List of descendants of William Bradford (Plymouth governor)

William Bradford (1590–1657) was the governor of Plymouth Colony (now part of Massachusetts) for most of his life. Descendants of William Bradford, some of whom are listed here, have achieved noteworthy standing in numerous fields.

Descendants

• Serena Armstrong-Jones, Viscountess Linley,^[1] wife of David Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley
• Mabel Keyes Babcock, American landscape architect^[2]
• The Baldwin brothers; (Alec, Daniel, William, and Stephen)^[3] American actors
• Ambrose Bierce^[4] American dystopian novelist and satirist
• Gamaliel Bradford (1763-1824),^[5] American Revolutionary War officer, and his descendants, including Gamaliel Bradford (1863-1932), American biographer and journalist
• Robert F. Bradford,^[6][7] American lawyer, Republican Party strategist, and Governor of Massachusetts from 1947 to 1949

Julia Bradford- 2004

• William Bradford (1624-1703),^[8] son of Governor William Bradford of the Mayflower and military commander of the Plymouth forces during King Philip's War
• William Bradford (1729-1808), American physician, lawyer, and U.S. Senator from Rhode Island.^[9]
• William Bradford (painter),^[10] American painter, photographer, and explorer
• James G. Carter,^[11] American congregational minister, Massachusetts State Representative, and pioneer of Normal schools and public education
• Julia Child,^[12] American entrepreneur and chef of French and French-influenced cuisine
• Frederic Edwin Church,^[13] American landscape painter
• The Dimmicks (SE was a first cousin of brothers MM and WH, and father of JB. SE was also the father-in-law to eventual 2nd wife of Benjamin Harrison.)^[14]
  • J. Benjamin Dimmick (1858–1920), Mayor of Scranton, Pennsylvania
  • Milo Melankthon Dimmick (1811–1872), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania 1849–1853, candidate for President Judge in Pennsylvania 1853.
  • Samuel E. Dimmick (1822–1875), Pennsylvania Attorney General (1873–1875).
  • William Harrison Dimmick (1815–1861), Prosecuting Attorney of Wayne County, Pennsylvania 1836–1837; Pennsylvania State Senator 1845–1847; U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania 1857–1861.
• Frank Nelson Doubleday,^[15] American publisher, and his descendants, including Nelson Doubleday, Nelson Doubleday, Jr., and Russell Doubleday
• George Eastman,^[16] American inventor and the founder of the Eastman Kodak Company
• Clint Eastwood,^[17] American film actor, director, and producer
• Harold Eugene Edgerton,^[18] a Professor at MIT who was the developer of pioneering stop-action photographic techniques and electronic flashes.
• Catherine Drew Gilpin Faust,^[19] (born September 18, 1947), is an American historian, college administrator, and the president of Harvard University.
• Sally Field ^[20] (born November 6, 1946) is an American actress, singer, producer, director, and screenwriter.
• Charles Dana Gibson,^[21] Life magazine publisher and illustrator, best known for his "Gibson Girl" drawings
• Daniel Gibson Knowlton, classicist bookbinder at Brown University
• Edward "Ned" Lamont,^[22][23] American businessman and Democratic Party politician
• John Lithgow,^[24] American actor and philanthropist
• Jan Masaryk,^[25] Czechoslovak diplomat and politician
• George B. McClellan,^[26] Civil War general, Governor of New Jersey, Democratic opponent of Abraham Lincoln in the 1864 United States presidential election
• Thomas Pynchon,^[27] American short story writer and novelist
• Christopher Reeve,^[28] American film actor and political activist
• William Rehnquist,^[29] Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1972 to 1986 and Chief Justice of the United States from 1986 until his death in 2005
• Deborah Sampson,^[30][31] female member of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War
• Benjamin Spock,^[32] child care specialist and author
• Adlai Stevenson III,^[33] United States Democratic Senator representing Illinois from 1970 to 1981, two-time candidate for Governor of Illinois
• Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr.,^[34] publisher of the New York Times since 1992
• Charles Sumner,^[35] American statesman and Republican Party politician
• Telford Taylor, Second Chief Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials
• Dick Thornburgh, former Pennsylvania governor and US Attorney General
• Noah Webster,^[36] American educator, journalist, and lexicographer noted for his Webster's Dictionary
• William Collins Whitney,^[37][38] American financier and politician, and his descendants, the Whitney family
• Casey Kulas,^[39]

Discredited descendants

• Hugh Hefner, media and porn executive, is a claimant of descent from William Bradford,^[40] but his claims have been disproved by The Mayflower Society.^[41]

See also

• William Bradford

Notes

1. Roberts, Gary Boyd. "Genealogical Thoughts by Gary Boyd Roberts #14". New England Historic Genealogical Society. Archived from the original on July 20, 2011. Retrieved 2007-06-24.
2. "Mabel Keyes Babcock". Lewiston Daily Sun, December 8, 1931.
3. Newcomb, Bethuel Merritt (1923). Andrew Newcomb and his Descendants: A Revised Edition of "Genealogical Memoir of the Newcomb Family" by John Bearse Newcomb. New Haven, CT: The Tuttle, Morhouse, and Taylor Co.
   Daniel LeRoy Martineau, mentioned in the book, is the grandfather of the Baldwin brothers.
4. Morris, Roy (1996). Ambrose Bierce: Alone In Bad Company. New York: Crown, p. 10. Retrieved on 2007-05-05.
5. Bradford, Gamaliel. Correspondence: Guide. Houghton Library, Harvard College University. Retrieved on 2007-05-04.
6. Robert Fiske Bradford Papers, 1909-1971, Massachusetts Historical Society; accessed 4 June 2007.
7. "Blue Bloods," Time; 19 September 1938. On-line source: Time On-line; accessed 4 June 2007.
8. William Bradford V (or William Bradford the Younger) was Deputy Governor of the Plymouth Colony from 1682 - 1686 and from 1689 to 1692 when the colony was merged with the Massachusetts Bay Colony
9. See The Mayflower and the Pilgrims' New World by Nathaniel Philbrick, published by Penguin, 2008. https://books.google.com/books?id=H0_P-q9GM_gC&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Mayflower+and+the+Pilgrims%27+New+World&hl=en&sa=X&ei=wt5kVO-cPIS3yASrkYHwCQ&ved=0CCIQuwUwAA#v=onepage&q=The%20Mayflower%20and%20the%20Pilgrims%27%20New%20World&f=false
10. William Bradford: Sailing Ships and Arctic Seas
11. The Mayflower Quarterly, Vol. 51, General Society of Mayflower Descendants: 1985 (quarterly journal).
12. Fitch, Noel Riley. Appetite for Life: The Biography of Julia Child; New York: Doubleday, 1999; pp. 10.
13. Roberts, Gary Boyd. "Genealogical Thoughts by Gary Boyd Roberts #36", New England Historic Genealogical Society. On-line source (americanancestors.org); accessed 5 May 2007.
14. See Samuel E. Dimmick article for lineage and sources.
15. Doubleday, Frank Nelson. The Memoirs of a Publisher; New York: Doubleday, 1972; appendices.
16. See ref for Frederic Edwin Church.
17. McGilligan, Patrick. Clint: The Life And Legend; New York: St. Martin's Press, 2002; pp. 13.
18. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~edgerton/FrankEugene1875.htm
19. Hollick, Martin E. (2008). "Notable Kin: The New England Ancestry of Drew Gilpin Faust, Harvard's 28th President". AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society. Retrieved 2010-04-21.
20. Sally Field's ancestry was researched by Henry Gates and staff, for the PBS television series, Finding Your Roots, which aired November 11, 2014. /
21. Roberts, Gary Boyd. Notable Kin: Volume Two; Santa Clara, CA: Carl Boyer, 1999.
22. Sleeper, Jim. "The American Lamonts," The New York Times, "Opinions and Editorials;" on-line publication: 15 October 2006; accessed 5 May 2007.
23. Lamont, Corliss, ed. The Thomas Lamonts In America; New York: A. S. Barnes, 1971. The family-published history of the Lamont family in America details how the socialist Lamonts arrived in America in the 1750s and married into New England Pilgrim and Puritan families, including descendants of William Bradford.
24. The Mayflower Quarterly, Vol. 64, General Society of Mayflower Descendants: 1998 (quarterly journal).
25. Roberts, Gary Boyd and Wood, Michael J. "Notable Kin: Foreign Prime Ministers or Presidents with New England-Derived Forebears or Wives: Part II - Europe", New England Historic Genealogical Society. On-line source (AmericanAncestors.org); accessed 10 June 2007.
26. Ancestry of Mitt Romney (This link shows McClellan's (and Benjamin Spock's) descent from the Joshua Ripley who married Mary Backus, also ancestors of Christopher Reeve. Look at the source for Reeve to see that Joshua Ripley was the son of Joshua Ripley and Hannah Bradford, the grandson of William Bradford and Alice Richards, and the great-grandson of Governor William Bradford.)
27. Roberts, Gary Boyd. "Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources #48", New England Historic Genealogical Society. On-line source (AmericanAncestors.org); accessed 1 June 2007.
28. Roberts, Gary Boyd. "Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources #77", New England Historic Genealogical Society. On-line source (AmericanAncestors.org); accessed 4 May 2007.
29. Ancestry of William Rehnquist (William Bradford, #1702 in Rehnquist's ahnentafel, was the son of Governor William Bradford.)
30. Scott, Fred. Clifton William Scott and Mildred Evelyn Bradford Scott of Ashfield, Mass.: Volume 1 (Genealogical record); iUniverse, 2004; pp. 423.
31. Young, Alfred. Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier; New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004; pp. 4-5.
32. See ref for George B. McClellan.
33. See first ref for Deborah Sampson.
34. Roberts, Gary Boyd. "Genealogical Thoughts by Gary Boyd Roberts #42", New England Historic Genealogical Society. On-line source (AmericanAncestors.org); accessed 10 June 2007.
35. Pierce, Edward L. Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University; on-line source, accessed 15 June 2007.
36. "Noah Webster"; Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed. (1911). On-line source: "Classic Encyclopedia;" accessed 4 May 2007
37. Biddle, Flora Miller. The Whitney Women and the Museum They Made New York: Arcade Publishing, 1999; pp. 26. Account of F. M. Biddle, president emeritus of the Whitney Museum, describes the descent of W. C. Whitney's mother Laurinda Collins (Whitney) from Bradford.
38. "William Collins Whitney (1841 - 1904)". The Whitney Research Group, 1999; accessed 4 May 2007.
39. Executive Producer of The Really Big Show on WKNR 850AM ESPN Cleveland
40. "Mr. Playboy"; Isenberg, Barbara. Time, on-line: 2 October 2005; accessed 4 May 2007.
41. The Mayflower Quarterly, "Letters," Vol. 72, No. 2 (June 2006), publication of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants.