Genealogy Pages
Stephen Warde Anderson
Notable Ancestors
(to 13 generations)
First Great-grandparent:
Elijah Whittier Blaisdell, Jr. moved from Vermont to Rockford, Illinois in 1853; newspaper publisher, abolitionist, founding member of the Republican Party, early supporter of Abraham Lincoln (a distant cousin), political leader, served in state legislature, attorney, later a novelist.
Second Great-grandparents:
Elijah Whittier Blaisdell, Sr. publisher in Vermont, abolitionist
Villee Lawrence 2nd lieutenant in War of 1812, later major-general of Vermont militia, merchant in Vergennes, Vermont, leading citizen and mayor, judge; son, Charles Burrall Lawrence, Chief Justice of Illinois Supreme Court, president of Chicago Historical Society; son-in-law, John Pierpont, Chief Justice of Vermont Supreme Court.
Third Great-grandparents:
Parrit Blaisdell fought in both Revolutionary War and War of 1812, stage coach driver; lived in NH and VT; stepfather, Nathaniel Whittier, uncle of poet John Greenleaf Whittier; brother, Daniel, U.S. representative from New Hampshire.
Nehemiah Lawrence captain in Revolutionary War, commanding company in Colonel Charles Burrall’s Connecticut regiment, later married his daughter Abigail as third wife
Enoch Woodbridge graduate of Yale, officer in Revolutionary War, headed commissary in Vermont, settled there after war, mayor of Vergennes, VT, attorney, state legislator, Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court.
Fourth Great-grandparents:
Charles Burrall from Simsbury, CT, first settler of Canaan, CT, constable, colonel of a Connecticut regiment in Revolutionary War, participated in invasion of Quebec, later part of Continental Army, served under several generals, including Washington, member of Connecticut's constitutional convention.
Timothy Woodbridge judge of Hampshire County, MA, oversaw Indian mission at Stockbridge, MA, superintendent of Massachusetts Bureau of Indian Affairs
Fifth Great-grandparent:
Marvin Beckwith, Sr. from Norwich, CT, soldier, ensign in Revolutionary War, served in Col. Joseph Spencer’s regiment
Seventh Great-grandparents:
Reverend John Woodbridge Puritan clergyman from Wiltshire, emigrated in 1634, married Mercy Dudley, daughter of Gov. Thomas Dudley, minister at Andover, MA, returned to England in 1647, but back in New England after the Restoration
Reverend John Eliot Puritan clergyman, in Boston in 1631, missionary to the Indians and established town of converted Indians and translated Bible into native American language
Gov. William Brenton 2nd governor of Rhode Island from 1666-1669
Gov. William Leete governor of New Haven colony, then governor of Connecticut 1667-1683
Eighth Great-grandparents:
Susannah North Martin wife of blacksmith, when 70 years old convicted of witchcraft and hanged at Salem, MA in 1692
Maj. Gen. Robert Sedgwick head of military forces of Massachusetts Bay Colony, governor of Jamaica
Rev. Samuel Stone Puritan minister, a founder of Hartford, CN in 1636
Gov. Thomas Dudley secretary to Earl of Lincoln, became Puritan, came to Boston with Winthrop fleet in 1630 as deputy governor, later governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, great-grandson of 3rd Baron Dudley, father of poet Anne Bradstreet
Ninth Great-grandparents:
Matthew Beckwith merchant and planter, lived in Hartford, Lyme, and New London, CT, had first ship built in the colony, initiated trade with Barbados, wife Elizabeth Lynde (great-grand-daughter of Simon Digby, executed as traitor for participation in Rising of the North, Catholic rebellion against Queen Elizabeth)
Judge Robert Shute Elizabethan judge of King’s Court
Rev. Robert Parker non-comformist minister exiled to Holland by Queen Elizabeth
Sampson Lennard high sheriff of Kent, member of parliament, married to Elizabeth Fienes, 11th Baroness Dacre
Tenth Great-grandparents:
Gov. Thomas Welles held all political offices in Connecticut, including governor in 1655
Rev. John Lothrop non-comformist minister, jailed by English government, in 1634 allowed to immigrate with family and followers to Massachusetts, founder of Barnstable, MA
Sir Thomas Fienes 9th Baron Dacre, mother, Jane Sutton (sister of 3rd Baron Dudley), his wife Alice Neville (granddaughter of 3rd Duke of Buckingham who was beheaded as a traitor by King Henry VIII in 1521), promising career cut short when executed for murder in 1541, owing to killing of gamekeeper perpetrated by followers who were poaching deer as a nighttime lark.
Captain Sir Henry Sutton-Dudley younger son of 3rd Baron Dudley and Lady Cecily Grey (granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth Woodville), 1st cousin of Sir Thomas Fienes, soldier, admiral, ringleader of failed conspiracy to depose Queen Mary in favor of Elizabeth, lived in exile in France until accession of Elizabeth
Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham (12gg)
Michael Gough in The Sword and the Rose (1953)
Steven Waddington in The Tudors (2007)
Sir Thomas Grey, Marquess of Dorset (12gg)
Douglas Wilmer in Richard III (1955)
Queen Elizabeth Woodville (13gg)
Barbara O’Neil in Tower of London (1939)
Merry Kerridge in Richard III (1955)
Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (13gg)
Sir Ralph Richardson in Richard III (1955)
Sir Ralph de Neville, Earl of Westmoreland (14gg)
Gerald Case in Henry V (1946)
Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warrick (16gg)
Alan Napier in Joan of Arc (1948)
Sir John Gielgud in Saint Joan (1957)
Michael Goldman in Jeanne la Pucelle II (1994)
Lady Joan Holland, the Fair Maid of Kent (17gg)
Joanne Dru in The Warriors (1955)