I am:
17 degrees from John Winthrop - Gov. John Winthrop, leader of the Winthrop Fleet, one
of the biggest in the first wave of the Puritan Migration
15 degrees from Anne Bradstreet - poet
17 degrees from John Cotton - minister of the first church in Boston
16 degrees from John Eliot - "The Indian Apostle"
17 degrees from John Endecott - Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
15 degrees from Mary Estey - accused witch
17 degrees from Thomas Hooker - Co-founder of the Connecticut Colony and prominent
religious leader
16 degrees from Anne Hutchinson - part of the Antinomian Controversy
16 degrees from William Pynchon - fur trader and founder of Springfield, Massachusetts
16 degrees from Alice Tilley - midwife and conventicle leader
15 degrees from Robert Treat - Governor of Connecticut
12 degrees from Roger Williams - founder of Rhode Island
It is always interesting to visit the past to see how we are related to each other. I have
some ancestors that were black, bank robbers, politicians, physicians, detectives,
architects, actors, comedians. I guess that I am a collection of all of them, as we ALL
are.
WikiTree.com helps me gather this information with their weekly newsletters.
If you would like to find your connections to famous people, you can start by giving me
some basic information by going to:
https://www.hobbyline.com/genealogy_web_design.htm
and click on the 'Request Form' link.
I have researched the ancestry for many persons interested in their family history.
Mike Dippel
https://www.youtube.com/@MichaelDippel
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