Index of Notables

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Index of Notables who have ancestral lines extending back to the original inhabitants of in New Netherland

Notables with New Netherland roots
Reason for notablilty
(alphabetical and non-exhaustive)
Date first uploaded/
date last modified
William Alexander
Major-General
30 May 2002
27 July 2000
John Alsop
Continental Congress Delegate
30 May 2002
original upload
Virginia Apgar
Physician
30 June 2002
27 July 2000
Benedict Arnold
High Ranking Military (Major General), Traitor
19 January 2002
original upload
Elizabeth Ann Bayley
Saint in the Roman Catholic Church
11 October 2001
16 October 2001
James Roosevelt Bayley
Catholic Archbishop, Catholic Bishop
27 July 2002
original upload
Gerardus Willemse Beekman
Colonial Governor
30 May 2002
original upload
Egbert Benson
Continental Congress Delegate, State Supreme Court Judge
30 June 2002
original upload
Humphrey Bogart
Motion Picture Actor
30 June 2002
27 July 2000
Lizzie Andrew Borden
Legendary Murderer (or not?)
14 March 2002
original upload
William Bradford
U.S. Attorney General
11 October 2001
17 October 2001
Samuel Livingston Breese
Rear Admiral
29 April 2002
original upload
Sidney Breese
Senator, State Supreme Court Justice (Chief Justice)
29 April 2002
original upload
Benjamin Gratz Brown
Governor, Senator, Vice Presidential Also-Ran
30 June 2002
original upload
Aaron Burr
U.S Vice President
13 October 2001
17 October 2001
George Herbert Walker Bush
Director of the CIA, President, Vice President
27 July 2002
original upload
George Walker Bush
Governor, President
27 July 2002
original upload
John Ellis Bush
Governor
27 July 2002
original upload
Prescott Sheldon Bush
Senator
27 July 2002
original upload
James Earl Carter, Jr.
Governor, U.S. President
11 October 2001
18 October 2001
Alexander Johnston Cassatt
Financier, Pennsylvania Railroad Company President
18 February 2002
27 July 2000
Mary Cassatt
Impressionistic Painter
18 February 2002
27 July 2000
George Catlin
Painter
19 January 2002
original upload
Walter Percy Chrysler
Automobile Manufacturer
30 May 2002
27 July 2000
Abraham Clark
Declaration of Independence Signer
11 October 2001
18 October 2001
Edward Montgomery Clift
Motion Picture Actor
29 April 2002
27 July 2000
Dewitt Clinton
Governor, Senator, Presidential Also-Ran
30 June 2002
original upload
Peter Cooper
Inventor, Presidential Also-Ran
11 October 2001
18 October 2001
John Singleton Copley
Painter
16 November 2001
original upload
John Singleton Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst
British Jurist, House of Lords
16 November 2001
original upload
George Bruce Cortelyou
Cabinet Secretary
16 November 2001
original upload
Charles Gates Dawes
Nobel Prize WInner, U.S. Vice President
11 October 2001
19 October 2001
James Byron Dean
Motion Picture Actor
30 May 2002
original upload
Edward Floyd DeLancey
Genealogist, Society President
30 June 2002
original upload
William Heathcote De Lancey
Protestant Episcopal Bishop
30 May 2002
original upload
Carl William Demarest
Motion Picture Actor
18 February 2002
14 March 2002
Charles De Witt
Continental Congress Delegate
14 March 2002
original upload
Mahlon Dickerson
Cabinet Official, Governor, Senator
14 March 2002
original upload
Philemon Dickerson
Governor, House of Representatives
14 March 2002
original upload
Pamela Beryl Digby
Ambassador
16 November 2001
original upload
Frank Nelson Doubleday
Publisher, Publishing House Founder
27 July 2002
original upload
Nelson Doubleday
Baseball Executive, Publisher
27 July 2002
original upload
James Duane
Continental Congress Delegate, Mayor
11 October 2001
19 October 2001
Thomas Alva Edison
Inventor
14 March 2002
original upload
Henry Waggaman Edwards
Governor, House of Representatives, Senator
11 October 2001
19 October 2001
Pierpont Edwards
Continental Congress Delegate
13 October 2001
19 October 2001
Millard Fillmore
U.S. Vice President, U.S. President
11 October 2001
19 October 2001
Hamilton Fish
Cabinet Official [Secretary of State], Governor
30 June 2002
27 July 2000
William Floyd
Declaration of Independence Signer
29 April 2002
original upload
Bridget Jane Fonda
Motion Picture Actor
9 February 2002
18 February 2002
Henry Jaynes Fonda
Motion Picture Actor
9 February 2002
18 February 2002
Jane Seymour Fonda
Motion Picture Actor
9 February 2002
18 February 2002
Pieter Seymour Fonda
Motion Picture Actor
9 February 2002
18 February 2002
Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr.
President, Vice President
30 June 2002
original upload
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
Educator, Founder
16 November 2001
original upload
Abraham Gesner
Geologist, Scientific Discoverer
30 May 2002
original upload
Warren Gamaliel Harding
U.S. President
11 October 2001
22 October 2001
Garret Augustus Hobart
U.S. Vice President
14 March 2002
27 July 2000
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Author
29 April 2002
27 July 2000
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Supreme Court Justice (Chief Justice)
29 April 2002
27 July 2000
Joseph Hopkinson
House of Represenativies, Song Writer
30 June 2002
original upload
Joseph Coerten Hornblower
State Supreme Court Justice
11 October 2001
22 October 2001
Howard Robard Hughes, Jr.
Aviation pioneer, Film Producer
11 October 2001
23 October 2001
Thomas Edward Hulce
Motion Picture Actor
27 July 2002
original upload
Charles Jackson
State Supreme Court Justice
29 April 2002
original upload
Jonathan Jackson
House of Representatives
29 April 2002
original upload
John Jay
Supreme Court Chief Justice
11 October 2001
27 July 2000
William Samuel Johnson
College President, Constitution Signer
29 April 2002
original upload
Gouverneur Kemble
House of Representatives
11 October 2001
31 October 2001
Miles Wells Kirkpatrick
Federal Trade Commission Chairman
14 March 2002
original upload
William Huntington Kirkpatrick
House of Representatives
14 March 2002
original upload
William Sebring Kirkpatrick
House of Representatives, State Attorney General
14 March 2002
original upload
Maude Eloise Kiskadden
Stage Actress
11 October 2001
24 October 2001
Harmen Knickerbocker
House of Representatives, State Assembly
14 March 2002
original upload
James Lawrence
Naval Officer
16 November 2001
original upload
Abraham Lincoln
U.S. President
11 October 2001
24 October 2001
Edward Livingston
Ambassador, Cabinet Official, Senator
16 November 2001
original upload
Philip Livingston
Declaration of Independence Signer
11 October 2001
27 July 2000
Robert Livingston
Ambassador, Continental Congress Delegate
16 November 2001
original upload
William Livingston
Governor of New Jersey
11 October 2001
31 October 2001
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
Author, College President, State Assembly
27 July 2002
original upload
James Longstreet
Ambassador, Confederate General
27 July 2002
original upload
William Longstreet
Inventor
27 July 2002
original upload
Daniel Manning
Cabinet Official (Secretary of the Treasury)
30 May 2002
27 July 2000
George Richards Minot
Nobel Prize Winner (Physiology and Medicine)
19 January 2002
original upload
Gouverneur Morris
Ambassador, Constitution Signer, Senator
16 November 2001
original upload
Lewis Morris
Declaration of Independence Signer
11 October 2001
24 October 2001
Richard Milhouse Nixon
U.S. Vice President, U.S. President
11 October 2001
24 October 2001
Aaron Ogden
Governor, Senator
11 October 2001
25 October 2001
David Ogden
Judge, Loyalist
16 November 2001
original upload
Matthias Ogden
General
11 October 2001
25 October 2001
Peter Skene Ogden
Explorer
11 October 2001
25 October 2001
Georgia Totto O'Keeffe
Artist
27 July 2002
original upload
George Smith Patton
General
30 June 2002
original upload
Mathew Calbraith Perry
U.S. Navy Commodore
11 October 2001
25 October 2001
Oliver Hazard Perry
U.S. Navy Officer
11 October 2001
25 October 2001
Barbara Pierce
Author, First Lady
27 July 2002
original upload
Zebulon Montgomery Pike
Explorer, General
11 October 2001
25 October 2001
Jonas Platt
House of Representatives, State Supreme Court Justice
14 March 2002
original upload
Zephaniah Platt
Continental Congress Delegate, Town Founder
14 March 2002
original upload
Elvis Presley
Motion Picture Actor, Singer
30 May 2002
30 June 2002
Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller
Governor, U.S. Vice President
11 October 2001
25 October 2001
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
Author, First Lady
27 July 2002
original upload
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Governor, President
27 July 2002
original upload
Theodore Roosevelt
Governor, President, Vice President
27 July 2002
original upload
Richard Rush
Cabinet Official (Attorney General, Secretary of the Treasury
27 July 2002
original upload
Philip Schuyler
Continental Congress Delegate, Major General, Senator
18 February 2002
original upload
Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant
Continental Congress, House of Representatives
16 November 2001
original upload
Horatio Seymour
Governor, Mayor, Presidential Also-Ran
27 July 2002
original upload
Samuel Lewis Southard
Cabinet Official, Governor
11 October 2001
31 October 2001
Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill
British Prime Minister
11 October 2001
31 October 2001
Joseph Warren Stillwell
General
11 October 2001
27 July 2000
Richard Stockton
Declaration of Independence Signer
11 October 2001
31 October 2001
Rex Todhunter Stout
Author
16 November 2001
original upload
Zachary Taylor
High Ranking Military (General), President
30 May 2002
original upload
Daniel D. Tompkins
Governor
11 October 2001
31 October 2001
Theodore Newton Vail
First President of AT&T
30 June 2002
original upload
Gershom Jaques Van Brunt
Naval Officer
30 June 2002
original upload
Henry Van Brunt
Architect
30 June 2002
original upload
Martin Van Buren
Vice President, President
11 October 2001
18 February 2002
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Railroad Magnate
18 February 2002
27 July 2000
John Vanderlyn
Painter
17 January 2002
original upload
Earl Van Dorn
Major-General (Confederate States of America)
30 June 2002
original upload
Nicholas Van Dyke
Articles of Confederation Signer, State President
16 November 2001
original upload
Nicholas Van Dyke
House of Representatives, Senator
16 November 2001
original upload
Elizabeth Louise Van Liew
Union Spy
11 October 2001
31 October 2001
Clifton Webb
Motion Picture Actor
16 November 2001
27 July 2000
Barrett Wendell
Author
30 May 2002
27 July 2000
Thomas Lanier Williams
Playwright
17 January 2002
original upload
John Ellis Wool
Major General
12 January 2002
30 May 2002
Theodore Dwight Woolsey
Author, College President
30 May 2002
original upload
Orville and Wilbur Wright
Aviation pioneers
11 October 2001
27 July 2000

 

Index of Notables with spouses who have ancestral lines extending back to the original inhabitants of in New Netherland

Notable with spouse having New Netherland roots
[Spouse's name]
Reason for spouse's notablilty
(alphabetical and non-exhaustive)
Date first uploaded
date last modified
William Alexander
[Sarah Livingston]
Major-General
30 May 2002
original upload
Gerardus Willemse Beekman
[Magdalena Abeel]
Colonial Governor
30 May 2002
original upload
James Alexander
[Maria Sprat]
Colonial Attorney General, Lawyer, State Surveyor-General
30 May 2002
original upload
Robert Anderson
[Elizabeth Bayard Clinch]
Major-General
29 April 2002
30 May 2002
John Armstrong
[Alida Livingston]
Ambassador, Cabinet Official, Senator
16 November 2001
original upload
Mary Astor
[Thomas Gordon Wheelock]
Motion Picture Actor
30 May 2002
27 July 2000
Joseph Alston
[Theodosia Burr]
Governor
11 October 2001
15 October 2001
Philip Danforth Armour
[Malvina Belle Ogden]
Meat Packer
11 October 2001
16 October 2001
Lauren Bacall
[Humphrey Bogart]
Motion Picture Actor
30 June 2002
27 July 2000
Priscilla Bealieu
[Elvis Presley]
Motion Picture Actor
30 May 2002
30 June 2002
David Benedict
[Margaret Hubbell Gano]
Baptist Historian and Preacher
11 October 2001
16 October 2001
Irving Berlin
[Ellen Travers Mackay]
Composer
30 May 2002
original upload
Montgomery Blair
[Mary Elizabeth Woodbury]
Cabinet Official, House of Representatives
29 April 2002
27 July 2000
Elizabeth Anne Bloomer
[Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr.]
First Lady, Institution FOunder
30 June 2002
original upload
Elias Boudinot
[Hannah Stockton]
Continental Congress Delegate, House of Representatives
11 October 2001
17 October 2001
William Bradford
[Susan Vergereau Boudinot]
U.S Attorney General
11 October 2001
27 July 2000
Joseph P. Bradley
[Mary Hornblower]
Supreme Court Justice
11 October 2001
17 October 2001
John Brown
[Margaretta Mason]
Continental Congress Delegate, Senator
30 June 2002
original upload
Aaron Burr
[Theodosia Bartow]
U.S Vice President
11 October 2001
16 October 2001
Lambert Cadwalader
[Mary McCall]
Continental Congress
11 October 2001
31 October 2001
Victoria Claflin
[Canning Woodhull]
Author, Social Reformer
11 October 2001
30 June 2002
Asa Clapp
[Elizabeth Wendell Quincy]
Merchant, State Legislature
29 April 2002
27 July 2000
Steven Grover Cleveland
[Frances Folsom]
Governor, U.S. President
11 October 2001
18 October 2001
Duncan Lamont Clinch
[Eliza Bayard McIntosh]
Brigadier General, House of Representatives
29 April 2002
30 May 2002
Dewitt Clinton
[Catherine L. Jones]
Governor, Senator, Presidential Also-Ran
27 July 2002
original upload
George Clinton
[Cornelia Tappen]
Governo, Vice President
27 July 2002
original upload
Lucretia Coffin
[James Mott]
Reformer
30 May 2002
original upload
Thomas Cole
[Maria Bartow]
Founder of the Hudson School of Painting, Painter
30 May 2002
original upload
Jmes Fenimore Cooper
[Susan Auguste De Lancey]
Author
30 May 2002
original upload
Jefferson Davis
[Sarah Knox Taylor]
Cabinet Official, President (Confederate States of America)
30 May 2002
original upload
William Denning
[Amy Hawxhurst]
House of Representatives
11 October 2001
19 October 2001
Charles De Witt
[Blandina Dubois]
Continental Congress Delegate
14 March 2002
29 April 2002
Jonathan Dickinson
[Joanna Melyn]
College President
16 November 2001
original upload
James Duane
[Mary Livingston]
Mayor
11 October 2001
31 October 2001
William Dunlap
[Elizabeth Woolsey]
Artist, Author, Playwright
27 July 2002
original upload
Thomas Alva Edison
[Mary Stillwell]
Inventor
14 March 2002
original upload
Jonathan Edwards
[Sarah Pierpont]
College President, Congregationalist Clergyman
13 October 2001
19 October 2001
Pierpont Edwards
[Frances Ogden]
Continental Congress Delegate
11 October 2001
19 October 2001
Frederick Frelinghuysen
[Gertrude Schenck]
Continental Congress Delegate
11 October 2001
31 October 2001
Thomas Gage
[Margaret Kemble]
British General
11 October 2001
31 October 2001
James Abram Garfield
[Lucretia Rudolph]
General, President
27 July 2002
original upload
Freeborn Garretson
[Catherine Livingston]
Itinerant Minister of the Methodist Church
16 November 2001
original upload
Elbridge Gerry
[Ann Thompson]
Declaration of Independence Signer, Vice President of the United States
29 April 2002
27 July 2000
George Washington Goethals
[Josephine Rodman]
Engineer, Governor
31 October 2001
original upload
James Wright Gordon
[Mary Hudson]
Ambassador, Governor
11 October 2001
23 October 2001
Alexander Hamilton
[Elizabeth Schuyler]
Constitution Signer, Secretary of the Treasury
18 February 2002
original upload
John Hancock
[Dorothy Quincy]
Declaration of Independence Signer
11 October 2001
27 July 2000
William Averell Harriman
[Pamela Beryl Digby]
Ambassador, Governor
16 November 2001
original upload
Tom Hayden
[Jane Seymour Fonda]
Member of the Chicago Seven, State Senator
9 February 2002
18 February 2002
Leland Hayward
[Pamela Beryl Digby]
Broadway Producer
16 November 2001
original upload
Abiel Holmes
[Sarah Wendell]
Author
29 April 2002
27 July 2000
Francis Hopkinson
[Ann Borden]
Declaration of Independence Signer
30 June 2002
original upload
Josiah Hornblower
[Elizabeth Kingsland]
Continental Congress Delegate
11 October 2001
22 October 2001
Michael Jackson
[Lisa Marie Presley]
Singer
30 May 2002
30 June 2002
John Jay
[Sarah Van Brugh Livingston]
Supreme Court Chief Justice
11 October 2001
30 June 2002
Samuel Johnson
[Charity Floyd]
College President, Senator
29 April 2002
original upload
Rufus King
[Mary Alsop]
Constitution Signer, United States Vice President
30 May 2002
original upload
Lucius Q.C. Lamar
[Virginia Lafayette Longstreet]
Cabinet Official (Secretary of the Interior), Supreme Court Justice
27 July 2002
original upload
Morgan Lewis
[Gertrude Livingston]
Governor, State Attorney General
16 November 2001
18 February 2002
Ezra l'Hommedieu
[Charity Floyd]
Continental Congress
29 April 2002
original upload
Ezra l'Hommedieu
[Mary Catharine Havens]
Continental Congress
11 October 2001
18 February 2002
Philip Livingston
[Christina Ten Broeck]
Declaration of Independence Signer
27 July 2002
original upload
William Livingston
[Susannah French]
Governor of New Jersey
11 October 2001
30 June 2002
William Gibbs McAdoo
[Eleanor Randolph Wilson]
Cabinet Official (Secretary of the Treasury), Senator
27 July 2002
original upload
Clarence Hungerford Mackay
[Catherine Alexander Duer]
Communications Executive, Philanthropist
30 May 2002
original upload
John Louden McAdam
[Anne Charlotte De Lancey]
Inventor
30 May 2002
original upload
Thomas McKean
[Mary Borden]
Declaration of Independence Signer
30 June 2002
original upload
James Monroe
[Eliza Kortright]
Cabinet Official, President
30 May 2002
original upload
Lewis Morris
[Mary Walton]
Declaration of Independence Signer
30 June 2002
27 July 2000
Samuel F.B. Morse
[Sarah Elizabeth Griswold]
Artist, Inventor
29 April 2002
30 June 2002
William North
[Maria Duane]
General
31 October 2001
original upload
David Ogden
[Gertrude Gouverneur]
Judge, Loyalist
16 November 2001
original upload
John Mercer Patton
[Margaret French Williams]
House of Representatives
30 June 2002
original upload
James Kirke Paulding
[Gertrude Kemble]
Secretary of the Navy
11 October 2001
31 October 2001
Charles Willson Peale
[Elizabeth De Peyster]
Painter
18 February 2002
30 June 2002
Zephaniah Platt
[Mary Van Wyck]
Continental Congress Delegate, Town Founder
14 March 2002
original upload
Roger Vladimir Plemiannikov
(alias Vadim)
[Jane Seymour Fonda]
Motion Picture Actor, Director, and Writer
9 February 2002
18 February 2002
John E. Pope
[Clara Alsop Horton]
Major-General (Union Army)
27 July 2002
original upload
Tapping Reeve
[Sarah Burr]
School Founder, State Supreme Court Chief Justice
14 March 2002
original upload
Theodore Roosevelt
[Edith Kermit Carow]
Governor, U.S. Vice President, U.S. President
11 October 2001
27 July 2000
Thomas Fitch Rowland
[Mary Eliza Bradley]
Inventor
16 November 2001
original upload
Benjamin Rush
[Julia Stockton]
Declaration of Independence Signer
11 October 2001
25 October 2001
Arthur St. Clair
[Phoebe Bayard]
Continental Congress Delegate, Governor (Northwest Territory)
30 June 2002
original upload
Philip Schuyler
[Catherine Van Rensselaer]
Continental Congress Delegate, Major General, Senator
18 February 2002
original upload
Randolph Frederick Edward Spencer-Churchill
[Pamela Beryl Digby]
Author, Member of Parliment
16 November 2001
original upload
Alfred Stieglitz
[Georgia Totto O'Keeffe]
Photographer
27 July 2002
original upload
Margaret Sullivan
[Henry Jaynes Fonda]
Motion Picture Actor
9 February 2002
18 February 2002
John Cleves Symmes
[Susannah Livingston]
Continental Congress Delegate, State Supreme Court Justice
11 October 2001
31 October 2001
Lewis Comfort Tiffany
[Louise Wakeman Knox]
Artist
30 June 2002
27 July 2000
Thomas Tillotson
[Margaret Livingston]
House of Representatives, State Secretary of State
16 November 2001
original upload
Robert Edward (Ted) Turner III
[Jane Seymour Fonda]
Founder of CNN, WTBS, TNT, and other media properties
9 February 2002
18 February 2002
John Tyler
[Juliana Gardiner]
Governor, U.S. Vice President, U.S. President
11 October 2001
31 October 2001
Martin Van Buren
[Hannah Hoes]
Vice President, President
27 July 2002
original upload
Pierre Van Cortlandt
[Joanna Livingston]
Lieutenant Governor, State Senate
16 November 2001
original upload
Cornelius Vanderbilt
[Sophia Johnson]
Railroad magnate
18 February 2002
27 July 2000
Daniel Webster
[Caroline Bayard Leroy]
Cabinet Official (Secretary of State), Senator
27 July 2002
original upload
Laura Welch
[George Walker Bush]
First Lady
27 July 2002
original upload
Eli Whitney
[Henrietta Frances Edwards]
Inventor
11 October 2001
31 October 2001
Thomas Woodrow Wilson
[Ellen Louise Axson]
Governor, Nobel Prize Winner, President
27 July 2002
original upload
Levi Woodbury
[Elizabeth Wendell Clapp]
Cabinet Official, Governor, Senator, Supreme Court Justice
29 April 2002
27 July 2000
Brigham Young
[Mary Van Cott]
Morman Leader
3 Novemberr 2001
original upload
Robert Ralph Young
[Anita Ten Eyck O'Keeffe]
Businessman, known as the "Populist of Wall Street"
27 July 2002
original upload

First uploaded 11 October 2001

Last Modified  Saturday, 08-Sep-2018 18:03:15 MDT

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