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Four Thousand Related Politicians

Note: This is just one of 1,164 family groupings listed on The Political Graveyard web site. These families each have three or more politician members, all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption.

These groupings — even the names of the groupings, and the areas of main activity — are the result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have, not the choices of any historian or genealogist.

  John Winthrop (1588-1649) — Born in Edwardstone, Suffolk, England, 1588. Colonial Governor of Massachusetts, 1629-34, 1637-40, 1642-44, 1646-49; died in office 1649. Puritan. Died in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., March 26, 1649 (age about 60 years). Interment at King's Chapel Burying Ground, Boston, Mass.
  Relatives: Son of Adam Winthrop and Anne (Browne) Winthrop; father of John Winthrop (1606-1676); grandfather of Fitz-John Winthrop; third great-grandfather of Thomas Lindall Winthrop; fourth great-grandfather of Martin Chittenden, David Sears and Robert Charles Winthrop; fifth great-grandfather of Chittenden Lyon and Alvah Nash; sixth great-grandfather of Israel Coe; seventh great-grandfather of Lyman Wetmore Coe, Robert Cleveland Usher, Arthur Newton Holden, Allen Clarence Wilcox, Augustus Peabody Gardner, Charles Francis Adams and Charles Archibald Nichols; eighth great-grandfather of William Amory Gardner Minot, George Cabot Lodge and John Forbes Kerry.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton family of Massachusetts; Crowninshield-Adams family of Savannah, Georgia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article
  George Wyllys (1590-1645) — of Hartford, Hartford County, Conn. Born in Fenny Compton, Warwickshire, England, 1590. Colonial Governor of Connecticut, 1642-43. Died in Hartford, Hartford County, Conn., 1645 (age about 55 years). Interment at Ancient Burying Ground, Hartford, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of Richard Wyllys and Hester (Chambers) Wyllys; married 1609 to Bridget Young; married 1631 to Mary Brisbey; great-grandfather of George Wyllys (1710-1796); second great-grandfather of Samuel Wyllys; third great-grandfather of Timothy Pitkin; fifth great-grandfather of Edward Green Bradford; sixth great-grandfather of Chester Dorman Hubbard and Edward Green Bradford II; seventh great-grandfather of William Pallister Hubbard, Edward Green Bradford Jr. and Elizabeth Bradford du Pont Bayard; eighth great-grandfather of James Gillespie Blaine III, Henry Belin du Pont Jr., Thomas Francis Bayard III and Alexis Irenee du Pont Bayard.
  Political families: DuPont family of Wilmington, Delaware; Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article
  Theophilus Eaton (1590-1658) — Born in Buckinghamshire, England, 1590. Co-founder and first Governor of New Haven Colony, 1639-58. Puritan. Died in New Haven, New Haven County, Conn., January 17, 1658 (age about 67 years). Original interment and cenotaph at New Haven Green, New Haven, Conn.; reinterment at Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.; cenotaph at Montowese Cemetery, North Haven, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of Richard Eaton and Elizabeth (Sheapheard) Eaton; married 1629 to Ann (Lloyd) Yale; fifth great-grandfather of David Parmalee Kelsey; sixth great-grandfather of Walter Samuel Hine, Arthur Eugene Parmelee, Lovel Davis Parmelee, Frank Clark Woodruff and Watson Stiles Woodruff; seventh great-grandfather of Layton Archer Kelsey and Cleon Lorenzo Parmelee.
  Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  The town of Eaton, New Hampshire, is named for him.
  Epitaph: "Eaton so fam'd so wise, so just, The Phoenix of our world, here lies his dust / This name forget, N. England never must."
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  John Haynes (1594-1654) — of Hartford, Hartford County, Conn. Born in 1594. Colonial Governor of Connecticut, 1639, 1641, 1643, 1645, 1647, 1649, 1651, 1653. Died in 1654 (age about 60 years). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Great-grandfather of George Wyllys; third great-grandfather of Timothy Pitkin; fifth great-grandfather of Edward Green Bradford; sixth great-grandfather of Chester Dorman Hubbard and Edward Green Bradford II; seventh great-grandfather of William Pallister Hubbard, Edward Green Bradford Jr. and Elizabeth Bradford du Pont Bayard; eighth great-grandfather of James Gillespie Blaine III, Henry Belin du Pont Jr., Thomas Francis Bayard III and Alexis Irenee du Pont Bayard.
  Political families: DuPont family of Wilmington, Delaware; Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Thomas Welles (c.1594-1660) — of Hartford, Hartford County, Conn. Born in Warwickshire, England, about 1594. Colonial Governor of Connecticut, 1655, 1658. Congregationalist. Died in Wethersfield, Hartford County, Conn., January 24, 1660 (age about 66 years). Interment at Ancient Burying Ground, Hartford, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of Robert Welles and Alice (Hunt) Welles; married 1615 to Alice Tomes; married 1646 to Elizabeth (Deming) Foote; third great-grandfather of Ebenezer Huntington; third great-granduncle of Simeon Baldwin; fourth great-grandfather of Orsamus Cook Merrill, Gershom Birdsey, Benjamin Hard, Timothy Merrill, Jabez Williams Huntington, Henry Leavitt Ellsworth and William Wolcott Ellsworth; fourth great-granduncle of James Doolittle Wooster and Roger Sherman Baldwin; fifth great-grandfather of Elisha Hotchkiss Jr., Charles Robert Sherman, Aurelius Buckingham, Eli Coe Birdsey (1799-1843), David Lowrey Seymour, Norman A. Phelps, Farrand Fassett Merrill, Howkin Bulkley Beardslee, Joseph Pomeroy Root, Jethro Ayers Hatch and Caleb Seymour Pitkin; fifth great-granduncle of John Charles Birdsall, Francis William Kellogg, Ausburn Birdsall and Simeon Eben Baldwin; sixth great-grandfather of Andrew Gould Chatfield, Charles Taylor Sherman, Philo Beecher Buckingham, William Tecumseh Sherman, Hiram Bidwell Case, Lampson Parker Sherman, John Sherman, Earle Buckingham, William Walter Phelps, Rowland Case Kellogg, Eli Coe Birdsey (1843-1929), Roger Wolcott and Omar William Platt; sixth great-granduncle of Walter Booth, Jesse Hoyt, Truman Hotchkiss, George Isaac Sherwood, David B. Sherwood, Charles Page, Austin George Nettleton, Erwin J. Baldwin, Ernest Harvey Woodford, Francis Everett Baldwin, Benjamin Pixley Birdsall and Henry de Forest Baldwin; seventh great-grandfather of Ezekiel Gilbert Stoddard, George Tracy Buckingham, Sheffield Phelps, Oliver Cromwell Jennings, Edward Taylor Buckingham, Anna Gordon Kellogg, Anson Foster Keeler and Blanche M. Woodward; seventh great-granduncle of Daniel Curtis Roundy, John Woodruff, Franklin Woodruff, Carl G. Sherwood and Henry C. C. Miles; ancestor *** of Lyman Allen Mills; eighth great-grandfather of Louis Ezekiel Stoddard, Garwood Stone Morehouse, Phelps Phelps, Irene Ellis Murphy and Henry Perkins Smith III.
  Political families: Morris-Ingersoll family of New York and Connecticut; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Thomas Willett (1605-1674) — of New York, New York County, N.Y. Born in Bartley, Hertfordshire, England, 1605. Merchant; mayor of New York City, N.Y., 1665-66, 1667-68. Died in 1674 (age about 69 years). Interment at Little Neck Cemetery, East Providence, R.I.
  Relatives: Son of Rev. Andrew Willet; married 1636 to Mary Brown; married 1671 to Joanna (Boyse) Prudden; second great-grandfather of Pierpont Edwards; third great-grandfather of Benjamin Tallmadge, Aaron Burr, Theodore Dwight and Henry Waggaman Edwards; fourth great-grandfather of Frederick Augustus Tallmadge; sixth great-grandfather of George Landon Ingraham, Charles Dunsmore Millard and John Brown Judson Jr.; seventh great-grandfather of Charles H. Chittenden and Daniel Phoenix Ingraham.
  Political families: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Tallmadge-Floyd family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  John Winthrop (1606-1676) — of New London, New London County, Conn. Born in Suffolk, England, February 12, 1606. Colonial Governor of Connecticut, 1659-76. Died in Groton, New London County, Conn., April 6, 1676 (age 70 years, 54 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of John Winthrop (1588-1649); father of Fitz-John Winthrop; second great-grandfather of Thomas Lindall Winthrop and Margaret Cornelia Winthrop (who married George Folsom); third great-grandfather of David Sears and Robert Charles Winthrop; third great-granduncle of Martin Chittenden; fourth great-granduncle of Chittenden Lyon and Alvah Nash; fifth great-grandfather of Winifred Folsom (who married Edward Henry Delafield); fifth great-granduncle of Israel Coe; sixth great-grandfather of Augustus Peabody Gardner, Charles Francis Adams and Charles Archibald Nichols; sixth great-granduncle of Lyman Wetmore Coe, Robert Cleveland Usher, Arthur Newton Holden and Allen Clarence Wilcox; seventh great-grandfather of William Amory Gardner Minot, George Cabot Lodge and John Forbes Kerry.
  Political families: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton family of Massachusetts; Winthrop-Folsom family of New York City, New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article
Peter Stuyvesant Pieter Stuyvesant (c.1612-1672) — also known as Peter Stuyvesant; "Old Silver Leg" — of Nieuw Amsterdam, Niew Neederlandt (now part of Manhattan, New York County, N.Y.); New York, New York County, N.Y. Born in Peperga, Friesland, Netherlands, about 1612. Dutch Director-General (colonial governor) of New Netherland, 1647-64. Frisian ancestry. Lost his right leg in battle in 1644. Slaveowner. Died in New York, New York County, N.Y., 1672 (age about 60 years). Entombed at St. Mark's-in-the-Bowery Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.
  Relatives: Married to Judith Bayard; uncle of Nicholas Bayard (c.1644-1707); great-granduncle of Stephanus Bayard; second great-grandfather of Elizabeth Stuyvesant (who married Nicholas Fish (1758-1833)) and Margaret Cornelia Winthrop (who married George Folsom); second great-granduncle of Nicholas Bayard (1736-1802) and John Bubenheim Bayard; third great-grandfather of Hamilton Fish (1808-1893); third great-granduncle of James Asheton Bayard Sr.; fourth great-grandfather of Nicholas Fish (1848-1902) and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1849-1936); fourth great-granduncle of Richard Henry Bayard, Littleton Kirkpatrick, James Asheton Bayard Jr. and James Adams Ekin; fifth great-grandfather of Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, Winifred Folsom (who married Edward Henry Delafield) and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991); fifth great-granduncle of Thomas Francis Bayard Sr., Andrew Kirkpatrick and John Sluyter Wirt; sixth great-grandfather of Hamilton Fish Jr. (1926-1996); sixth great-granduncle of Thomas Francis Bayard Jr.; seventh great-grandfather of Hamilton Fish (born 1951) and Alexa Fish Ward; seventh great-granduncle of John Eliot Thayer Jr., Bronson Murray Cutting, Thomas Francis Bayard III and Alexis Irenee du Pont Bayard.
  Political families: DuPont family of Wilmington, Delaware; Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Image source: New York Public Library
  William Leete (1613-1683) — of Guilford, New Haven County, Conn. Born in Dodington, Huntingdonshire, England, 1613. Colonial Governor of Connecticut, 1676-83. Died in Hartford, Hartford County, Conn., 1683 (age about 70 years). Interment at Ancient Burying Ground, Hartford, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of John Leete and Ann (Shute) Leete; married to Anna Payne; second great-grandfather of Enoch Woodbridge and Joseph Silliman (1756-1829); third great-grandfather of Benjamin Tallmadge, Oliver Wolcott Jr., Frederick Wolcott, William Woodbridge and Joseph Silliman (c.1786-1850); fourth great-grandfather of Frederick Augustus Tallmadge, Julianna Trumbull Woodbridge (who married Henry Titus Backus), Frederick Enoch Woodbridge and Joseph Fitch Silliman; fifth great-grandfather of Joseph Lyman Huntington, Bradford Woodbridge (who married Cora M. Utter), Roger Calvin Leete, George Douglas Perkins and Roger Wolcott; sixth great-grandfather of Collins Dwight Huntington, George Milo Huntington, George Landon Ingraham and Charles Dunsmore Millard; seventh great-grandfather of Charles H. Chittenden and Daniel Phoenix Ingraham; eighth great-grandfather of George Philip Kazen.
  John Leverett (1616-1679) — Born in Lincolnshire, England, 1616. Colonial Governor of Massachusetts, 1672-73, 1673-79; died in office 1679. Died in Massachusetts, March 16, 1679 (age about 62 years). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Fifth great-grandfather of Chester Dorman Hubbard and George Landon Ingraham; sixth great-grandfather of William Pallister Hubbard, Charles H. Chittenden and Daniel Phoenix Ingraham; seventh great-grandfather of James Gillespie Blaine III; eighth great-grandfather of Chester R. Hubbard.
  Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article
  Robert Treat (1625-1710) — of Milford, New Haven County, Conn.; Newark, Essex County, N.J. Born in Pitminster, Somerset, England, 1625. Colonial Governor of Connecticut, 1683-98. Founder of Milford, Connecticut and Newark, New Jersey. Died in Milford, New Haven County, Conn., July 12, 1710 (age about 85 years). Interment at Milford Cemetery, Milford, Conn.
  Relatives: Great-grandfather of Robert Treat Paine; third great-grandfather of John Condit and Aurelius Buckingham; third great-granduncle of Gershom Birdsey and Benjamin Hard; fourth great-grandfather of Silas Condit, Philo Beecher Buckingham, Alanson B. Treat, Charles M. Hotchkiss and David Leroy Treat; fourth great-granduncle of Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, William Wolcott Ellsworth, Eli Coe Birdsey (1799-1843), Lorenzo Burrows, Nathan Belcher, Russell Sage, John Ransom Buck and Benjamin Baker Merrill; fifth great-grandfather of Albert Pierson Condit and Robert Treat Paine Jr.; fifth great-granduncle of Henry Brewster Stanton, Bushrod Ebenezer Hoppin, Eli Coe Birdsey (1843-1929), Edgar Jared Doolittle, Delos Fall, Caleb Seymour Pitkin, Clayton Harvey Deming, Harry Kear Wolcott, Franklin Warren Kellogg and Henry Merrill Wolcott; sixth great-grandfather of Simeon Harrison Rollinson and Joseph Clark Baldwin III; sixth great-granduncle of Roscoe D. Dix, John Alden Dix and Oliver Cromwell Jennings; seventh great-grandfather of Perry Amherst Carpenter; seventh great-granduncle of George Anthony Sweetland.
  Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Dirck Wesselse Ten Broeck (1638-1717) — of Albany, Albany County, N.Y. Born in Germany, December 18, 1638. Mayor of Albany, N.Y., 1696-98. Died in Clermont, Columbia County, N.Y., November 24, 1717 (age 78 years, 341 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Wessel Ten Broeck; married 1663 to Christyna Styntje Van Buren; grandfather of Dirck Ten Broeck and Cornelis Cuyler; second great-grandfather of James Livingston; third great-grandfather of Stephen Van Rensselaer, Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Rensselaer Westerlo, Edward Philip Livingston and Peter Gansevoort; fourth great-grandfather of Philip Schuyler, Edward Livingston, Gerrit Smith, Henry Bell Van Rensselaer and Elizabeth Cady Stanton; fifth great-grandfather of Henry Newton Schuyler and Kiliaen Van Rensselaer; sixth great-grandfather of Robert Reginald Livingston and Marion Richard Schuyler; seventh great-grandfather of John Eliot Thayer Jr..
  Political family: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Fitz-John Winthrop (1638-1707) — of New London, New London County, Conn. Born in Ipswich, Essex County, Mass., March 14, 1638. Colonial Governor of Connecticut, 1698-1707; died in office 1707. Died in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., November 27, 1707 (age 69 years, 258 days). Interment at King's Chapel Burying Ground, Boston, Mass.
  Relatives: Son of John Winthrop (1606-1676) and Elizabeth (Reade) Winthrop; married to Elizabeth Tongue; father of Mary Winthrop (who married John Livingston); grandson of John Winthrop (1588-1649); great-granduncle of Thomas Lindall Winthrop; second great-granduncle of David Sears and Robert Charles Winthrop; fifth great-granduncle of Augustus Peabody Gardner, Charles Francis Adams and Charles Archibald Nichols; sixth great-granduncle of William Amory Gardner Minot, George Cabot Lodge and John Forbes Kerry; first cousin four times removed of Martin Chittenden; first cousin five times removed of Chittenden Lyon and Alvah Nash; first cousin six times removed of Israel Coe; first cousin seven times removed of Lyman Wetmore Coe, Robert Cleveland Usher, Arthur Newton Holden and Allen Clarence Wilcox.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton family of Massachusetts; Crowninshield-Adams family of Savannah, Georgia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Edward Shippen (1639-1712) — of Boston, Suffolk County, Mass.; Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa. Born in Methley, Yorkshire, England, March 5, 1639. Merchant; mayor of Philadelphia, Pa., 1701-03. Quaker. English ancestry. Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., October 2, 1712 (age 73 years, 211 days). Interment at Old Pine Street Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.
  Relatives: Son of William Shippen and Mary Shippen; married 1671 to Elizabeth Lybrand; married 1689 to Rebecca (Howard) Richardson; married 1706 to Esther (Wilcox) James; grandfather of Edward Shippen (1703-1781), Anne Nancy Shippen (who married Charles Willing) and William Shippen (1712-1801); great-grandfather of Edward Shippen (1729-1806) and Thomas Willing; second great-grandfather of Charles Willing Byrd; third great-grandfather of John Brown Francis and Edward Shippen (1823-1904); fourth great-grandfather of Edward Overton Jr. and Bertha Shippen Irving; fifth great-grandfather of James Rieman Macfarlane and Francis Fisher Kane.
  Political families: Shippen-Middleton family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Morris-Willing-Wilson-Griffin family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Peleg Sanford (1639-1701) — Born in Portsmouth, Newport County, R.I., May 10, 1639. Colonial Governor of Rhode Island, 1680-83. Died in Newport, Newport County, R.I., February 28, 1701 (age 61 years, 294 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of John Sanford and Bridget (Hutchinson) Sanford; married to Mary Coddington; grandson of Anne Hutchinson; second great-grandfather of Stephen Daniel Tilden; third great-grandfather of Daniel Rose Tilden and Lucretia Garfield; fourth great-grandfather of Harry Augustus Garfield and James Rudolph Garfield.
  Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Jacob Leisler (c.1640-1691) — of New York, New York County, N.Y. Born in Bockenheim, Holy Roman Empire (now part of Frankfurt am Main, Germany), about 1640. Fur trader; tobacco business; following the English Revolution of 1688, which brought Protestant rulers William and Mary to power, he led "Leisler's Rebellion" and seized control of the colony; Colonial Governor of New York, 1689-91; provided land for a settlement of French Huguenot refugees (now the city of New Rochelle); following the arrival of a new royal governor, he was ousted. Arrested, charged with treason, tried, convicted, and sentenced to death; executed by hanging and decapitation, in New York, New York County, N.Y., May 16, 1691 (age about 51 years). Four years later, he was posthumously exonerated by an act of Parliament. Original interment at a private or family graveyard, New York County, N.Y.; subsequent interment at Dutch Church Burial Ground, Manhattan, N.Y.; reinterment to unknown location; statue at Broadview Avenue, New Rochelle, N.Y.
  Relatives: Great-grandfather of Nicholas Bayard.
  Political family: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Stephanus Van Cortlandt (1643-1700) — of New York, New York County, N.Y. Born in Nieuw Amsterdam, Niew Neederlandt (now part of Manhattan, New York County, N.Y.), May 7, 1643. Mayor of New York City, N.Y., 1677-78, 1686-88. Died in New York, New York County, N.Y., November 25, 1700 (age 57 years, 202 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Olof Stevense van Cortlandt and Annetje 'Anna' (Loockermans) van Cortlandt; brother of Jacobus Van Cortlandt; married to Gertrude Schuyler; grandfather of Stephanus Bayard, Pierre Van Cortlandt, Philip John Schuyler and Stephen John Schuyler; granduncle of James Jay, John Jay and Frederick Jay; great-grandfather of Nicholas Bayard, Pieter Schuyler, Philip Van Cortlandt, Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr., Philip Jeremiah Schuyler and James Parker; great-granduncle of Volkert Petrus Douw, Philip P. Schuyler, Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, Robert Van Rensselaer, Hendrick Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, Killian Killian Van Rensselaer, Peter Augustus Jay (1776-1843) and William Jay; second great-grandfather of Stephen Van Rensselaer, Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry Walter Livingston, Philip Schuyler, James Alexander Hamilton and John Cortlandt Parker; second great-granduncle of Leonard Gansevoort, Leonard Gansevoort Jr., Peter Samuel Schuyler, Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer and John Jay II; third great-grandfather of Edward Livingston, Henry Bell Van Rensselaer, James Adams Ekin, Richard Wayne Parker and Charles Wolcott Parker; third great-granduncle of Peter Gansevoort; fourth great-grandfather of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, Robert Ray Hamilton and John Sluyter Wirt; fourth great-granduncle of Cortlandt Schuyler Van Rensselaer and Peter Augustus Jay (1877-1933); fifth great-grandfather of Charles Ludlow Livingston, John Eliot Thayer Jr. and Bronson Murray Cutting; sixth great-grandfather of Brockholst Livingston; sixth great-granduncle of John Hubner II.
  Political family: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article
  Nicholas Bayard (c.1644-1707) — of New York, New York County, N.Y. Born in Netherlands, about 1644. Mayor of New York City, N.Y., 1685-86. Died in 1707 (age about 63 years). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Ann (Stuyvesant) Bayard and Samuel Bayard; married 1666 to Judith Varleth; nephew of Pieter Stuyvesant; grandfather of Stephanus Bayard; great-grandfather of Nicholas Bayard (1736-1802); great-granduncle of John Bubenheim Bayard; second great-granduncle of James Asheton Bayard Sr.; third great-grandfather of James Adams Ekin; third great-granduncle of Richard Henry Bayard (1796-1868), Littleton Kirkpatrick and James Asheton Bayard Jr.; fourth great-grandfather of John Sluyter Wirt; fourth great-granduncle of Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. and Andrew Kirkpatrick; fifth great-granduncle of Thomas Francis Bayard Jr.; sixth great-grandfather of John Eliot Thayer Jr. and Bronson Murray Cutting; sixth great-granduncle of Thomas Francis Bayard III and Alexis Irenee du Pont Bayard; seventh great-granduncle of Richard Henry Bayard (born c.1949); first cousin four times removed of Hamilton Fish; first cousin five times removed of Nicholas Fish and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1849-1936); first cousin six times removed of Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991); first cousin seven times removed of Hamilton Fish Jr. (1926-1996).
  Political families: DuPont family of Wilmington, Delaware; Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article
  Robert Livingston the Elder (1654-1728) — also known as "First Lord of the Manor" — of New York. Born in Ancrum, Roxburghshire, Scotland, December 13, 1654. Fur trader; member of New York colonial assembly, 1709-11, 1716-26; Speaker of New York Colonial Assembly, 1718. Scottish ancestry. Died in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., October 1, 1728 (age 73 years, 293 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Rev. John Livingston and Janet (Fleming) Livingston; married 1679 to Alida Schuyler; father of John Livingston, Robert Livingston (1688-1775) and Gilbert Livingston; uncle of Robert Livingston the Younger; grandfather of Robert Livingston (1708-1790), Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Robert Gilbert Livingston, Philip Livingston, Robert R. Livingston (1718-1775) and William Livingston; great-grandfather of Peter Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter Livingston, Philip Peter Livingston, Margaret Livingston (who married Nicholas Fish (1758-1833)), Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813), Philip Van Cortlandt, Henry Brockholst Livingston, Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr. and Edward Livingston (1764-1836); great-granduncle of Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, Robert Van Rensselaer and James Livingston; second great-grandfather of Stephen Van Rensselaer, Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry Walter Livingston, Peter Augustus Jay (1776-1843), Rensselaer Westerlo, Edward Philip Livingston, William Alexander Duer, John Duer, William Jay, Charles Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873) and Hamilton Fish (1808-1893); second great-granduncle of Peter Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Philip Jeremiah Schuyler and Maturin Livingston; third great-grandfather of Philip Schuyler, Peter Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Gilbert Livingston Thompson, Edward Livingston (1796-1840), William Duer, Henry Bell Van Rensselaer, Denning Duer, Henry Brockholst Ledyard, John Jay II, John Jacob Astor III, Nicholas Fish (1848-1902) and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1849-1936); third great-granduncle of James Alexander Hamilton, Gerrit Smith and Elizabeth Cady Stanton; fourth great-grandfather of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, William Waldorf Astor, John Kean, Hamilton Fish Kean, Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, Charles Ludlow Livingston (born 1870) and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991); fourth great-granduncle of Cortlandt Schuyler Van Rensselaer; fifth great-grandfather of Guy Vernor Henry, Herbert Livingston Satterlee, William Astor Chanler, Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, Montgomery Schuyler Jr., Peter Augustus Jay (1877-1933), Peter Goelet Gerry, Ogden Livingston Mills, Bronson Murray Cutting, Robert Reginald Livingston, Robert Winthrop Kean, Brockholst Livingston and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1926-1996); fifth great-granduncle of Robert Ray Hamilton; sixth great-grandfather of John Eliot Thayer Jr., Thomas Howard Kean, Hamilton Fish (born 1951) and Alexa Fish Ward; seventh great-grandfather of Thomas Howard Kean Jr.; ancestor *** of Robert Livingston Beeckman.
  Political family: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article
  Anthony Morris (1654-1721) — of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa. Born in Stepney, London, England, August 23, 1654. Brewer; preacher; mayor of Philadelphia, Pa., 1703-04. Quaker. English ancestry. Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., October 24, 1721 (age 67 years, 62 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Father of Anthony Morris (c.1682-1763); great-grandfather of Samuel Powel; fourth great-grandfather of Eugene McLanahan Wilson; fifth great-grandfather of Charles Hudson Griffin.
  Political families: Shippen-Middleton family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Morris-Willing-Wilson-Griffin family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article
  Anthony Brockholls (c.1656-1723) — Born in England, about 1656. Colonial Governor of New York, 1681-83. Died in Bergen County, N.J., August 29, 1723 (age about 67 years). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Great-grandfather of Henry Brockholst Livingston and Matthew Clarkson; second great-grandfather of Peter Augustus Jay (1776-1843) and William Jay; third great-grandfather of Henry Brockholst Ledyard and John Jay II; fourth great-grandfather of Charles Ludlow Livingston; fifth great-grandfather of Peter Augustus Jay (1877-1933) and Brockholst Livingston.
  Political family: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article
  Pieter Schuyler (1657-1724) — also known as Peter Schuyler — of Albany, Albany County, N.Y. Born in Beverwyck, New Netherland (now Albany, Albany County, N.Y.), 1657. Mayor of Albany, N.Y., 1686-94. Died February 19, 1724 (age about 66 years). Original interment at Dutch Church Burial Ground, Albany, N.Y.; subsequent interment at Madison Avenue Dutch Church, Albany, N.Y.; reinterment at Albany Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Pieter Pieterse Schuyler and Margarita (Van Slichtenhorst) Schuyler; brother of Johannes Schuyler (1668-1747); married 1681 to Engeltie Van Schaick; married 1691 to Maria Van Rensselaer; father of Margarita Schuyler (who married Robert Livingston the Younger); uncle of John Livingston, Robert Livingston (1688-1775), Gilbert Livingston and Johannes Schuyler (1697-1746); grandfather of Philip P. Schuyler; granduncle of Stephanus Bayard, Robert Livingston (1708-1790), Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Robert Gilbert Livingston, Philip Livingston, Robert R. Livingston (1718-1775), Pierre Van Cortlandt, William Livingston, Philip John Schuyler and Stephen John Schuyler; great-grandfather of Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, Robert Van Rensselaer, Pieter Schuyler (1746-1792), James Livingston and Peter Samuel Schuyler; great-granduncle of Nicholas Bayard, Peter Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter Livingston, Philip Peter Livingston, Philip Van Cortlandt, Henry Brockholst Livingston, Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr. and James Parker; second great-grandfather of Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813), Edward Livingston (1764-1836), Peter Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Henry Walter Livingston, Philip Jeremiah Schuyler and Maturin Livingston; second great-granduncle of Stephen Van Rensselaer, Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Peter Augustus Jay (1776-1843), Rensselaer Westerlo, Edward Philip Livingston, William Alexander Duer, John Duer, William Jay, Charles Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873), Hamilton Fish (1808-1893), George Washington Schuyler, John Cortlandt Parker and Philip N. Schuyler; third great-grandfather of Philip Schuyler, James Alexander Hamilton, Peter Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Edward Livingston (1796-1840), Gerrit Smith and Elizabeth Cady Stanton; third great-granduncle of Gilbert Livingston Thompson, William Duer, Henry Bell Van Rensselaer, Denning Duer, Henry Brockholst Ledyard, John Jay II, James Adams Ekin, Eugene Schuyler, Richard Wayne Parker, Nicholas Fish, Hamilton Fish Jr. (1849-1936) and Charles Wolcott Parker; fourth great-grandfather of John Jacob Astor III and Cortlandt Schuyler Van Rensselaer; fourth great-granduncle of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, John Sluyter Wirt, John Kean, Hamilton Fish Kean, Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, Karl Cortlandt Schuyler and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991); fifth great-grandfather of William Waldorf Astor, Robert Ray Hamilton, Charles Ludlow Livingston (born 1870), Peter Goelet Gerry, Ogden Livingston Mills and Bronson Murray Cutting; fifth great-granduncle of Guy Vernor Henry, Herbert Livingston Satterlee, Montgomery Schuyler Jr., Peter Augustus Jay (1877-1933), Robert Winthrop Kean and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1926-1996); sixth great-grandfather of William Astor Chanler, Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, John Eliot Thayer Jr., Robert Reginald Livingston and Brockholst Livingston; sixth great-granduncle of Thomas Howard Kean, Hamilton Fish (born 1951) and Alexa Fish Ward; seventh great-granduncle of Thomas Howard Kean Jr.; first cousin of David Davidse Schuyler and Myndert Davidtse Schuyler; first cousin six times removed of Henry Newton Schuyler; first cousin seven times removed of Marion Richard Schuyler.
  Political family: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article
  Abraham de Peyster (1657-1728) — of New York, New York County, N.Y. Born in Nieuw Amsterdam, Niew Neederlandt (now part of Manhattan, New York County, N.Y.), July 8, 1657. Mayor of New York City, N.Y., 1691-94. Died August 3, 1728 (age 71 years, 26 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Johannes de Peyster (1626-1685) and Cornelia (Lubberts) de Peyster; brother of Maria de Peyster (who married David Provost) and Johannes de Peyster (1666-1711); married 1684 to Catharina de Peyster; uncle of Johannes DePeyster; grandfather of Pierre Van Cortlandt; granduncle of Matthew Clarkson and Henry Rutgers; great-grandfather of Philip Van Cortlandt and Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr.; great-granduncle of Philip Peter Livingston, John Stevens III and Philip DePeyster; second great-granduncle of William Alexander Duer, John Duer and Charles Ludlow Livingston; third great-granduncle of William Duer and Denning Duer; fourth great-granduncle of Nicholas Fish, Hamilton Fish Jr. (1849-1936), John Kean and Hamilton Fish Kean; fifth great-granduncle of Robert Reginald Livingston, Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991) and Robert Winthrop Kean; sixth great-granduncle of Hamilton Fish Jr. (1926-1996) and Thomas Howard Kean; seventh great-granduncle of Hamilton Fish, Alexa Fish Ward and Thomas Howard Kean Jr..
  Political families: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; Roosevelt family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article
  Jacobus Van Cortlandt (1658-1739) — of New York, New York County, N.Y. Born in Nieuw Amsterdam, Niew Neederlandt (now part of Manhattan, New York County, N.Y.), 1658. Merchant; mayor of New York City, N.Y., 1710-11, 1719-20. Died in Bergen, Bergen County (now part of Jersey City, Hudson County), N.J., 1739 (age about 81 years). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Annetje 'Anna' (Loockermans) van Cortlandt and Olof Stevense van Cortlandt; brother of Stephanus Van Cortlandt; married to Eva Maria de Vries; grandfather of James Jay, John Jay and Frederick Jay; granduncle of Stephanus Bayard, Pierre Van Cortlandt, Philip John Schuyler and Stephen John Schuyler; great-grandfather of Peter Augustus Jay (1776-1843) and William Jay; great-granduncle of Volkert Petrus Douw, Nicholas Bayard, Philip P. Schuyler, Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, Robert Van Rensselaer, Hendrick Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, Pieter Schuyler, Philip Van Cortlandt, Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr., Killian Killian Van Rensselaer, Philip Jeremiah Schuyler and James Parker; second great-grandfather of John Jay II; second great-granduncle of Leonard Gansevoort, Leonard Gansevoort Jr., Peter Samuel Schuyler, Stephen Van Rensselaer, Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Henry Walter Livingston, James Alexander Hamilton, Philip Schuyler and John Cortlandt Parker; third great-granduncle of Peter Gansevoort, Edward Livingston, Henry Bell Van Rensselaer, James Adams Ekin, Richard Wayne Parker and Charles Wolcott Parker; fourth great-grandfather of Peter Augustus Jay (1877-1933); fourth great-granduncle of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, Robert Ray Hamilton, John Sluyter Wirt and Cortlandt Schuyler Van Rensselaer; fifth great-granduncle of Charles Ludlow Livingston, John Eliot Thayer Jr. and Bronson Murray Cutting; sixth great-granduncle of John Hubner II and Brockholst Livingston.
  Political families: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; VanRensselaer family of Albany, New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article
  Johannes Cuyler (c.1661-1740) — of Albany, Albany County, N.Y. Born about 1661. Mayor of Albany, N.Y., 1725-26. Christian Reformed. Dutch ancestry. Died in 1740 (age about 79 years). Original interment at Dutch Church Burial Ground, Albany, N.Y.; reinterment at Albany Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Hendrick Cuyler and Annatje (Schepmoes) Cuyler; brother of Maria Cuyler (who married John Cruger); married to Elsje Ten Broeck; father of Cornelis Cuyler; uncle of John Cruger Jr.; granduncle of Robert Livingston, Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Philip Livingston, William Livingston and Henry Cruger; great-granduncle of Peter Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter Livingston, Philip Peter Livingston and Henry Brockholst Livingston; second great-granduncle of Stephen Van Rensselaer, Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry Walter Livingston, Rensselaer Westerlo, Peter Augustus Jay (1776-1843), Edward Philip Livingston, William Alexander Duer, John Duer, William Jay and Charles Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873); third great-granduncle of Philip Schuyler, Peter Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Edward Livingston, William Duer, Henry Bell Van Rensselaer, Denning Duer, Henry Brockholst Ledyard and John Jay II; fourth great-granduncle of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, Nicholas Fish, Hamilton Fish Jr. (1849-1936), John Kean, Hamilton Fish Kean and Charles Ludlow Livingston (born 1870); fifth great-granduncle of Herbert Livingston Satterlee, Peter Augustus Jay (1877-1933), Bronson Murray Cutting, Robert Reginald Livingston, Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991), Robert Winthrop Kean and Brockholst Livingston; sixth great-granduncle of John Eliot Thayer Jr., Hamilton Fish Jr. (1926-1996) and Thomas Howard Kean; seventh great-granduncle of Hamilton Fish, Alexa Fish Ward and Thomas Howard Kean Jr..
  Political families: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; Roosevelt family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Robert Livingston the Younger (1663-1725) — of Albany, Albany County, N.Y. Born in Scotland, 1663. Mayor of Albany, N.Y., 1710-19. Died in Albany, Albany County, N.Y., April 21, 1725 (age about 61 years). Original interment at Dutch Church Burial Ground, Albany, N.Y.; reinterment at Albany Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of James Livingston ; married 1697 to Margarita Schuyler (daughter of Pieter Schuyler); nephew of Robert Livingston the Elder; grandfather of Margaret Beekman (who married Robert R. Livingston (1718-1775)), Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, Robert Van Rensselaer and James Livingston (1747-1832); great-grandfather of Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813), Edward Livingston (1764-1836), Peter Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Philip Jeremiah Schuyler and Maturin Livingston; second great-grandfather of Philip Schuyler, James Alexander Hamilton, Peter Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Gerrit Smith and Elizabeth Cady Stanton; third great-grandfather of John Jacob Astor III and Cortlandt Schuyler Van Rensselaer; fourth great-grandfather of William Waldorf Astor, Robert Ray Hamilton, Peter Goelet Gerry and Ogden Livingston Mills; fifth great-grandfather of William Astor Chanler, Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, John Eliot Thayer Jr. and Robert Reginald Livingston; first cousin of John Livingston, Robert Livingston (1688-1775) and Gilbert Livingston; first cousin once removed of Robert Livingston (1708-1790), Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Robert Gilbert Livingston, Philip Livingston, Robert R. Livingston (1718-1775) and William Livingston; first cousin twice removed of Peter Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter Livingston, Philip Peter Livingston, Philip Van Cortlandt, Henry Brockholst Livingston and Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr.; first cousin thrice removed of Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry Walter Livingston, Peter Augustus Jay (1776-1843), Rensselaer Westerlo, Edward Philip Livingston, William Alexander Duer, John Duer, William Jay, Charles Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873) and Hamilton Fish (1808-1893); first cousin four times removed of Gilbert Livingston Thompson, Edward Livingston (1796-1840), William Duer, Henry Bell Van Rensselaer, Denning Duer, Henry Brockholst Ledyard, John Jay II, Nicholas Fish and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1849-1936); first cousin five times removed of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, John Kean, Hamilton Fish Kean, Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, Charles Ludlow Livingston (born 1870) and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991); first cousin six times removed of Guy Vernor Henry, Herbert Livingston Satterlee, Montgomery Schuyler Jr., Peter Augustus Jay (1877-1933), Bronson Murray Cutting, Robert Winthrop Kean, Brockholst Livingston and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1926-1996); first cousin seven times removed of Thomas Howard Kean, Hamilton Fish (born 1951) and Alexa Fish Ward.
  Political family: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article
Gurdon Saltonstall Gurdon Saltonstall (1666-1724) — of New London, New London County, Conn. Born in Haverhill, Essex County, Mass., April 7, 1666. Ordained minister; Colonial Governor of Connecticut, 1708-24. Puritan. Died in New London, New London County, Conn., October 1, 1724 (age 58 years, 177 days). Interment at Ancient Cemetery, New London, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of Nathaniel Saltonstall and Elizabeth (Ward) Saltonstall; married to Jerusha Richards, Elizabeth Rosewell and Mary Whittingham; father of Gurdon Saltonstall (1708-1785); grandfather of Elizabeth Saltonstall Evards (who married Silas Deane); great-granduncle of Leverett Saltonstall (1783-1845); second great-granduncle of Leverett Saltonstall (1825-1895); third great-grandfather of James Rodes Saltonstall; third great-granduncle of John Lee Saltonstall; fourth great-granduncle of Leverett Saltonstall (1892-1979), Richard Saltonstall, William Gurdon Saltonstall and John Lee Saltonstall Jr.; fifth great-granduncle of William Lawrence Saltonstall.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton family of Massachusetts; Holden-Davis-Lawrence-Garcelon family of Massachusetts; Sullivan-Saltonstall family of Durham, New Hampshire; Saltonstall-Weeks family of Massachusetts (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Image source: New York Public Library
  Pieter Van Brugh (1666-1740) — also known as Pieter Verbrugge — of Albany, Albany County, N.Y. Born in 1666. Mayor of Albany, N.Y., 1699-1700, 1721-23. Dutch and Norwegian ancestry. Died in 1740 (age about 74 years). Interment at Dutch Church Burial Ground, Albany, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Johannes Pieterse Van Brugh and Trijntje (Roeloffs) Van Brugh; married 1688 to Sarah Cuyler; grandfather of Robert Livingston, Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Philip Livingston and William Livingston; great-grandfather of Peter Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter Livingston, Philip Peter Livingston and Henry Brockholst Livingston; second great-grandfather of Stephen Van Rensselaer, Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry Walter Livingston, Peter Augustus Jay (1776-1843), Rensselaer Westerlo, Edward Philip Livingston, William Alexander Duer, John Duer, William Jay and Charles Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873); third great-grandfather of Philip Schuyler, Peter Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Edward Livingston, William Duer, Henry Bell Van Rensselaer, Denning Duer, Henry Brockholst Ledyard and John Jay II; fourth great-grandfather of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, Nicholas Fish, Hamilton Fish Jr. (1849-1936), John Kean, Hamilton Fish Kean and Charles Ludlow Livingston (born 1870); fifth great-grandfather of Herbert Livingston Satterlee, Peter Augustus Jay (1877-1933), Bronson Murray Cutting, Robert Reginald Livingston, Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991), Robert Winthrop Kean and Brockholst Livingston; sixth great-grandfather of John Eliot Thayer Jr., Hamilton Fish Jr. (1926-1996) and Thomas Howard Kean; seventh great-grandfather of Hamilton Fish, Alexa Fish Ward and Thomas Howard Kean Jr..
  Political family: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Johannes de Peyster (1666-1711) — of New York, New York County, N.Y. Born in New York, New York County, N.Y., September 21, 1666. Mayor of New York City, N.Y., 1698-99. Died September 25, 1711 (age 45 years, 4 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Johannes de Peyster (1626-1685) and Cornelia (Lubberts) de Peyster; brother of Abraham de Peyster and Maria de Peyster (who married David Provost); married to Anna Bancker; father of Johannes DePeyster; grandfather of Matthew Clarkson and Henry Rutgers; granduncle of Pierre Van Cortlandt; great-grandfather of Philip DePeyster; great-granduncle of Philip Peter Livingston, John Stevens III, Philip Van Cortlandt and Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr.; second great-granduncle of William Alexander Duer, John Duer and Charles Ludlow Livingston; third great-granduncle of William Duer and Denning Duer; fourth great-granduncle of Nicholas Fish, Hamilton Fish Jr. (1849-1936), John Kean and Hamilton Fish Kean; fifth great-granduncle of Robert Reginald Livingston, Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991) and Robert Winthrop Kean; sixth great-granduncle of Hamilton Fish Jr. (1926-1996) and Thomas Howard Kean; seventh great-granduncle of Hamilton Fish, Alexa Fish Ward and Thomas Howard Kean Jr..
  Political families: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; Roosevelt family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article
  Phillip French (1667-1707) — also known as Phillip French Van London — of New York, New York County, N.Y. Born in Suffolk, England, 1667. Mayor of New York City, N.Y., 1702-03. Died in New York, New York County, N.Y., 1707 (age about 40 years). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Phillip French and Elisabeth (Crawling) French; married 1694 to Annetje Philipse; grandfather of Susannah French (who married William Livingston); great-grandfather of Henry Brockholst Livingston and Matthew Clarkson; second great-grandfather of Peter Augustus Jay (1776-1843) and William Jay; third great-grandfather of Henry Brockholst Ledyard and John Jay II; fourth great-grandfather of Charles Ludlow Livingston; fifth great-grandfather of Peter Augustus Jay (1877-1933) and Brockholst Livingston.
  Political family: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article
  Johannes Schuyler (1668-1747) — also known as John Schuyler — of Albany, Albany County, N.Y. Born in Albany, Albany County, N.Y., 1668. Mayor of Albany, N.Y., 1703-06. Died in Albany, Albany County, N.Y., June 25, 1747 (age about 78 years). Original interment at Dutch Church Burial Ground, Albany, N.Y.; reinterment at Albany Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Philip Pieterse Schuyler and Mararetta (Van Sclichtenhorst) Schuyler; brother of Pieter Schuyler (1657-1724); married 1694 to Elizabeth Staats; father of Johannes Schuyler (1697-1746); uncle of John Livingston, Robert Livingston (1688-1775) and Gilbert Livingston; grandfather of Philip John Schuyler and Stephen John Schuyler; granduncle of Stephanus Bayard, Robert Livingston (1708-1790), Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Robert Gilbert Livingston, Philip Livingston, Robert R. Livingston (1718-1775), Pierre Van Cortlandt, William Livingston and Philip P. Schuyler; great-grandfather of Pieter Schuyler (1746-1792) and Philip Jeremiah Schuyler; great-granduncle of Nicholas Bayard, Peter Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, Robert Van Rensselaer, Walter Livingston, Philip Peter Livingston, Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813), James Livingston, Philip Van Cortlandt, Henry Brockholst Livingston, Peter Samuel Schuyler, Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr., Edward Livingston (1764-1836) and James Parker; second great-grandfather of Henry Walter Livingston, Philip Schuyler and James Alexander Hamilton; second great-granduncle of Peter Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Maturin Livingston, Peter Augustus Jay (1776-1843), Rensselaer Westerlo, Edward Philip Livingston, William Alexander Duer, John Duer, William Jay, Charles Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873), Hamilton Fish (1808-1893), George Washington Schuyler, John Cortlandt Parker and Philip N. Schuyler; third great-grandfather of Edward Livingston (1796-1840); third great-granduncle of Peter Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Gilbert Livingston Thompson, Gerrit Smith, William Duer, Henry Bell Van Rensselaer, Denning Duer, Henry Brockholst Ledyard, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, John Jay II, James Adams Ekin, John Jacob Astor III, Eugene Schuyler, Richard Wayne Parker, Nicholas Fish, Hamilton Fish Jr. (1849-1936) and Charles Wolcott Parker; fourth great-grandfather of Robert Ray Hamilton; fourth great-granduncle of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, William Waldorf Astor, John Sluyter Wirt, John Kean, Cortlandt Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Hamilton Fish Kean, Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, Karl Cortlandt Schuyler and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991); fifth great-grandfather of Charles Ludlow Livingston (born 1870), John Eliot Thayer Jr. and Bronson Murray Cutting; fifth great-granduncle of Guy Vernor Henry, Herbert Livingston Satterlee, William Astor Chanler, Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, Montgomery Schuyler Jr., Peter Augustus Jay (1877-1933), Peter Goelet Gerry, Ogden Livingston Mills, Robert Reginald Livingston, Robert Winthrop Kean and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1926-1996); sixth great-grandfather of Brockholst Livingston; sixth great-granduncle of Thomas Howard Kean, Hamilton Fish (born 1951) and Alexa Fish Ward; seventh great-granduncle of Thomas Howard Kean Jr.; first cousin of David Davidse Schuyler and Myndert Davidtse Schuyler; first cousin six times removed of Henry Newton Schuyler; first cousin seven times removed of Marion Richard Schuyler.
  Political family: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  David Davidse Schuyler (1669-1715) — also known as David Schuyler — of Albany, Albany County, N.Y. Born in Albany, Albany County, N.Y., June 11, 1669. Mayor of Albany, N.Y., 1706-07. Died December 16, 1715 (age 46 years, 188 days). Original interment at a private or family graveyard, Essex County, N.Y.; reinterment at Albany Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Davit Pieterse Schuyler and Catalina (Ver Planck) Schuyler; brother of Myndert Davidtse Schuyler; fourth great-granduncle of Henry Newton Schuyler; fifth great-granduncle of Marion Richard Schuyler; first cousin of Pieter Schuyler (1657-1724) and Johannes Schuyler (1668-1747); first cousin once removed of John Livingston, Robert Livingston (1688-1775), Gilbert Livingston and Johannes Schuyler (1697-1746); first cousin twice removed of Stephanus Bayard, Robert Livingston (1708-1790), Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Robert Gilbert Livingston, Philip Livingston, Robert R. Livingston (1718-1775), Pierre Van Cortlandt, William Livingston, Philip John Schuyler, Philip P. Schuyler and Stephen John Schuyler; first cousin thrice removed of Nicholas Bayard, Peter Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, Robert Van Rensselaer, Walter Livingston, Philip Peter Livingston, Pieter Schuyler (1746-1792), Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813), James Livingston, Philip Van Cortlandt, Henry Brockholst Livingston, Peter Samuel Schuyler, Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr., Edward Livingston (1764-1836), Philip Jeremiah Schuyler and James Parker; first cousin four times removed of Stephen Van Rensselaer, Peter Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Henry Walter Livingston, Maturin Livingston, Rensselaer Westerlo, Peter Augustus Jay (1776-1843), Edward Philip Livingston, William Alexander Duer, John Duer, Philip Schuyler, James Alexander Hamilton, William Jay, Charles Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873), Hamilton Fish, George Washington Schuyler, John Cortlandt Parker and Philip N. Schuyler; first cousin five times removed of Peter Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Gilbert Livingston Thompson, Edward Livingston (1796-1840), Gerrit Smith, William Duer, Henry Bell Van Rensselaer, Denning Duer, Henry Brockholst Ledyard, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, John Jay II, James Adams Ekin, John Jacob Astor III, Eugene Schuyler, Richard Wayne Parker, Nicholas Fish, Hamilton Fish Jr. (1849-1936) and Charles Wolcott Parker; first cousin six times removed of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, William Waldorf Astor, Robert Ray Hamilton, John Sluyter Wirt, John Kean, Cortlandt Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Hamilton Fish Kean, Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, Charles Ludlow Livingston (born 1870), Karl Cortlandt Schuyler and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991); first cousin seven times removed of Guy Vernor Henry, Herbert Livingston Satterlee, William Astor Chanler, Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, Montgomery Schuyler Jr., Peter Augustus Jay (1877-1933), Peter Goelet Gerry, Ogden Livingston Mills, John Eliot Thayer Jr., Bronson Murray Cutting, Robert Reginald Livingston, Robert Winthrop Kean, Brockholst Livingston and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1926-1996).
  Political families: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; Roosevelt family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  William Wanton (1670-1733) — of Newport, Newport County, R.I. Born in Scituate, Plymouth County, Mass., September, 1670. Speaker of the Rhode Island House of Deputies, 1705-06, 1708-09, 1710-11, 1715, 1716-17, 1718, 1719-22, 1723-24; Governor of Rhode Island, 1732-33; died in office 1733. Died in Newport, Newport County, R.I., December, 1733 (age 63 years, 0 days). Interment at Clifton Burying Ground, Newport, R.I.
  Relatives: Son of Edward Wanton; brother of John Wanton; father of Joseph Wanton; uncle of Gideon Wanton.
  Political families: Durfee-Wanton family of Newport, Rhode Island; Cornell family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  David Provost (1670-1724) — of New York, New York County, N.Y. Born in New York, New York County, N.Y., January 16, 1670. Mayor of New York City, N.Y., 1699-1700. Dutch and French Huguenot ancestry. Died in 1724 (age about 54 years). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of David Provost (1645-1720) and Tryntje 'Catherine' (Laurens) Provost; married 1691 to Helena Byvanck; married 1699 to Maria (De Peyster) Spratt (sister of Abraham de Peyster and Johannes de Peyster); married 1708 to Elizabeth (Wakeman) Dinny; step-father of Maria Spratt (who married James Alexander).
  Political families: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; Roosevelt family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article
  Lewis Morris (1671-1746) — Born in Morrisania, Westchester County (now part of Bronx, Bronx County), N.Y., October 15, 1671. Chancellor of New Jersey court of chancery, 1731-32, 1738-46; died in office 1746; Colonial Governor of New Jersey, 1738-46; died in office 1746. Died in Trenton, Mercer County, N.J., May 21, 1746 (age 74 years, 218 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Richard Morris and Sarah (Pole) Morris; married to Isabella Graham; father of Robert Hunter Morris; grandfather of Lewis Morris (1726-1798), Richard Morris (1730-1810) and Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816); great-grandfather of Lewis Richard Morris and Richard Valentine Morris; second great-grandfather of Gouverneur Morris (1809-1894); fourth great-grandfather of Gouverneur Morris Carnochan (1865-1915); fifth great-grandfather of Gouverneur Morris Carnochan (1892-1943).
  Political family: Morris-Ingersoll family of New York and Connecticut (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article
  Myndert Davidtse Schuyler (1672-1755) — also known as Myndert Schuyler — of Albany, Albany County, N.Y. Born in Colonie, Albany County, N.Y., 1672. Merchant; mayor of Albany, N.Y., 1719-21, 1723-25. Died in Albany, Albany County, N.Y., October 21, 1755 (age about 83 years). Original interment at Dutch Church Burial Ground, Albany, N.Y.; reinterment at Albany Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Davit Pieterse Schuyler and Catharina (Ver Planck) Schuyler; brother of David Davidse Schuyler; fourth great-granduncle of Henry Newton Schuyler; fifth great-granduncle of Marion Richard Schuyler; first cousin of Pieter Schuyler (1657-1724) and Johannes Schuyler (1668-1747); first cousin once removed of John Livingston, Robert Livingston (1688-1775), Gilbert Livingston and Johannes Schuyler (1697-1746); first cousin twice removed of Stephanus Bayard, Robert Livingston (1708-1790), Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Robert Gilbert Livingston, Philip Livingston, Robert R. Livingston (1718-1775), Pierre Van Cortlandt, William Livingston, Philip John Schuyler, Philip P. Schuyler and Stephen John Schuyler; first cousin thrice removed of Nicholas Bayard, Peter Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, Robert Van Rensselaer, Walter Livingston, Philip Peter Livingston, Pieter Schuyler (1746-1792), Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813), James Livingston, Philip Van Cortlandt, Henry Brockholst Livingston, Peter Samuel Schuyler, Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr., Edward Livingston (1764-1836), Philip Jeremiah Schuyler and James Parker; first cousin four times removed of Stephen Van Rensselaer, Peter Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Henry Walter Livingston, Maturin Livingston, Rensselaer Westerlo, Peter Augustus Jay (1776-1843), Edward Philip Livingston, William Alexander Duer, John Duer, Philip Schuyler, James Alexander Hamilton, William Jay, Charles Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873), Hamilton Fish, George Washington Schuyler, John Cortlandt Parker and Philip N. Schuyler; first cousin five times removed of Peter Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Gilbert Livingston Thompson, Edward Livingston (1796-1840), Gerrit Smith, William Duer, Henry Bell Van Rensselaer, Denning Duer, Henry Brockholst Ledyard, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, John Jay II, James Adams Ekin, John Jacob Astor III, Eugene Schuyler, Richard Wayne Parker, Nicholas Fish, Hamilton Fish Jr. (1849-1936) and Charles Wolcott Parker; first cousin six times removed of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, William Waldorf Astor, Robert Ray Hamilton, John Sluyter Wirt, John Kean, Cortlandt Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Hamilton Fish Kean, Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, Charles Ludlow Livingston (born 1870), Karl Cortlandt Schuyler and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991); first cousin seven times removed of Guy Vernor Henry, Herbert Livingston Satterlee, William Astor Chanler, Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, Montgomery Schuyler Jr., Peter Augustus Jay (1877-1933), Peter Goelet Gerry, Ogden Livingston Mills, John Eliot Thayer Jr., Bronson Murray Cutting, Robert Reginald Livingston, Robert Winthrop Kean, Brockholst Livingston and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1926-1996).
  Political families: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; Roosevelt family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  John Wanton (1672-1740) — of Newport, Newport County, R.I. Born in Scituate, Plymouth County, Mass., 1672. Speaker of the Rhode Island House of Deputies, 1707, 1710, 1713; Governor of Rhode Island, 1734-40; died in office 1740. Quaker. Died in Newport, Newport County, R.I., July 5, 1740 (age about 68 years). Interment at Coddington Cemetery, Newport, R.I.
  Relatives: Brother of William Wanton; uncle of Gideon Wanton and Joseph Wanton.
  Political family: Durfee-Wanton family of Newport, Rhode Island (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  John Cruger (1678-1744) — of New York, New York County, N.Y. Born in Germany, 1678. Merchant; mayor of New York City, N.Y., 1739-44; died in office 1744. Dutch Reformed; later Anglican. Danish ancestry. Died in New York, New York County, N.Y., August 13, 1744 (age about 66 years). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Married, March 5, 1703, to Maria Cuyler (sister of Johannes Cuyler); father of John Cruger Jr.; grandfather of Henry Cruger.
  Political family: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article
  Roger Wolcott (1679-1767) — of Windsor, Hartford County, Conn. Born in Windsor, Hartford County, Conn., 1679. Colonial Governor of Connecticut, 1750-54. Died in Windsor, Hartford County, Conn., May 17, 1767 (age about 87 years). Interment at Palisado Cemetery, Windsor, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of Simon Wolcott and Martha (Pitkin) Wolcott; married to Sarah Drake; father of Erastus Wolcott, Ursula Wolcott (who married Matthew Griswold (1714-1799)) and Oliver Wolcott Sr.; grandfather of Oliver Wolcott Jr., Roger Griswold, Mary Ann Wolcott (who married Chauncey Goodrich) and Frederick Wolcott; granduncle of Abigail Wolcott (who married Oliver Ellsworth); great-granduncle of Samuel Clesson Allen, William Wolcott Ellsworth and Henry Leavitt Ellsworth; second great-grandfather of John William Allen, James Samuel Wadsworth, Henry Titus Backus, Christopher Parsons Wolcott, Matthew Griswold (1833-1919) and Roger Wolcott (1847-1900); second great-granduncle of Elisha Hunt Allen and George Washington Wolcott; third great-grandfather of Charles Frederick Wadsworth, James Wolcott Wadsworth, Edward Oliver Wolcott and Alfred Wolcott; third great-granduncle of Albert Asahel Bliss, Philemon Bliss, William Fessenden Allen and Frederick Hobbes Allen; fourth great-grandfather of James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. and Selden Chapin; fourth great-granduncle of Judson H. Warner and Henry Augustus Wolcott; fifth great-grandfather of James Jermiah Wadsworth and Frederic Lincoln Chapin; sixth great-grandfather of James Wadsworth Symington; first cousin once removed of William Pitkin; first cousin twice removed of Daniel Pitkin; first cousin thrice removed of James Hillhouse and Timothy Pitkin; first cousin four times removed of Phineas Lyman Tracy, Albert Haller Tracy and John Robert Graham Pitkin; first cousin five times removed of Edmund Holcomb, Joseph Pomeroy Root, George Griswold Sill, Frederick Walker Pitkin and Luther S. Pitkin; first cousin six times removed of Augustus Brandegee, George Frederick Stone, Clarence Horatio Pitkin, Carroll Peabody Pitkin, Caleb Seymour Pitkin, Harry Kear Wolcott, Eldred C. Pitkin and Henry Merrill Wolcott; first cousin seven times removed of Thomas Theodore Prentis, Frank Bosworth Brandegee and Ephraim Henry Cowles.
  Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  John Livingston (1680-1720) — of Connecticut. Born in April 26, 1680. Member of Connecticut colonial assembly, 1710. Died February 1, 1720 (age 39 years, 281 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Robert Livingston the Elder and Alida (Schuyler) Livingston; brother of Robert Livingston (1688-1775) and Gilbert Livingston; married, April 1, 1701, to Mary Winthrop (daughter of Fitz-John Winthrop); nephew of Pieter Schuyler (1657-1724) and Johannes Schuyler (1668-1747); uncle of Robert Livingston (1708-1790), Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Robert Gilbert Livingston, Philip Livingston, Robert R. Livingston (1718-1775) and William Livingston; granduncle of Peter Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter Livingston, Philip Peter Livingston, Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813), Philip Van Cortlandt, Henry Brockholst Livingston, Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr. and Edward Livingston (1764-1836); great-granduncle of Stephen Van Rensselaer, Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry Walter Livingston, Peter Augustus Jay (1776-1843), Rensselaer Westerlo, Edward Philip Livingston, William Alexander Duer, John Duer, William Jay, Charles Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873) and Hamilton Fish (1808-1893); second great-granduncle of Philip Schuyler, Peter Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Gilbert Livingston Thompson, Edward Livingston (1796-1840), William Duer, Henry Bell Van Rensselaer, Denning Duer, Henry Brockholst Ledyard, John Jay II, John Jacob Astor III, Nicholas Fish and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1849-1936); third great-granduncle of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, William Waldorf Astor, John Kean, Hamilton Fish Kean, Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, Charles Ludlow Livingston (born 1870) and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991); fourth great-granduncle of Guy Vernor Henry, Herbert Livingston Satterlee, William Astor Chanler, Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, Montgomery Schuyler Jr., Peter Augustus Jay (1877-1933), Peter Goelet Gerry, Ogden Livingston Mills, Bronson Murray Cutting, Robert Reginald Livingston, Robert Winthrop Kean, Brockholst Livingston and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1926-1996); fifth great-granduncle of John Eliot Thayer Jr., Thomas Howard Kean, Hamilton Fish (born 1951) and Alexa Fish Ward; sixth great-granduncle of Thomas Howard Kean Jr.; first cousin of Robert Livingston the Younger and Johannes Schuyler (1697-1746); first cousin once removed of David Davidse Schuyler, Myndert Davidtse Schuyler, Stephanus Bayard, Pierre Van Cortlandt, Philip John Schuyler, Philip P. Schuyler and Stephen John Schuyler; first cousin twice removed of Nicholas Bayard, Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, Robert Van Rensselaer, Pieter Schuyler (1746-1792), James Livingston, Peter Samuel Schuyler, Philip Jeremiah Schuyler and James Parker; first cousin thrice removed of Peter Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Maturin Livingston, James Alexander Hamilton, George Washington Schuyler, John Cortlandt Parker and Philip N. Schuyler; first cousin four times removed of Gerrit Smith, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, James Adams Ekin, Eugene Schuyler, Richard Wayne Parker and Charles Wolcott Parker; first cousin five times removed of Robert Ray Hamilton, John Sluyter Wirt, Cortlandt Schuyler Van Rensselaer and Karl Cortlandt Schuyler; second cousin five times removed of Henry Newton Schuyler.
  Political families: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; Roosevelt family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Anthony Morris (c.1682-1763) — of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa. Born in London, England, about 1682. Brewer; mayor of Philadelphia, Pa., 1738-39. Quaker. English ancestry. Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., September 23, 1763 (age about 81 years). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Anthony Morris (1654-1721) and Elizabeth (Watson) Morris; grandfather of Samuel Powel; third great-granduncle of Eugene McLanahan Wilson; fourth great-granduncle of Charles Hudson Griffin.
  Political families: Shippen-Middleton family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Morris-Willing-Wilson-Griffin family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article
  Dirck Ten Broeck (1686-1751) — of Albany, Albany County, N.Y. Born in Albany, Albany County, N.Y., December 4, 1686. Mayor of Albany, N.Y., 1746-48. Dutch ancestry. Died in North Castle, Westchester County, N.Y., January 7, 1751 (age 64 years, 34 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Wessel Dirckse Ten Broeck and Catryna (Loockermans) Ten Broeck; married 1714 to Grietje 'Margarita' Cuyler; grandson of Dirck Wesselse Ten Broeck; grandfather of James Livingston; great-grandfather of Stephen Van Rensselaer, Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Rensselaer Westerlo and Edward Philip Livingston; great-granduncle of Peter Gansevoort; second great-grandfather of Philip Schuyler, Edward Livingston, Gerrit Smith, Henry Bell Van Rensselaer and Elizabeth Cady Stanton; third great-grandfather of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer; fourth great-grandfather of Robert Reginald Livingston; fifth great-grandfather of John Eliot Thayer Jr.; first cousin of Cornelis Cuyler; first cousin five times removed of Henry Newton Schuyler; first cousin six times removed of Marion Richard Schuyler; second cousin twice removed of Barent Van Buren and Martin Van Buren; second cousin thrice removed of John Van Buren; second cousin four times removed of Thomas Brodhead Van Buren; second cousin five times removed of Harold Sheffield Van Buren.
  Political family: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article
  Robert Livingston (1688-1775) — of New York. Born in Albany, Albany County, N.Y., 1688. Member of New York colonial assembly, 1726-27. Died in Livingston Manor, Sullivan County, N.Y., June 27, 1775 (age about 86 years). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Robert Livingston the Elder and Alida (Schuyler) Livingston; brother of John Livingston and Gilbert Livingston; married 1717 to Margaret Howerden; father of Robert R. Livingston (1718-1775); nephew of Pieter Schuyler (1657-1724) and Johannes Schuyler (1668-1747); uncle of Robert Livingston (1708-1790), Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Robert Gilbert Livingston, Philip Livingston and William Livingston; grandfather of Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813), Alida Livingston (who married John Armstrong Jr.), Gertrude Livingston (who married Morgan Lewis) and Edward Livingston (1764-1836); granduncle of Peter Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter Livingston, Philip Peter Livingston, Philip Van Cortlandt, Henry Brockholst Livingston and Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr.; great-grandfather of Robert Livingston Tillotson; great-granduncle of Stephen Van Rensselaer, Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry Walter Livingston, Peter Augustus Jay (1776-1843), Rensselaer Westerlo, Edward Philip Livingston, William Alexander Duer, John Duer, William Jay, Charles Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873) and Hamilton Fish (1808-1893); second great-grandfather of John Jacob Astor III; second great-granduncle of Philip Schuyler, Peter Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Gilbert Livingston Thompson, Edward Livingston (1796-1840), William Duer, Henry Bell Van Rensselaer, Denning Duer, Henry Brockholst Ledyard, John Jay II, Nicholas Fish and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1849-1936); third great-grandfather of William Waldorf Astor; third great-granduncle of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, John Kean, Hamilton Fish Kean, Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, Charles Ludlow Livingston (born 1870) and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991); fourth great-grandfather of William Astor Chanler, Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, Peter Goelet Gerry, Ogden Livingston Mills and Robert Reginald Livingston; fourth great-granduncle of Guy Vernor Henry, Herbert Livingston Satterlee, Montgomery Schuyler Jr., Peter Augustus Jay (1877-1933), Bronson Murray Cutting, Robert Winthrop Kean, Brockholst Livingston and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1926-1996); fifth great-granduncle of John Eliot Thayer Jr., Thomas Howard Kean, Hamilton Fish (born 1951) and Alexa Fish Ward; sixth great-granduncle of Thomas Howard Kean Jr.; first cousin of Robert Livingston the Younger and Johannes Schuyler (1697-1746); first cousin once removed of David Davidse Schuyler, Myndert Davidtse Schuyler, Stephanus Bayard, Pierre Van Cortlandt, Philip John Schuyler, Philip P. Schuyler and Stephen John Schuyler; first cousin twice removed of Nicholas Bayard, Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, Robert Van Rensselaer, Pieter Schuyler (1746-1792), James Livingston, Peter Samuel Schuyler, Philip Jeremiah Schuyler and James Parker; first cousin thrice removed of Peter Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer, James Alexander Hamilton, George Washington Schuyler, John Cortlandt Parker and Philip N. Schuyler; first cousin four times removed of Gerrit Smith, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, James Adams Ekin, Eugene Schuyler, Richard Wayne Parker and Charles Wolcott Parker; first cousin five times removed of Robert Ray Hamilton, John Sluyter Wirt, Cortlandt Schuyler Van Rensselaer and Karl Cortlandt Schuyler; second cousin five times removed of Henry Newton Schuyler.
  Political families: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; Roosevelt family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article
  Gilbert Livingston (1690-1746) — of New York. Born in March 3, 1690. Member of New York colonial assembly, 1728-37. Dutch Reformed. Died April 25, 1746 (age 56 years, 53 days). Interment at Old Dutch Churchyard, Kingston, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Robert Livingston the Elder and Alida (Schuyler) Livingston; brother of John Livingston and Robert Livingston (1688-1775); married to Cornelia Beekman; father of Robert Gilbert Livingston and Joanna Livingston (who married Pierre Van Cortlandt); nephew of Pieter Schuyler (1657-1724) and Johannes Schuyler (1668-1747); uncle of Robert Livingston (1708-1790), Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Philip Livingston, Robert R. Livingston (1718-1775) and William Livingston; grandfather of Philip Van Cortlandt and Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr.; granduncle of Peter Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter Livingston, Philip Peter Livingston, Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813), Henry Brockholst Livingston and Edward Livingston (1764-1836); great-grandfather of Hamilton Fish (1808-1893); great-granduncle of Stephen Van Rensselaer, Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry Walter Livingston, Peter Augustus Jay (1776-1843), Rensselaer Westerlo, Edward Philip Livingston, William Alexander Duer, John Duer, William Jay and Charles Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873); second great-grandfather of Gilbert Livingston Thompson, Nicholas Fish and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1849-1936); second great-granduncle of Philip Schuyler, Peter Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Edward Livingston (1796-1840), William Duer, Henry Bell Van Rensselaer, Denning Duer, Henry Brockholst Ledyard, John Jay II and John Jacob Astor III; third great-grandfather of Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991); third great-granduncle of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, William Waldorf Astor, John Kean, Hamilton Fish Kean and Charles Ludlow Livingston (born 1870); fourth great-grandfather of Guy Vernor Henry, Montgomery Schuyler Jr. and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1926-1996); fourth great-granduncle of Herbert Livingston Satterlee, William Astor Chanler, Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, Peter Augustus Jay (1877-1933), Peter Goelet Gerry, Ogden Livingston Mills, Bronson Murray Cutting, Robert Reginald Livingston, Robert Winthrop Kean and Brockholst Livingston; fifth great-grandfather of Hamilton Fish (born 1951) and Alexa Fish Ward; fifth great-granduncle of John Eliot Thayer Jr. and Thomas Howard Kean; sixth great-granduncle of Thomas Howard Kean Jr.; first cousin of Robert Livingston the Younger and Johannes Schuyler (1697-1746); first cousin once removed of David Davidse Schuyler, Myndert Davidtse Schuyler, Stephanus Bayard, Philip John Schuyler, Philip P. Schuyler and Stephen John Schuyler; first cousin twice removed of Nicholas Bayard, Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, Robert Van Rensselaer, Pieter Schuyler (1746-1792), James Livingston, Peter Samuel Schuyler, Philip Jeremiah Schuyler and James Parker; first cousin thrice removed of Peter Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Maturin Livingston, James Alexander Hamilton, George Washington Schuyler, John Cortlandt Parker and Philip N. Schuyler; first cousin four times removed of Gerrit Smith, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, James Adams Ekin, Eugene Schuyler, Richard Wayne Parker and Charles Wolcott Parker; first cousin five times removed of Robert Ray Hamilton, John Sluyter Wirt, Cortlandt Schuyler Van Rensselaer and Karl Cortlandt Schuyler; second cousin five times removed of Henry Newton Schuyler.
  Political family: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Richard Randolph (1690-1748) — Born in Henrico County, Va., 1690. Planter; merchant; member of Virginia House of Burgesses, 1727-48; died in office 1748. Died in Bath, England, December 17, 1748 (age about 58 years). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of William Randolph and Mary (Isham) Randolph; married 1724 to Jane Kennon Bolling; uncle of Richard Bland and Peyton Randolph (1721-1775); grandfather of John Randolph of Roanoke; granduncle of Theodorick Bland, Thomas Jefferson, Edmund Jenings Randolph and Beverley Randolph; great-grandfather of Thomas Mann Randolph Jr.; great-granduncle of John Marshall, Henry Lee, Charles Lee, James Markham Marshall, Alexander Keith Marshall, Edmund Jennings Lee, Martha Jefferson, Dabney Carr, Peyton Randolph (1779-1828) and Henry St. George Tucker; second great-grandfather of Benjamin Franklin Randolph, Meriwether Lewis Randolph and George Wythe Randolph; second great-granduncle of Thomas Marshall, James Keith Marshall, Francis Wayles Eppes, Dabney Smith Carr, Edmund Randolph, Nathaniel Beverly Tucker and Carter Henry Harrison; third great-grandfather of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge; third great-granduncle of Fitzhugh Lee, Edmund Randolph Cocke, John Augustine Marshall, Carter Henry Harrison II and Frederick Madison Roberts; fourth great-grandfather of John Gardner Coolidge; fourth great-granduncle of Edith Wilson, William Marshall Bullitt, Alexander Scott Bullitt and Francis Beverley Biddle; fifth great-granduncle of William Welby Beverley; first cousin thrice removed of John Wayles Eppes; first cousin five times removed of William Henry Robertson.
  Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Lee-Randolph family; Biddle-Randolph family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Ballard-Gadsden-Randolph family of West Virginia and South Carolina; Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland; Walker-Randolph family of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  James Alexander (1691-1756) — Born in Muthill, Perthshire, Scotland, May 27, 1691. In Scotland, he joined the Jacobite Rising of 1715, a revolt that attempted to install James Francis Edward Stuart (the "Old Pretender") as king; to avoid prosecution for treason, he fled to New York; surveyor; lawyer; member New York governor's council, 1721-32, 1737; Colonial Attorney-General of New York, 1721-23. Member, American Philosophical Society. Died in New York, April 2, 1756 (age 64 years, 311 days). Interment at Trinity Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.
  Relatives: Married to Maria (Spratt) Provost (step-daughter of David Provost); grandfather of Philip Peter Livingston and John Stevens III; great-grandfather of William Alexander Duer, John Duer and Charles Ludlow Livingston; second great-grandfather of William Duer and Denning Duer; third great-grandfather of Nicholas Fish, Hamilton Fish Jr. (1849-1936), John Kean and Hamilton Fish Kean; fourth great-grandfather of Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991), Robert Reginald Livingston and Robert Winthrop Kean; fifth great-grandfather of Hamilton Fish Jr. (1926-1996) and Thomas Howard Kean; sixth great-grandfather of Hamilton Fish, Alexa Fish Ward and Thomas Howard Kean Jr..
  Political families: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; Roosevelt family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  The township of Alexandria, New Jersey, is named for him.
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Gideon Wanton (1693-1767) — of Newport, Newport County, R.I. Born in Tiverton, Newport County, R.I., October 20, 1693. Governor of Rhode Island, 1745-46, 1747-48. Quaker. Died in Newport, Newport County, R.I., September 12, 1767 (age 73 years, 327 days). Interment at Friends Cemetery, Newport, R.I.
  Relatives: Son of Joseph Wanton and Sarah (Freeborn) Wanton; married to Mary Codman; nephew of William Wanton and John Wanton; first cousin of Joseph Wanton (1705-1780); first cousin thrice removed of Job Durfee, Elias Durfee and Elihu Durfee; first cousin four times removed of Dudley Emerson Cornell and Henry Rees Durfee; first cousin five times removed of David Melvin Durfee.
  Political family: Durfee-Wanton family of Newport, Rhode Island (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  William Pitkin (1694-1769) — of Hartford, Hartford County, Conn. Born in Hartford, Hartford County, Conn., 1694. Colonial Governor of Connecticut, 1766-69; died in office 1769. Died in East Hartford, Hartford County, Conn., October 1, 1769 (age about 75 years). Interment at Center Cemetery, East Hartford, Conn.
  Relatives: Married 1724 to Mary Woodbridge; grandfather of Timothy Pitkin; second great-granduncle of Joseph Pomeroy Root and Frederick Walker Pitkin; first cousin once removed of Roger Wolcott (1679-1767) and Daniel Pitkin; first cousin thrice removed of John Robert Graham Pitkin; first cousin four times removed of Luther S. Pitkin; first cousin five times removed of Clarence Horatio Pitkin, Carroll Peabody Pitkin, Caleb Seymour Pitkin and Eldred C. Pitkin; first cousin six times removed of Ephraim Henry Cowles; second cousin of Erastus Wolcott and Oliver Wolcott Sr.; second cousin once removed of Josiah Cowles, Moses Seymour, Oliver Wolcott Jr., Roger Griswold and Frederick Wolcott; second cousin twice removed of Samuel Clesson Allen, Horatio Seymour (1778-1857), Henry Seymour, Ela Collins, Henry Leavitt Ellsworth and William Wolcott Ellsworth; second cousin thrice removed of John William Allen, Elisha Hunt Allen, Origen Storrs Seymour, James Samuel Wadsworth, Henry Titus Backus, Horatio Seymour (1810-1886), George Washington Wolcott, George Seymour, William Collins, Christopher Parsons Wolcott, McNeil Seymour, Matthew Griswold, Henry William Seymour, William Sheffield Cowles (1846-1923) and Roger Wolcott (1847-1900); second cousin four times removed of Albert Asahel Bliss, Philemon Bliss, Charles Upson, Calvin Josiah Cowles, Gad Ely Upson, William Chapman Williston, William Fessenden Allen, Edward Woodruff Seymour, Elizur Stillman Goodrich, Charles Frederick Wadsworth, Joseph Battell, Morris Woodruff Seymour, Horatio Seymour Jr., James Wolcott Wadsworth, Edward Oliver Wolcott, Norman Alexander Seymour, Russell Cowles Ostrander, Addison Beecher Colvin, Alfred Wolcott, Frederick Hobbes Allen, La Monte Cowles, Helen Herron Taft, Gardner Cowles and William Sheffield Cowles (1898-1986); second cousin five times removed of Franklin Woodruff, Judson H. Warner, George Anthony Sweetland, Henry Augustus Wolcott, Charles Holden Cowles, James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr., Robert Alphonso Taft, Charles Phelps Taft II, Selden Chapin and Frederick Lippitt.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Conger-Hungerford family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Johannes DePeyster (1694-1783) — also known as John DePeyster — of Albany, Albany County, N.Y. Born in 1694. Mayor of Albany, N.Y., 1729-31, 1732-33. Died February 27, 1783 (age about 88 years). Original interment at Dutch Church Burial Ground, Albany, N.Y.; reinterment at Albany Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Johannes de Peyster and Anna (Bancker) DePeyster; married 1715 to Anna Schuyler; nephew of Abraham de Peyster; uncle of Matthew Clarkson and Henry Rutgers; granduncle of Philip DePeyster; first cousin once removed of Pierre Van Cortlandt; first cousin twice removed of Philip Peter Livingston, John Stevens III, Philip Van Cortlandt and Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr.; first cousin thrice removed of William Alexander Duer, John Duer and Charles Ludlow Livingston; first cousin four times removed of William Duer and Denning Duer; first cousin five times removed of Nicholas Fish, Hamilton Fish Jr. (1849-1936), John Kean and Hamilton Fish Kean; first cousin six times removed of Robert Reginald Livingston, Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991) and Robert Winthrop Kean; first cousin seven times removed of Hamilton Fish Jr. (1926-1996) and Thomas Howard Kean.
  Political families: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; Roosevelt family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article
  William Greene (1695-1758) — of Warwick, Kent County, R.I. Born in Warwick, Kent County, R.I., March 16, 1695. Speaker of the Rhode Island House of Deputies, 1734, 1739; Governor of Rhode Island, 1743-45, 1746-47, 1748-55, 1757-58; died in office 1758. Died in Providence, Providence County, R.I., February 22, 1758 (age 62 years, 343 days). Interment at Governor Greene Cemetery, Warwick, R.I.
  Relatives: Son of Samuel Greene and Mary (Gorton) Greene; married to Catherine Greene; father of William Greene Jr.; grandfather of Ray Greene; first cousin four times removed of Elijah Babbitt, Abel Madison Scranton, Andrew Clark Lippitt, Henry Lippitt, Dennison Franklin Holden and Frederick Walker Pitkin; first cousin five times removed of Ossian Ray, Costello Lippitt, Charles Warren Lippitt, Henry Frederick Lippitt, Walter Thomas Bliss and Clayton Harvey Deming; first cousin six times removed of Daniel Parrish Witter, Clement Phineas Kellogg, Chester Merton Bliss, George Walter Bliss and Frederick Lippitt; first cousin seven times removed of Ossian Edward Ray and John Lester Hubbard Chafee; second cousin twice removed of Albert Collins Greene; second cousin thrice removed of John Baldwin, George Washington Greene and William Maxwell Greene; second cousin four times removed of Samuel Finley Vinton and Martin Olds; second cousin five times removed of Frederick Oakes Houghton; third cousin thrice removed of Peter Rawson Taft; fourth cousin once removed of Pierpont Edwards.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Beakes-Greene-Witter family; Upham family (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article
  Johannes Schuyler (1697-1746) — of Albany, Albany County, N.Y. Born in Albany, Albany County, N.Y., 1697. Mayor of Albany, N.Y., 1741-42. Died in Albany County, N.Y., 1746 (age about 49 years). Original interment at a private or family graveyard, Albany County, N.Y.; reinterment at Albany Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Johannes Schuyler (1668-1747) and Elizabeth (Staats) Schuyler; father of Philip John Schuyler and Stephen John Schuyler; nephew of Pieter Schuyler (1657-1724); grandfather of Pieter Schuyler (1746-1792) and Philip Jeremiah Schuyler; great-grandfather of Henry Walter Livingston, Philip Schuyler and James Alexander Hamilton; second great-grandfather of Edward Livingston (1796-1840); third great-grandfather of Robert Ray Hamilton; fourth great-grandfather of Charles Ludlow Livingston (born 1870), John Eliot Thayer Jr. and Bronson Murray Cutting; fifth great-grandfather of Brockholst Livingston; first cousin of John Livingston, Robert Livingston (1688-1775) and Gilbert Livingston; first cousin once removed of David Davidse Schuyler, Myndert Davidtse Schuyler, Stephanus Bayard, Robert Livingston (1708-1790), Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Robert Gilbert Livingston, Philip Livingston, Robert R. Livingston (1718-1775), Pierre Van Cortlandt, William Livingston and Philip P. Schuyler; first cousin twice removed of Nicholas Bayard, Peter Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, Robert Van Rensselaer, Walter Livingston, Philip Peter Livingston, Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813), James Livingston, Philip Van Cortlandt, Henry Brockholst Livingston, Peter Samuel Schuyler, Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr., Edward Livingston (1764-1836) and James Parker; first cousin thrice removed of Peter Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Maturin Livingston, Peter Augustus Jay (1776-1843), Rensselaer Westerlo, Edward Philip Livingston, William Alexander Duer, John Duer, William Jay, Charles Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873), Hamilton Fish (1808-1893), George Washington Schuyler, John Cortlandt Parker and Philip N. Schuyler; first cousin four times removed of Peter Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Gilbert Livingston Thompson, Gerrit Smith, William Duer, Henry Bell Van Rensselaer, Denning Duer, Henry Brockholst Ledyard, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, John Jay II, James Adams Ekin, John Jacob Astor III, Eugene Schuyler, Richard Wayne Parker, Nicholas Fish, Hamilton Fish Jr. (1849-1936) and Charles Wolcott Parker; first cousin five times removed of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, William Waldorf Astor, John Sluyter Wirt, John Kean, Cortlandt Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Hamilton Fish Kean, Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, Karl Cortlandt Schuyler and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991); first cousin six times removed of Guy Vernor Henry, Herbert Livingston Satterlee, William Astor Chanler, Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, Montgomery Schuyler Jr., Peter Augustus Jay (1877-1933), Peter Goelet Gerry, Ogden Livingston Mills, Robert Reginald Livingston, Robert Winthrop Kean and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1926-1996); first cousin seven times removed of Thomas Howard Kean, Hamilton Fish (born 1951) and Alexa Fish Ward; second cousin five times removed of Henry Newton Schuyler.
  Political families: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; Roosevelt family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Cornelis Cuyler (1697-1765) — of Albany, Albany County, N.Y. Born in 1697. Mayor of Albany, N.Y., 1742-46. Dutch ancestry. Died in Albany, Albany County, N.Y., April 14, 1765 (age about 67 years). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Johannes Cuyler and Elsje (Ten Broeck) Cuyler; grandson of Dirck Wesselse Ten Broeck; first cousin of Dirck Ten Broeck and John Cruger Jr.; first cousin once removed of Robert Livingston, Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Philip Livingston, William Livingston and Henry Cruger; first cousin twice removed of Peter Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter Livingston, Philip Peter Livingston, James Livingston and Henry Brockholst Livingston; first cousin thrice removed of Stephen Van Rensselaer, Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry Walter Livingston, Rensselaer Westerlo, Peter Augustus Jay (1776-1843), Edward Philip Livingston, William Alexander Duer, John Duer, Peter Gansevoort, William Jay and Charles Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873); first cousin four times removed of Philip Schuyler, Peter Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Edward Livingston, Gerrit Smith, William Duer, Henry Bell Van Rensselaer, Denning Duer, Henry Brockholst Ledyard, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and John Jay II; first cousin five times removed of Henry Newton Schuyler, Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, Nicholas Fish, Hamilton Fish Jr. (1849-1936), John Kean, Hamilton Fish Kean and Charles Ludlow Livingston (born 1870); first cousin six times removed of Herbert Livingston Satterlee, Peter Augustus Jay (1877-1933), Bronson Murray Cutting, Robert Reginald Livingston, Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991), Marion Richard Schuyler, Robert Winthrop Kean and Brockholst Livingston; first cousin seven times removed of John Eliot Thayer Jr., Hamilton Fish Jr. (1926-1996) and Thomas Howard Kean; second cousin twice removed of Barent Van Buren and Martin Van Buren; second cousin thrice removed of John Van Buren; second cousin four times removed of Thomas Brodhead Van Buren; second cousin five times removed of Harold Sheffield Van Buren.
  Political family: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article
  Joshua Fry (1699-1754) — of Albemarle County, Va. Born in Crewkerne, Somerset, England, 1699. Member of Virginia House of Burgesses, 1740. Surveyor and co-author with Peter Jefferson (Thomas Jefferson's father) of a famous early map titled "Map of the Most Inhabited part of Virginia, containing the whole province of Maryland with Part of Pensilvania, New Jersey and North Carolina." Upon his death, the young George Washington took command of Virginia's military forces. Died, of injuries received in a fall from his horse, near Cumberland, Allegany County, Md., May 31, 1754 (age about 54 years). Original interment somewhere in Allegany County, Md.; reinterment at Rose Hill Cemetery, Cumberland, Md.
  Relatives: Father of John Fry and Henry Fry; second great-grandfather of James Speed; third great-grandfather of William Christian Bullitt (1856-1914), William Marshall Bullitt and Alexander Scott Bullitt; fourth great-grandfather of Olive Speed (who married Frederic Moseley Sackett Jr.) and William Christian Bullitt (1891-1967).
  Political families: Blackburn-Slaughter-Buckner-Madison family of Kentucky; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family of Virginia; Bullitt-Speed-Fry-Henry family (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Robert Hunter Morris (1700-1764) — Born in Trenton, Mercer County, N.J., 1700. Chief justice of New Jersey state supreme court, 1738-58, 1759-64. Died in Shrewsbury, Monmouth County, N.J., January 27, 1764 (age about 63 years). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Lewis Morris (1671-1746); uncle of Lewis Morris (1726-1798), Richard Morris and Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816); granduncle of Lewis Richard Morris and Richard Valentine Morris; great-granduncle of Gouverneur Morris (1809-1894); third great-granduncle of Gouverneur Morris Carnochan (1865-1915); fourth great-granduncle of Gouverneur Morris Carnochan (1892-1943).
  Political family: Morris-Ingersoll family of New York and Connecticut (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article
  Stephanus Bayard (1700-1757) — also known as Stephen Bayard — of New York, New York County, N.Y. Born in New York, New York County, N.Y., 1700. Mayor of New York City, N.Y., 1744-47. Died in Bergen County, N.J., 1757 (age about 57 years). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Samuel Bayard and Margaretta (Van Cortlandt) Bayard; married, March 12, 1724, to Alida Vetch; uncle of Nicholas Bayard (1736-1802); grandson of Stephanus Van Cortlandt and Nicholas Bayard (c.1644-1707); grandnephew of Pieter Schuyler (1657-1724), Jacobus Van Cortlandt and Johannes Schuyler (1668-1747); great-grandnephew of Pieter Stuyvesant; great-granduncle of James Adams Ekin; second great-granduncle of John Sluyter Wirt; fourth great-grandfather of John Eliot Thayer Jr. and Bronson Murray Cutting; first cousin of Pierre Van Cortlandt, Philip John Schuyler and Stephen John Schuyler; first cousin once removed of John Livingston, Robert Livingston (1688-1775), Gilbert Livingston, Johannes Schuyler (1697-1746), Pieter Schuyler (1746-1792), Philip Van Cortlandt, Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr., Philip Jeremiah Schuyler and James Parker; first cousin twice removed of David Davidse Schuyler, Myndert Davidtse Schuyler, Stephen Van Rensselaer, Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry Walter Livingston, James Alexander Hamilton, Philip Schuyler and John Cortlandt Parker; first cousin thrice removed of Edward Livingston (1796-1840), Henry Bell Van Rensselaer, Richard Wayne Parker and Charles Wolcott Parker; first cousin four times removed of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer and Robert Ray Hamilton; first cousin five times removed of Charles Ludlow Livingston (born 1870); first cousin six times removed of Brockholst Livingston; second cousin of Robert Livingston (1708-1790), Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Robert Gilbert Livingston, Philip Livingston, Robert R. Livingston (1718-1775), William Livingston, James Jay, Philip P. Schuyler, John Jay and Frederick Jay; second cousin once removed of Volkert Petrus Douw, Peter Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, John Bubenheim Bayard, Robert Van Rensselaer, Walter Livingston, Philip Peter Livingston, Hendrick Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813), James Livingston, Henry Brockholst Livingston, Peter Samuel Schuyler, Killian Killian Van Rensselaer, Edward Livingston (1764-1836), Peter Augustus Jay (1776-1843) and William Jay; second cousin twice removed of Leonard Gansevoort, Leonard Gansevoort Jr., Peter Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer, James Asheton Bayard Sr., Maturin Livingston, Rensselaer Westerlo, Edward Philip Livingston, William Alexander Duer, John Duer, Charles Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873), Hamilton Fish, George Washington Schuyler, John Jay II and Philip N. Schuyler; second cousin thrice removed of Peter Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Peter Gansevoort, Gilbert Livingston Thompson, Richard Henry Bayard, Littleton Kirkpatrick, Gerrit Smith, James Asheton Bayard Jr., William Duer, Denning Duer, Henry Brockholst Ledyard, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, John Jacob Astor III, Eugene Schuyler, Nicholas Fish and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1849-1936); second cousin four times removed of Thomas Francis Bayard Sr., Andrew Kirkpatrick, William Waldorf Astor, John Kean, Cortlandt Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Hamilton Fish Kean, Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, Karl Cortlandt Schuyler, Peter Augustus Jay (1877-1933) and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991); second cousin five times removed of Guy Vernor Henry, Herbert Livingston Satterlee, William Astor Chanler, Thomas Francis Bayard Jr., Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, Montgomery Schuyler Jr., Peter Goelet Gerry, Ogden Livingston Mills, Robert Reginald Livingston, Robert Winthrop Kean and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1926-1996).
  Political families: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; VanRensselaer family of Albany, New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article
  Edward Shippen (1703-1781) — of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.; Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pa. Born in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., July 9, 1703. Merchant; mayor of Philadelphia, Pa., 1744-45. Died in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pa., September 25, 1781 (age 78 years, 78 days). Interment at St. James' Episcopal Churchyard, Lancaster, Pa.
  Relatives: Son of Abigail (Grosse) Shippen and Joseph Shippen; brother of Anne Nancy Shippen (who married Charles Willing) and William Shippen; married, September 20, 1725, to Sarah Plumley; father of Edward Shippen (1729-1806); uncle of Thomas Willing; grandson of Edward Shippen (1639-1712); granduncle of Charles Willing Byrd; great-grandfather of Edward Shippen (1823-1904); great-granduncle of John Brown Francis; second great-grandfather of Bertha Shippen Irving; second great-granduncle of Edward Overton Jr.; third great-granduncle of James Rieman Macfarlane and Francis Fisher Kane.
  Political families: Shippen-Middleton family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  The borough of Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, which he founded, is named for him.
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Richard Richardson (1704-1780) — Born in James City County, Va., 1704. Surveyor; planter; justice of the peace; member of South Carolina Legislative Council, 1776; general in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of South Carolina state senate, 1779-80, 1779-80; died in office 1780. Died in Clarendon District (now Clarendon County), S.C., September, 1780 (age about 76 years). Interment at Richardson Cemetery, Near Remini, Clarendon County, S.C.
  Relatives: Married, October 11, 1738, to Mary Cantey; married to Dorothy Sinkler; father of Richard Richardson Jr. and James Burchill Richardson; grandfather of William McDonald, Edward Richardson Jr., Richard Irvine Manning (1789-1836) and John Peter Richardson (1801-1864); great-grandfather of John Laurence Manning, Richard Irvine Manning (1817-1861) and John Peter Richardson (1831-1899); second great-grandfather of Richard Irvine Manning (1859-1931).
  Political families: Richardson-Manning family of South Carolina; Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Joseph Wanton (1705-1780) — of Newport, Newport County, R.I. Born in Newport, Newport County, R.I., August 15, 1705. Governor of Rhode Island, 1769-75. Died in Newport, Newport County, R.I., July 17, 1780 (age 74 years, 337 days). Interment at Clifton Burying Ground, Newport, R.I.
  Relatives: Son of William Wanton; nephew of John Wanton; first cousin of Gideon Wanton.
  Political families: Durfee-Wanton family of Newport, Rhode Island; Cornell family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) — also known as "Silence Dogood"; "Anthony Afterwit"; "Poor Richard"; "Alice Addertongue"; "Polly Baker"; "Harry Meanwell"; "Timothy Turnstone"; "Martha Careful"; "Benevolus"; "Caelia Shortface" — of Pennsylvania. Born in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., January 17, 1706. Delegate to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1775; U.S. Postmaster General, 1775-76; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; delegate to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention, 1776; U.S. Minister to France, 1778-85; Sweden, 1782-83; President of Pennsylvania, 1785-88; member, U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787. Deist. Member, Freemasons; American Philosophical Society; American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Famed for his experiments with electricity; invented bifocal glasses and the harmonica. Elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1900. Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., April 17, 1790 (age 84 years, 90 days). Interment at Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Pa.; statue erected 1856 at Old City Hall Grounds, Boston, Mass.; statue at La Arcata Court, Santa Barbara, Calif.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
  Relatives: Son of Josiah Franklin and Abiah Lee (Folger) Franklin; married, September 1, 1730, to Deborah Read; father of Sarah 'Sally' Franklin (who married Richard Bache); uncle of Franklin Davenport; grandfather of Richard Bache Jr. and Deborah Franklin Bache (who married William John Duane); great-grandfather of Alexander Dallas Bache, Mary Blechenden Bache (who married Robert John Walker) and Sophia Arabella Bache (who married William Wallace Irwin); second great-grandfather of Robert Walker Irwin; fifth great-grandfather of Daniel Baugh Brewster and Elise du Pont; first cousin four times removed of Charles James Folger, Benjamin Dexter Sprague and Wharton Barker; first cousin six times removed of Thomas Mott Osborne; first cousin seven times removed of Charles Devens Osborne and Lithgow Osborne; second cousin five times removed of George Hammond Parshall.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Bache-Dallas family of Pennsylvania and New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Cross-reference: Jonathan Williams
  Franklin counties in Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kan., Ky., La., Maine, Mass., Miss., Mo., Neb., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Pa., Tenn., Vt., Va. and Wash. are named for him.
  Mount Franklin, in the White Mountains, Coos County, New Hampshire, is named for him.  — The minor planet 5102 Benfranklin (discovered 1986), is named for him.
  Other politicians named for him: Benjamin F. Butler — Benjamin F. Hallett — Benjamin F. Wade — Benjamin Franklin Wallace — Benjamin Cromwell Franklin — Benjamin Franklin Perry — Benjamin Franklin Robinson — Benjamin F. Randolph — Benjamin Franklin Massey — Benjamin F. Rawls — Benjamin Franklin Leiter — Benjamin Franklin Thomas — Benjamin F. Hall — Benjamin F. Angel — Benjamin Franklin Ross — Benjamin F. Flanders — Benjamin F. Bomar — Benjamin Franklin Hellen — Benjamin F. Mudge — Benjamin F. Butler — Benjamin F. Loan — Benjamin F. Simpson — Benjamin Franklin Terry — Benjamin Franklin Junkin — Benjamin F. Partridge — B. F. Langworthy — Benjamin F. Harding — Benjamin Mebane — B. F. Whittemore — Benjamin Franklin Bradley — Benjamin Franklin Claypool — Benjamin Franklin Saffold — Benjamin F. Coates — B. Franklin Martin — Benjamin Franklin Howey — Benjamin F. Martin — Benjamin Franklin Rice — Benjamin F. Randolph — Benjamin F. Hopkins — Benjamin F. Tracy — Benjamin Franklin Briggs — Benjamin F. Grady — Benjamin F. Farnham — Benjamin F. Meyers — Benjamin Franklin White — Benjamin Franklin Prescott — Benjamin F. Jonas — B. Franklin Fisher — Benjamin Franklin Potts — Benjamin F. Funk — Benjamin F. Marsh — Frank B. Arnold — Benjamin F. Heckert — Benjamin F. Bradley — Benjamin F. Howell — Benjamin Franklin Miller — Benjamin F. Mahan — Ben Franklin Caldwell — Benjamin Franklin Tilley — Benjamin F. Hackney — B. F. McMillan — Benjamin F. Shively — B. Frank Hires — B. Frank Mebane — B. Frank Murphy — Benjamin F. Starr — Benjamin Franklin Jones, Jr. — Benjamin F. Welty — Benjamin F. Jones — Benjamin Franklin Boley — Ben Franklin Looney — Benjamin F. Bledsoe — Benjamin Franklin Williams — B. Frank Kelley — Benjamin Franklin Butler — Benjamin F. James — Frank B. Heintzleman — Benjamin F. Feinberg — B. Franklin Bunn — Ben F. Cameron — Ben F. Blackmon — B. Frank Whelchel — B. F. Merritt, Jr. — Ben F. Hornsby — Ben Dillingham II
  Coins and currency: His portrait appears on the U.S. $100 bill, and formerly on the U.S. half dollar coin (1948-63).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Books by Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin — An Account of the Newly Invented Pennsylvanian Fire-Place (1744)
  Books about Benjamin Franklin: H. W. Brands, The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin — Edmund S. Morgan, Benjamin Franklin — Stacy Schiff, A Great Improvisation : Franklin, France, and the Birth of America — Gordon S. Wood, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin — Walter Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin : An American Life — Carl Van Doren, Benjamin Franklin — Philip Dray, Stealing God's Thunder : Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod and the Invention of America
  Image source: Library of Congress
  Abraham Hasbrouck (1707-1791) — of Ulster County, N.Y. Born in New Paltz, Ulster County, N.Y., August 21, 1707. Member of New York state assembly from Ulster County, 1781-82. French Huguenot and Dutch ancestry. Died in Kingston, Ulster County, N.Y., November 10, 1791 (age 84 years, 81 days). Interment at Old Dutch Churchyard, Kingston, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Joseph Hasbrouck (1683-1724) and Elsje (Schoonmaker) Hasbrouck; married to Catharine Bruyn; father of Joseph Hasbrouck (1743-1808); grandfather of Abraham Joseph Hasbrouck and Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck; granduncle of Jacob Hasbrouck DeWitt; first cousin thrice removed of Abraham Elting Hasbrouck and Solomon Hasbrouck; second cousin twice removed of Abraham A. Deyo; second cousin thrice removed of Abraham A. Deyo Jr.; second cousin five times removed of Israel Tripp Deyo.
  Political family: DeWitt-Bruyn-Hasbrouck-Kellogg family of New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Robert Livingston (1708-1790) — also known as "Third Lord of the Manor" — of New York. Born in Albany, Albany County, N.Y., December 16, 1708. Member of New York colonial assembly, 1737-58. Died in Clermont, Columbia County, N.Y., November 27, 1790 (age 81 years, 346 days). Interment at Linlithgo Reformed Church Cemetery, Linlithgo, N.Y.
  Relatives: Brother of Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Philip Livingston and William Livingston; father-in-law of James Duane; father of Peter Robert Livingston (1737-1794) and Walter Livingston; nephew of John Livingston, Robert Livingston (1688-1775) and Gilbert Livingston; uncle by marriage of William Duer (1747-1799); uncle of Philip Peter Livingston, Catherine Livingston (who married Nicholas Bayard), Susannah Livingston (who married John Cleves Symmes), Susanna Livingston (who married John Kean (1756-1795)), Sarah Van Brugh Livingston (who married John Jay) and Henry Brockholst Livingston; grandson of Robert Livingston the Elder and Pieter Van Brugh; grandfather of Henry Walter Livingston; grandnephew of Pieter Schuyler (1657-1724), Johannes Cuyler and Johannes Schuyler (1668-1747); granduncle of Stephen Van Rensselaer, Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Peter Augustus Jay (1776-1843), Rensselaer Westerlo, Edward Philip Livingston, William Alexander Duer, John Duer, William Jay and Charles Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873); great-grandfather of Peter Robert Livingston (1789-1859) and Edward Livingston (1796-1840); great-granduncle of Philip Schuyler, William Duer (1805-1879), Henry Bell Van Rensselaer, Denning Duer, Henry Brockholst Ledyard and John Jay II; second great-granduncle of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, Nicholas Fish, Hamilton Fish Jr. (1849-1936), John Kean (1852-1914) and Hamilton Fish Kean; third great-grandfather of Herbert Livingston Satterlee, Charles Ludlow Livingston (born 1870) and Bronson Murray Cutting; third great-granduncle of Peter Augustus Jay (1877-1933), Robert Reginald Livingston, Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991) and Robert Winthrop Kean; fourth great-grandfather of Brockholst Livingston; fourth great-granduncle of John Eliot Thayer Jr., Hamilton Fish Jr. (1926-1996) and Thomas Howard Kean; fifth great-granduncle of Hamilton Fish (born 1951), Alexa Fish Ward and Thomas Howard Kean Jr.; first cousin of Robert Gilbert Livingston and Robert R. Livingston (1718-1775); first cousin once removed of Robert Livingston the Younger, Cornelis Cuyler, Johannes Schuyler (1697-1746), John Cruger Jr., Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813), Philip Van Cortlandt, Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr. and Edward Livingston (1764-1836); first cousin twice removed of David Davidse Schuyler, Myndert Davidtse Schuyler and Hamilton Fish (1808-1893); first cousin thrice removed of Gilbert Livingston Thompson and John Jacob Astor III; first cousin four times removed of William Waldorf Astor and Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright; first cousin five times removed of Guy Vernor Henry, William Astor Chanler, Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, Montgomery Schuyler Jr., Peter Goelet Gerry and Ogden Livingston Mills; second cousin of Stephanus Bayard, Pierre Van Cortlandt, Philip John Schuyler, Philip P. Schuyler, Stephen John Schuyler and Henry Cruger; second cousin once removed of Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, Robert Van Rensselaer, Pieter Schuyler (1746-1792), James Livingston, Peter Samuel Schuyler, Philip Jeremiah Schuyler and James Parker; second cousin twice removed of Peter Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Maturin Livingston, James Alexander Hamilton, George Washington Schuyler, John Cortlandt Parker and Philip N. Schuyler; second cousin thrice removed of Gerrit Smith, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, James Adams Ekin, Eugene Schuyler, Richard Wayne Parker and Charles Wolcott Parker; second cousin four times removed of Robert Ray Hamilton, John Sluyter Wirt, Cortlandt Schuyler Van Rensselaer and Karl Cortlandt Schuyler.
  Political families: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Gurdon Saltonstall (1708-1785) — of New London, New London County, Conn. Born in New London, New London County, Conn., December 22, 1708. Postmaster at New London, Conn., 1776-85. Died in New London, New London County, Conn., September 19, 1785 (age 76 years, 271 days). Interment at Ancient Cemetery, New London, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of Gurdon Saltonstall (1666-1724) and Elizabeth (Rosewell) Saltonstall; second great-granduncle of James Rodes Saltonstall; first cousin twice removed of Leverett Saltonstall (1783-1845); first cousin thrice removed of Leverett Saltonstall (1825-1895); first cousin four times removed of John Lee Saltonstall; first cousin five times removed of Leverett Saltonstall (1892-1979), Richard Saltonstall, William Gurdon Saltonstall and John Lee Saltonstall Jr.; first cousin six times removed of William Lawrence Saltonstall.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton family of Massachusetts; Holden-Davis-Lawrence-Garcelon family of Massachusetts; Sullivan-Saltonstall family of Durham, New Hampshire; Saltonstall-Weeks family of Massachusetts (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Richard Bland (1710-1776) — of Virginia. Born in Orange County, Va., May 6, 1710. Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1774. Died in Williamsburg, Va., October 26, 1776 (age 66 years, 173 days). Interment in private or family graveyard.
  Relatives: Son of Richard Bland (1665-1720) and Elizabeth (Randolph) Bland; married to Martha Macon; nephew of Richard Randolph; uncle of Theodorick Bland (1742-1790); granduncle of Henry Lee, Charles Lee, Richard Bland Lee, Edmund Jennings Lee, John Randolph of Roanoke and Henry St. George Tucker; great-granduncle of Nathaniel Beverly Tucker; second great-granduncle of Fitzhugh Lee and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee; fourth great-granduncle of William Welby Beverley; first cousin of Peyton Randolph (1721-1775); first cousin once removed of Thomas Jefferson, Edmund Jenings Randolph and Beverley Randolph; first cousin twice removed of John Marshall, James Markham Marshall, Thomas Mann Randolph Jr., Alexander Keith Marshall, Martha Jefferson Randolph, Dabney Carr, Theodorick Bland (1776-1846) and Peyton Randolph (1779-1828); first cousin thrice removed of Thomas Marshall, James Keith Marshall, Francis Wayles Eppes, Dabney Smith Carr, Benjamin Franklin Randolph, Meriwether Lewis Randolph, George Wythe Randolph, Edmund Randolph and Carter Henry Harrison; first cousin four times removed of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, Edmund Randolph Cocke, John Augustine Marshall, Carter Henry Harrison II and Frederick Madison Roberts; first cousin five times removed of John Gardner Coolidge, Edith Wilson, William Marshall Bullitt, Alexander Scott Bullitt and Francis Beverley Biddle; second cousin twice removed of John Wayles Eppes; second cousin four times removed of William Henry Robertson.
  Political families: Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland; Lee-Randolph family; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Blackburn-Slaughter-Buckner-Madison family of Kentucky (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Bland County, Va. is named for him.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
  George Wyllys (1710-1796) — of Hartford, Hartford County, Conn. Born in Hartford, Hartford County, Conn., October 6, 1710. Secretary of state of Connecticut, 1735-96. Served 61 years. Died April 24, 1796 (age 85 years, 201 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Father of Samuel Wyllys; great-grandson of George Wyllys (1590-1645) and John Haynes.
  Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Jonathan Trumbull (1710-1785) — of Lebanon, New London County, Conn. Born in Lebanon, New London County, Conn., October 12, 1710. Colonial Governor of Connecticut, 1769-76; Governor of Connecticut, 1776-84. Died in Lebanon, New London County, Conn., August 17, 1785 (age 74 years, 309 days). Interment at Trumbull Cemetery, Lebanon, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of Joseph Trumbull (1679-1755) and Hannah (Higley) Trumbull; married to Faith Robinson; father of Joseph Trumbull (1737-1778), Jonathan Trumbull Jr., Mary Trumbull (who married William Williams) and David Trumbull; grandfather of Joseph Trumbull (1782-1861) and Jonathan G. W. Trumbull; first cousin twice removed of Benjamin Trumbull; first cousin thrice removed of Lyman Trumbull; first cousin four times removed of Carl Trumbull Hayden; second cousin thrice removed of Ethan Colby; second cousin four times removed of Joseph Livermore Perley.
  Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also National Governors Association biography — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Peter Van Brugh Livingston (1710-1792) — also known as Peter V. B. Livingston — of New York County, N.Y. Born in Albany, Albany County, N.Y., November 3, 1710. Member of New York state assembly from New York County, 1784-85. Died in Albany, Albany County, N.Y., December 28, 1792 (age 82 years, 55 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Philip Livingston (1686-1749) and Catherine (Van Brugh) Livingston; brother of Robert Livingston (1708-1790), Philip Livingston (1716-1778) and William Livingston; father of Philip Peter Livingston, Catherine Livingston (who married Nicholas Bayard) and Susanna Livingston (who married John Kean (1756-1795)); nephew of John Livingston, Robert Livingston (1688-1775) and Gilbert Livingston; uncle by marriage of James Duane and William Duer (1747-1799); uncle of Peter Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter Livingston, Susannah Livingston (who married John Cleves Symmes), Sarah Van Brugh Livingston (who married John Jay) and Henry Brockholst Livingston; grandson of Robert Livingston the Elder and Pieter Van Brugh; grandfather of Charles Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873); grandnephew of Pieter Schuyler (1657-1724), Johannes Cuyler and Johannes Schuyler (1668-1747); granduncle of Stephen Van Rensselaer, Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry Walter Livingston, Peter Augustus Jay (1776-1843), Rensselaer Westerlo, Edward Philip Livingston, William Alexander Duer, John Duer and William Jay; great-grandfather of Julia Kean (who married Hamilton Fish (1808-1893)); great-granduncle of Philip Schuyler, Peter Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Edward Livingston (1796-1840), William Duer (1805-1879), Henry Bell Van Rensselaer, Denning Duer, Henry Brockholst Ledyard and John Jay II; second great-grandfather of Nicholas Fish, Hamilton Fish Jr. (1849-1936), John Kean (1852-1914) and Hamilton Fish Kean; second great-granduncle of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer and Charles Ludlow Livingston (born 1870); third great-grandfather of Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991) and Robert Winthrop Kean; third great-granduncle of Herbert Livingston Satterlee, Peter Augustus Jay (1877-1933), Bronson Murray Cutting, Robert Reginald Livingston and Brockholst Livingston; fourth great-grandfather of Hamilton Fish Jr. (1926-1996) and Thomas Howard Kean; fourth great-granduncle of John Eliot Thayer Jr.; fifth great-grandfather of Hamilton Fish (born 1951), Alexa Fish Ward and Thomas Howard Kean Jr.; first cousin of Robert Gilbert Livingston and Robert R. Livingston (1718-1775); first cousin once removed of Robert Livingston the Younger, Cornelis Cuyler, Johannes Schuyler (1697-1746), John Cruger Jr., Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813), Philip Van Cortlandt, Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr. and Edward Livingston (1764-1836); first cousin twice removed of David Davidse Schuyler, Myndert Davidtse Schuyler and Hamilton Fish (1808-1893); first cousin thrice removed of Gilbert Livingston Thompson and John Jacob Astor III; first cousin four times removed of William Waldorf Astor and Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright; first cousin five times removed of Guy Vernor Henry, William Astor Chanler, Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, Montgomery Schuyler Jr., Peter Goelet Gerry and Ogden Livingston Mills; second cousin of Stephanus Bayard, Pierre Van Cortlandt, Philip John Schuyler, Philip P. Schuyler, Stephen John Schuyler and Henry Cruger; second cousin once removed of Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, Robert Van Rensselaer, Pieter Schuyler (1746-1792), James Livingston, Peter Samuel Schuyler, Philip Jeremiah Schuyler and James Parker; second cousin twice removed of Peter Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Maturin Livingston, James Alexander Hamilton, George Washington Schuyler, John Cortlandt Parker and Philip N. Schuyler; second cousin thrice removed of Gerrit Smith, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, James Adams Ekin, Eugene Schuyler, Richard Wayne Parker and Charles Wolcott Parker; second cousin four times removed of Robert Ray Hamilton, John Sluyter Wirt, Cortlandt Schuyler Van Rensselaer and Karl Cortlandt Schuyler.
  Political families: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
John Cruger John Cruger Jr. (1710-1791) — of New York, New York County, N.Y. Born July 18, 1710. Merchant; mayor of New York City, N.Y., 1756-66; Speaker of New York Colonial Assembly, 1769-75. Died December 27, 1791 (age 81 years, 162 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of John Cruger; nephew of Johannes Cuyler; uncle of Henry Cruger; first cousin of Cornelis Cuyler; first cousin once removed of Robert Livingston, Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Philip Livingston and William Livingston; first cousin twice removed of Peter Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter Livingston, Philip Peter Livingston and Henry Brockholst Livingston; first cousin thrice removed of Stephen Van Rensselaer, Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry Walter Livingston, Rensselaer Westerlo, Peter Augustus Jay (1776-1843), Edward Philip Livingston, William Alexander Duer, John Duer, William Jay and Charles Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873); first cousin four times removed of Philip Schuyler, Peter Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Edward Livingston, William Duer, Henry Bell Van Rensselaer, Denning Duer, Henry Brockholst Ledyard and John Jay II; first cousin five times removed of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, Nicholas Fish, Hamilton Fish Jr. (1849-1936), John Kean, Hamilton Fish Kean and Charles Ludlow Livingston (born 1870); first cousin six times removed of Herbert Livingston Satterlee, Peter Augustus Jay (1877-1933), Bronson Murray Cutting, Robert Reginald Livingston, Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991), Robert Winthrop Kean and Brockholst Livingston; first cousin seven times removed of John Eliot Thayer Jr., Hamilton Fish Jr. (1926-1996) and Thomas Howard Kean.
  Political family: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article
  Image source: New York Public Library
  Charles Willing (1710-1754) — of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa. Born in Bristol, England, May 18, 1710. Merchant; mayor of Philadelphia, Pa., 1748-49, 1754; died in office 1754. English ancestry. Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., November 30, 1754 (age 44 years, 196 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Thomas B. Willing and Anne (Harrison) Willing; married 1731 to Anne Nancy Shippen (sister of Edward Shippen (1703-1781); granddaughter of Edward Shippen (1639-1712)); father of Thomas Willing and Elizabeth Willing (who married Samuel Powel); grandfather of Charles Willing Byrd; great-grandfather of John Brown Francis; second great-grandfather of Edward Overton Jr.; third great-grandfather of James Rieman Macfarlane and Francis Fisher Kane.
  Political families: Shippen-Middleton family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Morris-Willing-Wilson-Griffin family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article
  Thomas Shubrick (1710-1779) — Born in Stepney, London, England, August 17, 1710. Sea captain; merchant; insurance business; planter; member of South Carolina Legislative Council, 1776-78. Anglican. Died in Charleston, Charleston District (now Charleston County), S.C., August 14, 1779 (age 68 years, 362 days). Interment at St. Philip's Churchyard, Charleston, S.C.
  Relatives: Son of Richard Shubrick and Jane Shubrick; married, May 8, 1746, to Sarah Katherine Motte (sister-in-law of John Huger; sister of Isaac Motte; aunt of William Drayton); father of Mary Shubrick (who married Nicholas Eveleigh and Edward Rutledge).
  Political family: Middleton-Huger-Rutledge-Drayton family of Charleston, South Carolina (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  William Shippen (1712-1801) — of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., October 1, 1712. Delegate to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1778. Died in Germantown, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., November 4, 1801 (age 89 years, 34 days). Interment at Old Pine Street Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.
  Relatives: Son of Abigail (Grosse) Shippen and Joseph Shippen; brother of Edward Shippen (1703-1781); uncle of Edward Shippen (1729-1806) and Thomas Willing; grandson of Edward Shippen (1639-1712); granduncle of Charles Willing Byrd; great-granduncle of John Brown Francis and Edward Shippen (1823-1904); second great-granduncle of Edward Overton Jr. and Bertha Shippen Irving; third great-granduncle of James Rieman Macfarlane and Francis Fisher Kane.
  Political families: Shippen-Middleton family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Robert Gilbert Livingston (1712-1789) — also known as Gilbert Livingston — of Dutchess County, N.Y. Born in Kingston, Ulster County, N.Y., December 24, 1712. Member of New York colonial assembly, 1775-77; member of New York state assembly from Dutchess County, 1777-78, 1788-89; delegate to New York convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Dutchess County, 1788. Died in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, N.Y., August 27, 1789 (age 76 years, 246 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Gilbert Livingston and Cornelia (Beekman) Livingston; married, November 3, 1740, to Catherine McPhaedres; nephew of John Livingston and Robert Livingston (1688-1775); uncle of Philip Van Cortlandt and Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr.; grandson of Robert Livingston the Elder; grandnephew of Pieter Schuyler (1657-1724) and Johannes Schuyler (1668-1747); granduncle of Hamilton Fish (1808-1893); great-granduncle of Gilbert Livingston Thompson, Nicholas Fish and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1849-1936); second great-granduncle of Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991); third great-grandfather of Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright and Montgomery Schuyler Jr.; third great-granduncle of Guy Vernor Henry and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1926-1996); fourth great-granduncle of Hamilton Fish (born 1951) and Alexa Fish Ward; first cousin of Robert Livingston (1708-1790), Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Philip Livingston, Robert R. Livingston (1718-1775) and William Livingston; first cousin once removed of Robert Livingston the Younger, Johannes Schuyler (1697-1746), Peter Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter Livingston, Philip Peter Livingston, Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813), Henry Brockholst Livingston and Edward Livingston (1764-1836); first cousin twice removed of David Davidse Schuyler, Myndert Davidtse Schuyler, Stephen Van Rensselaer, Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry Walter Livingston, Peter Augustus Jay (1776-1843), Rensselaer Westerlo, Edward Philip Livingston, William Alexander Duer, John Duer, William Jay and Charles Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873); first cousin thrice removed of Philip Schuyler, Peter Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Edward Livingston (1796-1840), William Duer, Henry Bell Van Rensselaer, Denning Duer, Henry Brockholst Ledyard, John Jay II and John Jacob Astor III; first cousin four times removed of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, William Waldorf Astor, John Kean, Hamilton Fish Kean and Charles Ludlow Livingston (born 1870); first cousin five times removed of Herbert Livingston Satterlee, William Astor Chanler, Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, Peter Augustus Jay (1877-1933), Peter Goelet Gerry, Ogden Livingston Mills, Bronson Murray Cutting, Robert Reginald Livingston, Robert Winthrop Kean and Brockholst Livingston; first cousin six times removed of John Eliot Thayer Jr. and Thomas Howard Kean; first cousin seven times removed of Thomas Howard Kean Jr.; second cousin of Stephanus Bayard, Pierre Van Cortlandt, Philip John Schuyler, Philip P. Schuyler and Stephen John Schuyler; second cousin once removed of Nicholas Bayard, Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, Robert Van Rensselaer, Pieter Schuyler (1746-1792), James Livingston, Peter Samuel Schuyler, Philip Jeremiah Schuyler and James Parker; second cousin twice removed of Peter Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Maturin Livingston, James Alexander Hamilton, George Washington Schuyler, John Cortlandt Parker and Philip N. Schuyler; second cousin thrice removed of Gerrit Smith, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, James Adams Ekin, Eugene Schuyler, Richard Wayne Parker and Charles Wolcott Parker; second cousin four times removed of Robert Ray Hamilton, John Sluyter Wirt, Cortlandt Schuyler Van Rensselaer and Karl Cortlandt Schuyler.
  Political family: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Matthew Thornton (1713-1803) — of Merrimack, Hillsborough County, N.H. Born in County Tyrone, Ireland (now Northern Ireland), March 17, 1713. Physician; President of New Hampshire, 1775-76; justice of New Hampshire state supreme court, 1776-82; Delegate to Continental Congress from New Hampshire, 1776; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of New Hampshire Governor's Council, 1776-77, 1780-81, 1785-86; member of New Hampshire state senate from Hillsborough County, 1784-87. Presbyterian. Died in Newburyport, Essex County, Mass., June 24, 1803 (age 90 years, 99 days). Interment at Thornton's Ferry Cemetery, Merrimack, N.H.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
  Relatives: Son of James B. Thornton, Jr. and Elizabeth Keturah (Jenkins) Thornton; married 1760 to Hannah Jack; second great-grandfather of Gordon Woodbury.
  Political families: Chandler-Hale family of Portland, Maine; Lee-Randolph family; Woodbury-Holden family of Massachusetts and New Hampshire; Holden-Davis-Lawrence-Garcelon family of Massachusetts; Starkweather-Pendleton family of Preston, Connecticut (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
  John Hart (c.1713-1779) — also known as "Honest John" — of Hopewell, Hunterdon County (now Mercer County), N.J. Born about 1713. Hunterdon County Judge, 1768-75; Delegate to Continental Congress from New Jersey, 1776; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of New Jersey state house of assembly from Hunterdon County, 1776-78; Speaker of the New Jersey State House of Assembly, 1776-78. Died, from kidney failure, in Hopewell, Hunterdon County (now Mercer County), N.J., May 11, 1779 (age about 66 years). Original interment at a private or family graveyard, Mercer County, N.J.; reinterment in 1865 at First Baptist Church Cemetery, Hopewell, N.J.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
  Relatives: Son of Edward Hart and Martha (Furman) Hart; married 1741 to Deborah Scudder; second great-grandfather of John Hart Brewer and Lummie J. Earle; first cousin thrice removed of Absalom Price Lanning; first cousin four times removed of William Mershon Lanning; second cousin twice removed of Hanford Nichols Lockwood; second cousin thrice removed of James Lockwood Conger and Homer Nichols Lockwood; second cousin four times removed of Frederick B. Piatt; second cousin five times removed of Alfred Collins Lockwood.
  Political families: Conger family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Lockwood-Lanning family of New Jersey (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  The World War II Liberty ship SS John Hart (built 1941-42 at Portland, Oregon; scrapped 1966) was named for him.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Francis Lewis (1713-1803) — of New York. Born in Llandaff, Wales, March 21, 1713. Delegate to Continental Congress from New York, 1775; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776. Welsh ancestry. Died December 30, 1803 (age 90 years, 284 days). Interment at Trinity Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
  Relatives: Father of Morgan Lewis; third great-grandfather of Peter Goelet Gerry and Ogden Livingston Mills.
  Political family: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier
  Henry Harrison (c.1713-1766) — of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa. Born in Lancashire, England, about 1713. Ship captain; merchant; mayor of Philadelphia, Pa., 1762-63. Anglican. English ancestry. Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., January 3, 1766 (age about 53 years). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Andrew Harrison and Elizabeth Cattlett (Battaile) Harrison; married, April 13, 1748, to Mary Watson Aspden; fourth great-granduncle of Frank White; first cousin twice removed of Theodorick Bland.
  Political family: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article
  Matthew Griswold (1714-1799) — of Lyme, New London County, Conn. Born in Lyme, New London County, Conn., March 25, 1714. Lawyer; member of Connecticut council of assistants, 1759-69; Deputy Governor of Connecticut, 1769-84; Governor of Connecticut, 1784-86; delegate to Connecticut convention to ratify U.S. constitution, 1788. Died in Lyme, New London County, Conn., April 28, 1799 (age 85 years, 34 days). Interment at Duck River Cemetery, Old Lyme, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of John Griswold and Hannah (Lee) Griswold; married, November 10, 1743, to Ursula Wolcott (daughter of Roger Wolcott (1679-1767); sister of Oliver Wolcott Sr.; aunt of Oliver Wolcott Jr.); father of Roger Griswold; uncle of Samuel Holden Parsons and James Hillhouse; great-grandfather of John William Allen, Henry Titus Backus and Matthew Griswold (1833-1919); second great-granduncle of George Frederick Stone; third great-grandfather of Selden Chapin; fourth great-grandfather of Frederic Lincoln Chapin; first cousin twice removed of Phineas Lyman Tracy and Albert Haller Tracy; first cousin thrice removed of George Griswold Sill; first cousin four times removed of Erastus Clark Scranton, Sereno Hamilton Scranton and Samuel Lord (1831-1880); first cousin five times removed of Joseph Augustine Scranton, Samuel Lord (1859-1925) and Joseph Buell Ely; first cousin six times removed of Harry Andrews Gager; second cousin once removed of Erastus Wolcott and Zina Hyde Jr.; second cousin twice removed of Thomas Hale Sill, Frederick William Lord, Theodore Sill and Thomas Worcester Hyde; second cousin thrice removed of Joseph Lyman Huntington, Alexander Hamilton Waterman, Augustus Frank, Charles Edward Hyde, Herman Arod Gager, John Sedgwick Hyde and Edward Warden Hyde; second cousin four times removed of Augustus Brandegee, Collins Dwight Huntington, George Milo Huntington, Arthur Evarts Lord and George Leffingwell Reed; second cousin five times removed of Thomas Theodore Prentis, Frank Bosworth Brandegee, Henry Arthur Huntington and Allan Percy Sill; third cousin of Frederick Wolcott; third cousin once removed of Nathaniel Merriam, Peter B. Garnsey, Samuel Clesson Allen, James Doolittle Wooster, Henry Leavitt Ellsworth and William Wolcott Ellsworth; third cousin twice removed of Elijah Abel, Calvin Fillmore, Daniel Greene Garnsey, Bela Edgerton, Samuel George Andrews, Roscius R. Kennedy, Elisha Hunt Allen, James Samuel Wadsworth, George Washington Wolcott, Christopher Parsons Wolcott and Roger Wolcott (1847-1900); third cousin thrice removed of Gideon Hotchkiss, Asahel Augustus Hotchkiss, Millard Fillmore, Harrison Blodget, Edmund Holcomb, John Arnold Rockwell, John Leslie Russell, Ira Chandler Backus, Julius Hotchkiss, Albert Asahel Bliss, Philemon Bliss, Alfred Peck Edgerton, Giles Waldo Hotchkiss, Joseph Ketchum Edgerton, Gilbert Ezra Read, William Judson Clark, William Fessenden Allen, Charles Hull Clark, Charles Frederick Wadsworth, Rush Green Leaming, James Wolcott Wadsworth, Edward Oliver Wolcott, Charles M. Hotchkiss, Alfred Wolcott, Frederick Hobbes Allen and Hiram Bingham.
  Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
Abraham Davenport Abraham Davenport (1715-1789) — of Stamford, Fairfield County, Conn. Born in Stamford, Fairfield County, Conn., June 6, 1715. Lawyer; member of Connecticut council of assistants, 1776-83. Famed for his decisive response during the "Dark Day," May 19, 1780, when all-day darkness in New England led many to think that the end of the world was at hand. In the state council meeting in Hartford, he said, "I am against adjournment. The day of judgment is either approaching, or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause for an adjournment; if it is, I choose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought." John Greenleaf Whittier wrote a poem about this incident in 1866; John F. Kennedy referenced Davenport's actions in speeches during the 1960 presidential campaign. Died in Danbury, Fairfield County, Conn., November 20, 1789 (age 74 years, 167 days). Interment at Northfield Cemetery, Stamford, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of John Davenport (1669-1731) and Elizabeth (Morris) Davenport; married, November 16, 1750, to Elizabeth Huntington; married, August 8, 1776, to Martha (Coggeshall) Fitch; father of John Davenport (1752-1830) and James Davenport; grandfather of Theodore Davenport; granduncle of Abraham Davenport (1767-1837); great-granduncle of Thaddeus Betts; second great-granduncle of Joseph Pomeroy Root; fourth great-granduncle of Alfred Collins Lockwood; second cousin once removed of Aaron Kitchell; second cousin thrice removed of Edward Green Bradford; second cousin four times removed of Elias Mulford Condit and Edward Green Bradford II; second cousin five times removed of Isaac Edwin Mansfield, Frank L. Stiles, John Henry Blakeslee, George Newbury Blakeslee, Edward Green Bradford Jr. and Elizabeth Bradford du Pont Bayard.
  Political families: DuPont family of Wilmington, Delaware; Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Image source: Stamford Historical Society
  John Stevens (1716-1792) — of Hunterdon County, N.J. Born in Perth Amboy, Middlesex County, N.J., October 21, 1716. Delegate to Continental Congress from New Jersey, 1783; delegate to New Jersey convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Hunterdon County, 1787. Died in Hoboken, Hudson County, N.J., May 10, 1792 (age 75 years, 202 days). Interment at Frame Meeting House Cemetery, Lambertville, N.J.
  Relatives: Son of John Stevens (1682-1737) and Ann (Campbell) Stevens; married 1748 to Elizabeth Alexander; father of John Stevens III and Mary Stevens (who married Robert R. Livingston); third great-grandfather of Robert Reginald Livingston, Archibald Stevens Alexander and Millicent Hammond Fenwick.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton family of Massachusetts; Roosevelt family of New York; Hammond-Stevens family of Bernardsville, New Jersey (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Philip Livingston (1716-1778) — of New York, New York County, N.Y. Born in Albany, Albany County, N.Y., January 15, 1716. Member of New York colonial assembly, 1769, 1776; Delegate to Continental Congress from New York, 1775-78; died in office 1778; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of New York state senate Southern District, 1777-78; died in office 1778. Presbyterian. Died while attending the sixth session of the Continental Congress in York, York County, Pa., June 12, 1778 (age 62 years, 148 days). Entombed at Prospect Hill Cemetery, York, Pa.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
  Relatives: Son of Philip Livingston (1686-1749) and Catrina (Van Brugh) Livingston; brother of Robert Livingston (1708-1790), Peter Van Brugh Livingston and William Livingston; married, April 14, 1740, to Christina Ten Broeck; nephew of John Livingston, Robert Livingston (1688-1775) and Gilbert Livingston; uncle by marriage of James Duane and William Duer (1747-1799); uncle of Peter Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter Livingston, Philip Peter Livingston, Catherine Livingston (who married Nicholas Bayard), Susannah Livingston (who married John Cleves Symmes), Susanna Livingston (who married John Kean (1756-1795)), Sarah Van Brugh Livingston (who married John Jay) and Henry Brockholst Livingston; grandson of Robert Livingston the Elder and Pieter Van Brugh; grandfather of Stephen Van Rensselaer, Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Rensselaer Westerlo and Edward Philip Livingston; grandnephew of Pieter Schuyler (1657-1724), Johannes Cuyler and Johannes Schuyler (1668-1747); granduncle of Henry Walter Livingston, Peter Augustus Jay (1776-1843), William Alexander Duer, John Duer, William Jay and Charles Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873); great-grandfather of Philip Schuyler, Edward Livingston (1796-1840) and Henry Bell Van Rensselaer; great-granduncle of Peter Robert Livingston (1789-1859), William Duer (1805-1879), Denning Duer, Henry Brockholst Ledyard and John Jay II; second great-grandfather of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer; second great-granduncle of Nicholas Fish, Hamilton Fish Jr. (1849-1936), John Kean (1852-1914), Hamilton Fish Kean and Charles Ludlow Livingston (born 1870); third great-grandfather of Robert Reginald Livingston; third great-granduncle of Herbert Livingston Satterlee, Peter Augustus Jay (1877-1933), Bronson Murray Cutting, Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991), Robert Winthrop Kean and Brockholst Livingston; fourth great-grandfather of John Eliot Thayer Jr.; fourth great-granduncle of Hamilton Fish Jr. (1926-1996) and Thomas Howard Kean; fifth great-granduncle of Hamilton Fish (born 1951), Alexa Fish Ward and Thomas Howard Kean Jr.; ancestor *** of Robert Livingston Beeckman; first cousin of Robert Gilbert Livingston and Robert R. Livingston (1718-1775); first cousin once removed of Robert Livingston the Younger, Johannes Schuyler (1697-1746), Cornelis Cuyler, John Cruger Jr., Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813), Philip Van Cortlandt, Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr. and Edward Livingston (1764-1836); first cousin twice removed of David Davidse Schuyler, Myndert Davidtse Schuyler and Hamilton Fish (1808-1893); first cousin thrice removed of Gilbert Livingston Thompson and John Jacob Astor III; first cousin four times removed of William Waldorf Astor and Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright; first cousin five times removed of Guy Vernor Henry, William Astor Chanler, Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, Montgomery Schuyler Jr., Peter Goelet Gerry and Ogden Livingston Mills; second cousin of Stephanus Bayard, Pierre Van Cortlandt, Philip P. Schuyler, Stephen John Schuyler and Henry Cruger; second cousin once removed of Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, Robert Van Rensselaer, Pieter Schuyler (1746-1792), James Livingston, Peter Samuel Schuyler, Philip Jeremiah Schuyler and James Parker; second cousin twice removed of Peter Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Maturin Livingston, James Alexander Hamilton, George Washington Schuyler, John Cortlandt Parker and Philip N. Schuyler; second cousin thrice removed of Gerrit Smith, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, James Adams Ekin, Eugene Schuyler, Richard Wayne Parker and Charles Wolcott Parker; second cousin four times removed of Robert Ray Hamilton, John Sluyter Wirt, Cortlandt Schuyler Van Rensselaer and Karl Cortlandt Schuyler.
  Political families: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
  Josiah Cowles (1716-1793) — Born in Farmington, Hartford County, Conn., November 20, 1716. Member of Connecticut state house of representatives, 1780-81. Congregationalist; later Episcopalian. Died in Southington, Hartford County, Conn., June 6, 1793 (age 76 years, 198 days). Interment at Quinnipiac Cemetery, Southington, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of Thomas Cowles and Martha (Judd) Cowles; married, November 11, 1739, to Jemima Dickinson; married, November 23, 1748, to Mary Scott; great-grandfather of Charles Upson, Calvin Josiah Cowles and Gad Ely Upson; second great-grandfather of Charles Holden Cowles; first cousin once removed of Daniel Upson; first cousin thrice removed of Christopher Columbus Upson, Andrew Seth Upson and Evelyn M. Upson; first cousin seven times removed of Boyd Kenneth Benedict; second cousin once removed of William Pitkin, Daniel Chapin and Ela Collins; second cousin twice removed of Graham Hurd Chapin, William Collins and William Sheffield Cowles (1846-1923); second cousin thrice removed of Addison Beecher Colvin, Helen Herron Taft and William Sheffield Cowles (1898-1986); second cousin four times removed of Franklin Woodruff, Caleb Seymour Pitkin, Robert Alphonso Taft, Charles Phelps Taft II and Frederick Lippitt; second cousin five times removed of Roy Dikeman Chapin, Ephraim Henry Cowles, William Howard Taft III, Robert Taft Jr. and Seth Chase Taft; third cousin of Moses Seymour and Simeon Baldwin; third cousin once removed of Timothy Pitkin, Orsamus Cook Merrill, James Doolittle Wooster, Horatio Seymour (1778-1857), Henry Seymour, Timothy Merrill and Roger Sherman Baldwin; third cousin twice removed of Elisha Hotchkiss Jr., John Charles Birdsall, John Arnold Rockwell, Origen Storrs Seymour, Francis William Kellogg, Horatio Seymour (1810-1886), Ausburn Birdsall, Farrand Fassett Merrill, George Seymour, Russell Sage, McNeil Seymour, Henry William Seymour and Simeon Eben Baldwin; third cousin thrice removed of Walter Booth, Jesse Hoyt, Truman Hotchkiss, Asa H. Otis, Norman A. Phelps, George Isaac Sherwood, Joseph Pomeroy Root, William Chapman Williston, Edward Woodruff Seymour, David B. Sherwood, Frederick Walker Pitkin, Joseph Battell, Charles Page, Austin George Nettleton, Morris Woodruff Seymour, Rowland Case Kellogg, Dwight May Sabin, Horatio Seymour Jr., Erwin J. Baldwin, Luther S. Pitkin, Norman Alexander Seymour, Russell Cowles Ostrander, Ernest Harvey Woodford, Francis Everett Baldwin, Benjamin Pixley Birdsall, La Monte Cowles, Henry de Forest Baldwin and Gardner Cowles.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Murphy-Merrill family of Harbor Beach, Michigan (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  John Armstrong (1717-1795) — also known as "Hero of Kittanny" — of Pennsylvania. Born in Brookeborough, County Fermanagh, Ireland (now Northern Ireland), October 13, 1717. Civil engineer; surveyor; general in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Delegate to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1778-80. Died in Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pa., March 9, 1795 (age 77 years, 147 days). Interment at Old Carlisle Cemetery, Carlisle, Pa.
  Relatives: Son of James Armstrong ; married to Rebecca Lyon; father of James Armstrong (1748-1828) and John Armstrong Jr.; great-grandfather of John Jacob Astor III; second great-grandfather of William Waldorf Astor; third great-grandfather of William Astor Chanler and Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler.
  Political family: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Armstrong County, Pa. is named for him.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Henry Middleton (1717-1784) — of South Carolina. Born near Charleston, Charleston County, S.C., 1717. Delegate to Continental Congress from South Carolina, 1774; member of South Carolina state senate, 1778. Died in Charleston, Charleston County, S.C., June 13, 1784 (age about 66 years). Interment at Church of St. James, Charleston, S.C.
  Relatives: Son of Arthur Middleton (1681-1737) and Susan (Amory) Middleton; married 1741 to Mary Baker Williams; married 1762 to Maria Henrietta Bull; married 1776 to Lady Mary McKenzie; father of Arthur Middleton (1742-1787), Henrietta Middleton (who married Edward Rutledge) and Sarah Middleton (who married Charles Cotesworth Pinckney); uncle of Mary Middleton (who married Pierce Butler); grandfather of Henry Middleton (1770-1846); great-grandfather of John Izard Middleton, Williams Middleton, John Middleton Huger and John Drayton; second great-grandfather of Daniel Elliott Huger Smith; third great-grandfather of Benjamin Huger Rutledge and Francis Fisher Kane.
  Political families: Middleton-Huger-Rutledge-Drayton family of Charleston, South Carolina; Pinckney-Middleton family of Charleston, South Carolina; Shippen-Middleton family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  The World War II Liberty ship SS Henry Middleton (built 1942 at Wilmington, North Carolina; scrapped 1971) was named for him.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
  Philemon Hawkins (1717-1801) — of Granville County, N.C. Born in Gloucester County, Va., September 28, 1717. Member of North Carolina house of commons from Granville County, 1779-81, 1782-84, 1785-86. Anglican. English ancestry. Died in Warrenton, Warren County, N.C., September 10, 1801 (age 83 years, 347 days). Interment at Hawkins Cemetery, Warrenton, N.C.
  Relatives: Son of Philemon Hawkins and Ann Eleanor (Howard) Hawkins; married 1743 to Delia Martin; great-grandfather of William Dallas Polk Haywood; third great-grandfather of Rufus King Polk, Frank Lyon Polk and Paul Fletcher Faison; fourth great-grandfather of Elizabeth Polk Guest; fifth great-grandfather of Raymond R. Guest.
  Political families: Polk family; Manly-Haywood-Polk family of Raleigh, North Carolina (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Matthew Tilghman (1718-1790) — of Maryland. Born in Queen Anne's County, Md., February 17, 1718. Planter; member of Maryland state house of delegates, 1751-58, 1760-61, 1768-71, 1773-74; Speaker of the Maryland State House of Delegates, 1773-74; Delegate to Continental Congress from Maryland, 1774-76; delegate to Maryland state constitutional convention, 1776; member of Maryland state senate, 1777-83; orphan's court judge in Maryland, 1778. Anglican. Died near Claiborne, Talbot County, Md., May 4, 1790 (age 72 years, 76 days). Interment a private or family graveyard, Talbot County, Md.
  Relatives: Son of Richard Tilghman and Anna Maria (Lloyd) Tilghman; married, April 6, 1741, to Anne Lloyd; father of Margaret Tilghman (who married Charles Carroll, Barrister); uncle of James Joseph Tilghman and William Tilghman; granduncle of Frisby Tilghman; great-grandfather and great-granduncle of Tench Tilghman; great-grandfather of Edward Tilghman Paca; first cousin once removed of Edward Lloyd (1744-1796); first cousin twice removed of Edward Lloyd (1779-1834); first cousin thrice removed of Philip Barton Key; first cousin four times removed of Francis Key Pendleton and Henry Lloyd.
  Political families: Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland; Lee-Randolph family (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Robert R. Livingston (1718-1775) — of New York. Born in Clermont, Columbia County, N.Y., August 1, 1718. Member of New York colonial assembly, 1769-74. Died in Clermont, Columbia County, N.Y., December 9, 1775 (age 57 years, 130 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Robert Livingston (1688-1775) and Margaret (Howerden) Livingston; married to Margaret Beekman (granddaughter of Robert Livingston the Younger (1663-1725)); father of Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813), Alida Livingston (who married John Armstrong Jr.), Margaret Livingston (who married Thomas Tillotson), Gertrude Livingston (who married Morgan Lewis) and Edward Livingston (1764-1836); nephew of John Livingston and Gilbert Livingston; grandson of Robert Livingston the Elder; grandfather of Elizabeth Stevens Livingston (who married Edward Philip Livingston (1779-1843)) and Robert Livingston Tillotson; grandnephew of Pieter Schuyler (1657-1724) and Johannes Schuyler (1668-1747); great-grandfather of John Jacob Astor III; second great-grandfather of William Waldorf Astor; third great-grandfather of William Astor Chanler, Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, Peter Goelet Gerry, Ogden Livingston Mills and Robert Reginald Livingston; first cousin of Robert Livingston (1708-1790), Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Robert Gilbert Livingston, Philip Livingston and William Livingston; first cousin once removed of Robert Livingston the Younger (1663-1725), Johannes Schuyler (1697-1746), Peter Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter Livingston, Philip Peter Livingston, Philip Van Cortlandt, Henry Brockholst Livingston and Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr.; first cousin twice removed of David Davidse Schuyler, Myndert Davidtse Schuyler, Stephen Van Rensselaer, Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry Walter Livingston, Peter Augustus Jay (1776-1843), Rensselaer Westerlo, Edward Philip Livingston (1779-1843), William Alexander Duer, John Duer, William Jay, Charles Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873) and Hamilton Fish (1808-1893); first cousin thrice removed of Philip Schuyler, Peter Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Gilbert Livingston Thompson, Edward Livingston (1796-1840), William Duer, Henry Bell Van Rensselaer, Denning Duer, Henry Brockholst Ledyard, John Jay II, Nicholas Fish and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1849-1936); first cousin four times removed of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, John Kean, Hamilton Fish Kean, Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, Charles Ludlow Livingston (born 1870) and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991); first cousin five times removed of Guy Vernor Henry, Herbert Livingston Satterlee, Montgomery Schuyler Jr., Peter Augustus Jay (1877-1933), Bronson Murray Cutting, Robert Winthrop Kean, Brockholst Livingston and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1926-1996); first cousin six times removed of John Eliot Thayer Jr., Thomas Howard Kean, Hamilton Fish (born 1951) and Alexa Fish Ward; first cousin seven times removed of Thomas Howard Kean Jr.; second cousin of Stephanus Bayard, Pierre Van Cortlandt, Philip John Schuyler, Philip P. Schuyler and Stephen John Schuyler; second cousin once removed of Nicholas Bayard, Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, Robert Van Rensselaer, Pieter Schuyler (1746-1792), James Livingston, Peter Samuel Schuyler, Philip Jeremiah Schuyler and James Parker; second cousin twice removed of Peter Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer, James Alexander Hamilton, George Washington Schuyler, John Cortlandt Parker and Philip N. Schuyler; second cousin thrice removed of Gerrit Smith, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, James Adams Ekin, Eugene Schuyler, Richard Wayne Parker and Charles Wolcott Parker; second cousin four times removed of Robert Ray Hamilton, John Sluyter Wirt, Cortlandt Schuyler Van Rensselaer and Karl Cortlandt Schuyler.
  Political family: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article
  John Wentworth (1719-1781) — of Somersworth, Strafford County, N.H. Born in Dover, Strafford County, N.H., March 30, 1719. Member of New Hampshire colonial Assembly, 1768-75; justice of New Hampshire state supreme court, 1776-81. Died in Somersworth, Strafford County, N.H., May 17, 1781 (age 62 years, 48 days). Interment at Old Town Cemetery, Rollinsford, N.H.
  Relatives: Son of Benjamin Wentworth and Elizabeth (Leighton) Wentworth; married to Joanna Gilman and Abigail Millet; father of John Wentworth Jr.; great-granduncle of Edward Henry Rollins; second great-granduncle of Frank West Rollins; second cousin twice removed of Chester Wentworth and Tappan Wentworth; second cousin thrice removed of Eli Wentworth; second cousin four times removed of William Chapman Williston.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Wentworth-Pitman family of New Hampshire; Livingston-Schuyler family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Volkert Petrus Douw (1720-1801) — also known as Volkert P. Douw — of Albany, Albany County, N.Y. Born in Albany, Albany County, N.Y., March 23, 1720. Merchant; mayor of Albany, N.Y., 1761-70; member of New York state senate Western District, 1785-93. Died in Albany, Albany County, N.Y., March 20, 1801 (age 80 years, 362 days). Original interment somewhere in Rensselaer, N.Y.; reinterment at Albany Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Petrus Douw and Anna (Van Rensselaer) Douw; married, May 20, 1742, to Anna De Peyster; uncle of Leonard Gansevoort and Leonard Gansevoort Jr.; granduncle of Peter Gansevoort; great-grandnephew of Stephanus Van Cortlandt and Jacobus Van Cortlandt; first cousin of Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, Robert Van Rensselaer, Hendrick Kiliaen Van Rensselaer and Killian Killian Van Rensselaer; first cousin once removed of Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer and Philip Jeremiah Schuyler; first cousin twice removed of James Alexander Hamilton and Philip Schuyler; first cousin thrice removed of Cortlandt Schuyler Van Rensselaer; first cousin four times removed of Robert Ray Hamilton; first cousin five times removed of John Eliot Thayer Jr. and John Hubner II; second cousin of Philip P. Schuyler; second cousin once removed of Stephanus Bayard, Pierre Van Cortlandt, James Jay, Philip John Schuyler, Stephen John Schuyler, John Jay, Pieter Schuyler, Frederick Jay, Peter Samuel Schuyler, Stephen Van Rensselaer and Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer; second cousin twice removed of Henry Walter Livingston and Henry Bell Van Rensselaer; second cousin thrice removed of Edward Livingston, Charles Pinckney Brown and Kiliaen Van Rensselaer; second cousin five times removed of Charles Ludlow Livingston and Bronson Murray Cutting; third cousin of Nicholas Bayard, Philip Van Cortlandt, Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr., James Parker, Peter Augustus Jay (1776-1843) and William Jay; third cousin once removed of John Jay II and John Cortlandt Parker; third cousin twice removed of James Adams Ekin, Richard Wayne Parker and Charles Wolcott Parker; third cousin thrice removed of John Sluyter Wirt and Peter Augustus Jay (1877-1933).
  Political families: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; VanRensselaer family of Albany, New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article
  Abraham Jacob Lansing (1720-1791) — also known as Abraham J. Lansing; Abraham Jacobse Lansing — of Lansingburgh (now part of Troy), Rensselaer County, N.Y. Born in Albany, Albany County, N.Y., April 18, 1720. Village president of Lansingburgh, New York, 1790-91. Died in Lansingburgh (now part of Troy), Rensselaer County, N.Y., October 9, 1791 (age 71 years, 174 days). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery, Troy, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Jacob Hendrickse Lansing and Helena (Pruyn) Lansing; married to Catharine Lievense; father of Cornelius Lansing; second great-granduncle of Abram Wendell Lansing; third great-granduncle of Bradford R. Lansing; first cousin four times removed of Henry Van Woert; second cousin once removed of John Ten Eyck Lansing Jr. and Abraham Gerritse Lansing; second cousin twice removed of Gerrit Yates Lansing, Robert Lansing (1799-1878) and Frederick Lansing (1806-1861); second cousin thrice removed of Abraham Lansing and Frederick Lansing (1838-1894); second cousin four times removed of Robert Lansing (1864-1928), Stuart Douglas Lansing and Emma Sterling Lansing; second cousin five times removed of Agnes Phelps Lansing.
  Political families: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; Lansing family of New York; Thompson-Sutherland family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Roger Sherman (1721-1793) — of New Haven, New Haven County, Conn. Born in Newton, Middlesex County, Mass., April 19, 1721. Superior court judge in Connecticut, 1766-89; Delegate to Continental Congress from Connecticut, 1774-81, 1783-84; member of Connecticut council of assistants, 1776-85; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; signer, Articles of Confederation, 1777; mayor of New Haven, Conn., 1784-93; died in office 1793; member, U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S. Representative from Connecticut at-large, 1789-91; U.S. Senator from Connecticut, 1791-93; died in office 1793. Congregationalist. Died in New Haven, New Haven County, Conn., July 23, 1793 (age 72 years, 95 days). Original interment at New Haven Green, New Haven, Conn.; reinterment in 1821 at Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
  Relatives: Son of Mehitable (Wellington) Sherman and William Sherman; married, November 17, 1749, to Elizabeth Hartwell; married, May 12, 1763, to Rebecca Prescott; father of Rebecca Sherman (who married Simeon Baldwin (1761-1851)), Elizabeth Sherman (who married Simeon Baldwin (1761-1851)) and Sarah Sherman (who married Samuel Hoar); grandfather of Roger Sherman Baldwin, Sherman Day, Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, William Maxwell Evarts and George Frisbie Hoar; great-grandfather of Roger Sherman Greene, Simeon Eben Baldwin, Rockwood Hoar, Sherman Hoar, Maxwell Evarts and Arthur Outram Sherman; second great-grandfather of Henry Sherman Boutell, Edward Baldwin Whitney, Henry de Forest Baldwin, Thomas Day Thacher, Roger Sherman Greene II, Roger Sherman Hoar and Roger Kent; second great-granduncle of Chauncey Mitchell Depew and John Frederick Addis; third great-grandfather of Archibald Cox; third great-granduncle of John Stanley Addis; ancestor *** of George Sherman Batcheller; first cousin thrice removed of John Adams Dix; second cousin five times removed of Horace Bemis and Lorin Andrews Lathrop.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Sewall-Adams-Quincy family of Maine (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  The town of Sherman, Connecticut, is named for him.  — The town and village of Sherman, New York, are named for him.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Edmund Pendleton (1721-1803) — of Caroline County, Va. Born in Caroline County, Va., September 9, 1721. Planter; lawyer; justice of the peace; Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1774; member of Virginia House of Burgesses, 1776; justice of Virginia state supreme court, 1777; chief justice of Virginia state supreme court, 1788-1803; died in office 1803; delegate to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Caroline County, 1788. Anglican. Died in Richmond, Va., October 23, 1803 (age 82 years, 44 days). Original interment at Edmundsbury Graveyard, Bowling Green, Va.; reinterment in 1907 at Bruton Parish Church Cemetery, Williamsburg, Va.
  Relatives: Son of Henry Pendleton and Mary Bishop (Taylor) Pendleton; married, January 21, 1741, to Elizabeth Roy; married, January 20, 1745, to Sarah Pollard; uncle of John Pendleton Jr. and Nathaniel Pendleton; granduncle of Philip Clayton Pendleton, Edmund Henry Pendleton and Nathanael Greene Pendleton; great-granduncle of Henry Gaines Johnson, John Strother Pendleton, Albert Gallatin Pendleton, Philip Coleman Pendleton, George Hunt Pendleton and Joseph Henry Pendleton; second great-granduncle of William Barret Pendleton, Francis Key Pendleton, Charles Rittenhouse Pendleton and John Overton Pendleton; third great-granduncle of Sidney Fletcher Taliaferro; first cousin once removed of John Penn; first cousin twice removed of James Madison, William Taylor Madison and Zachary Taylor; first cousin thrice removed of Coleby Chew; first cousin four times removed of George Cassety Pendleton, James Benjamin Garnett, Hubbard T. Smith, Charles M. Pendleton and Daniel Micajah Pendleton; first cousin five times removed of Elliot Woolfolk Major, Edgar Bailey Woolfolk and Charles Sumner Pendleton; second cousin thrice removed of Charles Willing Byrd.
  Political family: Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Pendleton counties in Ky. and W.Va. are named for him.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
  John Hanson (1721-1783) — of Maryland. Born near Port Tobacco, Charles County, Md., April 14, 1721. Planter; member of Maryland state senate, 1757-73; Delegate to Continental Congress from Maryland, 1779-82; signer, Articles of Confederation, 1781. Swedish ancestry. Died in Oxon Hill, Prince George's County, Md., November 22, 1783 (age 62 years, 222 days). Interment a private or family graveyard, Prince George's County, Md.; statue at Frederick County Courthouse Grounds, Frederick, Md.
  Relatives: Son of Samuel Hanson and Elizabeth (Storey) Hanson; married 1747 to Jane Contee; father of Jane Contee Hanson (who married Philip Thomas), Peter Contee Hanson and Alexander Contee Hanson (1749-1806); grandfather of Rebecca Bellicum Thomas (who married Alexander Contee Magruder) and Alexander Contee Hanson (1786-1819).
  Political families: Lee-Randolph family; Carroll family of Maryland (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  The World War II Liberty ship SS John Hanson (built 1944 at Baltimore, Maryland; sold 1947, scrapped 1965) was named for him.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Peyton Randolph (1721-1775) — of Virginia. Born in Williamsburg, Va., 1721. Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1774-75. Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons. Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., October 22, 1775 (age about 54 years). Interment at College of William and Mary Chapel, Williamsburg, Va.
  Relatives: Son of John Randolph and Susanna (Beverley) Randolh; brother-in-law of Benjamin Harrison; married to Elizabeth 'Betty' Harrison; nephew of Richard Randolph; uncle of Edmund Jenings Randolph; granduncle of Peyton Randolph (1779-1828); great-granduncle of Edmund Randolph; second great-granduncle of Edmund Randolph Cocke; third great-granduncle of Francis Beverley Biddle; first cousin of Richard Bland; first cousin once removed of Theodorick Bland, Thomas Jefferson, Beverley Randolph and John Randolph of Roanoke; first cousin twice removed of John Marshall, Henry Lee, Charles Lee, James Markham Marshall, Thomas Mann Randolph Jr., Alexander Keith Marshall, Martha Jefferson Randolph, Edmund Jennings Lee, Dabney Carr and Henry St. George Tucker; first cousin thrice removed of Thomas Marshall, James Keith Marshall, Francis Wayles Eppes, Dabney Smith Carr, Benjamin Franklin Randolph, Meriwether Lewis Randolph, George Wythe Randolph, Nathaniel Beverly Tucker and Carter Henry Harrison; first cousin four times removed of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, Fitzhugh Lee, John Augustine Marshall, Carter Henry Harrison II and Frederick Madison Roberts; first cousin five times removed of John Gardner Coolidge, Edith Wilson, William Marshall Bullitt and Alexander Scott Bullitt; first cousin six times removed of William Welby Beverley; second cousin twice removed of John Wayles Eppes; second cousin thrice removed of Coleby Chew; second cousin four times removed of St. Clair Ballard, Lewis Ballard and William Henry Robertson; second cousin five times removed of Elliot Woolfolk Major and Edgar Bailey Woolfolk.
  Political families: Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland; Lee-Randolph family; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Blackburn-Slaughter-Buckner-Madison family of Kentucky (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Randolph County, N.C. is named for him.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — NNDB dossier
  Pierre Van Cortlandt (1721-1814) — of New York. Born in Westchester County, N.Y., January 10, 1721. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of New York state senate Southern District, 1777-78; Lieutenant Governor of New York, 1778-95. Died in Westchester County, N.Y., May 1, 1814 (age 93 years, 111 days). Original interment at a private or family graveyard, Westchester County, N.Y.; reinterment at Hillside Cemetery, Cortlandt town, Westchester County, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Philip Van Cortlandt (1683-1748) and Catherine (DePeyster) Van Cortlandt; married, May 29, 1748, to Joanna Livingston (daughter of Gilbert Livingston); father of Philip Van Cortlandt (1749-1831), Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr. and Anne De Peyster Van Cortlandt (who married Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer); grandson of Stephanus Van Cortlandt and Abraham de Peyster; grandnephew of Pieter Schuyler (1657-1724), Jacobus Van Cortlandt, Johannes de Peyster and Johannes Schuyler (1668-1747); first cousin of Stephanus Bayard, Philip John Schuyler and Stephen John Schuyler; first cousin once removed of John Livingston, Robert Livingston (1688-1775), Johannes DePeyster, Johannes Schuyler (1697-1746), Nicholas Bayard, Pieter Schuyler (1746-1792), Philip Jeremiah Schuyler and James Parker; first cousin twice removed of David Davidse Schuyler, Myndert Davidtse Schuyler, Stephen Van Rensselaer, Henry Walter Livingston, Philip Schuyler, James Alexander Hamilton and John Cortlandt Parker; first cousin thrice removed of Edward Livingston (1796-1840), Henry Bell Van Rensselaer, James Adams Ekin, Richard Wayne Parker and Charles Wolcott Parker; first cousin four times removed of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, Robert Ray Hamilton and John Sluyter Wirt; first cousin five times removed of Charles Ludlow Livingston (born 1870), John Eliot Thayer Jr. and Bronson Murray Cutting; first cousin six times removed of Brockholst Livingston; second cousin of Robert Livingston (1708-1790), Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Robert Gilbert Livingston, Philip Livingston, Robert R. Livingston (1718-1775), William Livingston, James Jay, Matthew Clarkson, Philip P. Schuyler, Henry Rutgers, John Jay and Frederick Jay; second cousin once removed of Volkert Petrus Douw, Peter Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, Robert Van Rensselaer, Walter Livingston, Philip Peter Livingston, Hendrick Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813), James Livingston, John Stevens III, Henry Brockholst Livingston, Peter Samuel Schuyler, Killian Killian Van Rensselaer, Edward Livingston (1764-1836), Philip DePeyster, Peter Augustus Jay (1776-1843) and William Jay; second cousin twice removed of Leonard Gansevoort, Leonard Gansevoort Jr., Peter Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Maturin Livingston, Rensselaer Westerlo, Edward Philip Livingston, William Alexander Duer, John Duer, Charles Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873), Hamilton Fish, George Washington Schuyler, John Jay II and Philip N. Schuyler; second cousin thrice removed of Peter Gansevoort, Peter Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Gilbert Livingston Thompson, Gerrit Smith, William Duer, Denning Duer, Henry Brockholst Ledyard, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, John Jacob Astor III, Eugene Schuyler, Nicholas Fish and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1849-1936); second cousin four times removed of William Waldorf Astor, John Kean, Cortlandt Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Hamilton Fish Kean, Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, Karl Cortlandt Schuyler, Peter Augustus Jay (1877-1933) and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991); second cousin five times removed of Guy Vernor Henry, Herbert Livingston Satterlee, William Astor Chanler, Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, Montgomery Schuyler Jr., Peter Goelet Gerry, Ogden Livingston Mills, Robert Reginald Livingston, Robert Winthrop Kean and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1926-1996).
  Political families: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; Roosevelt family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Cortland County, N.Y. is named for him.
  The city of Cortland, New York, is named for him.
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Rawlins Lowndes (1721-1800) — of Charleston, Charleston County, S.C. Born in St. Christopher, January 6, 1721. Lawyer; planter; member of South Carolina state house of representatives from St. Philip & St. Michael, 1776-78, 1787-90; President of South Carolina, 1778-79; intendant of Charleston, South Carolina, 1788-89. Died in Charleston, Charleston County, S.C., August 24, 1800 (age 79 years, 230 days). Interment at St. Philip's Churchyard, Charleston, S.C.
  Relatives: Son of Charles Lowndes and Ruth (Rawlins) Lowndes; married 1748 to Amarinthia Elliott; married 1751 to Mary Cartwright; married 1773 to Sarah Jones; father of Thomas Lowndes and William Jones Lowndes; great-granduncle of Charles Pinckney Brown; third great-grandfather of Burnet Rhett Maybank; fourth great-grandfather of Burnet Rhett Maybank Jr..
  Political families: VanRensselaer family of Albany, New York; DeSaussure-Lowndes-Aiken-Rhett family of Charleston, South Carolina (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Archibald Cary (1721-1787) — also known as "Old Iron" — Born in Chesterfield County, Va., January 24, 1721. Planter; iron foundry business; member of Virginia House of Burgesses, 1756-76. Died in Chesterfield County, Va., February 26, 1787 (age 66 years, 33 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Henry Cary and Ann (Edwards) Cary; married, May 31, 1744, to Mary Randolph; grandfather of Thomas Mann Randolph Jr.; great-grandfather of Benjamin Franklin Randolph, Meriwether Lewis Randolph and George Wythe Randolph; second great-grandfather of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge; third great-grandfather of John Gardner Coolidge.
  Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Lee-Randolph family; Biddle-Randolph family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Walker-Randolph family of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Samuel Adams (1722-1803) — also known as "The Tribune of the People"; "The Cromwell of New England"; "Determinatus"; "The Psalm Singer"; "Amendment Monger"; "American Cato"; "Samuel the Publican" — of Massachusetts. Born in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., September 27, 1722. Delegate to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1774-81; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; delegate to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1779, 1788; member of Massachusetts state senate, 1781; candidate for U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, 1788; Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, 1789-94; Governor of Massachusetts, 1793-97; received 15 electoral votes, 1796. Congregationalist. Died in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., October 2, 1803 (age 81 years, 5 days). Interment at Old Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Mass.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
  Relatives: Son of Samuel Adams and Mary (Fifield) Adams; married 1749 to Elizabeth Checkley; married 1764 to Elizabeth Wells; uncle of Joseph Allen; granduncle of Charles Allen; great-grandfather of Elizabeth Wells Randall (who married Alfred Cumming) and William Vincent Wells; second cousin of John Adams; second cousin once removed of John Quincy Adams (1767-1848); second cousin twice removed of George Washington Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1807-1886) and John Milton Thayer; second cousin thrice removed of Edward M. Chapin, John Quincy Adams (1833-1894) and Brooks Adams; second cousin four times removed of Lyman Kidder Bass, Daniel T. Hayden, Arthur Chapin, Arthur Laban Bates, Charles Francis Adams (1866-1954) and Almur Stiles Whiting; second cousin five times removed of Charles Grenfill Washburn, Lyman Metcalfe Bass, Emerson Richard Boyles and Thomas Boylston Adams; third cousin of Samuel Huntington; third cousin once removed of Samuel H. Huntington and Caleb Cushing; third cousin twice removed of Willard J. Chapin, Erastus Fairbanks, Nathaniel Huntington, James Huntington, Joseph Lyman Huntington, Elisha Mills Huntington, Charles Adams Jr., James Brooks and Bailey Frye Adams; third cousin thrice removed of Alphonso Taft, Benjamin W. Waite, George Otis Fairbanks, Austin Wells Holden, Horace Fairbanks, Ebenezer Oliver Grosvenor, Franklin Fairbanks, Collins Dwight Huntington, George Milo Huntington, Edgar Weeks and Arthur Newton Holden; third cousin four times removed of John Quincy Adams (1848-1911).
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Upham family; Weeks-Bigelow-Andrew-Upham family (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Mount Sam Adams, in the White Mountains, Coos County, New Hampshire, is named for him.  — The World War II Liberty ship SS Samuel Adams (built 1941 at Terminal Island, Los Angeles, California; scrapped 1966) was named for him.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
  Books about Samuel Adams: Donald Barr Chidsey, The World of Samuel Adams
  Benjamin Chew (1722-1810) — of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa. Born in Maryland, November 29, 1722. Lawyer; chief justice of Pennsylvania state supreme court, 1774-77. Quaker; later Anglican. Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., January 20, 1810 (age 87 years, 52 days). Interment at St. Peter's Episcopal Churchyard, Philadelphia, Pa.
  Relatives: Son of Samuel Chew and Mary (Galloway) Chew; married to Mary Galloway and Elizabeth Oswald; father of Margaret Oswald 'Peggy' Chew (who married John Eager Howard); grandfather of George Howard, Benjamin Chew Howard, Sophia Chew Nicklin (who married George Mifflin Dallas) and Harriet Julianna Carroll (who married John Lee); great-grandfather of John Lee Carroll and Helen Sophia Carroll (who married Charles Oliver O'Donnell); second great-grandfather of John Howell Carroll; first cousin twice removed of John Cadwalader (1805-1879) and Edward Shippen; first cousin thrice removed of John Cadwalader (1843-1925) and Bertha Shippen Irving; second cousin once removed of Mary Chew (who married William Paca); second cousin thrice removed of Edward Tilghman Paca; third cousin twice removed of Coleby Chew; third cousin thrice removed of Joseph Richard Chew, St. Clair Ballard and Lewis Ballard.
  Political family: Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Erastus Wolcott (1722-1793) — of South Windsor, Hartford County, Conn. Born in Windsor, Hartford County, Conn., September 21, 1722. General in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of Connecticut council of assistants, 1786-89; superior court judge in Connecticut, 1789-92. Member, Society of the Cincinnati. Died in South Windsor, Hartford County, Conn., September 14, 1793 (age 70 years, 358 days). Interment at Edwards Cemetery, South Windsor, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of Roger Wolcott (1679-1767) and Sarah (Drake) Wolcott; brother of Oliver Wolcott Sr.; married to Jerusha (Wolcott) Wolcott and Mary Conyers; uncle of Oliver Wolcott Jr., Roger Griswold and Frederick Wolcott; great-grandfather of James Samuel Wadsworth; great-granduncle of John William Allen, Henry Titus Backus, Christopher Parsons Wolcott, Matthew Griswold (1833-1919) and Roger Wolcott (1847-1900); second great-grandfather of Charles Frederick Wadsworth, James Wolcott Wadsworth and Edward Oliver Wolcott; second great-granduncle of Alfred Wolcott; third great-grandfather of James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr.; third great-granduncle of Selden Chapin; fourth great-grandfather of James Jermiah Wadsworth; fourth great-granduncle of Frederic Lincoln Chapin; fifth great-grandfather of James Wadsworth Symington; first cousin twice removed of Gaylord Griswold, Samuel Clesson Allen, Henry Leavitt Ellsworth and William Wolcott Ellsworth; first cousin thrice removed of Elisha Hunt Allen and George Washington Wolcott; first cousin four times removed of Edmund Holcomb, Albert Asahel Bliss, Philemon Bliss, William Fessenden Allen and Frederick Hobbes Allen; first cousin five times removed of Judson H. Warner, Nelson Platt Wheeler, William Egbert Wheeler and Henry Augustus Wolcott; first cousin six times removed of Alexander Royal Wheeler; second cousin of William Pitkin; second cousin once removed of Matthew Griswold (1714-1799) and Daniel Pitkin; second cousin twice removed of James Hillhouse and Timothy Pitkin; second cousin thrice removed of Phineas Lyman Tracy, Albert Haller Tracy, Henry Ward Beecher, Leveret Brainard, Edwin Carpenter Pinney and John Robert Graham Pitkin; second cousin four times removed of Joseph Pomeroy Root, George Griswold Sill, Frederick Walker Pitkin, George Buckingham Beecher, Luther S. Pitkin and Claude Carpenter Pinney; second cousin five times removed of Augustus Brandegee, George Frederick Stone, Clarence Horatio Pitkin, Carroll Peabody Pitkin, Caleb Seymour Pitkin, Harry Kear Wolcott, Eldred C. Pitkin, Henry Merrill Wolcott, Frances Payne Bolton and Harold B. Pinney; third cousin thrice removed of John Arnold Rockwell and Oliver Morgan Hungerford.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Morris-Ingersoll family of New York and Connecticut; Conger-Hungerford family of Connecticut and New York; Livingston-Schuyler family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  John Witherspoon (1723-1794) — of Princeton, Somerset County (now Mercer County), N.J. Born in Gifford, Haddingtonshire, Scotland, February 5, 1723. Presbyterian minister; Delegate to Continental Congress from New Jersey, 1776; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of New Jersey state house of assembly from Somerset County, 1783, 1789; delegate to New Jersey convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Somerset County, 1787. Presbyterian. Scottish ancestry. Became blind in 1792. Died near Princeton, Mercer County, N.J., November 15, 1794 (age 71 years, 283 days). Interment at Princeton Cemetery, Princeton, N.J.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
  Relatives: Married to Elizabeth Montgomery; married 1791 to Ann (Marshall) Dill; father of James Witherspoon; great-grandfather of John Cabell Breckinridge; second great-grandfather of Clifton Rodes Breckinridge.
  Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd family of Virginia; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Charles Carroll, Barrister (1723-1783) — of Maryland. Born in Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Md., March 22, 1723. Delegate to Continental Congress from Maryland, 1776-77; member of Maryland state senate, 1777-83; died in office 1783. Anglican. Died in Baltimore, Md., March 23, 1783 (age 60 years, 1 days). Interment at St. Anne's Churchyard, Annapolis, Md.
  Relatives: Son of Dr. Charles Carroll and Dorothy (Blake) Carroll; married, June 23, 1763, to Margaret Tilghman (daughter of Matthew Tilghman); granduncle of Mary Clare Maccubbin (who married Daniel Martin); second cousin of Daniel Carroll, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, James Joseph Tilghman, Edward Lloyd (1744-1796) and William Tilghman; second cousin once removed of Frisby Tilghman and Edward Lloyd (1779-1834); second cousin twice removed of Tench Tilghman, Edward Tilghman Paca and Philip Barton Key; second cousin thrice removed of John Lee Carroll, Francis Key Pendleton and Henry Lloyd; second cousin four times removed of John Howell Carroll; second cousin five times removed of John Duffy Alderson.
  Political families: Lee-Randolph family; Carroll family of Maryland; Eisenhower-Nixon family (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  William Livingston (1723-1790) — of Elizabethtown, Essex County (now Elizabeth, Union County), N.J. Born in Albany, Albany County, N.Y., November 30, 1723. Lawyer; member of New York colonial assembly, 1759-61; Delegate to Continental Congress from New Jersey, 1774-76; Governor of New Jersey, 1776-90; died in office 1790; chancellor of New Jersey court of chancery, 1776-90; died in office 1790; member, U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787. Presbyterian. Died in Elizabethtown, Essex County (now Elizabeth, Union County), N.J., July 25, 1790 (age 66 years, 237 days). Originally entombed at Trinity Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.; re-entombed in 1846 at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Philip Livingston (1686-1749) and Catherine (Van Brugh) Livingston; brother of Robert Livingston (1708-1790), Peter Van Brugh Livingston and Philip Livingston (1716-1778); married 1745 to Susannah French (granddaughter of Phillip French); father of Susannah Livingston (who married John Cleves Symmes), Sarah Van Brugh Livingston (who married John Jay) and Henry Brockholst Livingston; nephew of John Livingston, Robert Livingston (1688-1775) and Gilbert Livingston; uncle by marriage of James Duane and William Duer (1747-1799); uncle of Peter Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter Livingston, Philip Peter Livingston, Catherine Livingston (who married Nicholas Bayard) and Susanna Livingston (who married John Kean (1756-1795)); grandson of Robert Livingston the Elder and Pieter Van Brugh; grandfather of Peter Augustus Jay (1776-1843) and William Jay; grandnephew of Pieter Schuyler (1657-1724), Johannes Cuyler and Johannes Schuyler (1668-1747); granduncle of Stephen Van Rensselaer, Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry Walter Livingston, Rensselaer Westerlo, Edward Philip Livingston, William Alexander Duer, John Duer and Charles Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873); great-grandfather of Henry Brockholst Ledyard and John Jay II; great-granduncle of Philip Schuyler, Peter Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Edward Livingston (1796-1840), William Duer (1805-1879), Henry Bell Van Rensselaer and Denning Duer; second great-grandfather of Charles Ludlow Livingston (born 1870); second great-granduncle of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, Nicholas Fish, Hamilton Fish Jr. (1849-1936), John Kean (1852-1914) and Hamilton Fish Kean; third great-grandfather of Peter Augustus Jay (1877-1933) and Brockholst Livingston; third great-granduncle of Herbert Livingston Satterlee, Bronson Murray Cutting, Robert Reginald Livingston, Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991) and Robert Winthrop Kean; fourth great-granduncle of John Eliot Thayer Jr., Hamilton Fish Jr. (1926-1996) and Thomas Howard Kean; fifth great-granduncle of Hamilton Fish (born 1951), Alexa Fish Ward and Thomas Howard Kean Jr.; first cousin of Robert Gilbert Livingston and Robert R. Livingston (1718-1775); first cousin once removed of Robert Livingston the Younger, Cornelis Cuyler, Johannes Schuyler (1697-1746), John Cruger Jr., Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813), Philip Van Cortlandt, Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr. and Edward Livingston (1764-1836); first cousin twice removed of David Davidse Schuyler, Myndert Davidtse Schuyler and Hamilton Fish (1808-1893); first cousin thrice removed of Gilbert Livingston Thompson and John Jacob Astor III; first cousin four times removed of William Waldorf Astor and Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright; first cousin five times removed of Guy Vernor Henry, William Astor Chanler, Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, Montgomery Schuyler Jr., Peter Goelet Gerry and Ogden Livingston Mills; second cousin of Stephanus Bayard, Pierre Van Cortlandt, Philip John Schuyler, Philip P. Schuyler, Stephen John Schuyler and Henry Cruger; second cousin once removed of Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, Robert Van Rensselaer, Pieter Schuyler (1746-1792), James Livingston, Peter Samuel Schuyler, Philip Jeremiah Schuyler and James Parker; second cousin twice removed of Peter Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Maturin Livingston, James Alexander Hamilton, George Washington Schuyler, John Cortlandt Parker and Philip N. Schuyler; second cousin thrice removed of Gerrit Smith, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, James Adams Ekin, Eugene Schuyler, Richard Wayne Parker and Charles Wolcott Parker; second cousin four times removed of Robert Ray Hamilton, John Sluyter Wirt, Cortlandt Schuyler Van Rensselaer and Karl Cortlandt Schuyler.
  Political families: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography
  Christopher Gadsden (1723-1805) — of South Carolina. Born in Charleston, Charleston County, S.C., February 16, 1723. Delegate to Continental Congress from South Carolina, 1774-76; general in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina, 1778-80. Died in Charleston, Charleston County, S.C., September 15, 1805 (age 82 years, 211 days). Interment at St. Philip's Churchyard, Charleston, S.C.
  Relatives: Son of Thomas Gadsden and Elizabeth (Gasciogne) Gadsden; married, December 29, 1759, to Mary Hasell; grandfather of John Gadsden and James Gadsden; second great-grandfather of Philip Henry Gadsden; third great-grandfather of Oscar Hampton Ballard; fourth great-grandfather of Harry R. Pauley.
  Political family: Ballard-Gadsden-Randolph family of West Virginia and South Carolina (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Personal motto: "Don't tread on me."
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Abraham Robertse Yates (1724-1796) — also known as Abraham Yates — of Albany, Albany County, N.Y. Born in Albany, Albany County, N.Y., August 23, 1724. Member of New York council of appointment, 1777, 1783-84; member of New York state senate Western District, 1777-90; Delegate to Continental Congress from New York, 1787-88; mayor of Albany, N.Y., 1790-96; candidate for Presidential Elector for New York. Died in Albany, Albany County, N.Y., June 30, 1796 (age 71 years, 312 days). Original interment in unknown location; reinterment at Albany Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Christoffel Yates and Catelyntje (Winne) Yates; married 1746 to Antje De Ridder; uncle of Peter Waldron Yates; grandfather of Gerrit Yates Lansing; great-grandfather of Abraham Lansing; third great-granduncle of Bradford R. Lansing.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Otis family of Connecticut; Lansing family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
Henry Laurens Henry Laurens (1724-1792) — of South Carolina. Born in Charleston, Charleston County, S.C., March 6, 1724. Merchant; planter; Vice-President of South Carolina, 1776-77; Delegate to Continental Congress from South Carolina, 1777-80; member of South Carolina state house of representatives from St. Philip & St. Michael, 1785. Member, Freemasons; American Philosophical Society. Died in Berkeley County, S.C., December 8, 1792 (age 68 years, 277 days). Cremated; ashes interred at Mepkin Abbey, Moncks Corner, S.C.
  Relatives: Son of Jean Samuel Laurens and Esther (Grasset) Laurens; married, July 6, 1750, to Eleanor Delamere Ball; father of John Laurens, Martha Laurens (who married David Ramsay) and Mary Eleanor Laurens (who married Charles Pinckney); grandfather of Henry Laurens Pinckney.
  Political family: Pinckney-Middleton family of Charleston, South Carolina (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Laurens County, S.C. is named for him.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Image source: The South in the Building of the Nation (1909)
  John Alsop (1724-1794) — of New York, New York County, N.Y. Born in New Windsor, Orange County, N.Y., 1724. Merchant; Delegate to Continental Congress from New York, 1774-76. Died in Newtown, Queens, Queens County, N.Y., November 22, 1794 (age about 70 years). Interment at Trinity Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of John Alsop, Sr. and Abigail (Sackett) Alsop; married, June 6, 1766, to Mary Frogat; father of Mary Alsop (who married Rufus King (1755-1827)); grandfather of John Alsop King, James Gore King and Edward King; great-grandfather of Rufus King (1814-1876) and Rufus King (1817-1891); first cousin once removed of Ebenezer Hazard; first cousin twice removed of Erskine Hazard; first cousin seven times removed of John Forbes Kerry; third cousin twice removed of Benjamin Hard, Reuben Bostwick Heacock, Elisha Hotchkiss Jr., Gideon Hard and Graham Hurd Chapin; third cousin thrice removed of Walter Booth, Truman Hotchkiss, James Lockwood Conger, Austin George Nettleton, Charles M. Hotchkiss and George Winthrop Fairchild.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Weeks-Bigelow-Andrew-Upham family; King-Hazard family of Connecticut and New York; Beakes-Greene-Witter family (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
  Samuel Ashe (1725-1813) — of New Hanover County, N.C. Born in Bath, Beaufort County, N.C., March 24, 1725. Lawyer; delegate to North Carolina state constitutional convention, 1776; justice of North Carolina state supreme court, 1777; Governor of North Carolina, 1795-98; candidate for Presidential Elector for North Carolina. Died in Rocky Point, Pender County, N.C., February 3, 1813 (age 87 years, 316 days). Interment at Ashe Family Cemetery, Rocky Point, N.C.; memorial monument at Pack Square Park, Asheville, N.C.
  Relatives: Son of John Baptista Ashe (1695-1734) and Elizabeth (Swann) Ashe; married to Mary Porter and Elizabeth Merrick; father of John Baptista Ashe (1748-1802); uncle and cousin by marriage of William Henry Hill; grandfather of John Baptista Ashe (1810-1857), Thomas Samuel Ashe and William Shepperd Ashe; great-granduncle of George Davis and Horatio Davis; cousin by marriage of Alfred Moore Waddell.
  Political families: Polk family; Ashe-Polk family of North Carolina (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Ashe County, N.C. is named for him.
  The city of Asheville, North Carolina, is named for him.  — The city of Asheboro, North Carolina, is named for him.  — The World War II Liberty ship SS Samuel Ashe (built 1942 at Wilmington, North Carolina; scrapped 1970) was named for him.
  See also National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  George Mason (1725-1792) — of Virginia. Born in Stafford County, Va., December 11, 1725. Member of Virginia House of Burgesses, 1759; member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1776-80, 1786-88; member, U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787-88. Episcopalian. Slaveowner. Died in Fairfax County, Va., October 7, 1792 (age 66 years, 301 days). Interment at Gunston Hall Grounds, Near Lorton, Fairfax County, Va.; statue at State Capitol Grounds, Richmond, Va.
  Relatives: Son of George Mason (1690-1735) and Ann (Thomson) Mason; brother of Thomson Mason; married, April 4, 1750, to Ann Eilbeck; married, April 11, 1780, to Sarah Brent (aunt of George Graham); uncle of Stevens Thomson Mason (1760-1803) and John Thomson Mason (1765-1824); grandfather of Thomson Francis Mason and James Murray Mason; granduncle of John Thomson Mason (1787-1850), Armistead Thomson Mason and John Thomson Mason Jr.; great-grandfather of Fitzhugh Lee; great-granduncle of Stevens Thomson Mason (1811-1843); third great-grandfather of Charles O'Conor Goolrick; fourth great-granduncle of Jerauld Wright.
  Political family: Mason family of Virginia (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Mason counties in Ky. and W.Va. are named for him.
  George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, is named for him.
  See also NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Books about George Mason: Jeff Broadwater, George Mason : Forgotten Founder
  Benjamin Harrison (1726-1791) — also known as "The Signer" — of Charles City County, Va. Born in Charles City County, Va., April 5, 1726. Planter; member of Virginia House of Burgesses, 1749-75; Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1774-77; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1776-81, 1787-91; Speaker of the Virginia State House of Delegates, 1778-81; Governor of Virginia, 1781-84; delegate to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Charles City County, 1788. Died in Charles City County, Va., April 24, 1791 (age 65 years, 19 days). Interment at Berkeley Plantation, Charles City County, Va.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
  Relatives: Son of Benjamin Harrison (1693-1745) and Ann (Carter) Harrison; brother-in-law of Peyton Randolph (1721-1775); married 1748 to Elizabeth Bassett; father of Carter Bassett Harrison and William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) (who married Anna Tuthill Symmes); uncle of Beverley Randolph; grandfather of John Scott Harrison; great-grandfather of Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901); great-granduncle of Carter Henry Harrison; second great-grandfather of Russell Benjamin Harrison; second great-granduncle of Carter Henry Harrison II; third great-grandfather of William Henry Harrison (1896-1990); ancestor *** of James Thomas Harrison; first cousin of Robert Carter Nicholas (1729-1780); first cousin once removed of George Nicholas, Wilson Cary Nicholas and John Nicholas; first cousin twice removed of Peyton Randolph (1779-1828) and Robert Carter Nicholas (1787-1857); first cousin thrice removed of Thomas Marshall, James Keith Marshall, Peter Myndert Dox and Edmund Randolph; first cousin four times removed of Edmund Randolph Cocke, Connally Findlay Trigg, Richard Evelyn Byrd, Harry Bartow Hawes and William Welby Beverley; first cousin five times removed of Francis Beverley Biddle and Harry Flood Byrd; first cousin six times removed of Harry Flood Byrd Jr.; second cousin once removed of Burwell Bassett; third cousin twice removed of Robert Monroe Harrison.
  Political families: Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland; Lee-Randolph family; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Blackburn-Slaughter-Buckner-Madison family of Kentucky (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Harrison County, W.Va. is named for him.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article
  Lewis Morris (1726-1798) — of Morrisania, Westchester County (now part of Bronx, Bronx County), N.Y. Born in Morrisania, Westchester County (now part of Bronx, Bronx County), N.Y., April 8, 1726. Delegate to Continental Congress from New York, 1775; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of New York state senate Southern District, 1777-78, 1780-81, 1783-90; member of New York council of appointment, 1786, 1788; delegate to New York convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Westchester County, 1788. Died in Morrisania, Westchester County (now part of Bronx, Bronx County), N.Y., January 22, 1798 (age 71 years, 289 days). Interment at St. Anne's Episcopal Churchyard, Bronx, N.Y.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
  Relatives: Son of Katrintje 'Catherine' (Staats) Morris and Lewis Morris (1698-1762); half-brother of Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816); brother of Richard Morris; married, September 24, 1749, to Mary Walton; father of Helena Magdalena Morris (who married John Rutherfurd) and Richard Valentine Morris; nephew of Robert Hunter Morris; uncle of Lewis Richard Morris; grandson of Lewis Morris (1671-1746); granduncle of Gouverneur Morris (1809-1894); second great-grandfather of John Kean and Gouverneur Morris Carnochan (1865-1915); third great-grandfather of Gouverneur Morris Carnochan (1892-1943); ancestor *** of Newbold Morris and Hamilton Fish Jr..
  Political family: Morris-Ingersoll family of New York and Connecticut (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
  Oliver Wolcott Sr. (1726-1797) — of Litchfield, Litchfield County, Conn. Born in Windsor, Hartford County, Conn., December 1, 1726. Delegate to Continental Congress from Connecticut, 1775-78, 1780-84; member of Connecticut council of assistants, 1776-85; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, 1786-96; Governor of Connecticut, 1796-97; died in office 1797. Congregationalist. Died in Litchfield, Litchfield County, Conn., December 1, 1797 (age 71 years, 0 days). Interment at East Cemetery, Litchfield, Conn.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
  Relatives: Son of Roger Wolcott (1679-1767) and Sarah (Drake) Wolcott; brother of Erastus Wolcott and Ursula Wolcott (who married Matthew Griswold (1714-1799)); married, January 21, 1755, to Laura Collins; father of Oliver Wolcott Jr., Mary Ann Wolcott (who married Chauncey Goodrich) and Frederick Wolcott; uncle of Roger Griswold; great-grandfather of Roger Wolcott (1847-1900); great-granduncle of John William Allen, James Samuel Wadsworth, Henry Titus Backus, Christopher Parsons Wolcott and Matthew Griswold (1833-1919); second great-granduncle of Charles Frederick Wadsworth, James Wolcott Wadsworth, Edward Oliver Wolcott and Alfred Wolcott; third great-granduncle of James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. and Selden Chapin; fourth great-granduncle of James Jermiah Wadsworth and Frederic Lincoln Chapin; fifth great-granduncle of James Wadsworth Symington; first cousin twice removed of Gaylord Griswold, Samuel Clesson Allen, William Wolcott Ellsworth and Henry Leavitt Ellsworth; first cousin thrice removed of Elisha Hunt Allen and George Washington Wolcott; first cousin four times removed of Edmund Holcomb, Albert Asahel Bliss, Philemon Bliss, William Fessenden Allen and Frederick Hobbes Allen; first cousin five times removed of Judson H. Warner, Nelson Platt Wheeler, William Egbert Wheeler and Henry Augustus Wolcott; first cousin six times removed of Alexander Royal Wheeler; second cousin of William Pitkin; second cousin once removed of Daniel Pitkin; second cousin twice removed of James Hillhouse and Timothy Pitkin; second cousin thrice removed of Phineas Lyman Tracy, Albert Haller Tracy, Henry Ward Beecher, Leveret Brainard, Edwin Carpenter Pinney and John Robert Graham Pitkin; second cousin four times removed of Joseph Pomeroy Root, George Griswold Sill, Frederick Walker Pitkin, George Buckingham Beecher, Luther S. Pitkin and Claude Carpenter Pinney; second cousin five times removed of Augustus Brandegee, George Frederick Stone, Clarence Horatio Pitkin, Carroll Peabody Pitkin, Caleb Seymour Pitkin, Harry Kear Wolcott, Eldred C. Pitkin, Henry Merrill Wolcott, Frances Payne Bolton and Harold B. Pinney; third cousin thrice removed of John Arnold Rockwell and Oliver Morgan Hungerford.
  Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  The town of Wolcott, Vermont, is named for him.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
  James Bowdoin (1726-1790) — of Massachusetts. Born in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., August 7, 1726. Delegate to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1779-80; Governor of Massachusetts, 1785-87; delegate to Massachusetts convention to ratify U.S. constitution, 1788. French ancestry. Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Died, of consumption (tuberculosis), in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., November 6, 1790 (age 64 years, 91 days). Interment at Old Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Mass.
  Relatives: Son of James Bowdoin (1676-1747) and Hannah (Portage) Bowdoin; married to Elizabeth Erving; father of James Bowdoin III; great-grandfather of Robert Charles Winthrop; fifth great-grandfather of William Amory Gardner Minot and John Forbes Kerry; second cousin thrice removed of George Griswold Sill.
  Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Bowdoin College, in Brunswick, Maine, is named for him.  — The towns of Bowdoin & Bowdoinham, Maine, are named for him.  — The World War II Liberty ship SS James Bowdoin (built 1943 at South Portland, Maine; scrapped 1972) was named for him.
  See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Nicholas Tillinghast (1726-1797) — of Taunton, Bristol County, Mass. Born in Providence, Providence County, R.I., May 26, 1726. Postmaster at Taunton, Mass., 1792-95. Died in Taunton, Bristol County, Mass., February 26, 1797 (age 70 years, 276 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Father of Nicholas Tillinghast (born c.1757); grandfather of James Leonard Hodges; great-grandfather of Marcus Morton; second great-grandfather of George Watson French.
  Political family: Morton family (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Joseph Jones (1727-1805) — of Fredericksburg, Va.; Dinwiddie County, Va. Born in King George County, Va., 1727. Lawyer; member of Virginia House of Burgesses from King George County, 1772-74; delegate to Virginia state constitutional convention, 1776; Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1777-78, 1780-83; member of Virginia state house of delegates from Dinwiddie County, 1787-88; delegate to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Dinwiddie County, 1788. Died in Fredericksburg, Va., October 28, 1805 (age about 78 years). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of James Jones and Hester Jones; married to Mary Taliaferro; uncle of James Monroe.
  Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Roosevelt family of New York; Monroe-Grayson-Roosevelt-Breckinridge family of Virginia and Kentucky (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
  Daniel Roberdeau (1727-1795) — of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa. Born in St. Christopher, 1727. Merchant; member of Pennsylvania state legislature, 1756; Delegate to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1777-79; general in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. French and Scottish ancestry. Died in Winchester, Va., January 5, 1795 (age about 67 years). Interment at Mt. Hebron Cemetery, Winchester, Va.
  Relatives: Son of Isaac Roberdeau and Mary (Cunyngham) Roberdeau; married, October 3, 1761, to Mary Bostwick; married, December 2, 1778, to Jane Milligan; great-grandfather of Josephine May Wheat (who married Francis Edwin Shober); second great-grandfather of Francis Emanuel Shober.
  Political families: Roosevelt family of New York; Shober-Roosevelt-Wheat-Roberdeau family of Salisbury, North Carolina (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Charles De Witt (1727-1787) — of Ulster County, N.Y. Born in Kingston, Ulster County, N.Y., August 15, 1727. Newspaper editor; member of New York state assembly from Ulster County, 1781-85, 1787; died in office 1787; Delegate to Continental Congress from New York, 1784. Died in Kingston, Ulster County, N.Y., August 27, 1787 (age 60 years, 12 days). Interment at Dutch Reformed Cemetery, Hurley, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Maria 'Mary' (Brodhead) DeWitt and Johannes DeWitt; married, December 20, 1754, to Blandina DuBois; father of Margaret DeWitt (who married Johannes Bruyn); grandfather of Charles D. Bruyn and Charles Gerrit De Witt; great-grandfather of David Miller De Witt; first cousin once removed of Charles Clinton, De Witt Clinton, George Clinton Jr. and Jacob Hasbrouck DeWitt; first cousin twice removed of George William Clinton; first cousin six times removed of Abraham Owen Smoot III and Isaac Albert Smoot.
  Political families: Clinton-DeWitt family of New York; DeWitt-Bruyn-Hasbrouck-Kellogg family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
  Caesar Rodney (1728-1784) — of Delaware. Born in Dover, Kent County, Del., October 7, 1728. Member of Delaware state legislature, 1762; justice of Delaware state supreme court, 1769; Delegate to Continental Congress from Delaware, 1774; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; President of Delaware, 1778-81. Died June 26, 1784 (age 55 years, 263 days). Original interment in private or family graveyard; reinterment at Christ Church Cemetery, Dover, Del.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
  Relatives: Son of Ceasar Rodney and Elizabeth Maude (Crawford) Rodney; brother of Thomas Rodney; uncle of Caesar Augustus Rodney; granduncle of Thomas McKean Rodney; first cousin once removed of Daniel Rodney and Caleb Rodney; first cousin twice removed of George Brydges Rodney; first cousin thrice removed of John Henry Rodney; first cousin four times removed of Caleb Rodney Layton and Reynolds Clough.
  Political family: Rodney family of Delaware (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article
  William Hillhouse (1728-1816) — of Connecticut. Born in Montville, New London County, Conn., August 25, 1728. Member of Connecticut state house of representatives, 1763-85; Delegate to Continental Congress from Connecticut, 1783-86; member of Connecticut council of assistants, 1785-1808. Died in Montville, New London County, Conn., January 12, 1816 (age 87 years, 140 days). Interment at Raymond Hill Cemetery, Montville, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of James Hillhouse (1687-1740) and Mary (Fitch) Hillhouse; married to Sarah Griswold and Delia Hillhouse; father of James Hillhouse (1754-1832).
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Wolcott-Griswold-Packwood-Brandegee family of Connecticut (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
  William Bradford (1729-1808) — of Bristol, Bristol County, R.I. Born in Plympton, Plymouth County, Mass., November 4, 1729. Physician; lawyer; member of Rhode Island state house of representatives, 1764-65; Speaker of the Rhode Island State House of Representatives, 1798-1802; Speaker of the Rhode Island House of Deputies, 1764-65, 1766-67, 1780, 1780-86, 1787-88, 1789-90, 1791-93; Deputy Governor of Rhode Island, 1775-78; U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, 1793-97. Slaveowner. Died in Bristol, Bristol County, R.I., July 6, 1808 (age 78 years, 245 days). Original interment at Bristol Town Common, Bristol, R.I.; reinterment at Juniper Hill Cemetery, Bristol, R.I.
  Relatives: Son of Samuel Bradford and Sarah (Gray) Bradford; father of Nancy Bradford (who married James De Wolf); great-grandfather of James DeWolf Perry; second great-grandfather of LeBaron Bradford Colt.
  Political family: Bradford-DeWolf-Butler-Perry family of Bristol, Rhode Island (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  John Whitehill (1729-1815) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Salisbury Township, Lancaster County, Pa., December 11, 1729. State court judge in Pennsylvania, 1777; member of Pennsylvania state legislature, 1780; U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania 3rd District, 1803-07. Slaveowner. Died September 16, 1815 (age 85 years, 279 days). Interment at Pequea Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Salisbury Township, Lancaster County, Pa.
  Relatives: Brother of Robert Whitehill; father of James Whitehill.
  Political family: Sergeant-Whitehill-Kunkel-Spencer family of Pennsylvania (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
  Edward Shippen (1729-1806) — of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., February 16, 1729. Lawyer; justice of Pennsylvania state supreme court, 1791; chief justice of Pennsylvania state supreme court, 1799-1806. Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., April 16, 1806 (age 77 years, 59 days). Interment at First Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, Pa.
  Relatives: Son of Edward Shippen (1703-1781) and Sarah (Plumley) Shippen; married, November 29, 1753, to Margaret Francis; nephew of William Shippen; granduncle of Edward Shippen (1823-1904); great-grandson of Edward Shippen (1639-1712); great-granduncle of Bertha Shippen Irving; first cousin of Thomas Willing; first cousin once removed of Charles Willing Byrd; first cousin twice removed of John Brown Francis; first cousin thrice removed of Edward Overton Jr.; first cousin four times removed of James Rieman Macfarlane and Francis Fisher Kane.
  Political families: Shippen-Middleton family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Morris-Willing-Wilson-Griffin family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Josiah Hornblower (1729-1809) — of Essex County, N.J. Born in Staffordshire, England, February 23, 1729. Engineer; hardware merchant; member of New Jersey state house of assembly from Essex County, 1779-80; Delegate to Continental Congress from New Jersey, 1785-86; county judge in New Jersey, 1789-1809. Died in Newark, Essex County, N.J., January 21, 1809 (age 79 years, 333 days). Interment at Dutch Reformed Churchyard, Belleville, N.J.
  Relatives: Son of Joseph Hornblower and Rebecca (Haywood) Hornblower; married 1755 to Elizabeth Kingsland; father of Joseph Coerten Hornblower; grandfather of Harriette Burnet Hornblower (who married Lewis Bartholomew Woodruff), Mary Hornblower (who married Joseph Philo Bradley) and William Henry Hornblower; great-grandfather of William Butler Hornblower.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Hornblower family of Newark, New Jersey (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  William Fleming (1729-1795) — of Staunton, Va.; Botetourt County, Va. Born in Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland, February 19, 1729. Physician; Governor of Virginia, 1781; delegate to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Botetourt County, 1788. Scottish ancestry. Died August 5, 1795 (age 66 years, 167 days). Interment at Bellmont Cemetery, Roanoke, Va.
  Relatives: Son of Leonard Fleming and Dorthea Fleming; married 1763 to Anne Christian (sister of William Christian).
  Political families: Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd family of Virginia; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  William Preston (1729-1783) — Born in County Donegal, Ireland, December 25, 1729. Member of Virginia House of Burgesses, 1765-68, 1769-71. Died while attending a muster of the militia, in Botetourt County, Va., June 28, 1783 (age 53 years, 185 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of John Preston and Elizabeth (Patton) Preston; married, January 17, 1761, to Susanna Smith; father of Francis Smith Preston, James Patton Preston and Letitia Preston (who married John Floyd); uncle of John Breckinridge; grandfather of William Campbell Preston, James McDowell, John Buchanan Floyd, John Smith Preston and George Rogers Clark Floyd; granduncle of Joseph Cabell Breckinridge and Robert Jefferson Breckinridge; great-grandfather of Robert Jefferson Breckinridge Jr. and William Campbell Preston Breckinridge; great-granduncle of John Cabell Breckinridge and Peter Augustus Porter (1827-1864); second great-grandfather of Levin Irving Handy, Desha Breckinridge and Henry Skillman Breckinridge; second great-granduncle of Clifton Rodes Breckinridge and Peter Augustus Porter (1853-1925); first cousin twice removed of James Douglas Breckinridge.
  Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd family of Virginia; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Monroe-Grayson-Roosevelt-Breckinridge family of Virginia and Kentucky (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Robert Carter Nicholas (1729-1780) — Born in Hanover County, Va., January 28, 1729. Lawyer; member of Virginia House of Burgesses, 1755-61, 1766-75. Died in Hanover County, Va., November, 1780 (age 51 years, 0 days). Interment a private or family graveyard, Hanover County, Va.
  Relatives: Son of George Nicholas and Elizabeth (Carter) Nicholas; married to Anne Cary; father of Elizabeth Nicholas (who married Edmund Jenings Randolph), George Nicholas (1753-1799), Wilson Cary Nicholas and John Nicholas; grandfather of Peyton Randolph and Robert Carter Nicholas (1787-1857); great-grandfather of Peter Myndert Dox and Edmund Randolph; great-granduncle of Thomas Marshall and James Keith Marshall; second great-grandfather of Edmund Randolph Cocke and Harry Bartow Hawes; third great-grandfather of Francis Beverley Biddle; first cousin of Benjamin Harrison (1726-1791); first cousin once removed of Carter Bassett Harrison and William Henry Harrison (1773-1841); first cousin twice removed of John Scott Harrison; first cousin thrice removed of Carter Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901); first cousin four times removed of Connally Findlay Trigg, Russell Benjamin Harrison, Carter Henry Harrison II, Richard Evelyn Byrd and William Welby Beverley; first cousin five times removed of Harry Flood Byrd and William Henry Harrison (1896-1990); first cousin six times removed of Harry Flood Byrd Jr.; second cousin once removed of Burwell Bassett.
  Political families: Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland; Lee-Randolph family; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Blackburn-Slaughter-Buckner-Madison family of Kentucky (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Daniel Carroll (1730-1796) — of Maryland. Born in Upper Marlboro, Prince George's County, Md., July 22, 1730. Member of Maryland state senate, 1781-90; Delegate to Continental Congress from Maryland, 1781-83; signer, Articles of Confederation, 1781; member, U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S. Representative from Maryland at-large, 1789-91. Catholic. Member, Freemasons. Slaveowner. Died in Rock Creek, Montgomery County, Md., May 7, 1796 (age 65 years, 290 days). Interment at St. John's Catholic Cemetery, Forest Glen, Md.
  Relatives: Son of Eleanor (Darnall) Carroll and Daniel Carroll (1707-1754); uncle of Richard Brent; great-grandfather of Charles Holker Carroll; first cousin of Charles Carroll of Carrollton; first cousin thrice removed of John Lee Carroll; first cousin four times removed of John Howell Carroll; first cousin five times removed of John Duffy Alderson; second cousin of Charles Carroll, Barrister; second cousin once removed of Thomas Sim Lee, Alexander Contee Hanson and Alexander Contee Magruder; second cousin twice removed of John Lee; second cousin thrice removed of John Read Magruder; third cousin twice removed of Reuben Handy Meriwether; third cousin thrice removed of Levin Irving Handy.
  Political families: Lee-Randolph family; Carroll family of Maryland; Eisenhower-Nixon family (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
  George Ross (1730-1779) — of Pennsylvania. Born in New Castle, New Castle County, Del., May 10, 1730. Delegate to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1774; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; state court judge in Pennsylvania, 1779. Died July 14, 1779 (age 49 years, 65 days). Interment at Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Pa.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
  Relatives: Brother of Gertrude Ross (who married George Read) and Elizabeth Ross (who married Edward Biddle).
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Biddle-Randolph family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Read family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  The World War II Liberty ship SS George Ross (built 1942 at Richmond, California; scrapped 1966) was named for him.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Archibald Bulloch (c.1730-1777) — of Georgia. Born in Charleston, Charleston District (now Charleston County), S.C., about 1730. Lawyer; Delegate to Continental Congress from Georgia, 1775; served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; President of Georgia, 1776-77; died in office 1777. Died in Savannah, Chatham County, Ga., February 22, 1777 (age about 47 years). Interment at Colonial Park Cemetery, Savannah, Ga.
  Relatives: Son of James Bulloch and Jean (Stobo) Bulloch; married to Mary de Veaux; father of William Bellinger Bulloch; second great-grandfather of Theodore Roosevelt and Corinne Roosevelt Robinson; third great-grandfather of Theodore Douglas Robinson, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Eleanor Roosevelt, Corinne Robinson Alsop, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and William Sheffield Cowles; fourth great-grandfather of James Roosevelt, Elliott Roosevelt, Corinne A. Chubb, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. and John deKoven Alsop; fifth great-grandfather of Susan Roosevelt Weld.
  Political families: Roosevelt family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Bulloch County, Ga. is named for him.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article
  Richard Stockton (1730-1781) — of New Jersey. Born near Princeton, Mercer County, N.J., October 1, 1730. Associate justice of New Jersey state supreme court, 1774; Delegate to Continental Congress from New Jersey, 1776; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776. Presbyterian. Member, Freemasons. Died February 28, 1781 (age 50 years, 150 days). Interment at Stony Brook Quaker Meeting House Cemetery, Princeton, N.J.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
  Relatives: Brother of Hannah Stockton (who married Elias Boudinot); father of Julia Stockton (who married Benjamin Rush and William Bradford) and Richard Stockton (1764-1828); grandfather of Robert Field Stockton and Richard Stockton Field; great-grandfather of John Potter Stockton; second great-grandfather of Richard Stockton (c.1857-1929).
  Political family: Stockton family of Princeton, New Jersey (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
Thomas Chittenden Thomas Chittenden (1730-1797) — of Williston, Chittenden County, Vt. Born in Guilford, New Haven County, Conn., January 6, 1730. Governor of Vermont, 1778-89, 1790-97; died in office 1797. Died in Williston, Chittenden County, Vt., August 25, 1797 (age 67 years, 231 days). Interment at Thomas Chittenden Cemetery, Williston, Vt.; statue at State House Grounds, Montpelier, Vt.; statue at Town Green, Williston, Vt.
  Relatives: Son of Ebenezer Chittenden and Mary (Johnson) Chittenden; married 1749 to Elizabeth Meigs; father of Mary Chittenden (who married Jonas Galusha), Beulah Chittenden (who married Matthew Lyon) and Martin Chittenden; grandfather of Chittenden Lyon; first cousin twice removed of Josiah C. Chittenden and Abel Madison Scranton; first cousin thrice removed of Roger Calvin Leete; second cousin twice removed of Jeduthun Wilcox, Clark S. Chittenden and Russell Sage; second cousin thrice removed of Leonard Wilcox and Edgar Jared Doolittle; second cousin four times removed of Charles H. Chittenden; third cousin once removed of Chauncey Goodrich, Oliver Wolcott Jr., Elizur Goodrich and Frederick Wolcott; third cousin twice removed of Ensign Hosmer Kellogg and Eli Coe Birdsey; third cousin thrice removed of Joseph Lyman Huntington, Frederick Walker Pitkin and Roger Wolcott; fourth cousin of Return Jonathan Meigs, Sr. and Josiah Meigs; fourth cousin once removed of Return Jonathan Meigs Jr., Elijah Hunt Mills, Henry Meigs and Zina Hyde Jr..
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Roosevelt family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Chittenden County, Vt. is named for him.
  The town of Chittenden, Vermont, is named for him.
  See also National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Image source: Men of Vermont (1894)
  Richard Morris (1730-1810) — of New York, New York County, N.Y. Born in Morrisania, Westchester County (now part of Bronx, Bronx County), N.Y., August 15, 1730. Member of New York state senate Southern District, 1778-80; Justice of New York Supreme Court, 1779-90; delegate to New York convention to ratify U.S. constitution from New York County, 1788; Federalist candidate for U.S. Representative from New York, 1794. Died April 11, 1810 (age 79 years, 239 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Katrintje (Saats) Morris and Lewis Morris (1698-1762); half-brother of Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816); brother of Lewis Morris (1726-1798); father of Lewis Richard Morris; nephew of Robert Hunter Morris; uncle of Richard Valentine Morris; grandson of Lewis Morris (1671-1746); grandfather of Gouverneur Morris (1809-1894); second great-granduncle of Gouverneur Morris Carnochan (1865-1915); third great-granduncle of Gouverneur Morris Carnochan (1892-1943).
  Political families: Morris-Ingersoll family of New York and Connecticut; Livingston-Schuyler family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article
  William Cabell (1730-1798) — of Amherst County (part now in Nelson County), Va. Born in Goochland County, Va., March 13, 1730. Member of Virginia House of Burgesses, 1765-75; member of Virginia state senate, 1776; delegate to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Amherst County, 1788. Died in Amherst County (part now in Nelson County), Va., March 23, 1798 (age 68 years, 10 days). Interment at Union Hill Cemetery, Near Wingina, Nelson County, Va.
  Relatives: Son of William Cabell (1699-1774) and Elizabeth (Burks) Cabell; married 1756 to Margaret Meredith Jordan; father of William Cabell Jr.; uncle of William Henry Cabell; grandfather of Paulina Cabell Rives (who married Richard Pollard); granduncle of Joseph Cabell Breckinridge, Benjamin William Sheridan Cabell, Robert Jefferson Breckinridge, Frederick Mortimer Cabell and Edward Carrington Cabell; great-granduncle of John Cabell Breckinridge, Carter Henry Harrison, Peter Augustus Porter (1827-1864), William Lewis Cabell, Robert Jefferson Breckinridge Jr., George Craighead Cabell and William Campbell Preston Breckinridge; second great-granduncle of Clifton Rodes Breckinridge, Peter Augustus Porter (1853-1925), Benjamin Earl Cabell, Carter Henry Harrison II, Levin Irving Handy, Desha Breckinridge and Henry Skillman Breckinridge; third great-granduncle of Earle Cabell.
  Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd family of Virginia; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Walker-Randolph family of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  John Bell (1730-1825) — of Londonderry, Rockingham County, N.H. Born in Londonderry, Rockingham County, N.H., August 15, 1730. Member of New Hampshire state senate from Rockingham County, 1786-90. Died in Londonderry, Rockingham County, N.H., November 30, 1825 (age 95 years, 107 days). Interment at Valley Cemetery, Londonderry, N.H.
  Relatives: Son of John Bell (1679-1743) and Elizabeth (Todd) Bell; married to Mary Ann Gilmore; father of John Bell Jr. and Samuel Bell; grandfather of Samuel Dana Bell, James Bell and Charles Henry Bell; great-grandfather of Samuel Newell Bell; third great-grandfather of James Dunbar Bell.
  Political family: Bell-Upham family of New Hampshire (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Thomas Willing (1731-1821) — of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., December 19, 1731. Lawyer; merchant; city court justice, 1759; justice of the court of common pleas, 1761; mayor of Philadelphia, Pa., 1763-64; justice of Pennsylvania state supreme court, 1767; Delegate to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1775; banker. Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., January 19, 1821 (age 89 years, 31 days). Interment at Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Pa.
  Relatives: Son of Anne (Shippen) Willing and Charles Willing; brother of Elizabeth Willing (who married Samuel Powel); married 1763 to Anne McCall; nephew of Edward Shippen (1703-1781) and William Shippen; uncle of Charles Willing Byrd; granduncle of John Brown Francis; great-grandson of Edward Shippen (1639-1712); great-grandfather of Edward Overton Jr.; second great-grandfather of James Rieman Macfarlane; second great-granduncle of Francis Fisher Kane; first cousin of Edward Shippen (1729-1806); first cousin twice removed of Edward Shippen (1823-1904); first cousin thrice removed of Bertha Shippen Irving.
  Political families: Shippen-Middleton family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  William Williams (1731-1811) — of Lebanon, New London County, Conn. Born in Lebanon, New London County, Conn., April 28, 1731. Merchant; pastor; member of Connecticut state house of representatives, 1757; Delegate to Continental Congress from Connecticut, 1776; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of Connecticut council of assistants, 1776-79, 1784-1802. Congregationalist. Died August 2, 1811 (age 80 years, 96 days). Interment at Trumbull Cemetery, Lebanon, Conn.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
  Relatives: Married, February 14, 1771, to Mary Trumbull (daughter of Jonathan Trumbull).
  Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Robert Treat Paine (1731-1814) — of Taunton, Bristol County, Mass. Born in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., March 11, 1731. Lawyer; Delegate to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1774-78; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1777; Massachusetts state attorney general, 1777-90; justice of Massachusetts state supreme court, 1790-1804. Congregationalist. Member, Freemasons. Died in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., May 12, 1814 (age 83 years, 62 days). Interment at Old Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Mass.; statue at Church Green, Taunton, Mass.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
  Relatives: Son of Thomas Paine and Eunice (Treat) Paine; married to Sarah Cobb; great-grandson of Robert Treat; second great-grandfather of Robert Treat Paine Jr.; second cousin twice removed of John Condit, Eli Thacher Hoyt, Aurelius Buckingham and Chauncey Fitch Cleveland; second cousin thrice removed of Silas Condit, Ira Chandler Backus, Joshua Perkins, Edward Green Bradford, Philo Beecher Buckingham, Bailey Frye Adams, Henry Sabin, Lee Randall Sanborn, Alanson B. Treat, Charles M. Hotchkiss and David Leroy Treat; second cousin four times removed of Albert Pierson Condit, Edward Green Bradford II, James L. Sanborn and Warren Walter Rich; second cousin five times removed of Clarence Sidney Merrill, Simeon Harrison Rollinson, Edward Green Bradford Jr., Elizabeth Bradford du Pont Bayard and Joseph Clark Baldwin III; third cousin twice removed of Gershom Birdsey, Benjamin Hard and Alonzo Sidney Upham; third cousin thrice removed of Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, William Wolcott Ellsworth, Eli Coe Birdsey, Lorenzo Burrows, Nathan Belcher, Russell Sage, Gilbert Carlton Walker, John Ransom Buck and Benjamin Baker Merrill; fourth cousin of Luther Waterman; fourth cousin once removed of David Waterman and Jonathan Brace.
  Political families: DuPont family of Wilmington, Delaware; Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Samuel Huntington (1731-1796) — of Norwich, New London County, Conn. Born in Windham, Windham County, Conn., July 16, 1731. Lawyer; superior court judge in Connecticut, 1773-85; Delegate to Continental Congress from Connecticut, 1776-84; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of Connecticut council of assistants, 1776-83; Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, 1784-86; Governor of Connecticut, 1786-96; died in office 1796; received 2 electoral votes, 1789. Congregationalist. Died in Norwich, New London County, Conn., January 5, 1796 (age 64 years, 173 days). Interment at Norwichtown Cemetery, Norwich, Conn.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
  Relatives: Son of Nathaniel Huntington (1691-1767) and Mehetabel (Thurston) Huntington; married, January 5, 1761, to Martha Devotion; uncle and adoptive father of Samuel H. Huntington; granduncle of Nathaniel Huntington (1793-1828), James Huntington, Joseph Lyman Huntington and Elisha Mills Huntington; great-granduncle of Collins Dwight Huntington and George Milo Huntington; second great-granduncle of William Barret Ridgely; third great-granduncle of Helen Huntington Hull; first cousin once removed of Benjamin Huntington; second cousin of Henry Huntington and Gurdon Huntington; second cousin once removed of John Davenport, Ebenezer Huntington, Joshua Coit, James Davenport, Abel Huntington and Benjamin Nicoll Huntington; second cousin twice removed of William Woodbridge, Zina Hyde Jr., Jabez Williams Huntington, Isaac Backus, Theodore Davenport, Charles Phelps Huntington and Henry Titus Backus; second cousin thrice removed of John Hall Brockway, Robert Coit Jr., Thomas Worcester Hyde, Alonzo Mark Leffingwell, Abial Lathrop, Roger Wolcott and William Clark Huntington; second cousin four times removed of Alexander Hamilton Waterman, Matthew Griswold, George Douglas Perkins, Charles Edward Hyde, Herman Arod Gager, Josiah Quincy, William Brainard Coit, Henry Arthur Huntington, John Sedgwick Hyde, Edward Warden Hyde, John Leffingwell Randolph, Arthur Evarts Lord and George Leffingwell Reed; second cousin five times removed of Charles Grenfill Washburn, Edmond Otis Dewey, Austin Eugene Lathrop, George Martin Dewey, Schuyler Carl Wells, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John Foster Dulles, James Gillespie Blaine III, Allen Welsh Dulles and Randolph Appleton Kidder; third cousin of Samuel Adams; third cousin once removed of Joseph Allen, Chauncey Goodrich, Elizur Goodrich, Augustus Seymour Porter (1769-1849), Samuel Nicholls Smallwood and Peter Buell Porter; third cousin twice removed of Samuel Lathrop, Bela Edgerton, Willard J. Chapin, Augustus Seymour Porter (1798-1872), Peter Buell Porter Jr., Philo Fairchild Barnum, Phineas Taylor Barnum and Peter Augustus Porter (1827-1864); third cousin thrice removed of Benjamin Hard, Charles Robert Sherman, Heman Ticknor, Gideon Hard, Norman A. Phelps, Alphonso Taft, Alfred Peck Edgerton, Emerson Wight, Joseph Ketchum Edgerton, William Henry Barnum, Ulysses Simpson Grant, William Vincent Wells, Augustus Frank, Edward M. Chapin, Elizur Stillman Goodrich, Rhamanthus Menville Stocker and Peter Augustus Porter (1853-1925); fourth cousin once removed of Martin Keeler and Thaddeus Betts.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Adams-Waite-Forshee-Cowan family of Dexter, Michigan (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Huntington County, Ind. is named for him.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article
  William Greene Jr. (1731-1809) — of Warwick, Kent County, R.I. Born in Warwick, Kent County, R.I., August 16, 1731. Speaker of the Rhode Island House of Deputies, 1776-78; Governor of Rhode Island, 1778-86. Died in Warwick, Kent County, R.I., November 29, 1809 (age 78 years, 105 days). Interment at Governor Greene Cemetery, Warwick, R.I.
  Relatives: Son of William Greene and Catherine (Greene) Greene; married to Catherine Ray; father of Ray Greene; second cousin thrice removed of Elijah Babbitt, Abel Madison Scranton, Andrew Clark Lippitt, Henry Lippitt, Dennison Franklin Holden and Frederick Walker Pitkin; second cousin four times removed of Ossian Ray, Costello Lippitt, Charles Warren Lippitt, Henry Frederick Lippitt, Walter Thomas Bliss and Clayton Harvey Deming; second cousin five times removed of Daniel Parrish Witter, Clement Phineas Kellogg, Chester Merton Bliss, George Walter Bliss and Frederick Lippitt; third cousin once removed of Albert Collins Greene; third cousin twice removed of John Baldwin, George Washington Greene and William Maxwell Greene; third cousin thrice removed of Samuel Finley Vinton and Martin Olds.
  Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article
  John Williams of Montpelier (1731-1799) — of Granville County (part now in Vance County), N.C. Born in Hanover County, Va., March 14, 1731. Delegate to North Carolina provincial congress, 1775; member of North Carolina house of commons from Granville County, 1778; Delegate to Continental Congress from North Carolina, 1778-79; justice of North Carolina state supreme court, 1779-99. Died in Montpelier, Vance County, N.C., October 10, 1799 (age 68 years, 210 days). Interment a private or family graveyard, Vance County, N.C.
  Relatives: Father-in-law of Robert Burton; double first cousin of Richard Henderson and Thomas Henderson; first cousin of John Williams, Nathaniel Williams Jr., Robert Williams and Joseph Williams of Shallow Ford; double first cousin once removed of Archibald Henderson; double first cousin once removed and uncle by marriage of Leonard Henderson.
  Political family: Williams family of North Carolina (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
  Howell Lewis (1731-1813) — of Granville County, N.C. Born in Goochland County, Va., September 13, 1731. Member of North Carolina state senate from Granville County, 1785-86; member of North Carolina house of commons from Granville County, 1787. Died in Granville County, N.C., November 29, 1813 (age 82 years, 77 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Charles Lewis and Mary (Howell) Lewis; married to Isabella Willis; grandfather of Howell Cobb (1772-1818); great-grandfather of Howell Cobb (1815-1868) and Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb; first cousin once removed of Meriwether Lewis; first cousin twice removed of David Shelby Walker; first cousin thrice removed of James David Walker and David Shelby Walker Jr.; first cousin six times removed of Arthur Sidney Demarest; second cousin of George Washington; second cousin once removed of Bushrod Washington; second cousin twice removed of John Thornton Augustine Washington; second cousin thrice removed of Thomas Leonidas Crittenden; second cousin four times removed of Claude Pollard; third cousin twice removed of Henry Rootes Jackson.
  Political families: Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland; Jackson-Lee family; King family of Savannah, Georgia; Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family of Virginia; Washington-Walker family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Martha Washington (1731-1802) — also known as Martha Dandridge; Martha Dandridge Custis — Born in New Kent County, Va., June 13, 1731. First Lady of the United States, 1789-97. Female. Slaveowner. Died in Fairfax County, Va., May 22, 1802 (age 70 years, 343 days). Entombed at Mt. Vernon, Fairfax County, Va.
  Relatives: Daughter of John Dandridge and Frances (Jones) Dandridge; married 1759 to Daniel Parke Custis; married, January 6, 1759, to George Washington (uncle of Bushrod Washington); mother of John Parke Custis; aunt of Burwell Bassett; first cousin five times removed of Edith Wilson.
  Political families: Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family of Virginia; Jackson-Lee family; Washington-Walker family of Virginia; Clay family of Kentucky (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  The town of Dandridge, Tennessee, is named for her.
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
Richard Henry Lee Richard Henry Lee (1732-1794) — of Westmoreland County, Va. Born in Westmoreland County, Va., January 20, 1732. Democrat. Planter; Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1774-79, 1784-85, 1787; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1777, 1780, 1785; U.S. Senator from Virginia, 1789-92. Slaveowner. Died in Westmoreland County, Va., June 19, 1794 (age 62 years, 150 days). Interment at Burnt House Field Cemetery, Near Hague, Westmoreland County, Va.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
  Relatives: Son of Thomas Lee and Hannah Harrison (Ludwell) Lee; brother of Francis Lightfoot Lee and Arthur Lee; married, December 5, 1757, to Ann Aylett; married 1769 to Ann (Gaskins) Pinckard; great-grandfather of Francis Preston Blair Lee; second great-grandfather of Edward Brooke Lee; third great-grandfather of Blair Lee III and Edward Brooke Lee Jr.; first cousin once removed and father-in-law of Charles Lee; first cousin once removed of Thomas Sim Lee, Henry Lee, Richard Bland Lee and Edmund Jennings Lee; first cousin twice removed of John Lee; first cousin thrice removed of Fitzhugh Lee; first cousin four times removed of Samuel Bullitt Churchill and John Lee Carroll; first cousin six times removed of Outerbridge Horsey; second cousin once removed of Zachary Taylor; second cousin twice removed of Thomas Leonidas Crittenden; second cousin thrice removed of Hancock Lee Jackson; second cousin four times removed of Abraham Lincoln, James Sansome Lakin, Elliot Woolfolk Major and Edgar Bailey Woolfolk; second cousin five times removed of Robert Todd Lincoln, Harrison Moore Lakin and James Offutt Lakin.
  Political families: Lee-Randolph family; Jackson-Lee family; Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Lee counties in Ga. and Ill. are named for him.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier
  Books about Richard Henry Lee: Oliver P. Chitwood, Richard Henry Lee : Statesman of the Revolution
  Image source: The South in the Building of the Nation (1909)
George Washington George Washington (1732-1799) — also known as "Father of His Country"; "The American Fabius" — of Virginia. Born in Westmoreland County, Va., February 22, 1732. Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1774-75; general in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member, U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; President of the United States, 1789-97. Episcopalian. English ancestry. Member, Freemasons; Society of the Cincinnati; American Academy of Arts and Sciences. As the leader of the Revolution, he could have been King; instead, he served as the first President and voluntarily stepped down after two terms. Elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1900. Slaveowner. Died, probably from acute bacterial epiglottitis, at Fairfax County, Va., December 14, 1799 (age 67 years, 295 days). Entombed at Mt. Vernon, Fairfax County, Va.; memorial monument at National Mall, Washington, D.C.; statue erected 1860 at Washington Circle, Washington, D.C.; statue erected 1869 at Boston Public Garden, Boston, Mass.
  Relatives: Son of Augustine Washington and Mary (Ball) Washington; married, January 6, 1759, to Martha Dandridge Custis (aunt of Burwell Bassett); step-father of John Parke Custis; uncle of Bushrod Washington; granduncle by marriage of Charles Magill Conrad; granduncle of John Thornton Augustine Washington and George Corbin Washington; first cousin six times removed of Archer Woodford; second cousin of Howell Lewis; second cousin once removed of Meriwether Lewis; second cousin twice removed of Howell Cobb (1772-1818), Sulifand Sutherland Ross and David Shelby Walker; second cousin thrice removed of Walker Peyton Conway, Howell Cobb (1815-1868), Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, James David Walker and David Shelby Walker Jr.; second cousin five times removed of Thomas Henry Ball Jr., William de Bruyn=Kops, Horace Lee Washington, Edwin McPherson Holden, Claude C. Ball, Arthur Wesley Holden and Franklin Delano Roosevelt; third cousin twice removed of Henry Rootes Jackson; third cousin thrice removed of Samuel Bullitt Churchill and Thomas Leonidas Crittenden.
  Political families: Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland; Jackson-Lee family; King family of Savannah, Georgia; Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family of Virginia; Washington-Walker family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Cross-reference: Henry Lee — Joshua Fry — Alexander Dimitry — Tobias Lear — David Mathews — Rufus Putnam
  Washington counties in Ala., Ark., Colo., Fla., Ga., Idaho, Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kan., Ky., La., Maine, Md., Minn., Miss., Mo., Neb., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Okla., Ore., Pa., R.I., Tenn., Tex., Utah, Vt., Va. and Wis. are named for him.
  The city of Washington, D.C., is named for him.  — The state of Washington is named for him.  — Mount Washington (highest peak in the Northeast), in the White Mountains, Coos County, New Hampshire, is named for him.  — The minor planet 886 Washingtonia (discovered 1917), is named for him.
  Other politicians named for him: George Washington Lent Marr — George Washington Heard — George Washington Barnett — George Washington Davis — George W. Owen — George W. Toland — George W. Lay — George W. Patterson — George W. B. Towns — George Washington Adams — George Washington Hockley — George W. Smyth — G. W. Ingersoll — George W. Hopkins — George Washington Montgomery — Joseph George Washington Duncan — George W. Kittredge — George W. Jones — George W. Harrison — George Washington Ewing — George Washington Seabrook — George W. Morrison — George Washington Woodward — George Washington Wright — George Washington Triplett — George Washington Glasscock — George W. Schuyler — George Washington Holman — George W. Greene — George W. Wolcott — George W. Paschal — George Washington Dunlap — George Washington Warren — George Washington Hill — George Washington Logan — George W. Getchell — George W. Wright — George W. Julian — George Washington Dyal — George W. Ladd — George W. Peck — George Washington Nesmith — George W. Morgan — George Washington Brooks — George Washington Cowles — George W. Geddes — George Washington Whitmore — George Washington Bridges — George W. Cate — George W. Houk — George W. Webber — George W. Bemis — George Washington Fairbrother — George Washington Glick — George W. Jones — George W. Baker — George W. Shell — George W. Anderson — George W. Crouse — George W. Hulick — George W. Allen — George W. F. Harper — George Washington Clark — George Washington McCrary — George W. Gordon — George W. Kingsbury — George W. Covington — George Washington Fleeger — George W. Steele — George W. Wilson — George W. Martin — George W. E. Dorsey — George W. Plunkitt — George W. Furbush — George W. Sutton — George W. Curtin — George W. Ray — George W. Roosevelt — George W. Smith — George W. Kipp — George W. Campbell — George W. Taylor — George W. Stone — George W. Bartch — George W. Shonk — George W. Paul — George W. Cook — George W. Murray — George W. Faris — George W. Fithian — George W. Prince — George W. Buckner — George W. Cromer — George W. Donaghey — George W. Aldridge — George Washington Wagoner — George Washington Goethals — George W. Armstrong — George W. Lovejoy — George W. Oakes — George W. Hays — George W. Edmonds — George W. Lindsay — George Washington Jones — T. G. W. Tarver — George W. Darden — George Washington Jones — George W. Mead — George W. Gibbons — George W. List — George W. Calkin — George W. Rauch — George W. Michell — George Washington Jackson — George W. Blanchard — George Washington Herz — George W. Bristow — George Washington Hardy — George W. Ballard — George W. McKown — George Thomas Washington — George W. Collins — George A. Washington
  Coins and currency: His portrait appears on the U.S. quarter (25 cent coin), and on the $1 bill. His portrait also appeared on various other denominations of U.S. currency, and on the Confederate States $50 note during the Civil War.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
  Books about George Washington: Richard Brookhiser, Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington — James Thomas Flexner, Washington: The Indispensable Man — Willard Sterne Randall, George Washington : A Life — Richard Norton Smith, Patriarch : George Washington and the New American Nation — Henry Wiencek, An Imperfect God : George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America — James MacGregor Burns, George Washington — Joseph J. Ellis, His Excellency, George Washington — Gore Vidal, Inventing A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson — David Barton, The Bulletproof George Washington: An Account of God's Providential Care — Wendie C. Old, George Washington (for young readers)
  Image source: Portrait & Biographical Album of Washtenaw County (1891)
  Thomas Johnson (1732-1819) — of Anne Arundel County, Md. Born in Calvert County, Md., November 4, 1732. Delegate to Continental Congress from Maryland, 1774-76, 1779-81; general in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; delegate to Maryland state constitutional convention, 1776; Governor of Maryland, 1777-79; member of Maryland state house of delegates, 1780-81, 1786-88; state court judge in Maryland, 1790-91; Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1791-93. Episcopalian. Died near Frederick, Frederick County, Md., October 26, 1819 (age 86 years, 356 days). Original interment at All Saints' Episcopal Churchyard, Frederick, Md.; reinterment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Frederick, Md.
  Relatives: Son of Thomas Johnson (1702-1777) and Dorcas (Sedgewick) Johnson; brother of Joshua Johnson; married to Ann Jennings; uncle of Louisa Catherine Johnson (who married John Quincy Adams (1767-1848)); granduncle of George Washington Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1807-1886) and Bradley Tyler Johnson; great-granduncle of John Quincy Adams (1833-1894) and Brooks Adams; second great-granduncle of Charles Francis Adams (1866-1954); third great-granduncle of Thomas Boylston Adams.
  Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  William Smallwood (1732-1792) — of Charles County, Md. Born in Charles County, Md., 1732. Tobacco grower; merchant; general in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Governor of Maryland, 1785-88; member of Maryland state senate, 1791-92. Anglican. English ancestry. Member, Freemasons. Died in Charles County, Md., February 14, 1792 (age about 59 years). Interment at Smallwood State Park, Rison, Md.
  Relatives: Son of Priscilla (Heaberd) Smallwood and Bayne Smallwood; brother of Eleanor Smallwood (who married William Grayson); uncle of Alfred William Grayson; great-granduncle of Sophonisba Grayson Preston (who married Carter Henry Harrison); second great-granduncle of Carter Henry Harrison II; second cousin once removed of Samuel Nicholls Smallwood; second cousin four times removed of James Lester Smallwood.
  Political families: Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Lee-Randolph family; Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd family of Virginia; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Monroe-Grayson-Roosevelt-Breckinridge family of Virginia and Kentucky; Ewing-Matthews-Watterson-Harrison family (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  James Jay (1732-1815) — also known as "Sir James Jay" — of New York. Born in New York, New York County, N.Y., October 16, 1732. Physician; member of New York state senate Southern District, 1778-82. French Huguenot and Dutch ancestry. Knighted by King George III, 1763. Died October 20, 1815 (age 83 years, 4 days). Interment at Jay Family Cemetery, Rye, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Pierre 'Peter' Jay and Mary (Van Cortlandt) Jay; brother of John Jay and Frederick Jay; uncle of Peter Augustus Jay (1776-1843) and William Jay; grandson of Jacobus Van Cortlandt; grandnephew of Stephanus Van Cortlandt; granduncle of John Jay II; second great-granduncle of Peter Augustus Jay (1877-1933); second cousin of Stephanus Bayard, Pierre Van Cortlandt, Philip John Schuyler and Stephen John Schuyler; second cousin once removed of Volkert Petrus Douw, Nicholas Bayard, Philip P. Schuyler, Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, Robert Van Rensselaer, Hendrick Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, Pieter Schuyler, Philip Van Cortlandt, Henry Brockholst Livingston, Matthew Clarkson, Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr., Killian Killian Van Rensselaer, Philip Jeremiah Schuyler, James Parker and Hamilton Fish (1808-1893); second cousin twice removed of Leonard Gansevoort, Leonard Gansevoort Jr., Peter Samuel Schuyler, Stephen Van Rensselaer, Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Henry Walter Livingston, James Alexander Hamilton, Philip Schuyler, John Cortlandt Parker, Nicholas Fish and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1849-1936); second cousin thrice removed of Peter Gansevoort, Edward Livingston, Henry Bell Van Rensselaer, Henry Brockholst Ledyard, James Adams Ekin, Richard Wayne Parker, Charles Wolcott Parker, Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991); second cousin four times removed of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, Robert Ray Hamilton, John Sluyter Wirt, Cortlandt Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Charles Ludlow Livingston and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1926-1996); second cousin five times removed of John Eliot Thayer Jr., Bronson Murray Cutting, Brockholst Livingston, Hamilton Fish (born 1951) and Alexa Fish Ward.
  Political families: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; VanRensselaer family of Albany, New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  David Rittenhouse (1732-1796) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Germantown (now part of Philadelphia), Philadelphia County, Pa., April 8, 1732. Astronomer; mathematician; financier; clockmaker; surveyor; Pennsylvania state treasurer, 1777-89; first director of the U.S. Mint. Member, American Philosophical Society. Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., June 26, 1796 (age 64 years, 79 days). Original interment in unknown location; reinterment at Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.
  Relatives: Son of Matthias Rittenhouse and Elizabeth (Williams) Rittenhouse; married to Eleanor Coulston and Hannah Jacobs; father of Elizabeth Rittenhouse (who married Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant); second great-granduncle of Barton Myers; third great-granduncle of Robert Baldwin cyers.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Rockefeller family of New York City, New York; Wise-Sergeant-Rockefeller family; Sergeant-Whitehill-Kunkel-Spencer family of Pennsylvania; Myers family of Norfolk, Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Rittenhouse Square (originally Southwest Square; renamed 1825) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is named for him.  — Rittenhouse, a crater on the Moon, about 26 km (16 miles) in diameter, is named for him.
  See also NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Charles Pinckney (1732-1782) — of Charleston, Charleston District (now Charleston County), S.C. Born in Charles Town (now Charleston), Charleston County, S.C., March 7, 1732. Lawyer; planter; member of South Carolina state senate from St. Philip & St. Michael, 1779-80. Anglican. Member, Freemasons. Died in Charleston, Charleston County, S.C., September 22, 1782 (age 50 years, 199 days). Interment at St. Philip's Churchyard, Charleston, S.C.; cenotaph at Christ Church Cemetery, Mt. Pleasant, S.C.
  Relatives: Son of William Pinckney and Ruth (Brewton) Pinckney; married to Frances Brewton; father of Charles Pinckney (1757-1824); grandfather of Henry Laurens Pinckney; first cousin of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney and Thomas Pinckney.
  Political families: Pinckney-Middleton family of Charleston, South Carolina; Middleton-Huger-Rutledge-Drayton family of Charleston, South Carolina (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  George Read (1733-1798) — of New Castle, New Castle County, Del. Born near North East, Cecil County, Md., September 18, 1733. Lawyer; Delegate to Continental Congress from Delaware, 1774-77; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; delegate to Delaware state constitutional convention, 1776; member of Delaware state legislative council from New Castle County, 1776-79, 1782-83; President of Delaware, 1777-78; member of Delaware house of assembly, 1779-80; member, U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S. Senator from Delaware, 1789-93; justice of Delaware state supreme court, 1793-98. Episcopalian. Slaveowner. Died in New Castle, New Castle County, Del., September 21, 1798 (age 65 years, 3 days). Interment at Immanuel Churchyard, New Castle, Del.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
  Relatives: Son of John Read and Mary (Howell) Read; married 1763 to Gertrude (Ross) Till (sister of George Ross); father of Mary Read (who married Gunning Bedford), George Read II and John Read (1769-1854); grandfather of George Read III and John Meredith Read; great-grandfather of John Meredith Read Jr..
  Political family: Read family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  The World War II Liberty ship SS George Read (built 1942 at Richmond, California; scrapped 1971) was named for him.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
Philip Schuyler Philip John Schuyler (1733-1804) — also known as Philip Schuyler — of New York. Born in Albany, Albany County, N.Y., November 20, 1733. Member of New York colonial assembly, 1768; Delegate to Continental Congress from New York, 1775, 1777, 1779-80; general in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of New York state senate Western District, 1780-84, 1785-89, 1791-97; member of New York council of appointment, 1786, 1788, 1790, 1794; U.S. Senator from New York, 1789-91, 1797-98. Built the first flax mill in America. Slaveowner. Died in Albany, Albany County, N.Y., November 18, 1804 (age 70 years, 364 days). Original interment at a private or family graveyard, Albany County, N.Y.; reinterment at Albany Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.; statue (now gone) at Albany City Hall Grounds, Albany, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Johannes Schuyler (1697-1746) and Cornelia (Van Cortlandt) Schuyler; brother of Stephen John Schuyler; married, September 17, 1755, to Catherine Van Rensselaer; father of Elizabeth Schuyler (who married Alexander Hamilton), Margarita Schuyler (who married Stephen Van Rensselaer) and Philip Jeremiah Schuyler; uncle of Pieter Schuyler (1746-1792); grandson of Stephanus Van Cortlandt and Johannes Schuyler (1668-1747); grandfather of Philip Schuyler, James Alexander Hamilton and William Stephen Hamilton; grandnephew of Pieter Schuyler (1657-1724) and Jacobus Van Cortlandt; granduncle of Henry Walter Livingston; great-granduncle of Edward Livingston (1796-1840); second great-grandfather of Robert Ray Hamilton; third great-grandfather of John Eliot Thayer Jr.; third great-granduncle of Charles Ludlow Livingston (born 1870) and Bronson Murray Cutting; fourth great-granduncle of Brockholst Livingston; first cousin of Stephanus Bayard and Pierre Van Cortlandt; first cousin once removed of John Livingston, Robert Livingston (1688-1775), Gilbert Livingston, Nicholas Bayard, Philip Van Cortlandt, Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr. and James Parker; first cousin twice removed of David Davidse Schuyler, Myndert Davidtse Schuyler, Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer and John Cortlandt Parker; first cousin thrice removed of Henry Bell Van Rensselaer, James Adams Ekin, Richard Wayne Parker and Charles Wolcott Parker; first cousin four times removed of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer and John Sluyter Wirt; second cousin of Robert Livingston (1708-1790), Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Robert Gilbert Livingston, Robert R. Livingston (1718-1775), William Livingston, James Jay, Philip P. Schuyler, John Jay and Frederick Jay; second cousin once removed of Volkert Petrus Douw, Peter Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, Robert Van Rensselaer, Walter Livingston, Philip Peter Livingston, Hendrick Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813), James Livingston, Henry Brockholst Livingston, Peter Samuel Schuyler, Killian Killian Van Rensselaer, Edward Livingston (1764-1836), Peter Augustus Jay (1776-1843) and William Jay; second cousin twice removed of Leonard Gansevoort, Leonard Gansevoort Jr., Peter Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Maturin Livingston, Rensselaer Westerlo, Edward Philip Livingston, William Alexander Duer, John Duer, Charles Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873), Hamilton Fish, George Washington Schuyler, John Jay II and Philip N. Schuyler; second cousin thrice removed of Peter Gansevoort, Peter Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Gilbert Livingston Thompson, Gerrit Smith, William Duer, Denning Duer, Henry Brockholst Ledyard, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, John Jacob Astor III, Eugene Schuyler, Nicholas Fish and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1849-1936); second cousin four times removed of William Waldorf Astor, John Kean, Cortlandt Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Hamilton Fish Kean, Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, Karl Cortlandt Schuyler, Peter Augustus Jay (1877-1933) and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991); second cousin five times removed of Guy Vernor Henry, Herbert Livingston Satterlee, William Astor Chanler, Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, Montgomery Schuyler Jr., Peter Goelet Gerry, Ogden Livingston Mills, Robert Reginald Livingston, Robert Winthrop Kean and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1926-1996).
  Political families: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; VanRensselaer family of Albany, New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Schuyler counties in Ill., Mo. and N.Y. are named for him.
  The village of Schuylerville, New York, is named for him.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier
  Image source: New York Public Library
  Robert Goldsborough (1733-1788) — of Maryland. Born in Cambridge, Dorchester County, Md., December 3, 1733. Delegate to Continental Congress from Maryland, 1774-76; member of Maryland state senate, 1777-83. Episcopalian. Died in Dorchester County, Md., December 22, 1788 (age 55 years, 19 days). Interment at Christ Episcopal Church Cemetery, Cambridge, Md.
  Relatives: Third great-grandfather of Thomas Alan Goldsborough.
  Political family: Goldsborough-Henry family of Cambridge, Maryland (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
  James Duane (1733-1797) — of New York, New York County, N.Y. Born in New York, New York County, N.Y., February 6, 1733. Delegate to Continental Congress from New York, 1774-83; member of New York state senate Southern District, 1782-85, 1787-90; mayor of New York City, N.Y., 1784-89; delegate to New York convention to ratify U.S. constitution from New York County, 1788; U.S. District Judge for New York, 1790-94. Died February 1, 1797 (age 63 years, 361 days). Interment at Christ Episcopal Church, Duanesburg, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son-in-law of Robert Livingston; brother-in-law of Peter Robert Livingston and Walter Livingston; nephew by marriage of Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Philip Livingston and William Livingston; first cousin by marriage of Philip Peter Livingston and Henry Brockholst Livingston.
  Political family: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
  Matthew Clarkson (1733-1800) — of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa. Born in New York, New York County, N.Y., April, 1733. Delegate to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1785; mayor of Philadelphia, Pa., 1792-96. Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., October 5, 1800 (age 67 years, 0 days). Interment at Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Pa.
  Relatives: Son of Cornelia (DePeyster) Clarkson and Matthew Clarkson (1699-1739); married, June 13, 1753, to Mary Boude; nephew of Johannes DePeyster; grandson of Johannes de Peyster; grandnephew of Abraham de Peyster; first cousin of Henry Rutgers; first cousin once removed of Matthew Clarkson (1758-1825) and Philip DePeyster; first cousin five times removed of Peter Augustus Jay; second cousin of Pierre Van Cortlandt; second cousin once removed of Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, Robert Van Rensselaer, Philip Peter Livingston, James Livingston, John Stevens III, Philip Van Cortlandt and Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr.; second cousin twice removed of Robert R. Livingston, Edward Livingston, Peter Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Philip Jeremiah Schuyler, Maturin Livingston, William Alexander Duer, John Duer, Peter Gansevoort and Charles Ludlow Livingston; second cousin thrice removed of Philip Schuyler, James Alexander Hamilton, Peter Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Gerrit Smith, William Duer, Denning Duer and Elizabeth Cady Stanton; second cousin four times removed of John Jacob Astor III, Nicholas Fish, Hamilton Fish Jr. (1849-1936), John Kean, Cortlandt Schuyler Van Rensselaer and Hamilton Fish Kean; second cousin five times removed of William Waldorf Astor, Robert Ray Hamilton, Peter Goelet Gerry, Ogden Livingston Mills, Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991), Robert Reginald Livingston and Robert Winthrop Kean.
  Political families: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; Roosevelt family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Ezekiel Cornell (1733-1800) — of Rhode Island. Born in Dartmouth, Bristol County, Mass., March 27, 1733. Delegate to Continental Congress from Rhode Island, 1780-82. Died in Milford, Worcester County, Mass., April 25, 1800 (age 67 years, 29 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Richard Cornell and Content (Brownell) Cornell; married, March 25, 1760, to Rachel Wood; first cousin twice removed of Ezra Cornell; first cousin thrice removed of Alonzo Barton Cornell; first cousin four times removed of Gerothman W. Cornell, Francis Russell Edward Cornell, Carlos Wood Riddick and Florence Riddick Boys; first cousin five times removed of Thurber Cornell; second cousin twice removed of Daniel Burrows and Jared Lewis Rathbone; second cousin thrice removed of Lorenzo Burrows, Henry Reed Rathbone and Jared Lawrence Rathbone; second cousin four times removed of Dudley Emerson Cornell and Henry Riggs Rathbone; second cousin five times removed of George Robert Lawton and James Randall Durfee; third cousin once removed of Benjamin Hazard and Nathaniel Hazard; third cousin twice removed of Theodore Davenport, Augustus George Hazard and Rufus Wheeler Peckham; third cousin thrice removed of Thomas Cornell, Samuel Sherman, Rufus Wheeler Peckham Jr., Rodolph A. Woolsey and Albertus Crary Burdick.
  Political families: Cornell family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Cornell-Schilplin-Washburn-Burr family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
  Thomson Mason (1733-1785) — of Virginia. Born in Stafford County, Va., August 14, 1733. Lawyer; chief justice of Virginia state supreme court, 1770. Died in Stafford County, Va., February 26, 1785 (age 51 years, 196 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of George Mason (1690-1735) and Ann (Thomson) Mason; brother of George Mason (1725-1792); married 1758 to Mary King Barnes; married, November 23, 1777, to Elizabeth Westwood; father of Stevens Thomson Mason (1760-1803) and John Thomson Mason (1765-1824); grandfather of Armistead Thomson Mason, John Thomson Mason (1787-1850) and John Thomson Mason Jr.; granduncle of Thomson Francis Mason and James Murray Mason; great-grandfather of Stevens Thomson Mason (1811-1843); fourth great-grandfather of Jerauld Wright.
  Political family: Mason family of Virginia (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Paul Carrington (1733-1818) — of Charlotte County, Va. Born in Charlotte County, Va., March 16, 1733. Lawyer; member of Virginia House of Burgesses, 1760; delegate to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Charlotte County, 1788; Judge, Virginia Court of Appeals, 1789-1807; resigned 1807. Died in Halifax County, Va., June 23, 1818 (age 85 years, 99 days). Interment at Mulberry Hill Cemetery, Charlotte Court House, Va.
  Relatives: Son of George Carrington and Ann (Mayo) Carrington; married 1755 to Margaret Read; married 1792 to Pricilla Sims; father of Ann 'Nancy' Carrington (who married William Cabell Jr.); uncle of William Henry Cabell; granduncle of Edward Carrington Cabell; first cousin twice removed of Cameron Erskine Thom; first cousin thrice removed of Erskine Mayo Ross.
  Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd family of Virginia; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  William Anson Floyd (1734-1821) — also known as William Floyd — of New York. Born in Brookhaven, Suffolk County, Long Island, N.Y., December 17, 1734. Delegate to Continental Congress from New York, 1774-77, 1778-83; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of New York state senate, 1777-88, 1807-08 (Southern District 1777-88, Western District 1807-08); member of New York council of appointment, 1787; U.S. Representative from New York 1st District, 1789-91; candidate for Presidential Elector for New York; delegate to New York state constitutional convention, 1801. Presbyterian. Slaveowner. Died in Westernville, Oneida County, N.Y., August 4, 1821 (age 86 years, 230 days). Interment at Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Westernville, N.Y.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
  Relatives: Son of Tabitha (Smith) Floyd and Nicoll Floyd (1705-1755); married, August 23, 1760, to Hannah Jones; married, May 16, 1784, to Joanna Strong; father of Nicoll Floyd (1762-1852); grandfather of Frederick Augustus Tallmadge, David Gelston Floyd and John Gelston Floyd; granduncle of Charles Albert Floyd; third cousin once removed of Martin Keeler; third cousin twice removed of Stephen Hiram Keeler and Daniel Darling Whitney; third cousin thrice removed of Alfred Walstein Bangs and John Clarence Keeler.
  Political families: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Tallmadge-Floyd family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  The town of Floyd, New York, is named for him.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
  Robert Morris (1734-1806) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Liverpool, England, January 31, 1734. Delegate to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1776; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of Pennsylvania state house of representatives, 1785; member, U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, 1789-95. Episcopalian. English ancestry. Financier of the American Revolution, but went broke in the process. Imprisoned for debt from February 1798 to August 1801. Slaveowner. Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., May 8, 1806 (age 72 years, 97 days). Entombed at Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Pa.; statue at Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia, Pa.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
  Relatives: Son of Robert Morris (1711-1750) and Elizabeth (Murphet) Morris; married, March 2, 1769, to Mary White; father of Thomas Morris and Henrietta 'Hetty' Morris (who married James Markham Marshall); great-grandfather of John Augustine Marshall.
  Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Lee-Randolph family; Biddle-Randolph family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Morris Hall (dormitory, built 1926), at Harvard University Business School, Boston, Massachusetts, is named for him.
  Coins and currency: His portrait appeared on the U.S. $10 silver certificate in the 1870s and 1880s.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Books about Robert Morris: Charles Rappleye, Robert Morris: Financier of the American Revolution
  Francis Lightfoot Lee (1734-1797) — of Virginia. Born in Westmoreland County, Va., October 14, 1734. Member of Virginia House of Burgesses, 1764; Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1775-78; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of Virginia state senate, 1778. Died, from pleurisy, in Richmond County, Va., January 11, 1797 (age 62 years, 89 days). Interment a private or family graveyard, Richmond County, Va.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
  Relatives: Son of Thomas Lee and Hannah Harrison (Ludwell) Lee; brother of Richard Henry Lee and Arthur Lee; great-granduncle of Francis Preston Blair Lee; second great-granduncle of Edward Brooke Lee; third great-granduncle of Blair Lee III and Edward Brooke Lee Jr.; first cousin once removed of Thomas Sim Lee, Henry Lee, Charles Lee and Edmund Jennings Lee; first cousin twice removed of John Lee; first cousin thrice removed of Fitzhugh Lee; first cousin four times removed of Samuel Bullitt Churchill and John Lee Carroll; first cousin six times removed of Outerbridge Horsey; second cousin once removed of Zachary Taylor; second cousin twice removed of Thomas Leonidas Crittenden; second cousin thrice removed of Hancock Lee Jackson; second cousin four times removed of Abraham Lincoln, Elliot Woolfolk Major, James Sansome Lakin and Edgar Bailey Woolfolk; second cousin five times removed of Robert Todd Lincoln, Harrison Moore Lakin and James Offutt Lakin.
  Political families: Lee-Randolph family; Jackson-Lee family; Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
  John Adam Treutlen (1734-1782) — also known as John A. Treutlen; Hans Adam Treuettlen — of Georgia. Born in Kürnbach, Germany, January 16, 1734. Merchant; planter; justice of the peace; Governor of Georgia, 1777-78. Lutheran. German ancestry. Member, Freemasons. Seized and murdered by a group of men, probably in Savannah, Chatham County, Ga., March 1, 1782 (age 48 years, 44 days). Cenotaph at Veterans Park of Effingham County, Springfield, Ga.
  Relatives: Son of Johann Michael Treuettlen and Magdalena Klara (Job) Treuettlen; married 1756 to Margaretha Dupuis; great-granduncle by marriage of Charles Rittenhouse Pendleton.
  Political family: Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Treutlen County, Ga. is named for him.
  The World War II Liberty ship SS John A. Treutlen (built 1944 at Savannah, Georgia; torpedoed and wrecked in the English Channel, 1944; beached and scrapped) was named for him.
  See also National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Books about John Adam Treutlen: Helene M. Riley, John Adam Treutlen. The European Heritage of Georgia's First Governor
  Thomas Gantt Jr. (d. 1808) — of Prince George's County, Md. Member, Convention of 1774. Died in 1808. Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Married to Susannah Mackall (sister of Benjamin Mackall IV and Thomas Mackall).
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Daniel Boone (1734-1820) — Born in Berks County, Pa., November 2, 1734. Explorer and frontiersman; member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1781, 1787. English and Welsh ancestry. Died in St. Charles County, Mo., September 26, 1820 (age 85 years, 329 days). Original interment at a private or family graveyard, St. Charles County, Mo.; reinterment at Frankfort Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
  Relatives: Married to Rebecca Ann Bryan; father of Jessie Bryan Boone and Nathan Boone; grandfather of Harriett Morgan Boone (who married Hiram Howell Baber); granduncle of Levi Day Boone; second great-grandfather of Elmer Charless Henderson.
  Political families: Thomas-Smith-Irwin family of Pennsylvania; Boone family of St. Charles County, Missouri (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Boone counties in Ark., Ill., Ind., Ky., Mo., Neb. and W.Va. are named for him.
  The Daniel Boone National Forest (established 1937 as Cumberland National Forest; renamed 1966), in Bath, Clay, Estill, Harlan, Jackson, Knox, Laurel, Lee, Leslie, McCreary, Menifee, Morgan, Owsley, Perry, Powell, Pulaski, Rockcastle, Rowan, Wayne, Whitley, and Wolfe counties, Kentucky, is named for him.  — Boone Dam (built 1950-52), on the South Fork Holston River, in Sullivan and Washington counties, Tennessee, and the Boone Lake reservoir behind the dam, are named for him.
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Stephen Bullock (1735-1816) — of Rehoboth, Bristol County, Mass. Born in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Mass., October 10, 1735. Member of Massachusetts state legislature, 1770; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts at-large, 1797-99. Died in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Mass., February 2, 1816 (age 80 years, 115 days). Interment at Burial Place Hill, Rehoboth, Mass.
  Relatives: Son of Samuel Bullock and Anna (Salisbury) Bullock; married, October 30, 1760, to Mary Horton; granduncle of Nathaniel Bullock; great-granduncle of Jonathan Russell Bullock; first cousin thrice removed of Richmond Martin Bullock, Alexander Hamilton Bullock, Benjamin Kimball Bullock and Isaac Bullock; first cousin five times removed of William Johnson Bullock and Chandler Bullock; first cousin six times removed of James Robert Bullock.
  Political family: Bullock family of Massachusetts (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
John Adams John Adams (1735-1826) — also known as "His Rotundity"; "The Duke of Braintree"; "American Cato"; "Old Sink and Swim"; "The Colossus of Independence"; "Father of the American Navy" — of Quincy, Norfolk County, Mass. Born in Braintree (part now in Quincy), Norfolk County, Mass., October 30, 1735. Lawyer; Delegate to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1774-78; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; U.S. Minister to Netherlands, 1781-88; Great Britain, 1785-88; Vice President of the United States, 1789-97; President of the United States, 1797-1801; defeated (Federalist), 1800; delegate to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1820. Unitarian. English ancestry. Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1900. Died in Quincy, Norfolk County, Mass., July 4, 1826 (age 90 years, 247 days). Original interment at Hancock Cemetery, Quincy, Mass.; reinterment in 1828 at United First Parish Church, Quincy, Mass.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
  Relatives: Son of John Adams (1691-1761) and Susanna (Boylston) Adams; married, October 25, 1764, to Abigail Quincy Smith (aunt of William Cranch); father of Abigail Amelia Adams (who married William Stephens Smith) and John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) (who married Louisa Catherine Johnson); grandfather of George Washington Adams and Charles Francis Adams (1807-1886); great-grandfather of John Quincy Adams (1833-1894) and Brooks Adams; second great-grandfather of Charles Francis Adams (1866-1954); third great-grandfather of Thomas Boylston Adams; first cousin thrice removed of Edward M. Chapin; first cousin four times removed of Arthur Chapin; first cousin six times removed of Denwood Lynn Chapin; second cousin of Samuel Adams; second cousin once removed of Joseph Allen; second cousin twice removed of John Milton Thayer; second cousin thrice removed of William Vincent Wells; second cousin four times removed of Lyman Kidder Bass, Daniel T. Hayden, Arthur Laban Bates and Almur Stiles Whiting; second cousin five times removed of Charles Grenfill Washburn, Lyman Metcalfe Bass and Emerson Richard Boyles; third cousin of Thomas Cogswell (1799-1868); third cousin once removed of Jeremiah Mason, George Bailey Loring and Thomas Cogswell (1841-1904); third cousin twice removed of Asahel Otis, Erastus Fairbanks, Charles Stetson, Henry Brewster Stanton, Charles Adams Jr., Isaiah Stetson, Joshua Perkins, Eli Thayer and Bailey Frye Adams; third cousin thrice removed of Day Otis Kellogg, Dwight Kellogg, Caleb Stetson, Oakes Ames, Oliver Ames Jr., Benjamin W. Waite, Alfred Elisha Ames, George Otis Fairbanks, Austin Wells Holden, Horace Fairbanks, Ebenezer Oliver Grosvenor, Joseph Washburn Yates, Augustus Brown Reed Sprague, Franklin Fairbanks, Erskine Mason Phelps, Arthur Newton Holden, John Alden Thayer, Irving Hall Chase, Isaiah Kidder Stetson and Giles Russell Taggart.
  Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Adams counties in Idaho, Iowa, Miss., Neb., Ohio, Pa., Wash. and Wis. are named for him.
  Mount Adams (second highest peak in the Northeast), in the White Mountains, Coos County, New Hampshire, is named for him.  — The World War II Liberty ship SS John Adams (built 1941-42 at Richmond, California; torpedoed and lost in the Coral Sea, 1942) was named for him.
  Other politicians named for him: John Adams Harper — John A. Cameron — John A. Dix — John Adams Fisher — John A. Taintor — John A. Gilmer — John A. Perkins — John Adams Hyman — John A. Damon — John A. Lee — John A. Sanders — John Adams Hurson
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
  Books about John Adams: John Ferling, John Adams: A Life — Joseph J. Ellis, The Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams — David McCullough, John Adams — Gore Vidal, Inventing A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson — John Ferling, Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 — James Grant, John Adams : Party of One
  Image source: Portrait & Biographical Album of Washtenaw County (1891)
  George Plater (1735-1792) — of Maryland. Born near Leonardtown, St. Mary's County, Md., November 8, 1735. Lawyer; delegate to Maryland state constitutional convention, 1776; member of Maryland state senate, 1777-90; Delegate to Continental Congress from Maryland, 1778-80; delegate to Maryland convention to ratify U.S. constitution, 1788; candidate for Presidential Elector for Maryland; Governor of Maryland, 1791-92; died in office 1792. Anglican. Died in Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Md., February 10, 1792 (age 56 years, 94 days). Interment a private or family graveyard, St. Mary's County, Md.
  Relatives: Son of George Bowles Plater and Rebecca (Addison) Plater; married, December 5, 1762, to Hannah Lee; married, July 17, 1764, to Elizabeth Anne Rousby; father of Rebecca Plater (who married Uriah Forrest), Thomas Plater and Ann Plater (who married Philip Barton Key).
  Political family: Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  John Cantine (1735-1808) — of Ulster County, N.Y. Born in Marbletown, Ulster County, N.Y., October 20, 1735. Member of New York state assembly from Ulster County, 1777-78, 1779-81, 1783-85, 1786-89; delegate to New York convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Ulster County, 1788; member of New York state senate Middle District, 1789-97; member of New York council of appointment, 1790; elected U.S. Representative from New York 7th District 1801, but never took office. Died April 30, 1808 (age 72 years, 193 days). Interment at Quick Cemetery, Caroline, N.Y.
  Relatives: Brother of Matthew Cantine and Peter Cantine Jr.; father of Moses I. Cantine.
  Political family: Cantine family of Marbletown, New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Richard Henderson (1735-1785) — of Granville County, N.C. Born in Hanover County, Va., April 20, 1735. Lawyer; superior court judge in North Carolina, 1768-73; member of North Carolina house of commons from Granville County, 1781. Anglican. Pioneer and colonizer in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Kentucky; organized what became known as the Transylvania Land Company, which made treaties with the Cherokees, hired Daniel Boone as advance agent to blaze a trail through the Cumberland Gap, and created Transylvania Colony in Kentucky and Tennessee. Died in Granville County, N.C., January 30, 1785 (age 49 years, 285 days). Interment a private or family graveyard, Vance County, N.C.
  Relatives: Brother of Thomas Henderson; father of Archibald Henderson and Leonard Henderson; double first cousin of John Williams of Montpelier; first cousin of John Williams, Nathaniel Williams Jr., Robert Williams and Joseph Williams of Shallow Ford.
  Political family: Williams family of North Carolina (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Thomas Seymour (1735-1829) — of Hartford, Hartford County, Conn. Born in Hartford, Hartford County, Conn., March 17, 1735. Lawyer; mayor of Hartford, Conn., 1774-1812; resigned 1812; member of Connecticut state house of representatives, 1789-1812; member of Connecticut council of assistants, 1793-1802; county judge in Connecticut, 1798-1803. Died in Hartford, Hartford County, Conn., July 30, 1829 (age 94 years, 135 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Thomas Seymour (1705-1767) and Hepzibah (Merrill) Seymour; married to Mary Ann Ledyard; grandfather of Thomas Henry Seymour; first cousin twice removed of David Lowrey Seymour; first cousin thrice removed of Caleb Seymour Pitkin; second cousin of Moses Seymour; second cousin once removed of Horatio Seymour (1778-1857) and Henry Seymour; second cousin twice removed of Origen Storrs Seymour, Horatio Seymour (1810-1886), Hezekiah Cook Seymour, George Seymour, McNeil Seymour and Henry William Seymour; second cousin thrice removed of Silas Seymour, Edward Woodruff Seymour, Augustus Sherrill Seymour, Joseph Battell, Morris Woodruff Seymour, Horatio Seymour Jr. and Norman Alexander Seymour; second cousin four times removed of Orlo Erland Wadhams; second cousin five times removed of Dalton G. Seymour; third cousin once removed of Orsamus Cook Merrill and Timothy Merrill; third cousin twice removed of Farrand Fassett Merrill and William Sheffield Cowles (1846-1923); third cousin thrice removed of Charles Seymour, John Sammis Seymour and William Sheffield Cowles (1898-1986).
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Murphy-Merrill family of Harbor Beach, Michigan (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  William Russell (1735-1793) — Born in Culpeper County, Va., March 6, 1735. General in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1785; member of Virginia state senate, 1788-91. Died in Shenandoah County, Va., January 14, 1793 (age 57 years, 314 days). Original interment in unknown location; reinterment at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
  Relatives: Married 1755 to Tabitha Adams; married 1783 to Elizabeth (Henry) Campbell (sister of Patrick Henry; widow of William Campbell); father of William Russell (1758-1825); great-grandfather of Carter Henry Harrison; second great-grandfather of Carter Henry Harrison II.
  Political families: Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Lee-Randolph family; Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd family of Virginia; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Monroe-Grayson-Roosevelt-Breckinridge family of Virginia and Kentucky; Ewing-Matthews-Watterson-Harrison family (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Russell County, Va. is named for him.
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  John Brown (1736-1803) — of Rhode Island. Born in Providence, Providence County, R.I., January 27, 1736. Merchant; banker; member of Rhode Island state house of representatives, 1782-84; U.S. Representative from Rhode Island at-large, 1799-1801. Slaveowner. Died in Providence, Providence County, R.I., September 20, 1803 (age 67 years, 236 days). Interment at North Burial Ground, Providence, R.I.
  Relatives: Son of James Browne and Hope (Power) Browne; uncle of Benjamin Brown; grandfather of John Brown Francis; second cousin twice removed of John Appleton and Jane Pierce; second cousin four times removed of Daniel Parrish Witter and Arthur Taggard Appleton; third cousin twice removed of William Sprague (1799-1856); third cousin thrice removed of Augustus Brown Reed Sprague and William Sprague (1830-1915).
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Sprague family of Providence, Rhode Island; Biddle-Randolph family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton family of Massachusetts; Beakes-Greene-Witter family; Shippen-Middleton family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
  William Grayson (1736-1790) — of Virginia. Born in Prince William County, Va., 1736. Lawyer; colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1784-85, 1788; Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1785-87; U.S. Senator from Virginia, 1789-90; died in office 1790. Slaveowner. Died in Dumfries, Prince William County, Va., March 12, 1790 (age about 53 years). Interment a private or family graveyard, Prince William County, Va.
  Relatives: Son of Benjamin Grayson and Susannah (Monroe) Grayson; married to Eleanor Smallwood (sister of William Smallwood); father of Alfred William Grayson; uncle of Alexander Dalrymple Orr and Beverly Robinson Grayson; grandfather of William Grayson Carter; second great-grandfather of Carter Henry Harrison II; second great-granduncle of John Brady Grayson; first cousin once removed of James Monroe (1758-1831); first cousin twice removed of Thomas Bell Monroe and James Monroe (1799-1870); first cousin thrice removed of John Strother Pendleton, Albert Gallatin Pendleton and Victor Monroe; first cousin five times removed of Theodore Douglas Robinson, Sidney Fletcher Taliaferro and Corinne Robinson Alsop; first cousin six times removed of Corinne A. Chubb and John deKoven Alsop.
  Political families: Roosevelt family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Monroe-Grayson-Roosevelt-Breckinridge family of Virginia and Kentucky (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Grayson counties in Ky. and Va. are named for him.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Benjamin Huntington (1736-1800) — of Norwich, New London County, Conn. Born in Norwich, New London County, Conn., April 19, 1736. Member of Connecticut state house of representatives, 1771-80; Delegate to Continental Congress from Connecticut, 1780-84, 1787-88; member of Connecticut council of assistants, 1781-89, 1791-92; mayor of Norwich, Conn., 1784-96; U.S. Representative from Connecticut at-large, 1789-91; superior court judge in Connecticut, 1793-98. Died in Rome, Oneida County, N.Y., October 16, 1800 (age 64 years, 180 days). Interment at Norwichtown Cemetery, Norwich, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of Daniel Huntington and Rachel (Wolcott) Huntington; married, May 5, 1765, to Anne Huntington; father of Henry Huntington and Gurdon Huntington; grandfather of Benjamin Nicoll Huntington; fourth great-grandfather of Randolph Appleton Kidder; first cousin once removed of Samuel Huntington; first cousin twice removed of Ebenezer Huntington, Samuel H. Huntington and Abel Huntington; first cousin thrice removed of William Woodbridge, Jabez Williams Huntington, Isaac Backus, Nathaniel Huntington, James Huntington, Joseph Lyman Huntington, Charles Phelps Huntington, Elisha Mills Huntington and Henry Titus Backus; first cousin four times removed of Collins Dwight Huntington, George Milo Huntington and William Clark Huntington; first cousin five times removed of Roger Wolcott, William Barret Ridgely, Josiah Quincy, Henry Arthur Huntington and Arthur Evarts Lord; first cousin six times removed of Austin Eugene Lathrop, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John Foster Dulles, Allen Welsh Dulles and Helen Huntington Hull; first cousin seven times removed of James Roosevelt, Elliott Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.; second cousin twice removed of John Davenport, James Davenport, Augustus Seymour Porter (1769-1849) and Peter Buell Porter; second cousin thrice removed of Samuel Lathrop, Bela Edgerton, Theodore Davenport, Augustus Seymour Porter (1798-1872), Peter Buell Porter Jr., Philo Fairchild Barnum, Phineas Taylor Barnum and Peter Augustus Porter (1827-1864); second cousin four times removed of Heman Ticknor, Alfred Peck Edgerton, Joseph Ketchum Edgerton, William Henry Barnum, Ulysses Simpson Grant, Augustus Frank, Rhamanthus Menville Stocker and Peter Augustus Porter (1853-1925); second cousin five times removed of Samuel Lathrop Bronson, Frederick Dent Grant, Charles William Barnum, Ulysses Simpson Grant Jr., Clement Phineas Kellogg, Herbert Vinton Beardsley, Hiram Bingham and Clarence Elmer Sargent.
  Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
  Andrew Adams (1736-1797) — of Litchfield, Litchfield County, Conn. Born in Stratford, Fairfield County, Conn., January 7, 1736. Lawyer; colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of Connecticut state house of representatives, 1776-81; Speaker of the Connecticut State House of Representatives, 1779-80; Delegate to Continental Congress from Connecticut, 1777-82; signer, Articles of Confederation, 1778; member of Connecticut council of assistants, 1781-89; superior court judge in Connecticut, 1789-97; died in office 1797. Died in Litchfield, Litchfield County, Conn., November 26, 1797 (age 61 years, 323 days). Interment at East Cemetery, Litchfield, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of Samuel Adams and Mary (Fairchild) Adams; married 1765 to Eunice Booth; second great-grandfather of Charles Willoughby Dayton; first cousin thrice removed of Rhamanthus Menville Stocker; first cousin six times removed of Henry Perkins Smith III; second cousin once removed of Nathan Appleton; second cousin thrice removed of Harrison Blodget and Rush Green Leaming; second cousin four times removed of Lucian Dallas Woodruff, Walter Harrison Blodget and George Winthrop Fairchild; second cousin five times removed of Ira R. Wildman, Daniel Parrish Witter and Edmund Park Kellogg; third cousin thrice removed of Alfred Avery Burnham.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Choate family of Salem, Massachusetts (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
Patrick Henry Patrick Henry (1736-1799) — of Prince Edward County, Va. Born in Studley, Hanover County, Va., May 29, 1736. Lawyer; planter; member of Virginia House of Burgesses, 1765; Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1774; general in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Governor of Virginia, 1776-79, 1784-86; delegate to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Prince Edward County, 1788; member of Virginia state senate, 1799. Scottish and English ancestry. Elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1920. Died near Brookneal, Campbell County, Va., June 6, 1799 (age 63 years, 8 days). Interment a private or family graveyard, Charlotte County, Va.
  Relatives: Son of John Henry and Sarah (Syme) Henry; brother of Anne Henry (1738-1790; who married William Christian) and Elizabeth Henry (who married William Russell and William Campbell); married 1754 to Sarah Shelton; married, October 25, 1777, to Dorothea Dandridge; father of Anne Henry (who married Spencer Roane); uncle of Priscilla Christian (who married Alexander Scott Bullitt) and Sarah Buchanan Campbell (who married Francis Smith Preston); grandfather of William Henry Roane; granduncle of Valentine Wood Southall, William Campbell Preston, Samuel Meredith Garland (1802-1880) and John Smith Preston; great-granduncle of Stephen Valentine Southall, Robert Jefferson Breckinridge Jr. and William Campbell Preston Breckinridge; second great-granduncle of Samuel Meredith Garland (1861-1945), Levin Irving Handy, Desha Breckinridge and Henry Skillman Breckinridge; third great-grandfather of Robert Lee Henry; cousin *** of Isaac Coles.
  Political family: Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd family of Virginia (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Henry counties in Ala., Ga., Ill., Ind., Ky., Mo., Ohio, Tenn. and Va. are named for him.
  Other politicians named for him: Patrick H. Davis — Patrick Henry — Patrick H. Roche — Patrick H. McCarren — Patrick H. McGarry — Patrick Henry — Patrick Henry McCarthy — Patrick Henry Callahan — Patrick H. Kelley — Patrick H. O'Brien — P. H. Moynihan — Patrick H. Quinn — Patrick H. Drewry — Patrick Henry Kennedy — J. H. Culkin — Dat Barthel
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Books about Patrick Henry: Harlow Giles Unger, Lion of Liberty: Patrick Henry and the Call to a New Nation — Thomas S. Kidd, Patrick Henry: First Among Patriots
  Image source: The South in the Building of the Nation (1909)
  Carter Braxton (1736-1797) — of Virginia. Born in King and Queen County, Va., September 16, 1736. Member of Virginia House of Burgesses, 1761-75; Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1775-76; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776. Died in Richmond, Va., October 10, 1797 (age 61 years, 24 days). Interment a private or family graveyard, King William County, Va.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
  Relatives: Son of George Braxton and Mary (Carter) Braxton; married 1755 to Judith Robinson; married 1761 to Elizabeth Corbin; grandfather-in-law of William Brockenbrough; grandfather of Mary Page White (who married Andrew Stevenson); great-grandfather of John White Brockenbrough, John White Stevenson and Elliott Muse Braxton; ancestor *** of William Tyler Page.
  Political families: Tyler family of Virginia; Brockenbrough-Stevenson-Braxton-Tyler family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Braxton County, W.Va. is named for him.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
  Titus Hosmer (1736-1780) — of Middletown, Middlesex County, Conn. Born in West Hartford, Hartford County, Conn., 1736. Lawyer; member of Connecticut state house of representatives, 1773-78; Speaker of the Connecticut State House of Representatives, 1776-78; Delegate to Continental Congress from Connecticut, 1775-76, 1777-79; member of Connecticut council of assistants, 1778-80; died in office 1780. Died in Middletown, Middlesex County, Conn., August 4, 1780 (age about 44 years). Interment at Mortimer Cemetery, Middletown, Conn.
  Relatives: Father of Stephen Titus Hosmer.
  Political family: Hosmer-Griswold-Parsons family of Middletown, Connecticut (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
  James Clinton (1736-1812) — of Ulster County, N.Y.; Orange County, N.Y. Born in Little Britain, Orange County, N.Y., August 9, 1736. General in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of New York state assembly, 1787-88, 1800-01 (Ulster County 1787-88, Orange County 1800-01); delegate to New York convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Ulster County, 1788; member of New York state senate Middle District, 1788-92; delegate to New York state constitutional convention, 1801. Died in Little Britain, Orange County, N.Y., December 22, 1812 (age 76 years, 135 days). Original interment at Clinton Cemetery, Little Britain, N.Y.; reinterment in 1879 at Woodlawn Cemetery, New Windsor, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Charles Clinton (1690-1773) and Elizabeth (Denniston) Clinton; brother of George Clinton; married to Mary DeWitt; father of Charles Clinton (1767-1829), De Witt Clinton, George Clinton Jr., Mary Clinton (who married Ambrose Spencer (1765-1848)), Katherine Clinton (who married Ambrose Spencer (1765-1848)) and James Graham Clinton; grandfather of George William Clinton.
  Political families: Clinton-DeWitt family of New York; DeWitt-Bruyn-Hasbrouck-Kellogg family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article
  Jonathan Griffin Tompkins (1736-1823) — also known as Jonathan G. Tompkins — of Westchester County, N.Y. Born in Eastchester, Westchester County (now part of Bronx, Bronx County), N.Y., June 8, 1736. Member of New York state assembly from Westchester County, 1780-82, 1785-88, 1790-92. Died in White Plains, Westchester County, N.Y., May 22, 1823 (age 86 years, 348 days). Interment at First Presbyterian Church Cemetery, White Plains, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Joshua Tompkins and Sarah (Ogden) Tompkins; married 1758 to Sarah Ann Hyatt; father of Caleb Tompkins and Daniel D. Tompkins (who married Hannah Tompkins); grandfather of Mangle Minthorne Tompkins; second great-grandfather of Guy Vernor Henry.