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.

Stanford University

• Stanford University was named after Amasa Leland Stanford and his wife Jane Elizabeth Lathrop’s son whom died tragically. They are both in our family tree.

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

• Robert “King” Carter

American Mayors We Directly Descend From:

• Stephanus Van Cortlandt, (Mayor of New York City), first native New Yorker to be Mayor.
• Thomas Davall (2, 9, 12th Mayor of New York City.

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

• Charles E. Hinkel (Father)

• Wanda D. H. Mcmurdy (Mother)

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

• No fewer than 2 dozen Declaration of Independence signers

• President of the Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis

• General Robert Edward Lee
• Aaron Burr
• Valentine Shallus (Penman of the Constitution of the United States of America)
• John Trumbull (the famous Painter)

Americon 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).