, Northamptonshire, England; died after 9 Aug 1709. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  6. 23.  Dorothy Tompson was born before 5 Jul 1624; was christened on 5 Jul 1624 in Preston Capes, Northamptonshire, England (daughter of John Tompson and Alice Freeman); died after 9 Aug 1709.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: Aft 5 Sep 1707
    • Alternate death: Aft 1709

    Children:
    1. 11. Alice Parke was born in near Stonington, New London, Connecticut; died on 24 Nov 1729 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut.
    2. Robert Parke
    3. Dorothy Parke was born on 6 Mar 1652 in New London, New London, Connecticut; died after 5 Sep 1707.

  7. 26.  Matthew Price was born in of Salem, Essex, Massachusetts.

    Matthew married Elizabeth. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  8. 27.  Elizabeth
    Children:
    1. 13. Sarah Price died on 24 Mar 1691 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachussets.

  9. 28.  Rev. Thomas Carter died on 5 Sep 1684 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts.

    Notes:

    First minister at Woburn.

    Thomas married Mary Parkhurst in 1638. Mary (daughter of George Parkhurst and Phebe Leete) was born before 28 Aug 1614; was christened on 28 Aug 1614 in St. Lawrence, St. Mary-at-the-Quay parish, Ipswich, Suffolk, England; died on 28 Mar 1687 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  10. 29.  Mary Parkhurst was born before 28 Aug 1614; was christened on 28 Aug 1614 in St. Lawrence, St. Mary-at-the-Quay parish, Ipswich, Suffolk, England (daughter of George Parkhurst and Phebe Leete); died on 28 Mar 1687 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
    Children:
    1. 14. Samuel Carter was born on 8 Aug 1640 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died in 1693.

  11. 30.  John Brooks was born about 1623 (son of Henry Brooks and (Unknown first wife of Henry Brooks)); died on 29 Sep 1691 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts.

    John married Eunice Mousall on 1 Nov 1649 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Eunice (daughter of Deacon John Mousall and Joanna) was born about 1629; died on 1 Jan 1684 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  12. 31.  Eunice Mousall was born about 1629 (daughter of Deacon John Mousall and Joanna); died on 1 Jan 1684 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
    Children:
    1. 15. Eunice Brooks was born on 10 Oct 1655 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts.


Generation: 6

  1. 34.  Rev. William Eddy was born between 1558 and 1564 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England; died on 23 Nov 1616 in Cranbrook, Kent, England.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate birth: of Cranbrook, Kent, England

    Notes:

    Vicar of Cranbrook, Kent.

    William married Mary Fosten on 20 Nov 1587 in Cranbrook, Kent, England. Mary (daughter of John Fosten and Ellen Munn) died in Jul 1611. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 35.  Mary Fosten (daughter of John Fosten and Ellen Munn); died in Jul 1611.
    Children:
    1. 17. Abigail Eddy was born in Cranbrook, Kent, England; was christened in Oct 1601 in Cranbrook, Kent, England; died on 20 May 1687 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachussets.
    2. Samuel Eddy was born before 15 May 1608; was christened on 15 May 1608 in Cranbrook, Kent, England; died on 12 Nov 1688 in Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts.

  3. 42.  William Browne was born before 5 Dec 1585; was christened on 5 Dec 1585 in Horley, Surrey, England (son of Rev. Joseph Browne and Margery Patching); died in 1650 in Long Island, New Netherland.

    Notes:

    Came to New England in 1646-47.

    William married Jane Burgis on 20 Jun 1611 in Rusper, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 43.  Jane Burgis
    Children:
    1. 21. Phebe Browne was born before 1 Oct 1620; was christened on 1 Oct 1620 in Rusper, Sussex, England; died on 24 Dec 1664 in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts.

  5. 44.  Robert Parke was born before 3 Jun 1580; was christened on 3 Jun 1580 in Poslingford, Suffolk, England (son of Robert Parke and Alice Chaplin); died on 4 Feb 1665 in Mystic, New London, Connecticut; was buried on 7 Feb 1665 in Mystic, New London, Connecticut.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: 14 Mar 1665, Mystic, New London, Connecticut

    Notes:

    From McArthur-Barnes Ancestral Lines (citation details below):

    He sailed with some members of his family with the Winthrop Fleet, 29 Mar. 1630, from Cowes, Isle of Wight, supposedly on the flagship, Arbella. He was a man of means, and is thought to be the Robert Parke who wrote to John Winthrop 17 Feb. 1629/30 from Easterkale, co. Lincoln, proposing to go to New England [Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 5th Series, 1:194]. Savage [Gen. Dict. 3:347] states that he returned to England the same year, carrying an order by Governor Winthrop to his son John in England to pay money, "which is in my possession and may be the earliest bill of exchange drafted on our side of the water."

    His son William, who came over later in 1630, settled in Roxbury, Mass., where he became one of the most prominent citizens, and his daughter Ann seems to have been with William at Roxbury, where she married in 1640 and died the following year. We do not know just when Robert returned to New England, but on 9 Apr. 1640 Mr. Parke was made freeman at Wethersfield, Conn., as Robert Parke served on a jury 2 July 1640 and represented that town as Deputy to the Connecticut General Court, Aug. 1642 [Col. Rec. of Conn., 1:46, 55, 73]. His son Thomas was with him at Wethersfield, and they remained together at New London and Stonington.

    We do not know when Robert Parke lost his first wife, the mother of his children. On 30 May 1644, the House of Deputies of Massachusetts Bay passed the following act: "The peticon of Robert Parke is graunted by ye whole Courte, and hath libtye to pceed in marriage wth Alice Tompson wthout farthr publishe" [Shurtleff's Records of Massachusetts Bay, 3:3]. She was a widow of gentry family who had come to Roxbury, Mass., with daughters. The marriage accordingly took place. [...]

    About 1650 Robert Parke and his son Thomas removed to Pequot, now New London, Conn. On 20 May 1652 Mr. Parkes was a Deputy for New London [Col. Rec. of Conn., 1:231]. In New London land records we find that Alice Parke witnessed a deed, 2 June 1652; Richard Blinman, pastor, conveyed to "my brother in law Thomas Parkes," 21 Mar. 1653/4; and Thomas Parke of "Misticke neere Pequot" conveyed 9 Oct. 1656 to his father, Robert Parke, Gentleman [2:9; 3:64,41]. About 1655 the family had moved to Mystic or Southerton, later included in Stonington, Conn. The family continued to own land in New London as numerous deeds attest.

    By his first wife, he is an ancestor of PNH's sister-in-law Laura (Wightman) Hayden:

    Robert Parke (1580-1665) = Martha Chaplin (1585-1643)
    Samuel Parke (1621-~1710)
    Robert Parke (1676-1752) = Tamsen Packer (1674-1764)
    Jemima Parke (1716-1793) = Samuel Torrance (1719-1788)
    Nancy Torrance (1746-1806) = Noah Woodard (1744-1834)
    Abiram Woodard (1766-1866) = Dinah Green (1783-1850)
    Martha Woodard (1806-1878) = William Wightman (1796-1877)
    Monroe Alphonso Wightman (1848-1910) = Sarah S. Chisman (1848-1918)
    Frank Logan Wightman (1887-1959) = Iva Faye Covington (1894-1985)
    John Stephen Wightman (1918-1990) = Alise Emma Evans (1918-1995)
    Robert Alan Wightman (1941-2007) = Joyce Ann Marie Dixon (1941-1997)
    Laura Marie Wightman (1962- ) = Benjamin Titus Hayden (1962- )

    And of stunt UK prime minister Boris Johnson:

    Robert Parke (1580-1665) = Martha Chaplin (1585-1643)
    Thomas Parke (1616-1709) = Dorothy Tompson (1624-1709)
    Joseph Morgan (1646-1704) = Dorothy Parke (1652-1707)
    Dorothy Morgan (1676-1759) = Ebenezer Witter (1668-1712)
    Mary Witter (b. 1696) = Jeremiah Tracy (b. 1682)
    Jeremiah Tracy (b. 1719) = Margaret Huntington
    Solomon Tracy (1756-1835) = Mary Wells (~1864-1848)
    Hila Tracy (1799-~1841) = Jonathan Nobles (~1792-~1870)
    Maria Nobles (~1823-~1880) = Judson Holcomb (~1819-~1880)
    Clara Holcomb (1848-1927) = Henry Clinton Porter (1851-1922)
    Helen Tracy Porter (1876-1963) = Elias Avery Lowe (1879-1969)
    Frances Beatrice Lowe = Sir James Edmund Sanford Fawcett (1913-1991)
    Charlotte Offlow Fawcett (1942-2021) = Stanley Patrick Johnson (1940- )
    Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (1964- ), UK Prime Minister 2019-

    Robert married Martha Chaplin on 9 Feb 1602 in Semer, Suffolk, England. Martha (daughter of William Chaplin and Agnes Holborough) was born before 4 Feb 1585; was christened on 4 Feb 1585 in Semer, Suffolk, England; died before 1643. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  6. 45.  Martha Chaplin was born before 4 Feb 1585; was christened on 4 Feb 1585 in Semer, Suffolk, England (daughter of William Chaplin and Agnes Holborough); died before 1643.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Baptised: 4 Feb 1584
    • Alternate death: Aft 1621

    Children:
    1. 22. Thomas Parke was born in of Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut; was christened in 1616 in Hitcham, Suffolk, England; died on 30 Jul 1709 in Preston, New London, Connecticut.
    2. Samuel Parke was born before 20 Jun 1621; was christened on 20 Jun 1621 in Bildeston, Suffolk, England; died between 22 Mar 1709 and 28 Aug 1711 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut; was buried in White Hall Graveyard, Mystic, New London, Connecticut.

  7. 46.  John Tompson was born about 1585 in of Maidford, Northamptonshire, England; died between 7 Nov 1626 and 14 Nov 1626 in London, England; was buried on 14 Nov 1626 in St. Dunstan in the West, London, England.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate birth: of Preston Capes, Northamptonshire, England
    • Alternate birth: of Preston Parva, Northamptonshire, England
    • Alternate birth: Between 1580 and 1590, of Little Preston, Preston Capes, Northamptonshire, England
    • Alternate death: 6 Nov 1626, London, England

    Notes:

    The 1669 visitation of Oxford states that his father was a Richard Tompson.

    Early records call him "yeoman"; later, he is referred to as "of Clifford's Inn" (one of the Inns of Chancery associated with the Inner Temple, itself one of the Inns of Court) and "gentleman."

    Several earlier researchers give his death date as 6 Nov 1626, the date of his will, which is the death date given in his IPM. However, he added a codicil to his will on 7 Nov. His IPM was taken almost two years after his death, which may have contributed to the error.

    John married Alice Freeman in 1613. Alice (daughter of Henry Freeman and Margaret Edwards) was born about 1595; died after 24 Dec 1658 in New London, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  8. 47.  Alice Freeman was born about 1595 (daughter of Henry Freeman and Margaret Edwards); died after 24 Dec 1658 in New London, New London, Connecticut.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: Aft 24 Dec 1658, Stonington, New London, Connecticut

    Notes:

    One of TNH's four proven "gateway ancestors". Also one of TSW's eight, one of JTS's eleven; one of TWK's twelve; and the sole "gateway ancestor" yet discovered for FW.

    "Alice and at least two of her daughters emigrated to New England. She was living in Roxbury, Massachusetts, by 2 April 1640, when a complaint was drawn up against 'Alice Tompson widdow.'" [Randy A. West, citation details below.]

    Descendants of Alice Freeman of particular interest to anyone liable to be looking at the ancestry of people named Nielsen Hayden include Edgar Rice Burroughs, L. Frank Baum, and Thomas Pynchon. Other notable descendants include Katherine Hepburn, Julia Child, Fannie Farmer, Louisa May Alcott, Grace Slick, Louis Auchincloss, Dorothea Dix, George B. McClellan, Cyrus McCormick, J. P. Morgan, Charles Dana Gibson, Clarence Almon Torrey, Kingman Brewster Jr., Nelson, David, and Winthrop Rockefeller, Archibald MacLeish, Clarence Day, Warren G. Harding, Humphrey Bogart, Harriet Monroe, Admiral George Dewey, Thomas E. Dewey, George Gallup, Spencer W. Kimball, Martha Graham, Laura Ingalls Wilder, George F. Kennan, Robert Lansing, Brewster Kahle, James Taylor, Boris Johnson, Tammy Duckworth, Seth Low, Oliver Platt, Alec Baldwin, and would-be presidential assassin John Hinckley, Jr.

    To the best of our knowledge, Alice Freeman is the only seventeenth-century immigrant to New England proven to be both descended from an English monarch and an ancestor of the current British royal family. (Corrections welcome.) Thus:

    Aethelred II "Unraed", King of England (~968-1016) = Aelfgifu (~970-~1002)
    Aelfgifu = Uchtred, Earl of Northumbria (~970-1016)
    Ealdgyth of Northumbria = Maldred (~1009-1045)
    Gospatric of Dunbar, Earl of Northumbria (~1044-~1074)
    Gospatric of Dunbar, Earl of Lothian (d. 1138)
    Juliana of Dunbar = Ralph de Merlay (d. 1160)
    Roger de Merlay (d. 1188) = Alice de Stuteville (d. 1219)
    Agnes de Merlay = Richard Gobion (d. 1230)
    Hugh Gobion (d. 1275) = Matilda (d. ~1271)
    Joan Gobion (d. >1312) = John de Morteyn (d. 1296)
    John de Morteyn (d. 1346) = Joan de Rothwell
    Lucy de Morteyn (d. ~1361) = John Giffard (1301-1369)
    Thomas Giffard (~1345-1394) = Elizabeth de Missenden (d. 1367)
    Roger Giffard (~1367-1409) = Isabel Stretley
    Thomas Giffard (1408-1469) = Eleanor Vaux
    John Giffard (~1431-~1506) = Agnes Wynslow
    Thomas Giffard (d. 1511) = Jane Langston (d. 1535)
    Amy Giffard (d.~1488) = Richard Samwell (d. 1519)
    Susanna Samwell (~1511-~1586) = Peter Edwards (~1490-~1550)
    Edward Edwards (~1537-~1592) = Ursula Coles (d. 1606)
    Margaret Edwards (1565-~1637) = Henry Freeman (~1564-1606)
    Alice Freeman (~1595-1658) = John Tompson (d. 1626)
    Dorothy Thompson (1624->1709) = Thomas Parke (1615-1709)
    Dorothy Parke (d. >1707) = Joseph Morgan (1646-1704)
    Margaret Morgan (b. 1686) = Ebenezer Hibbard (1682-1732)
    Keziah Hibbard (b. 1722) = Caleb Bishop (1717-1785)
    Lucy Bishop (1747-1783) = Benejah Strong (1740-1809)
    Dr. Joseph Strong (1770-1812) = Rebecca Young (1779-1862)
    Eleanor Strong (1805-1863) = John Wood (1785-1848)
    Ellen Wood (1831-1877) = Franklin H. Work (1819-1911)
    Frances Ellen Work (1857-1947) = James Boothby Burke Roche (1851-1920)
    Edmund Maurice Burke Roche (1885-1955) = Ruth Sylvia Gill (1908-1993)
    Frances Ruth Burke Roche (1936-2004) = Edward John Spencer (1924-1992)
    Diana Frances Spencer (1961-1997) = Charles, Prince of Wales (1948- )
    William Arthur Philip Louis, Duke of Cambridge (1982- )

    In addition, Alice Freeman's descent to General McClellan:

    John Tompson (d. 1626) = Alice Freeman (1595-1658)
    Dorothy Thompson (1624->1709) = Thomas Parke (1615-1709)
    Martha Parke (b. 1646) = Isaac Wheeler
    Martha Wheeler (d. 1745) = John Williams (d. 1702)
    Eunice Williams (1702-1772) = Joseph Gallup (1695-1760)
    Lucy Gallup = James Eldredge
    Eunice Eldredge = James McClellan
    Dr. George McClellan (1796-1847) = Elizabeth Sophia Brinton (1800-1889)
    George Brinton McClellan (1826-1885)

    And to Warren G. Harding:

    Alice Freeman (~1595->1658) = John Tompson (d. 1626)
    Dorothy Tompson (1624-1709) = Thomas Parke (1619-1709)
    Dorothy Parke (d. >1707) = Joseph Morgan (1646-1704)
    Rev. Joseph Morgan (1671->1738) = Sarah Emmons (~1678->1706)
    Dorothy Morgan (1697->1747) = Henry Van Kirk (1700-~1776)
    Henry Van Kirk (1740-1798)
    William Van Kirk (1763-1826) = Deborah Watters
    Charity Malvina Van Kirk (~1803-1878) = Isaac Haines Dickerson (~1802-1867)
    Phoebe Elizabeth Dickerson (1843-1910) = George Tyron Harding (1844-1928)
    Warren Gamaliel Harding (1865-1923)

    And to, of all people, Boris Johnson:

    John Tompson (d. 1626) = Alice Freeman (1595-1658)
    Dorothy Thompson (1624->1709) = Thomas Parke (1615-1709)
    Dorothy Parke (1652-1707) = Joseph Morgan (1646-1704)
    Dorothy Morgan (1676-1759) = Ebenezer Witter (1668-1712)
    Mary Witter (b. 1696) = Jeremiah Tracy (b. 1682)
    Jeremiah Tracy (b. 1719) = Margaret Huntington
    Solomon Tracy (1756-1835) = Mary Wells (~1864-1848)
    Hila Tracy (1799-~1841) = Jonathan Nobles (~1792-~1870)
    Maria Nobles (~1823-~1880) = Judson Holcomb (~1819-~1880)
    Clara Holcomb (1848-1927) = Henry Clinton Porter (1851-1922)
    Helen Tracy Porter (1876-1963) = Elias Avery Lowe (1879-1969)
    Frances Beatrice Lowe = Sir James Edmund Sanford Fawcett (1913-1991)
    Charlotte Offlow Fawcett (1942-2021) = Stanley Patrick Johnson (1940- )
    Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (1964- ), UK Prime Minister 2019-

    (Freakishly, because everything about Boris Johnson is freakish, Boris Johnson is also a descendant of Alice Freeman's second husband Robert Parke, via his first wife Martha Chaplin.)

    Children:
    1. Mary Tompson was born before 14 Nov 1619; was christened on 14 Nov 1619 in Preston Capes, Northamptonshire, England; died on 4 Aug 1693 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
    2. Bridget Thompson was born before 10 Sep 1622 in Preston Capes, Northamptonshire, England; was christened on 10 Sep 1622 in Preston Capes, Northamptonshire, England; died in Aug 1643 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts; was buried in Aug 1643 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
    3. 23. Dorothy Tompson was born before 5 Jul 1624; was christened on 5 Jul 1624 in Preston Capes, Northamptonshire, England; died after 9 Aug 1709.

  9. 58.  George Parkhurst was born about 1588 in of Ipswich, Suffolk, England (son of John Parkhurst and Sara).

    Notes:

    He first appears in New England in Watertown in 1642. According to Edson Salisbury Jones, writing in 1914 (citation details below), he died there on a date unknown. But according to John Brooks Threlfall (citation details below), writing more recently, he probably returned to England not long after 13 Jun 1655, in aid of his second wife who had returned there in advance of him, and he was probably the "Old George Parkhurst" who was buried 18 Jun 1675 at St. Lawrence, Ipswich, Suffolk.

    George married Phebe Leete between 1611 and 1612. Phebe (daughter of Robert Leete and Alice Grundy) was born before 20 Dec 1585; was christened on 20 Dec 1585 in Little Eversden, Cambridgeshire, England; died before 1644. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  10. 59.  Phebe Leete was born before 20 Dec 1585; was christened on 20 Dec 1585 in Little Eversden, Cambridgeshire, England (daughter of Robert Leete and Alice Grundy); died before 1644.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: Bef 1643

    Children:
    1. Phebe Parkhurst was born before 29 Nov 1612; was christened on 29 Nov 1612 in St. Stephen, Ipswich, Suffolk, England; died before Aug 1688.
    2. 29. Mary Parkhurst was born before 28 Aug 1614; was christened on 28 Aug 1614 in St. Lawrence, St. Mary-at-the-Quay parish, Ipswich, Suffolk, England; died on 28 Mar 1687 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts.

  11. 60.  Henry Brooks was born about 1592; died after 18 Jul 1682 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts.

    Henry married (Unknown first wife of Henry Brooks). (Unknown died before 1650. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  12. 61.  (Unknown first wife of Henry Brooks) died before 1650.
    Children:
    1. Hannah Brooks was born about 1620; died in 1692.
    2. 30. John Brooks was born about 1623; died on 29 Sep 1691 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts.

  13. 62.  Deacon John Mousall was born about 1595; died on 27 Mar 1665 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts.

    Deacon married Joanna about 1625. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  14. 63.  Joanna
    Children:
    1. 31. Eunice Mousall was born about 1629; died on 1 Jan 1684 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts.


 

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