Direct Ancestors
Each traces generation by generation to John, Perry, and Patrick Long.
Rev. John Robinson
c. 1576-1625 · Pilgrim pastor at Leiden
11th great-grandfather. Pastor of the Leiden congregation from which the Mayflower Pilgrims sailed; the line runs through his son Isaac into the maternal Swift family.
Source: Walter H. Burgess, John Robinson, Pastor of the Pilgrim Fathers (1920)
View the proof →Degory Priest
1579-1621 · Mayflower passenger
11th great-grandfather. Came on the Mayflower in 1620 and died the first winter.
Source: Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, vol. 8: Degory Priest (GSMD, 2008)
View the proof →Francis Cooke
1583-1663 · Mayflower passenger
12th great-grandfather. Came on the Mayflower in 1620.
Source: Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, vol. 12: Francis Cooke (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2014)
View the proof →Richard Warren
c. 1583-1628 · Mayflower passenger
12th great-grandfather. Came on the Mayflower in 1620.
Source: Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, vol. 18: Richard Warren (GSMD, 2004)
View the proof →Zacharie Cloutier
c. 1590-1677 · Master carpenter, pioneer at Beauport
10th great-grandfather. Came to New France in 1634 under contract with Robert Giffard, seigneur of Beauport.
Source: Honorius Provost, “Cloutier, Zacharie,” Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 1
View the proof →Stukely Westcott
1592-1677 · Proprietor of Providence
10th great-grandfather. One of the thirteen original proprietors of Providence; later of Warwick, Rhode Island.
Source: Roscoe L. Whitman, History and Genealogy of the Ancestors and Some Descendants of Stukely Westcott (1932)
View the proof →Richard Swain
1595-1682 · Purchaser of Nantucket
10th great-grandfather. One of the nine purchasers of Nantucket in 1659.
Source: Alexander Starbuck, The History of Nantucket (1924), 17-19
View the proof →George Soule
c. 1600-1679 · Mayflower passenger
11th great-grandfather. Came on the Mayflower in 1620.
Source: Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, vol. 3: George Soule (GSMD, 1980)
View the proof →Edward Starbuck
1603-1690 · Nantucket proprietor
11th great-grandfather. Sailed with Tristram Coffin in 1659 to view Nantucket, and became Thomas Macy's partner in the purchase.
Source: Alexander Starbuck, The History of Nantucket (1924), 17
View the proof →Tristram Coffin
c. 1605-1681 · Founder and first Chief Magistrate of Nantucket
10th great-grandfather. Organized the 1659 purchase of Nantucket; commissioned Chief Magistrate in 1671.
Source: Alexander Starbuck, The History of Nantucket (1924), 17-19; Franklin B. Hough, Papers Relating to the Island of Nantucket (1856), 30-31
View the proof →Thomas Macy II
1608-1682 · Purchaser of Nantucket
10th great-grandfather. One of the nine purchasers of Nantucket in 1659.
Source: Alexander Starbuck, The History of Nantucket (1924), 17-19
View the proof →John Cooke
c. 1607-1695 · Mayflower passenger
11th great-grandfather. Came on the Mayflower in 1620 as a boy, with his father Francis Cooke.
Source: Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, vol. 12: Francis Cooke (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2014)
View the proof →Isaac Robinson
c. 1610-c. 1704 · Plymouth Colony settler
10th great-grandfather. Son of Rev. John Robinson; settled in Plymouth Colony and on Cape Cod.
Source: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins, vol. 3 (1995), 1590-92
View the proof →Peter Folger
1617-1690 · Interpreter and surveyor, Nantucket
10th great-grandfather. Interpreter on the 1659 voyage to Nantucket, and one of those appointed to measure its land.
Source: Alexander Starbuck, The History of Nantucket (1924), 17, 22
View the proof →Herodias Long
c. 1623-after 1674 · Dissenter
10th great-grandmother. Whipped at Weymouth and Boston in the 1650s for dissent; subject of a modern biography.
Source: JoAnn Butler, Rebel Puritan: A Scandalous Life
View the proof →Nathaniel Starbuck I
1636-1719 · Town clerk of Nantucket
10th great-grandfather. Son of Edward Starbuck; recorded as Nantucket's town clerk in 1713.
Source: Alexander Starbuck, The History of Nantucket (1924), 96
View the proof →Mary Coffin Starbuck
1645-1717 · Leading figure of early Nantucket
10th great-grandmother. Tristram Coffin's daughter, wife of Nathaniel Starbuck I; a visitor in 1701 found the islanders esteemed her “as a Judge among them.”
Source: Alexander Starbuck, The History of Nantucket (1924), 520, 699
View the proof →Robert Cathcart of Tisbury
c. 1650-1718 · Town clerk of Tisbury
9th great-grandfather. Innkeeper and town clerk of Tisbury, Martha's Vineyard, from 1693 until his death.
Source: Charles E. Banks, The History of Martha's Vineyard, vol. 2, 277-78; vol. 3, 95-98
View the proof →Capt. Josiah Westcott
c. 1675-1721 · Militia captain, Warwick
8th great-grandfather. Surveyor and militia captain of Warwick, Rhode Island.
Source: Roscoe L. Whitman, History and Genealogy of the Ancestors and Some Descendants of Stukely Westcott (1932), vol. 1, 181
View the proof →Capt. Barber Peckham
c. 1756-1807 · Captain, Rhode Island
6th great-grandfather. A Rhode Island captain; father of Mary Peckham, through whom the line runs.
Source: Charles Wesley Peckham, The Peckham Family, 227-28
View the proof →Leroy E. Swift
1836-after 1874 · Acting Ensign, U.S. Navy
3rd great-grandfather. Acting Ensign in the U.S. Navy during and after the Civil War.
Source: Edward W. Callahan, List of Officers of the Navy of the United States and of the Marine Corps, 1775-1900, 531
View the proof →Col. Charles F. Perry Jr.
1895-1967 · Colonel, Army of the United States
Great-grandfather. A Field Artillery officer from 1917 and of the Massachusetts National Guard; retired a Colonel in 1947.
Source: Official Army Register, retired lists, 1951-1967; Official National Guard Register, 1939, 600
View the proof →Documented Cousins
Collateral kin reached through a shared ancestor rather than direct descent.
James Coffin
1640-1720 · Judge of Probate, Nantucket
10th great-uncle. Tristram Coffin's son, who filled several important offices on Nantucket, among them Judge of Probate.
Source: Alexander Starbuck, The History of Nantucket (1924), 700
View the proof →Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790 · Statesman and scientist
1st cousin, ten times removed, through Peter Folger, whose daughter Abiah was Franklin's mother. With a Nantucket captain's help he charted the Gulf Stream.
Source: Alexander Starbuck, The History of Nantucket (1924), 374, 740
View the proof →Heman Swift
1733-1814 · Colonel, Continental Army
2nd cousin, nine times removed, through William Swift II of Sandwich. Colonel of the 7th Connecticut Regiment from 1777.
Source: Francis B. Heitman, Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army (1914), 530
View the proof →Maj. Gen. Benedict Arnold V
1741-1801 · Continental Army general
4th cousin, seven times removed, through Stukely Westcott’s daughter Damaris.
Source: Francis B. Heitman, Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army (1914), 75
View the proof →Capt.-Lt. Joseph Arnold
1755-1840 · Captain-lieutenant, 1st Rhode Island
4th cousin, seven times removed, through Stukely Westcott via the colonial Arnold line.
Source: Francis B. Heitman, Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army (1914), 76
View the proof →General John Coffin
1756-1838 · Loyalist officer, later British general
4th cousin, seven times removed, through Tristram Coffin's son James.
Source: Alexander Starbuck, The History of Nantucket (1924), 700
View the proof →Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin
1759-1839 · Admiral, Royal Navy
4th cousin, seven times removed, through Tristram Coffin's son James; brother of General John Coffin.
Source: Alexander Starbuck, The History of Nantucket (1924), 700; Thomas C. Amory, The Life of Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin (1886)
View the proof →Capt.-Lt. James Gardner
d. 1787 · Captain-lieutenant, Crane's Continental Artillery
4th cousin, seven times removed, via the Gardiner line.
Source: Francis B. Heitman, Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army (1914), 242, 617
View the proof →Lucretia Coffin Mott
1793-1880 · Emancipationist
4th cousin, seven times removed, through Tristram Coffin.
Source: Alexander Starbuck, The History of Nantucket (1924), 717
View the proof →Levi Coffin II
1798-1877 · Emancipationist
4th cousin, seven times removed, through Tristram Coffin.
Source: Alexander Starbuck, The History of Nantucket (1924), 717
View the proof →Maria Mitchell
1818-1889 · Astronomer
5th cousin, six times removed, through Tristram Coffin; “one of the greatest of American astronomers.”
Source: Alexander Starbuck, The History of Nantucket (1924), 730
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