Genealogical happiness! I am distantly related to one of the FOUNDERS of our country!

Thomas Treat Paine! Thomas SIGNED our original Declaration of Independence!!!

My maternal line descends from his Great Grandfather's line. Robert Treat and Jane Tapp gave birth to two children, Samuel and Mary. Samuel's line gave birth to a daughter, Eunice, who was the mother of Thomas Treat Paine.

My line descends from Mary, who married Azariah Crane, and from HER daughter, Hannah Treat Crane.

THOMAS Treat PAINE went on to become the FIRST attorney general of Massachusetts, where I currently reside...and it was HE who prosecuted the British soldiers responsible for the Boston Masscre!!!

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kodiac · 26-30, M

Cool 😎

4meAndyou · F

@kodiac 😎😎😎🤣🤣🤣

toxdoc · 70-79, M

Cool. Happy 4th of july.

Barefooter25 · 46-50, M

I have a friend who is distantly related to George Washington. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🎆🎇

Thinkerbell · 41-45, F

FormeAndyou GOES way far back,
And for patriot blood doesn't lack.
Her ancestors fought,
And by and by brought
The demise of the old Union Jack.

Heartlander

It's so much fun and interesting to discover who the ancestors were, both the famous and the infamous. Also for a peek at who our 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc. cousins are today. I'm mostly Acadian driftwood and Spanish Grenadier under Galvez that financed, fed and fought alongside Washington. And my few German ancestors came over with the Law migration. They accounts for why so many towns and communities surrounding New Orleans have German names.

There were supposedly some British Maritime colonies that attempted to join the revolution but there was also a movement by British loyalist to migrate north to escape the revolution and the swelling loyalist population made resistance difficult. That possibly also accounts for Maine's delay in joining the original 13.

As interesting are who our ancestors were before they migrated. Check the history books for what was going on in Europe or wherever in the year that they decided to leave.

ReptilianFromPlanetCrush · M

Amazing what you find out when you study family history. I am a direct descendant of William the Conqueror but then again so are about ten million other people. LOLOL. we are all related somewhere down the line. You got family in North Carolina or Virginia ??

4meAndyou · F

@ReptilianFromPlanetCrush Probably. People move around a lot these days, though. I am descended from John Lackland, youngest son of King Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. HE was a direct descendant of William the Conqueror.

William the Conqueror (c.1028–1087)

His son, King Henry I (c.1068–1135)

His daughter, Empress Matilda (1102–1167)

Her son, King Henry II (1133–1189)

His son, King John Lackland (1166–1216)

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