CEHTS

Notable figures:

Relation to Education in America:

Carnegie Mellon University.

• A founder, Andrew Carnegie founded the university. Andrew is a common ancestor of ours via our ancestor Rt. Hon. David Carnegie.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

• The Institute was founded by our common ancestor Stephen Van Rensselaer (brother-in-law of Alexander Hamilton) via Killarney van Rensselaer, our ancestor.

Harvard University.

• Ann Sadler (our ancestor) was the widow of John Harvard. Her husband (after John) was well acquainted with John and played an important role in executing John’s will.

Brown University

• Nicholas Brown the namesake of the university, is a common ancestor of ours via our ancestor Chad Brown.

Cornell University

• Founder Ezra Cornell is a common ancestor of ours via our ancestor Thomas Cornell.

Princeton University

• William III of England is a common ancestor of ours via our ancestor William “the Silent”.

William & Mary University

• William III & Mary II of England, same as above.

Rutgers University

• Henry Rutgers, the person of whom is honored with the naming of the college is a common ancestor of our ancestor Rutger Jacobsen (Van SCHOENDERWOERDT)

Yale University

• Elihu Yale was the son in law of our ancestor Nathaniel Turner. Another ancestor Abraham Pierson was the father of Abraham Pierson II, a founder of Yale University.

Boston Latin School

• Schoolmaster (and ancestor of ours) Ezekiel Cheever, taught there for 38 years early on, teaching a total of 70 years..

Washington & Lee University

• Thomas Lewis, our ancestor was a founding trustee member of Liberty Hall which later became the aforementioned university.

Dartmouth University and

Moor’s Charity School

• Founder Eleazar Wheelock’s first wife was Sarah Davenport. She was the great granddaughter of our ancestor Rev. Abraham Pierson.

Columbia University

• Dr. Samuel Johnson, founder, is the great-grandson of Deacon Francis Bushnell, our ancestor.

University of Pennsylvania

• Founded by our common ancestor Benjamin Franklin via his 3 times great grandfather Walter Edward Thomas Franklyne, our ancestor.

University of Maryland

• Charles Benedict Calvert founder and first acting president of Maryland Agricultural College (the university’s forerunner) is a common ancestor of ours via our ancestor George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore.

Important direct American ancestors of ours

Native Americans We Directly Descend From:

• Chief (Sachem)”King” Canonicus

• John Yanno Sagamore CHIEF OF THE CUMMAQUID INDIAN TRIBE *HYANNO SACHEM

• Princess Mary Epenow (Noepe) *INDIAN PRINCESS OF THE WAMPANOAG TRIBE

• Miantenomi Wesson Suoum ,Chief of the Narangasett

• Mary Ann Little Dove

• Little Berry

American Governors We Directly Descend From:

• Richard Treat

• Robert Treat

• John Winthrop

• Edmund Tapp

• John Haynes

• Andrew Warde

• Thomas Roberts Sr.

• Col. Lewis Morris II

• John Leverett

• William Mickel Clayton

• Roger Ludlow

• Sir Ralph Lane

• John Greene II

American Mayors We Directly Descend From:

• Stephanus Van Cortlandt, (Mayor of New York City), first native New Yorker to be Mayor.

Mayflower Passengers We Directly Descend From:

• John Howland

• Elizabeth Tilley

• John Tilley

• Richard More

• Thomas Matthew Rogers

• Not! Christopher Martin

• Thomas English

• John Vassal

• Resolved White

• William Brewster

• Joan Hurst

• John Thomas Clark

Other Noteable Americans We Descend From:

• Henry Leonard, “Father of American Iron” (Progenitor of Leonard family Iron workers)

• Joseph “Injun Joe” Studebaker Sr. (Founder of Studebaker carriages. What became the famous automobile company.)

• Rev. John Obadiah Holmes

• Alice Martin Bishop (Murderer)

• Martha Carrier (Hanged at Salem Witch Trials)

• ‘David “Robber” Lewis (Murderer, Robber, Counterfeiter)

• William Bradford (Famous American Printer)

• Jesse De Forrest

• Jean De La Montagne

People We Don’t Directly Descend From, but are Blood Relatives Of Ours Through Shared Ancestry And Are Notable To America; Historical:

• Walter Chauncey Camp (the “Father of American Football”)

• Alexander Joy Cartwright Jr. (Inventor of baseball)

• Dr. James Naismith

• President George Washinto

• William Penn

• “The Signer” John Hancock

• President John Adams

• President Abraham Lincoln

Families We Directly Descend From:

• Schuyler family

• Rensselaer Family

• Van Cartland family

Veterens of the United States military we descend from:

• Sgt. Paul J. Hinkel

• Homer J. Mcmurdy

• Benjamin F. Smith

• James Martin Mcmurdy

• Walter J. Barton

• Charles C. Watt

• Henry Henkel

• William Wallace Gardner

• James Quinn

• John Forsyth

• Sgt. Patrick H. Reardon

• Adam Maughiman

• Heinrich M. Shuster

• George Mcmurdy

• Isaac Brade Porter

• Isaac Mcmurdy Jr.

• Alexander Porter Sr.

• John Peter Walter Sr.

• James Mcmurdy

• Rev. William Martin Sr.

• Samuel Porter

• James Braden

• Jacob L. Walter

• William Campbell Schultz

• Joseph Schultz

• John Knisely Jr.

• John Knisely

• John George Knisely

• Adam Lower

• George Beeler

• Nathaniel Wilbur Barton

• Dr. Smith Barton

• Dr. Amos Barton

• Dr. Lewis Barton

• Henry David Crane

• David Wilbur

• John R. Holloway Crane

• Capt. William Day

• Allen Perley Sr.

• John Fowler Jr.

• Noah Crane

• Capt. Stephen Day

• John Bonnell

• Jon Caitlin

• James Catlin

• Johnathon Catlin

• Isaac A Ogden

• Warren Kimball

• Ebenezer Kimball

• Johnathon Catlin Sr.

• John Layton

• John Kester

• Capt. Boyce Kimball

• John Thomas Brooks

• Robert Brooks

• James M. Benton II

• John Benson Smith

• John Warren Parcells

• Rev. Solomon White

• Thomas V. Parcells

• Peter Parcel

• Samuel Darling

• Samuel Lyon Darling

• Levi Pawling Graham

• William Cowden

• Lieut Daniel Graham

• Joseph Darling

• Thomas Clark

• Joseph Sprague Sr.

• Jonathon White

• Thomas Parcells

• William Litts

• Richard Parsells

• Lieut. John Graham II

• Isaac Jacobse Dekker/Decker

• Capt. David Cowden

• John Crawford

• James A. Watt

• William B. Watts

• Hugh Watts

• Alexander MacDougall

• Duncan MacDougall

• John Angus MacDonald

• William Adams

• John Jacob Cover

• Adam Pisor

• Joseph Studebaker

• John Moon

• Corp. George Moon

• Col. Johan Peter Trexler (the younger)

• Johan Peter Trexler (the elder)

• John Casper Wink

• Johann Heinrich/Henry Grimm

• Jesse G. Palmer

• Joseph John Moses Kelly

• James Hawthorn

• John Palmer

• Capt. Jacob Martin

• Henry Andrew Martin

• Lieut. John Foster Jr.

• John S. Stewart Sr.

• Thomas S. Stewart

• John P. Guyer Sr.

• Lieut. Col. William Stewart

• Lieut. Thomas B. Mckibben

• Johann Peter Geyer

• Maria M. Keyser

• Pvt. Daniel Basore

• John Thomas McKibben

• David Allen Jr.

• William White

• James Isaac White

• Thomas White

• Jacob Bitner

• John Henry Bitner Jr.

• Jacob Harshberger

• Captain Thomas White

• John Gailey White Sr.

• Jacob G. Hershberger

• Lieut John Arthur Park

• Thomas Hope

Loyalists of the Revolutionary War:

• David Beilman Hess

• Joseph Oliver Lyon

• William Hitchcock

Deserter:

• David Lewis (Deserted twice. Secondly, used false name upon entry).