Some progeny

We have already identified a few descendants of Henry (died 10 Jul 1662, in Newbury). Son Henry has an interesting collection, such as the Timothy Pickering and the John Lowell Gardners, through his daughter, Mary.

By using descendant trees (Overmire, Larson, Dowling, etc.), we can list a few more progeny for all of the children.

• George Bancroft (c 1750s, Elizabeth) -- Secretary of U.S. Navy
• Nathaniel Thayer (c 1760s, Henry) -- chaplain, Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts
• Henry Wetherby Benchley (c 1820s, Sarah) -- jailed for running an Underground Railroad
• Charles William Eliot (c 1830s, Henry) -- president of Harvard, from 1869 to 1909
• Charles Vernon Gridley (c 1840s, Sarah) -- Captain, U.S. Navy
• Lucy Lambert Hale (c 1840s, Mary) -- engaged to John Wilkes Booth
• Francis Edgar Stanley (c 1840s, Mary) -- Stanley steam car
• George Wood Wingate (c 1840s, Henry) -- lawyer and organizer of rifle practice
• Thornton Chase (c 1840s, Henry) -- poet, religious seeker and publisher
• George Draper Dayton (c 1850s, Henry) -- founder of Dayton's
• Abbott Lawrence Lowell  (c 1850s, Henry) -- president of Harvard, from 1909 to 1933
• Rev. Endicott Peabody  (c 1850s, Henry) -- founder of Groton School for Boys
• Horatio William Parker (c 1860s, Sarah) -- teacher of Charles Ives
• Edward Graham Parker (c 1870s, Sarah) -- Captain, U.S. Navy (his widow married Clark H. Woodward) 
• Elliott Carr Cutler (c 1880s, Henry) -- Brigadier General in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, surgeon
• Robert Hutchings Goddard (c 1880s, Sarah) -- father of U.S. rocketry
• Ezra Loomis Pound (c 1880s, Sarah) -- poet
• Theodore Edson Chandler (c 1890s, Mary) -- admiral, U.S. Navy
• Willard Frank Libby (c 19yy, Daniel -- Nobel Prize winner
• Hugh Bancroft (c 19yy, Elizabeth) -- publisher of Wall Street Journal 
• Alan Bartlett Shepard (c 1920s, Sarah) -- NASA astronaut
• Peter Benchley (c 1940s, Sarah) -- author
• John Forbes Kerry  (c 1940s, Henry) -- U.S. Senator from Massachusetts and presidential nominee, 2004, of the Democratic Party
• ...
• Walter Goodwin Davis (c 1880s) -- preeminent genealogist
• ...

The list is not complete and was developed by browsing rootsweb trees. The effort will continue.

Remarks:

02/01/2013 -- Point Larson link to new site.

01/10/2013 --  Larson DB has moved. So, removed the pointer, for now. 

Modified: 02/01/2013