Direct Ancestors
Each traces generation-by-generation to John, Perry, and Patrick Long through the maternal line.
Documented Cousins
Collateral kin reached through a shared ancestor rather than direct descent. The royal cousins descend from Edward IV; the American cousins descend by independent New England lines.
Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790 · Statesman and polymath
Documented cousin. 1st cousin, ten times removed, through Peter Folger of Nantucket.
View the proof →Kezia “Miriam” Folger Coffin
1723-1798 · Nantucket merchant
Documented cousin. 1st cousin, nine times removed, through John Folger (father of the direct ancestor Jethro Folger).
View the proof →Lucretia Coffin Mott
1793-1880 · Abolitionist and suffragist
Documented cousin through the Coffin line of Nantucket; co-organizer of the Seneca Falls Convention.
View the proof →Maj. Gen. Benedict Arnold V
1741-1801 · Continental Army general
Documented cousin. 4th cousin, seven times removed, through Stukely Westcott’s daughter Damaris.
View the proof →Capt. Lt. Joseph Arnold
1755-1840 · RI Society of the Cincinnati
Documented cousin. 4th cousin, seven times removed, through Stukely Westcott via the colonial Arnold line; the patriot side of Benedict Arnold V’s branch.
View the proof →Capt.-Lt. James Gardner
d. 1787 · Crane’s 3rd Continental Artillery
Documented cousin. 4th cousin, seven times removed, through Lt. George Gardiner Sr of Newport (the Gardiner line shared with Herodias Long).
View the proof →Walter Folger Jr.
1765-1849 · Inventor, astronomer, U.S. Congressman
Documented cousin. 4th cousin, seven times removed, through Tristram Coffin of Nantucket.
View the proof →Maria Mitchell
1818-1889 · First American woman astronomer
Documented cousin. 5th cousin, six times removed, through Tristram Coffin; at the boundary of the inclusion filter, graded sourced.
View the proof →Levi Coffin II
1798-1877 · “President of the Underground Railroad”
Documented cousin. 4th cousin, seven times removed, through Tristram Coffin of Nantucket.
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