Elizabeth St. John

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One of JTS's eleven proven "gateway ancestors." Sister to the Oliver St. John who was chief justice of England under Oliver Cromwell.

"She…was known for her beauty, dignity and commanding presence. For a woman of those days she had received a good education which made her the fit companion of the scholars and statesmen who were her relations. Even in her old age she did not lose her youthful fondness for the great poets of England, Chaucer, Spenser and Shakespeare, with whose works her husband's library at Lynn was stored. It is clear from the circles in which she moved that she was well informed about current affairs and the rights of government and royal prerogative." [John Roger Scott Whiting, citation details below]

She was a half first cousin 4 times removed to Henry VII, through descent from Henry VII's grandmother Margaret Beauchamp (d. 1482). By the same common ancestor, she was a half fifth cousin once removed to her contemporary Charles I, making her possibly the seventeenth-century emigrant to New England most closely related to a sitting English monarch.

Elizabeth married Rev. Samuel Whiting on 6 Aug 1629 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England. Samuel (son of John Whiting, Mayor of Boston, Lincolnshire and Isabel) was born on 20 Nov 1597 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England; died on 11 Dec 1679 in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts; was buried in Old Cemetery, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Abt 1722, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut

Elizabeth married Rev. Jeremiah Hobart on 6 Apr 1659. Jeremiah (son of Rev. Peter Hobart and Elizabeth Ibrook) was born on 6 Apr 1631 in Southwold, Suffolk, England; was christened on 18 Apr 1631 in Southwold, Suffolk, England; died on 6 Nov 1715 in Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; was buried in Old Cemetery, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He graduated from Harvard in 1661 and returned to Lynn to assist his father the Rev. Samuel Whiting in his ministry there. After Samuel died, Joseph was ordained as his successor on 6 Oct 1680. In 1682 the town of Southampton on Long Island, which at the time was composed mostly of families from Lynn, invited Joseph Whiting to come there and be their minister, which he did sometime in 1682 or 1683, continuing there until his death.

Joseph married Sarah Danforth about 1673. Sarah (daughter of Thomas Danforth and Mary Withington) was born on 11 Nov 1646 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died after 20 Jan 1681. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 11 Mar 1732

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Her second husband was Hezekiah Brainerd of Haddam, son of Daniel, born 24 May 1681. He was a representative to the Connecticut general assembly in 1713 and 1715-22, clerk of the House of Representatives in May 1721, and speaker of the House for the three sessions following. He was also a member of the Governor's Council. He died 24 May 1727, on his 46th birthday, during a session of the general assembly.

Dorothy married Daniel Mason on 9 Apr 1704. Daniel (son of Daniel Mason and Margaret Denison) was born before 9 Apr 1676 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts; was christened on 9 Apr 1676 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died in 1705. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Jeremiah Mason (1705-1771) = Mary Clark (1705-1799)
Jeremiah Mason m. Elizabeth Fitch
Jeremiah Mason m. Mary Means
Robert Means Mason m. Sarah Ellen Francis
Elizabeth Mason m. Robert Charles Winthrop
Margaret Tyndal Winthrop m. James Grant Forbes
Rosemary Isabel Forbes m. Richard John Kerry
John Forbes Kerry (1943- )

Jeremiah married Mary Clark on 24 May 1727. Mary (daughter of Thomas Clark) was born in 1705; died in 1799. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anna married Dr. William Whiting in 1759. William (son of Col. William Whiting and Anna Raymond) was born on 17 Apr 1731 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut; died on 8 Dec 1792 in Great Barrington, Berkshire, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Lawyer, member of the New York state legislature; later a district attorney. He was one of the first settlers of Chenango Point, New York, later called Binghamton.

Mason married Mary Ogden Edwards on 26 Apr 1800. Mary (daughter of Timothy Edwards and Rhoda Ogden) was born on 11 Oct 1780 in Stockbridge, Berkshire, Massachusetts; died on 23 Jan 1873; was buried in Spring Forest Cemetery, Binghamton, Broome, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 25 Apr 1801, Great Barrington, Berkshire, Massachusetts

Mary married Col. John Tilden Doubleday on 19 Sep 1819. John (son of Ammi Doubleday and Lois Tilden) was born on 17 Aug 1795 in New Lebanon, Columbia, New York; died on 25 Jun 1857 in Brooklyn, Kings, New York; was buried on 27 Jun 1857 in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 5 Mar 1900, New York, New York

William married Ellen Maria Dickinson on 1 Oct 1850. Ellen (daughter of Horace Dickinson and Mercy Amelia Bigelow) was born on 31 Dec 1830 in Montréal, Québec; died on 14 Dec 1907 in New York, New York; was buried on 16 Dec 1907 in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Founder of the Doubleday publishing firm. Called "Effendi" by his friend Rudyard Kipling, a pun on his initials.

Frank married Neltje Blanchan De Graff on 9 Jun 1886 in Plainfield, Somerset, New Jersey. Neltje (daughter of Liverius De Graff and Alice Fair) was born on 23 Oct 1865 in Chicago, Illinois; died on 21 Feb 1918 in Canton, China. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ellen George McCarter. Ellen (daughter of Thomas Nesbitt McCarter and Madeleine G. Barker) was born on 9 May 1898; died on 2 Apr 1978 in New York, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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In recent decades, she changed her name, by court order, to simply "Neltje." In 2016 her autobiography North of Crazy was published by St. Martin's Press. A profile of her can be found here, and her Wikipedia page is here.

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Neltje Doubleday and John Turner Sargent Sr. are 8th cousins, both being 7XG-grandchildren of the Rev. John Ward (1606-1693) and his wife Alice (1612-1680).

Neltje married John Turner Sargent, Sr. on 16 May 1953 in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York, and was divorced in Sep 1965. John (son of Charles Sprague Sargent and Dagmar Wetmore) was born on 26 Jun 1924; died on 5 Feb 2012 in New York, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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CEO of Macmillan Publishers.

His philanthropic activities include longtime service on the board of directors of Graham Windham, more recently called simply Graham, a nonprofit foster care agency providing services to needy children and families in the New York metropolitan area. Founded in 1806, Graham, the oldest non-sectarian childcare agency in the United States, was originally the Orphan Asylum Society of the City of New York, co-founded by Eliza Hamilton after her husband Alexander Hamilton, himself an orphan, was killed in the famous duel with Aaron Burr — a grandson of John Sargent's 6X-grandfather the Rev. Jonathan Edwards. Thus Aaron Burr's first cousin six times removed has served for years on the board of Eliza Hamilton's orphanage.

He is also the author, under the anagrammatic pen name "S. T. Garne," of two children's books, One White Sail: A Caribbean Counting Book (1992) and By a Blazing Blue Sea (1999).

John married Constance Lane Murray on 21 Sep 1985. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]