Re: Bored
- From: "tomorrow@xxxxxxxxx" <tomorrow@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:06:03 -0800
On Nov 12, 9:50 am, "Albrecht via MotorcycleKB.com" <u33665@uwe>
wrote:
My direct ancestor, Richard Warren, signed the Mayflower Compact, which was
an agreement
to make the best of a bad situation and settle in Massachusetts instead of
forcing the captain to
carry them on to "northern Virginia". He was with Miles Standish when the
first party of ten Pilgrims
landed at Cape Cod in 1620. Nineteen of the signers of the Mayflower Compact
survived the first
winter. He lived until 1623 and would have known Tisquantum and would have
been at the first
Thanksgiving.
Richard Warren's wife, Elizabeth Walker, arrived in Massachusetts aboard The
Anne, with other prominent
colonists, among whom were the Delanos. All of Richard Warren's children
survived to adulthood, married, and also had large families. It is claimed
that Warren has the largest posterity of any pilgrim, numbering 14 million,
the Mayflower passenger with more descendants than any other passenger.
Among his descendants are: Civil War general and U.S. President Ulysses S.
Grant, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, astronaut Alan Shepard, author Laura
Ingalls Wilder, actor Richard Gere, actress Joanne Woodward, writers Henry
David Thoreau and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Lavinia Warren (the wife of
"General Tom Thumb"), aviator Amelia Earhart, actor Orson Welles, United
States Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan, the Wright Brothers,
Tonight Show host Johnny Carson, chef Julia Child, Irish President Erskine
Hamilton Childers, inventor Lee DeForest, and many more. A detailed genealogy
of just the first five generations takes up three volumes
And just think. Not one of *them* is bragging about having *you*
skulking about in THEIR geneolgies!
.
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