I've been researching my genealogy since 2013, following the conclusion of the Boston Mayoral & City Council race. My grandfather, Rev. Albert E. Bates, was the first person I discovered engaged in the community but is hardly the last. This list encompasses my maternal side:

• Jordana Brewster (maternal 7th cousin 5xrem): Actor known her roles in 1998's The Faculty, 2004's D.E.B.S., Mia Toretto in the Fast & Furious film franchise, Nikki Munsun in All My Children, Elena Ramos in the Dallas revival, Dr. Maureen Cahill in the Lethal Weapon series, and Denise Brown in The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story.

• Kingman Brewster Jr (maternal 5th cousin 7xrem): 57th Master of University College Oxford; US Ambassador to the UK in the Carter Administration; 17th President of Yale University; 8th Provost of Yale University; idolized antiwar activist Charles Lindburgh; one of the founders of the America First Committee, and Isolationist pressure group against entry into WWII.

• Janet Huntington Brewster (maternal 5th cousin 7xrem): wife of Edward R. Murrow.

• Frederick Gordon Bradley Jr (maternal 2nd cousin 2xrem): Longtime Mayor and Town Councilor in Bonavista, Newfoundland; Town of Bonvista's first Fire Chief; long time member of the Newfoundland Historical Society; founding member of the Bonavista Historical Society; founding member of the Bonavista Historic Townscape Foundation, of which he was the long-term president and chair; owned and operated the Garrick Theatre in Bonavista with his wife, Sylvia, for 33 years.

• Hon. Elisha Huntington Brewster (maternal 2nd cousin 10xrem): Father of Captain Elisha Brewster; held a mercantile business with his cousin, Sidney Brewster, under the firm name, S. & E. H. Brewster, which continued for ten years until it dissolved; In 1848, as a Whig, he was chosen to represent his town in the legislature, and again in 1853; In 1852, he was elected County Commissioner for Hampshire County, and held that office for 16 years; For 12 years, he was Chairman of the Board of County Commissioners; He stepped down in 1868 voluntarily, declining certain re-election; In 1871, he was chosen a member of the State Senate, to represent the Berkshire & Hampshire district; In 1873, he was chosen a member of the Governor's Council, re-elected in 1874, and stopped serving in any public office following that term.

• Captain Elisha Brewster (maternal 1st cousin 11xrem): participated in the Revolutionary War; following the war, served as a Bridgade Quartermaster; was one of General William Shaprd's aide in Shay's Rebellion.

• Frederick Gordon Bradley, PC QC (maternal 1st cousin 3xrem): Elected to the Newfoundland & Labrador House of Assembly in 1924 from Port de Grave district as a Conservative; Minister without Portfolio in the cabinet of Prime Minister Walter Stanley Monroe until 1926 when he resigned from the caucus to sit as an Independent; reelected as a Liberal in the Trinity Centre district in 1928; served as Minister without Portfolio and Solicitor-General in the cabinet of Prime Minister Richard Squires; reelected in 1932 as only one of two Liberals and became Leader of the Opposition; returned to his law practice in 1933; in 1947, he was elected to sit on the Newfoundland National Convention and following the death of Cyril J. Fox, he became its chairman; chaired both London & Ottawa Delegations, hailing from Bonavista South district; after Confederation with Canada, he was appointed Secretary of State by Liberal Prime Minister Louie St. Laurent, becoming the first federal politician from Newfoundland; elected to the House of Commons of Canada representing Bonavista-Twillingate in 1949; appointed in 1953 to the Senate of Canada representing Bonavista-Twillingate; died in office in 1966. His son, Frederick Gordon Bradley Jr, directly above.

• Thomas Proe CMG (maternal 3rd great granduncle): Owned the Osborne Hotel and later, Royal George Hotel, Ann Street, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Australia; served as an alderman of the Brisbane Municipal Council from 1895 to 1905; Mayor of the Brisbane Municipal Council in 1901 and again in 1905 as Mayor of the Brisbane City Council; during his first term as mayor in 1901, visited by the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (later King George V and Queen Mary); In recognition of his work for that occasion, he was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) on May 15th 1901; president for some years of the Licensed Victuallers' Association; member of the Brisbane Metropolitan Water Board; member of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers; a Mason.

• Samuel Proe (maternal 3rd great grandfather): Owned the firm, Proe & Co. in Wigan, St George, Lancashire, England. The business was one of the oldest established firms in the North of England of Cab Proprietors, Funeral Undertakers, Coach and Ambulance Builders, and Monument Masons. Thomas Proe, directly above, was his brother.

• John Quincy Adams (maternal 4th cousin 9xrem): 6th President of the United States from 1825 to 1829; 8th United States Secretary of State from 1817 to 1825; 14th Dean of the United States House of Representatives from April 22nd, 1844 to February 23rd, 1848; United States Senator (Class I) from Massachusetts from 1803 to 1808.

• John Adams (maternal 3rd cousin 10xrem): 2nd President of the United States from 1797 to 1801; leader of the American Revolution that achieved independence from Great Britain; served on the First Continental Congress that was tasked with drafting a letter of grievances to King George III; In June 1775, with a view of promoting union among the colonies against Great Britain, he nominated George Washington of Virginia as commander-in-chief of the army, then assembled around Boston; organized a Committee of Five charged with drafting a Declaration of Independence, choosing himself, Thomas Jefferson, Franklin, Robert R. Livingston, and Robert Sherman; served on the Second Continental Congress; inaugural holder of the office of Vice President of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. His son, John Quincy Adams, directly above.

• Elizabeth Peabody/Pabodie (maternal 10th great grandmother): Wife of John Rogers Jr/II (maternal 10th great grandfather), great gandson of Mayflower passenger Thomas Rogers (maternal 12th great grandfather). Her daughter, Hannah Rogers, married Samuel Bradford (maternal 9th great grandfather).

• William Pabodie/Peabody (maternal 11th great grandfather): Husband of Elizabeth Alden (maternal 11th great grandmother); Yeoman, land-surveyor, schoolteacher, boatman, planter, and wheelwright; served as a Duxbury town officer and as a representative or deputy to the General Court at Plymouth, being repeatedly elected to the court from 1654 to 1663, then again in 1668, and continuously from 1671 to 1682. His daughter, Elizabeth Peabody/Pabodie, directly above.

• John Alden (maternal 12th great grandfather): Hired by Capt. Christopher Jones in Southampton when he was about 21 years old to work as the ship's cooper during the Mayflower's voyage to America; colonists encouraged him during the voyage to remain with them in America due to his useful skills as a barrel-maker and carpenter; said to be the first person from the Mayflower to set foot on Plymouth Rock in December of 1620; his marriage to Priscilla Mullins inspired Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's narrative poem 'The Courtship of Miles Standish,' published in 1858; one of eight 'undertakers' who agreed to collectively assume, or undertake, the debt in exchange for a monopoly on the fur trade from the colony, averting the colony from financial ruin and eventual collapse; elected Governor's Assistant in 1632 and was regularly reelected to that office until 1640 and then again from 1650 to 1686; deputy from Duxbury from 1641 to 1642, and from 1645 to 1649; member of Captain Miles Standish's militia company from 1643; served as Deputy Governor on two occasions in the absence of the Governor in 1665 and 1677; colonists elected him Treasurer annually from 1656 to 1658; served on the colony's Council of War, an important committee to decide on matters pertaining to the defense of the colony, in 1642, 1643, 1646, 1653, 1658 and 1667; Plymouth General Court appointed Alden to a number of important committees including the Committee to Revise Laws, the Committee on the Kennebec Trade, and a number of additional minor posts; served for several years as magistrate; founded the town of Duxbury in the 1630s and took up residence there; died in 1687 at the age of 89, one of the last surviving Mayflower passengers; Mayflower Compact signatory. His daughter, Elizabeth Alden, directly above.

• William Mullins (13th great grandfather): Perished in the pilgrims' first winter in the New World, with his wife and son dying soon after; Mayflower Compact signatory. His daughter, Priscilla Mullins, directly above.

• Love Brewster (maternal 11th great-granduncle): Travelled on the Mayflower with his father, mother, and brother reaching what would become the Plymouth Colony in 1620; admitted a Freeman of the Colony on March 2, 1636, which granted him the right to own land and to vote; served in the Pequot War as a volunteer; In 1637, and was a member of Captain Myles Standish's Duxbury Company in 1643; one of the founders of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, although it is believed he never lived there.

• Jonathan Brewster (maternal 11th great grandfather): Came to America on the ship Fortune in 1621; married Lucretia Oldham, whose brother was Captain John Oldham, whose slaying led to the Pequot Indian war.

• Eldar William Brewster IV (maternal 12th great grandfather): Entered the service of William Davison, ambassador to the Netherlands, in 1584; joined the Brownist church led by John Robinson and Richard Clifton; organized the removal of the church from Scooby to Holland, which was illegal; in 1609 one of their fellow Brownist churches there led by John Smyth became the first Baptist church. In the controversy that followed, Robinson and Brewster decided to take their church to Leiden; In 1610–11, Robinson and Brewster acted as mediators when the Ancient Church, the oldest Brownist congregation in Amsterdam, split into two factions following Francis Johnson and Henry Ainsworth, but they failed to reconcile them; Brewster and Robinson were the prime movers in the decision to sail for America, but once he was in hiding the Separatists looked to their deacon John Carver and to Robert Cushman to carry on negotiations with the appropriate officials in London; When the passengers of the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Colony, Brewster became the senior elder, and so served as the religious leader of the colony; became adviser to Colonial Governor William Bradford; was granted land among the islands of Boston Harbor, and four of the outer islands (Great Brewster, Little Brewster, Middle Brewster, and Outer Brewster) now bear his name; only Pilgrim with political and diplomatic experience; Mayflower Compact signatory. His son, Jonathan Brewster, directly above.

• Deputy Governor/Maj. William Bradford IV "the Younger" (maternal 10th great grandfather): Held the rank of major in the militia and was the commander of the military forces of Plymouth Colony during the King Philip's War; commanded the Plymouth Regiment, consisting of two companies, at the Great Swamp Fight in South Kingstown, RI; served as the deputy governor of Plymouth Colony under Governor Thomas Hinckley from 1682 to 1686 and from 1689 to 1692 when the colony was merged with the Massachusetts Bay Colony to form the Province of Massachusetts Bay; suspended from office during the governorship of Sir Edmund Andros from December 20th, 1686 to April 18th, 1689. His son, Samuel, married Hannah Rogers (see Elizabeth Peabody/Pabodie above).

• Governor William Bradford (maternal 11th great grandfather): English Puritan Separatist originally from the West Riding of Yorkshire in Northern England; moved to Leiden in Holland in order to escape persecution from King James I of England, and then emigrated to the Plymouth Colony on the Mayflower in 1620; served as the 2nd, 5th, 7th, 9th & 11th Governor of the Plymouth Colony; served as a commissioner of the United Colonies of New England (1647-1649, 1652, 1656) with two as its president; Inaugural signatory of Mayflower Compact. His son, Deputy Governor/Maj. William Bradford, directly above.

• Lady Katherine Courteney nee St. Leger (maternal 15th great grandmother) daughter of George St. Leger (maternal 16th great grandfather), who inherited Lundy Eggesford, Annery, Monkleigh in Devon and other properties in Kent and Sussex from his maternal grandfather the Earl of Ormond; served as chief courtier to King Henry VIII, his wife, Lady Anne St. Leger nee Knyvett (maternal 16th great grandmother), was Lady in waiting to Catalina of Aragon (Catherine of Arargorn); attended the "Field of the Cloth of Gold" in France; attended the coronation of Anne Boleyn on 29 May 1533 in Westminster Abbey.

• Margaret Courteney nee Bonville (maternal 18th great grandmother), wife of Sir William Courteney (maternal 18th great grandfather), daughter of Sir William Bonville 1st Baron Bonville & Margaret Grey (maternal 19th great grandparents). Notable individuals involved in the Courteney-Bonville feud, and the War of the Roses.

• Sir Reynold/Reginold II de Grey, 3rd Lord Grey de Ruthin (maternal 20th great grandfather), eldest son of Reginald Grey, 2nd Baron Grey de Ruthyn and Eleanor Le Strange of Blackmere (maternal 21st great grandparents), father of Margaret Grey, directly above. Powerful Welsh marcher lord.

• Roger de Grey, 1st Baron Grey de Ruthyn (maternal 22nd great grandfather): Summoned to parliament as a baron in 1295 thus becoming Baron Grey de Ruthyn.

• Sir Reginald de Grey 1st Baron Grey de Wilton (maternal 24th great grandfather): English nobleman after whom one of the four Inns of Court is named; The property upon which Gray's Inn sits was once Portpoole Manor held by Reginald de Grey; In 1282, he was one the three commanders appointed by Edward I of England in his campaign against Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, the rebellious Prince of Wales, which resulted in his being granted the Dyffryn Clwyd with its castle of Ruthin Castle; summoned to Parliament from 1295 to 1307.

• Architel de Greye, First of Rotherfield (maternal 31st great grandfather): Norman chevalier and vassal of William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford, one of the great magnates of early Norman England; relative and close counsellor of William the Conqueror, whose chief residence was Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight, one of many English castles he built. The manors held by him were as follows: Black Bourton at Bampton hundred, Oxfordshire, Brighthampton at Bampton hundred, Oxfordshire, Rotherfield Greys at Binfield hundred, Oxfordshire, Cornwell at Shipton hundred, Oxfordshire, Radford at Shipton hundred, Oxfordshire, and Woodleys at Wootton hundred, Oxfordshire.

• Possibly Chamberlain Fulbert de Falaise (maternal 34th great grandfather) through his daughter, Herleva (maternal 33rd great grandmother) making William the Conquerer my 1st cousin 34xrem.

I took both Ancestry and 23andMe DNA tests because my father was adopted and never knew who my biological father's family were (putting a crimp in my ancestry research). Late 2022 those results came in and I discovered whom my father's biological family were, resulting in a few more notable individuals being discovered. This list encompasses my father's (biological) side:

• Martin J. Connors II (paternal great grandfather): Owned and operated the Rockaway Inn in Clifton, Marblehead, MA.

• Archelaus Smith (paternal 6th great grandfather): Early settler of Barrington, NS from Chatham, MA, USA.

• Stephen Hopkins (paternal 11th great grandfather): passenger on the Mayflower in 1620; only Mayflower passenger with prior New World experience, having been shipwrecked in Bermuda in 1609 and arriving at Jamestown, Virginia in May 1610; member of the early Mayflower exploratory parties while the ship was anchored in the Cape Cod area; first formal meeting with the natives was held at Hopkins's house, and he was called upon to participate in early Pilgrim visits with the natives' leader Massasoit; kept an "ordinary" (tavern) in Plymouth on the north side of Leyden Street from the earliest days of the colony; worked as a tanner and merchant and was recruited by the Company of Merchant Adventurers of London to provide the governance for the colony and to assist with the colony's ventures; Mayflower Compact signatory.

• Constance Hopkins (paternal 10th great grandmother), daughter of Stephen Hopkins & his first wife, Mary (paternal 11th great grandparents): Mayflower passengers. During the Mayflower voyager, her half-brother Oceanus was born, the only child born during the journey. She married Nicholas Snow, who came to the New World aboard the Anne, and became Eastham's first town clerk.

• Quadiquina (paternal 11th great grandfather): Accompanied Massasoit, Wasanegin the Great Sachem, to Plymouth in March 1621; part played by him in the affairs of the tribe and federation in their dealings with their neighbors appears to have been an inconsequential one; later considered by the English as simply a younger brother of the 'King,' and, in consequence of his royal blood, a close counsellor and frequent companion; introduced the colonists to popcorn at Thanksgiving dinner. His daughter is Oguina, later renamed Margaret Wheldon (paternal 10th great grandmother).

• Wasanegin the Great Sachem (paternal 12th great grandfather): Died just three years before his son, Ousamequin, would meet the arriving Mayflower Pilgrims; become the first elected Chief Massasoit of the (then) newly formed Wampanoag confederacy; carried John Smith and Rebekkah 'Pocahontas' on their missionary journey to Rhode Island; said to have accepted the Christian faith and named his daughter Mary-Mary Margaret (for Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Christ), and from her came many of the tribe members throughout Long Island and New England; knowledge of the Christian faith that Wasanegin passed to his children made it possible for his son and heir Ousaequin to sympathize with the Mayflower Pilgrims and later led the Wampanoag to protect the Plimouth Plantation when the Brits waged all out terror against the Natives of New England in the King Philip War. His son, Quadiquina (paternal 11th great grandfather), directly above.

• Ousamequin, Sachem of Pokanoket & Massasoit of Wampanoag (paternal 11th great granduncle): Both the Sachem of the Pokanoket Tribal Nation and the elected Massasoit of the 69-Tribe Wampanoag Confederacy which consisted of the areas now called Rhode Island, southeastern Massachusetts, and the eastern half of New York's Long Island; lived in Sowams, a village at Pokanoket in modern-day Warren, Rhode Island; In 1621, he sent Squanto (Tisquantum) to live among the colonists at Plymouth; sought an alliance with the colonies of New England against the neighboring Narragansetts who controlled an area west of Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island; forged critical political and personal ties with colonial leaders William Bradford, Edward Winslow, Stephen Hopkins, John Carver, and Myles Standish, ties which grew out of a peace treaty negotiated on March 22, 1621 which ensured that the Pokanokets remained neutral during the Pequot War in 1636; prevented the failure of Plymouth Colony and the starvation that the Pilgrims faced during its earliest years.

• Wamsutta/Alexander Pokanoket/Alexander Byrne (paternal 1st cousin 12xrem): Large landowner (from the colonial perspective) as a result of his status as sachem; appears frequently in the land records of the General Court of Plymouth, both as a plaintiff and a defendant; 1662, following the death of his father, Wamsutta and Metacom wrote to the General Court and asked to be given English names and they were named Alexander and Philip, respectively (Byrne and Fairbanks); after his father's death in 1661, Wamsutta/Alexander became the grand sachem of all the tribes between the Charles River in Massachusetts and Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island, including the tribes in eastern Rhode Island and eastern Massachusetts. Eldest son of, Ousamequin, directly above.

• Metacomet 'King Philip' Fairbanks (paternal 1st cousin 12xrem): Became a great Sachem for the Wampanoag Indians following the 1662 death of his brother Wamsutta/Alexander Pokanoket/Alexander Byrne (paternal 1st cousin 12xrem); in his early days, was noted as a 'Prince Philip' who was well known for his friendship with the colonists and later, princely presence brought him the title 'King Philip'; forsook his father's alliance between the Wampanoags the colonists after repeated violations by the colonists, causing the famed King Philip's War sometimes called the First Indian War, Metacom's War, Metacomet's War, Pometacomet's Rebellion, or Metacom's Rebellion which didn't end until the signing of the Treaty of Casco Bay on April 12, 1678. Brother, Wamsutta/Alexander Pokanoket/Alexander Byrne (paternal 1st cousin 12xrem), directly above.

I've been researching my genealogy since 2013, following the conclusion of the Boston Mayoral & City Council race. My grandfather, Rev. Albert E. Bates, was the first person I discovered engaged in the community but is hardly the last. This list encompasses my maternal side:

• Jordana Brewster (maternal 7th cousin 5xrem): Actor known her roles in 1998's The Faculty, 2004's D.E.B.S., Mia Toretto in the Fast & Furious film franchise, Nikki Munsun in All My Children, Elena Ramos in the Dallas revival, Dr. Maureen Cahill in the Lethal Weapon series, and Denise Brown in The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story.

• Kingman Brewster Jr (maternal 5th cousin 7xrem): 57th Master of University College Oxford; US Ambassador to the UK in the Carter Administration; 17th President of Yale University; 8th Provost of Yale University; idolized antiwar activist Charles Lindburgh; one of the founders of the America First Committee, and Isolationist pressure group against entry into WWII.

• Janet Huntington Brewster (maternal 5th cousin 7xrem): wife of Edward R. Murrow.

• Frederick Gordon Bradley Jr (maternal 2nd cousin 2xrem): Longtime Mayor and Town Councilor in Bonavista, Newfoundland; Town of Bonvista's first Fire Chief; long time member of the Newfoundland Historical Society; founding member of the Bonavista Historical Society; founding member of the Bonavista Historic Townscape Foundation, of which he was the long-term president and chair; owned and operated the Garrick Theatre in Bonavista with his wife, Sylvia, for 33 years.

• Hon. Elisha Huntington Brewster (maternal 2nd cousin 10xrem): Father of Captain Elisha Brewster; held a mercantile business with his cousin, Sidney Brewster, under the firm name, S. & E. H. Brewster, which continued for ten years until it dissolved; In 1848, as a Whig, he was chosen to represent his town in the legislature, and again in 1853; In 1852, he was elected County Commissioner for Hampshire County, and held that office for 16 years; For 12 years, he was Chairman of the Board of County Commissioners; He stepped down in 1868 voluntarily, declining certain re-election; In 1871, he was chosen a member of the State Senate, to represent the Berkshire & Hampshire district; In 1873, he was chosen a member of the Governor's Council, re-elected in 1874, and stopped serving in any public office following that term.

• Captain Elisha Brewster (maternal 1st cousin 11xrem): participated in the Revolutionary War; following the war, served as a Bridgade Quartermaster; was one of General William Shaprd's aide in Shay's Rebellion.

• Frederick Gordon Bradley, PC QC (maternal 1st cousin 3xrem): Elected to the Newfoundland & Labrador House of Assembly in 1924 from Port de Grave district as a Conservative; Minister without Portfolio in the cabinet of Prime Minister Walter Stanley Monroe until 1926 when he resigned from the caucus to sit as an Independent; reelected as a Liberal in the Trinity Centre district in 1928; served as Minister without Portfolio and Solicitor-General in the cabinet of Prime Minister Richard Squires; reelected in 1932 as only one of two Liberals and became Leader of the Opposition; returned to his law practice in 1933; in 1947, he was elected to sit on the Newfoundland National Convention and following the death of Cyril J. Fox, he became its chairman; chaired both London & Ottawa Delegations, hailing from Bonavista South district; after Confederation with Canada, he was appointed Secretary of State by Liberal Prime Minister Louie St. Laurent, becoming the first federal politician from Newfoundland; elected to the House of Commons of Canada representing Bonavista-Twillingate in 1949; appointed in 1953 to the Senate of Canada representing Bonavista-Twillingate; died in office in 1966. His son, Frederick Gordon Bradley Jr, directly above.

• Thomas Proe CMG (maternal 3rd great granduncle): Owned the Osborne Hotel and later, Royal George Hotel, Ann Street, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Australia; served as an alderman of the Brisbane Municipal Council from 1895 to 1905; Mayor of the Brisbane Municipal Council in 1901 and again in 1905 as Mayor of the Brisbane City Council; during his first term as mayor in 1901, visited by the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (later King George V and Queen Mary); In recognition of his work for that occasion, he was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) on May 15th 1901; president for some years of the Licensed Victuallers' Association; member of the Brisbane Metropolitan Water Board; member of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers; a Mason.

• Samuel Proe (maternal 3rd great grandfather): Owned the firm, Proe & Co. in Wigan, St George, Lancashire, England. The business was one of the oldest established firms in the North of England of Cab Proprietors, Funeral Undertakers, Coach and Ambulance Builders, and Monument Masons. Thomas Proe, directly above, was his brother.

• John Quincy Adams (maternal 4th cousin 9xrem): 6th President of the United States from 1825 to 1829; 8th United States Secretary of State from 1817 to 1825; 14th Dean of the United States House of Representatives from April 22nd, 1844 to February 23rd, 1848; United States Senator (Class I) from Massachusetts from 1803 to 1808.

• John Adams (maternal 3rd cousin 10xrem): 2nd President of the United States from 1797 to 1801; leader of the American Revolution that achieved independence from Great Britain; served on the First Continental Congress that was tasked with drafting a letter of grievances to King George III; In June 1775, with a view of promoting union among the colonies against Great Britain, he nominated George Washington of Virginia as commander-in-chief of the army, then assembled around Boston; organized a Committee of Five charged with drafting a Declaration of Independence, choosing himself, Thomas Jefferson, Franklin, Robert R. Livingston, and Robert Sherman; served on the Second Continental Congress; inaugural holder of the office of Vice President of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. His son, John Quincy Adams, directly above.

• Elizabeth Peabody/Pabodie (maternal 10th great grandmother): Wife of John Rogers Jr/II (maternal 10th great grandfather), great gandson of Mayflower passenger Thomas Rogers (maternal 12th great grandfather). Her daughter, Hannah Rogers, married Samuel Bradford (maternal 9th great grandfather).

• William Pabodie/Peabody (maternal 11th great grandfather): Husband of Elizabeth Alden (maternal 11th great grandmother); Yeoman, land-surveyor, schoolteacher, boatman, planter, and wheelwright; served as a Duxbury town officer and as a representative or deputy to the General Court at Plymouth, being repeatedly elected to the court from 1654 to 1663, then again in 1668, and continuously from 1671 to 1682. His daughter, Elizabeth Peabody/Pabodie, directly above.

• John Alden (maternal 12th great grandfather): Hired by Capt. Christopher Jones in Southampton when he was about 21 years old to work as the ship's cooper during the Mayflower's voyage to America; colonists encouraged him during the voyage to remain with them in America due to his useful skills as a barrel-maker and carpenter; said to be the first person from the Mayflower to set foot on Plymouth Rock in December of 1620; his marriage to Priscilla Mullins inspired Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's narrative poem 'The Courtship of Miles Standish,' published in 1858; one of eight 'undertakers' who agreed to collectively assume, or undertake, the debt in exchange for a monopoly on the fur trade from the colony, averting the colony from financial ruin and eventual collapse; elected Governor's Assistant in 1632 and was regularly reelected to that office until 1640 and then again from 1650 to 1686; deputy from Duxbury from 1641 to 1642, and from 1645 to 1649; member of Captain Miles Standish's militia company from 1643; served as Deputy Governor on two occasions in the absence of the Governor in 1665 and 1677; colonists elected him Treasurer annually from 1656 to 1658; served on the colony's Council of War, an important committee to decide on matters pertaining to the defense of the colony, in 1642, 1643, 1646, 1653, 1658 and 1667; Plymouth General Court appointed Alden to a number of important committees including the Committee to Revise Laws, the Committee on the Kennebec Trade, and a number of additional minor posts; served for several years as magistrate; founded the town of Duxbury in the 1630s and took up residence there; died in 1687 at the age of 89, one of the last surviving Mayflower passengers; Mayflower Compact signatory. His daughter, Elizabeth Alden, directly above.

• William Mullins (13th great grandfather): Perished in the pilgrims' first winter in the New World, with his wife and son dying soon after; Mayflower Compact signatory. His daughter, Priscilla Mullins, directly above.

• Love Brewster (maternal 11th great-granduncle): Travelled on the Mayflower with his father, mother, and brother reaching what would become the Plymouth Colony in 1620; admitted a Freeman of the Colony on March 2, 1636, which granted him the right to own land and to vote; served in the Pequot War as a volunteer; In 1637, and was a member of Captain Myles Standish's Duxbury Company in 1643; one of the founders of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, although it is believed he never lived there.

• Jonathan Brewster (maternal 11th great grandfather): Came to America on the ship Fortune in 1621; married Lucretia Oldham, whose brother was Captain John Oldham, whose slaying led to the Pequot Indian war.

• Eldar William Brewster IV (maternal 12th great grandfather): Entered the service of William Davison, ambassador to the Netherlands, in 1584; joined the Brownist church led by John Robinson and Richard Clifton; organized the removal of the church from Scooby to Holland, which was illegal; in 1609 one of their fellow Brownist churches there led by John Smyth became the first Baptist church. In the controversy that followed, Robinson and Brewster decided to take their church to Leiden; In 1610–11, Robinson and Brewster acted as mediators when the Ancient Church, the oldest Brownist congregation in Amsterdam, split into two factions following Francis Johnson and Henry Ainsworth, but they failed to reconcile them; Brewster and Robinson were the prime movers in the decision to sail for America, but once he was in hiding the Separatists looked to their deacon John Carver and to Robert Cushman to carry on negotiations with the appropriate officials in London; When the passengers of the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Colony, Brewster became the senior elder, and so served as the religious leader of the colony; became adviser to Colonial Governor William Bradford; was granted land among the islands of Boston Harbor, and four of the outer islands (Great Brewster, Little Brewster, Middle Brewster, and Outer Brewster) now bear his name; only Pilgrim with political and diplomatic experience; Mayflower Compact signatory. His son, Jonathan Brewster, directly above.

• Deputy Governor/Maj. William Bradford IV "the Younger" (maternal 10th great grandfather): Held the rank of major in the militia and was the commander of the military forces of Plymouth Colony during the King Philip's War; commanded the Plymouth Regiment, consisting of two companies, at the Great Swamp Fight in South Kingstown, RI; served as the deputy governor of Plymouth Colony under Governor Thomas Hinckley from 1682 to 1686 and from 1689 to 1692 when the colony was merged with the Massachusetts Bay Colony to form the Province of Massachusetts Bay; suspended from office during the governorship of Sir Edmund Andros from December 20th, 1686 to April 18th, 1689. His son, Samuel, married Hannah Rogers (see Elizabeth Peabody/Pabodie above).

• Governor William Bradford (maternal 11th great grandfather): English Puritan Separatist originally from the West Riding of Yorkshire in Northern England; moved to Leiden in Holland in order to escape persecution from King James I of England, and then emigrated to the Plymouth Colony on the Mayflower in 1620; served as the 2nd, 5th, 7th, 9th & 11th Governor of the Plymouth Colony; served as a commissioner of the United Colonies of New England (1647-1649, 1652, 1656) with two as its president; Inaugural signatory of Mayflower Compact. His son, Deputy Governor/Maj. William Bradford, directly above.

• Lady Katherine Courteney nee St. Leger (maternal 15th great grandmother) daughter of George St. Leger (maternal 16th great grandfather), who inherited Lundy Eggesford, Annery, Monkleigh in Devon and other properties in Kent and Sussex from his maternal grandfather the Earl of Ormond; served as chief courtier to King Henry VIII, his wife, Lady Anne St. Leger nee Knyvett (maternal 16th great grandmother), was Lady in waiting to Catalina of Aragon (Catherine of Arargorn); attended the "Field of the Cloth of Gold" in France; attended the coronation of Anne Boleyn on 29 May 1533 in Westminster Abbey.

• Margaret Courteney nee Bonville (maternal 18th great grandmother), wife of Sir William Courteney (maternal 18th great grandfather), daughter of Sir William Bonville 1st Baron Bonville & Margaret Grey (maternal 19th great grandparents). Notable individuals involved in the Courteney-Bonville feud, and the War of the Roses.

• Sir Reynold/Reginold II de Grey, 3rd Lord Grey de Ruthin (maternal 20th great grandfather), eldest son of Reginald Grey, 2nd Baron Grey de Ruthyn and Eleanor Le Strange of Blackmere (maternal 21st great grandparents), father of Margaret Grey, directly above. Powerful Welsh marcher lord.

• Roger de Grey, 1st Baron Grey de Ruthyn (maternal 22nd great grandfather): Summoned to parliament as a baron in 1295 thus becoming Baron Grey de Ruthyn.

• Sir Reginald de Grey 1st Baron Grey de Wilton (maternal 24th great grandfather): English nobleman after whom one of the four Inns of Court is named; The property upon which Gray's Inn sits was once Portpoole Manor held by Reginald de Grey; In 1282, he was one the three commanders appointed by Edward I of England in his campaign against Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, the rebellious Prince of Wales, which resulted in his being granted the Dyffryn Clwyd with its castle of Ruthin Castle; summoned to Parliament from 1295 to 1307.

• Architel de Greye, First of Rotherfield (maternal 31st great grandfather): Norman chevalier and vassal of William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford, one of the great magnates of early Norman England; relative and close counsellor of William the Conqueror, whose chief residence was Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight, one of many English castles he built. The manors held by him were as follows: Black Bourton at Bampton hundred, Oxfordshire, Brighthampton at Bampton hundred, Oxfordshire, Rotherfield Greys at Binfield hundred, Oxfordshire, Cornwell at Shipton hundred, Oxfordshire, Radford at Shipton hundred, Oxfordshire, and Woodleys at Wootton hundred, Oxfordshire.

• Possibly Chamberlain Fulbert de Falaise (maternal 34th great grandfather) through his daughter, Herleva (maternal 33rd great grandmother) making William the Conquerer my 1st cousin 34xrem.

I took both Ancestry and 23andMe DNA tests because my father was adopted and never knew who my biological father's family were (putting a crimp in my ancestry research). Late 2022 those results came in and I discovered whom my father's biological family were, resulting in a few more notable individuals being discovered. This list encompasses my father's (biological) side:

• Martin J. Connors II (paternal great grandfather): Owned and operated the Rockaway Inn in Clifton, Marblehead, MA.

• Archelaus Smith (paternal 6th great grandfather): Early settler of Barrington, NS from Chatham, MA, USA.

• Stephen Hopkins (paternal 11th great grandfather): passenger on the Mayflower in 1620; only Mayflower passenger with prior New World experience, having been shipwrecked in Bermuda in 1609 and arriving at Jamestown, Virginia in May 1610; member of the early Mayflower exploratory parties while the ship was anchored in the Cape Cod area; first formal meeting with the natives was held at Hopkins's house, and he was called upon to participate in early Pilgrim visits with the natives' leader Massasoit; kept an "ordinary" (tavern) in Plymouth on the north side of Leyden Street from the earliest days of the colony; worked as a tanner and merchant and was recruited by the Company of Merchant Adventurers of London to provide the governance for the colony and to assist with the colony's ventures; Mayflower Compact signatory.

• Constance Hopkins (paternal 10th great grandmother), daughter of Stephen Hopkins & his first wife, Mary (paternal 11th great grandparents): Mayflower passengers. During the Mayflower voyager, her half-brother Oceanus was born, the only child born during the journey. She married Nicholas Snow, who came to the New World aboard the Anne, and became Eastham's first town clerk.

• Quadiquina (paternal 11th great grandfather): Accompanied Massasoit, Wasanegin the Great Sachem, to Plymouth in March 1621; part played by him in the affairs of the tribe and federation in their dealings with their neighbors appears to have been an inconsequential one; later considered by the English as simply a younger brother of the 'King,' and, in consequence of his royal blood, a close counsellor and frequent companion; introduced the colonists to popcorn at Thanksgiving dinner. His daughter is Oguina, later renamed Margaret Wheldon (paternal 10th great grandmother).

• Wasanegin the Great Sachem (paternal 12th great grandfather): Died just three years before his son, Ousamequin, would meet the arriving Mayflower Pilgrims; become the first elected Chief Massasoit of the (then) newly formed Wampanoag confederacy; carried John Smith and Rebekkah 'Pocahontas' on their missionary journey to Rhode Island; said to have accepted the Christian faith and named his daughter Mary-Mary Margaret (for Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Christ), and from her came many of the tribe members throughout Long Island and New England; knowledge of the Christian faith that Wasanegin passed to his children made it possible for his son and heir Ousaequin to sympathize with the Mayflower Pilgrims and later led the Wampanoag to protect the Plimouth Plantation when the Brits waged all out terror against the Natives of New England in the King Philip War. His son, Quadiquina (paternal 11th great grandfather), directly above.

• Ousamequin, Sachem of Pokanoket & Massasoit of Wampanoag (paternal 11th great granduncle): Both the Sachem of the Pokanoket Tribal Nation and the elected Massasoit of the 69-Tribe Wampanoag Confederacy which consisted of the areas now called Rhode Island, southeastern Massachusetts, and the eastern half of New York's Long Island; lived in Sowams, a village at Pokanoket in modern-day Warren, Rhode Island; In 1621, he sent Squanto (Tisquantum) to live among the colonists at Plymouth; sought an alliance with the colonies of New England against the neighboring Narragansetts who controlled an area west of Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island; forged critical political and personal ties with colonial leaders William Bradford, Edward Winslow, Stephen Hopkins, John Carver, and Myles Standish, ties which grew out of a peace treaty negotiated on March 22, 1621 which ensured that the Pokanokets remained neutral during the Pequot War in 1636; prevented the failure of Plymouth Colony and the starvation that the Pilgrims faced during its earliest years.

• Wamsutta/Alexander Pokanoket/Alexander Byrne (paternal 1st cousin 12xrem): Large landowner (from the colonial perspective) as a result of his status as sachem; appears frequently in the land records of the General Court of Plymouth, both as a plaintiff and a defendant; 1662, following the death of his father, Wamsutta and Metacom wrote to the General Court and asked to be given English names and they were named Alexander and Philip, respectively (Byrne and Fairbanks); after his father's death in 1661, Wamsutta/Alexander became the grand sachem of all the tribes between the Charles River in Massachusetts and Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island, including the tribes in eastern Rhode Island and eastern Massachusetts. Eldest son of, Ousamequin, directly above.

• Metacomet 'King Philip' Fairbanks (paternal 1st cousin 12xrem): Became a great Sachem for the Wampanoag Indians following the 1662 death of his brother Wamsutta/Alexander Pokanoket/Alexander Byrne (paternal 1st cousin 12xrem); in his early days, was noted as a 'Prince Philip' who was well known for his friendship with the colonists and later, princely presence brought him the title 'King Philip'; forsook his father's alliance between the Wampanoags the colonists after repeated violations by the colonists, causing the famed King Philip's War sometimes called the First Indian War, Metacom's War, Metacomet's War, Pometacomet's Rebellion, or Metacom's Rebellion which didn't end until the signing of the Treaty of Casco Bay on April 12, 1678. Brother, Wamsutta/Alexander Pokanoket/Alexander Byrne (paternal 1st cousin 12xrem), directly above.