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 A few well-known people have been discovered to be relatives:

 

Ellen MacGregor (1906-1954)        Early science-fiction children's author.  Wrote Miss Pickerell books.

 

Dr. Stephen Tainter (1752-1847)    Through the Noble side, fought in the Revolutionary War.

 

Governor Robert Treat (1621-1710) was Deputy Governor of Connecticut from 1678-1683, Governor from 1683 to 1698, and Deputy Governor again from 1698-1708.

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Robert Treat Paine                           Through the Ives side, signer of the Declaration of Independence.

                                                            Colonial Hall Biography

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                                                            Elegiac Sonnet

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Lousia May Alcott (1832-1888)       On the Ives side (Street), author of Little Women.

 

Zephaniah (1761-1841), Samuel (1729-1791) & Caleb (1695-1789) Hull,

Through the Ives side, fought in the Revolutionary War.

 

King Henry Plantagenet, Eleanor of Aquataine, Richard the Lionhearted, and King John Lackland (the bad guy in Robin Hood)

Through the Ives side.

 

Frank Goodwin (1865-1954), John Goodwin (1867-1940), and Ervin Goodwin (1869-1937)

Designed, built, and operated the Pike Place Market in Seattle.

 

Susannah North Martin                     Through the Goodwin side, sentenced in the Salem Witch trials to be hung until dead

 

Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957)   Through the Goodwin side (Colby) children’s author (Little House on the Prairie).  7th cousin of Mary Margaret Goodwin

 

Chester Arthur (1830-1886)            Through the Goodwin side (Hadley and Colby), President of the United States.  5th cousin of Frank Goodwin

 

Hannah (1760-?) and Thomas Lisson (1773-1827), Ann Bradwell (1770-1860) & William Hopkins (1797-1862)

Through the Bonamy side, sentenced to be shipped as the convicts to Australia.