Today as I was researching my New England Family Tree branches that called the Plymouth Mass. area home, I came across the biography of one Daniel Webster in a book about some of the leading citizens of the Plymouth Colonial Era.
Further research revealed that Daniel and I are fourth cousins 8 times removed and we share a man named Henry Kingsbury as our common ancestral great grandfather.
Henry Kingsbury would be Daniel's 3rd great grandfather and Henry Kingsbury would be my 11th great grandfather.
Henry Kingsbury profile
Daniel Webster descends from Samuel Kingsbury:
Samuel Kingsbury profile
I descend from Jospeh Kingsbury:
Joseph Kingsbury profile
These two men were brothers along with seven other siblings.
The Kingsbury line came from England to Mass via Henry and settled in Ipswich and Haverhill Mass.
.....kind of a cool history unfolding for me with this line.
I remember reading about Daniel in grade school and always felt some weird connection to his life and story..... and now I know why.
And then there is the short story "The Devil & Daniel Webster" which was made into a movie as well, and though I never read it or paid it any attention, I learned just now through some research that the fictional story features as the jury, some interesting "real" people from colonial New England, with some being ancestral relatives of mine....such as Thomas Morton who founded Merrymount Mass., a 3rd cousin and Walter Butler, a loyalist, a 4th cousin.
I never realized how interesting his life was and how connected he is to my family tree. He was, in addition to a lawyer and politician and statesman, an avid farmer.
His properties in the Marshfield Mass. area included some of the lands of my ancestral great grandparents and their families including the Winslow and Miller family lines that I descend from.
My family connection to Daniel Webster:
Daniel and John are fourth cousins 8 times removed
Daniel Webster and John Repinski are both descendants of Henry Kingsbury.
1. Daniel is the son of Abigail (Eastman) Webster
2. Abigail is the daughter of Rodger Eastman
3. Rodger is the son of Huldah Kingsbury
4. Huldah is the daughter of Samuel Kingsbury
5. Samuel is the son of Henry Kingsbury
This makes Henry the third great grandfather of Daniel.
1. John is the son of Marlene Grace (Dietz) Repinski
2. Marlene is the daughter of Raymond Harold Dietz
3. Raymond is the son of Grace Elizabeth (Pope) Dietz
4. Grace is the daughter of Henry Allen Pope
5. Henry is the son of Thomas Paschal Pope
6. Thomas Paschal is the son of Eliza Ann (Converse) Pope
7. Eliza is the daughter of Ephraim Converse
8. Ephraim is the son of Eunice (Hyde) Converse
9. Eunice is the daughter of Ephraim Hyde
10. Ephraim is the son of Hannah (Kingsbury) Hyde
11. Hannah is the daughter of Joseph Kingsbury
12. Joseph is the son of Joseph Kingsbury
13. Joseph is the son of Henry Kingsbury
This makes Henry the 11th great grandfather of John.
