Boston Brahmin#Phillips

{{Short description|Upper class Bostonians}}

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File:1768 BostonCommon byChristianRemick.png in Colonial Boston, home to many Boston Brahmin]]

The Boston Brahmins are members of Boston's historic upper class.{{Cite web |title=[People & Events:] Boston Brahmins |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/murder-boston-brahmins/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030817200104/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/murder/peopleevents/p_brahmins.html |archive-date=17 August 2003 |access-date=7 January 2019 |website=American Experience |publisher=PBS/WGBH}} From the late 19th century through the mid-20th century, they were often associated with a cultivated New England accent,{{cite news |last1=Taylor |first1=Trey |title=The Rise and Fall of Katharine Hepburn's Fake Accent |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/08/the-rise-and-fall-of-katharine-hepburns-fake-accent/278505/ |access-date=30 August 2023 |work=The Atlantic |date=8 August 2013 |language=en}} Harvard University,{{cite book|title=Visions of Belonging: New England Art and the Making of American Identity|first=Julia B. |last=Rosenbaum|year=2006| isbn= 9780801444708| page =45|publisher=Cornell University Press|quote=By the late nineteenth century, one of the strongest bulwarks of Brahmin power was Harvard University. Statistics underscore the close relationship between Harvard and Boston's upper strata.}} Anglicanism,{{cite book|title=Boston's Wayward Children: Social Services for Homeless Children, 1830-1930|first=Peter C.|last=Holloran|year=1989| isbn=9780838632970| page =73|publisher=Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press|quote=}} and traditional British-American customs and clothing. Descendants of the earliest English colonists are typically considered to be the most representative of the Boston Brahmins.{{Cite book |last1=Greenwood |first1=Andrea |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OuGQuC4bcJgC&q=Brahmin&pg=PA60 |title=An Introduction to the Unitarian and Universalist Traditions |last2=Greenwood |first2=Andrew |date=2011 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9781139504539 |location=Cambridge; New York |page=60 |access-date=7 January 2020}}{{Cite journal |date=March 2004 |title=What's a Boston Brahmin? |journal=Slate |url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2004/03/what-s-a-boston-brahmin.html |last1=Bowers |first1=Andy }} They are considered White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs).{{cite book|title= Whose American Revolution Was It?: Historians Interpret the Founding|first=Gregory H.|last= Nobles|year= 2011| isbn=9780814789124| page =102|publisher=New York University Press|quote=}}{{cite book|title= Smart and Sassy: The Strengths of Inner-City Black Girls|first=Thomas H. |last=O'Connor|year= 2002| isbn=9780195121643| page =87|publisher=Oxford University Press|quote=}}{{cite book|title=Building A New Boston: Politics and Urban Renewal, 1950-1970|first=Gregory H.|last= Nobles|year= 1995| isbn=9781555532468| page =295|publisher=University Press of New England|quote=}}

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Etymology

File:Oliver_Wendell_Holmes_Sr_c1879.jpg, who coined the phrase "Brahmin" in a January 1860 article he authored for The Atlantic Monthly.]]

The phrase "Brahmin Caste of New England" was first coined by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., a physician and writer, in a January 1860 article in The Atlantic Monthly.{{Cite book |last=Holmes |first=Oliver Wendell |url=https://books.google.com/books?d=BOTqCJx5RIAC&q=Brahmin&pg=PA93 |title=The Professor's Story: Chapter I: The Brahmin Caste of New England |date=January 1860 |work=The Atlantic Monthly |volume=V |page=93 |author-link=Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. |access-date=7 January 2020 |issue=XXVII}} It was part of a series of articles that eventually became his novel Elsie Venner, and the first chapter of the novel was about the Brahmin caste. The term is derived from the chief priestly caste in the Hindu caste system. The appropriated term became a shorthand to refer to the old wealthy and elite New England families of traditionally British Protestant origin that became influential in the development of American institutions and culture. The influence of the old American gentry has been reduced in modern times, but some vestiges remain, primarily in the institutions and the ideals that they championed in their heyday.{{Cite web |date=21 November 2016 |title=A Brief History of the Boston Brahmin |url=https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/brief-history-boston-brahmin/}}

Characteristics

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File:Beacon Hill and Massachusetts State House P1010887.jpg, a preeminent neighborhood for Boston Brahmin located near the Massachusetts State House in Boston.{{cite book|title=The Urban Establishment: Upper Strata in Boston, New York, Charleston, Chicago, and Los Angeles|first=Frederic |last=Cople Jaher|year=1982| isbn=9780252009327| page =25|publisher=University of Illinois Press|quote=}}]]

The nature of the Brahmins is referenced in the doggerel "Boston Toast" by Holy Cross alumnus John Collins Bossidy:

{{poemquote|And this is good old Boston,

The home of the bean and the cod,

Where the Lowells talk only to Cabots,

And the Cabots talk only to God.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MtciwlIG3sMC&pg=PA53 |title=Famous Lines: A Columbia Dictionary of Familiar Quotations |publisher=Columbia University Press |year=1996 |isbn=0-231-10218-6 |editor-last=Andrews |editor-first=Robert |location=New York |page=53 |oclc=35593596 |access-date=7 January 2019}}{{Cite book |last=McPhee |first=John |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0_P0m01GclYC&pg=PA163 |title=Giving Good Weight |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux |year=2011 |isbn=9780374708573 |location=New York |page=163 |oclc=871539336 |access-date=7 January 2019}}}}

Many 19th-century Brahmin families of large fortune were of common origin; fewer were of an aristocratic origin. The new families were often the first to seek, in typically British fashion, suitable marriage alliances with those old aristocratic New England families that were descended from land-owners in England to elevate and cement their social standing. The Winthrops, Dudleys, Saltonstalls, Winslows, and Lymans (descended from English magistrates, gentry, and aristocracy) were, by and large, happy with this arrangement. All of Boston's "Brahmin elite", therefore, maintained the received culture of the old English gentry, including cultivating the personal excellence that they imagined maintained the distinction between gentlemen and freemen, and between ladies and women. They saw it as their duty to maintain what they defined as high standards of excellence, duty, and restraint. Cultivated, urbane, and dignified, a Boston Brahmin was supposed to be the very essence of enlightened aristocracy.{{Cite book |last=Story |first=Ronald |title=Harvard and the Boston Upper Class: The Forging of an Aristocracy, 1800–1870 |publisher=Wesleyan University Press |year=1985 |isbn=9780819561350 |location=Middletown, Conn. |oclc=12022412 |orig-year=1980}}{{Cite journal |last=Goodman |first=Paul |title=Ethics and Enterprise: The Values of a Boston Elite, 1800–1860 |date=September 1966 |journal=American Quarterly |volume=18 |pages=437–451 |doi=10.2307/2710847 |jstor=2710847 |issue=3}} The ideal Brahmin was not only wealthy, but displayed what was considered suitable personal virtues and character traits.

The Brahmin were expected to maintain the customary English reserve in dress, manner, and deportment, and cultivate the arts, support charities such as hospitals and colleges, and assume the role of community leaders.{{Cite book |last=Field |first=Peter S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HXHbEWJacwwC |title=Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Making of a Democratic Intellectual |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |year=2003 |isbn=978-0847688425 |location=Lanham, Md.}}{{rp|14}} Although the ideal called on him to transcend commonplace business values, in practice many found the thrill of economic success quite attractive. The Brahmins warned each other against avarice and insisted upon personal responsibility. Scandal and divorce were unacceptable. This culture was buttressed by the strong extended family ties present in Boston society. Young men attended the same prep schools, colleges, and private clubs,{{Cite journal |last=Story |first=Ronald |title=Harvard Students, the Boston Elite, and the New England Preparatory System, 1800–1870 |date=Fall 1975 |journal=History of Education Quarterly |volume=15 |pages=281–298 |doi=10.2307/367846 |jstor=367846 |issue=3|s2cid=147273000 }} and heirs married heiresses. Family not only served as an economic asset, but also as a means of moral restraint.

Most belonged to the Unitarian or Episcopal churches,{{cite book|title=Class and Status in America: A Contemporary Perspective|first=John |last=F. Sullivan|year=2001| isbn=9781637640722| page =2|publisher=Dorrance Publishing|quote=were members of Unitarian and Episcopal churches}} although some were Congregationalists or Methodists.{{cite book|title=Brahmin Prophet: Phillips Brooks and the Path of Liberal Protestantism|first=Gillis |last=J. Harp|year=2003| isbn= 9780742571983| page =13|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers|quote=}} Politically, they were successively Federalists, Whigs, and Republicans. They were marked by their manners and once distinctive elocution. Their distinctive Anglo-American manner of dress has been much imitated and is the foundation of the style now informally known as preppy. Many of the Brahmin families trace their ancestry back to the original 17th- and 18th-century colonial ruling class consisting of Massachusetts governors and magistrates, Harvard presidents, distinguished clergy, and fellows of the Royal Society of London, a leading scientific body, while others entered New England aristocratic society during the 19th century with their profits from commerce and trade, often marrying into established Brahmin families.{{Cite news |date=March 2004 |title=What's a Boston Brahmin? |publisher=Slate.com |url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2004/03/what-s-a-boston-brahmin.html |access-date=2020-02-25}}

List of Boston Brahmin families

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{{center|Selected Boston Brahmins}}
File:J S Copley - Samuel Adams.jpg, American statesman, Massachusetts governor, and Founding Father of the United States.]]
File:SamuelAppleton BostonAthenaeum14.png, American merchant.]]
File:JohnAmoryLowell.jpg, banking merchant.]]
File:Robert L Bacon.jpg, U.S. Congressman and attorney.]]
File:Benjamin E Bates founder of Bates College.jpg, philanthropist, business magnate, and namesake of Bates College.]]
File:The history of the Civil War in America; comprising a full and impartial account of the origin and progress of the rebellion, of the various naval and military engagements, of the heroic deeds (14760322754).jpg, American politician, Connecticut governor, and U.S. senator.]]
File:William_Gardner_Choate_(Federal_judge_from_New_York).jpg, federal judge and founder of Choate Rosemary Hall.]]
File:COOLIDGE, JOHN LCCN2016860932.jpg, railroad executive and son of U.S. President Calvin Coolidge.]]
File:SamuelCooper.jpg, Congregational minister.]]
File:BWCrowninshield.jpg, colonist.]]
File:Thomas Cushing, Member of Continental Congress.jpg, Massachusetts colonial speaker of the house.]]
File:Joseph Dudley attributed to Peter Lely.jpg, Royal Governor of Massachusetts.]]
File:Rev. William Emerson (Polyanthos, May 1812).jpg, Massachusetts minister.]]
File:Antonio Mancini - Portrait of John Lowell Gardner.jpg, American businessman and art collector.]]
File:PT_Jackson.jpg, Boston manufacturer.]]
File:Abbott Lawrence.jpg, politician and founder of Lawrence, Massachusetts.]]
File:Cabotlodgenationalportrait.jpg, American statesmen and congressman.]]
File:JamesOtisJr by Blackburn.jpg, colonial lawyer.]]
File:Peabodyg.png, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and founder of the House of Morgan and the Peabody Institute.]]
File:Charles_Callahan_Perkins.png, art historian, philanthropist, and founder of the Museum of Fine Arts.]]
File:Portrait_of_John_Phillips.jpeg, educator and founder of Phillips Exeter Academy.]]
File:George P.A. Healy - John Quincy Adams - Google Art Project.jpg, sixth President of the United States.]]
File:SylvanusThayer.jpg, the father of West Point.]]
File:John G. Palfrey I, Founder of Havard Divinity School.jpg, leader in founding Harvard Divinity School, U.S. Congressman, and Unitarian minister.]]
File:David_Sears.jpg, businessman and philanthropist.]]
File:Gov. Thomas Dudley.jpg, first Massachusetts Bay Colony governor.]]
File:JosephWarrenByCopley.jpeg, Major general and physician.]]

= Adams =

{{Main|Adams political family}}

= Amory =

{{Main|Amory (name)}}

= Appleton =

{{Main|Appleton (surname)}}

Patrilineal line:{{Cite book |last=Farrell |first=Betty |title=Elite Families: Class and Power in Nineteenth-Century Boston |publisher=SUNY Press |year=1993 |isbn=1438402325}}

Other notable relatives:{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZxANnBnHKBQC&pg=PA330 |title=Appleton of New England |work=Suffolk Manorial Families |publisher=William Pollard & Co |year=1900 |editor-last=Muskett |editor-first=Joseph James |volume=1 |location=Exeter |pages=330–334 |access-date=February 20, 2014}}{{Cite book |last=Jewett |first=Issac Appleton |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KZIWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA20 |title=Memorial of Samuel Appleton of Ipswich, Massachusetts: With Genealogical Notices of Some of His Descendants |year=1801 |location=Boston}}{{Cite book |last=Ipswich Historical Society |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6ScWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA187 |title=A Genealogy of the Ipswich Descendants of Samuel Appleton.* |work=Publications of the Ipswich Historical Society |year=1906 |access-date=February 16, 2014}}

= Bacon =

{{Main|Bacon (surname)}}

= Bates =

{{Main|Bates family}}

Originally from Boston and Britain:

= Boylston =

Boylston Family

= Bradlee =

Bradlee Family

Direct line:Sarah Bradlee Fulton{{Cite web |last=Quinn |first=Bradleeq |title=Sarah Bradlee |url=http://www.bostonteapartyship.com/sarah-bradlee-fulton |access-date=25 August 2012 |publisher=Boston Tea Party Museum}}{{Cite web |last=Quinn |first=Bradlee |year=1878 |title=David Bradlee |url=https://archive.org/stream/historyofbradley00dogg/historyofbradley00dogg_djvu.txt |access-date=25 August 2012 |publisher=Internet Archive}}

  • Nathan Bradley I, earliest known member born in America, in Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts, in 1631.
  • Samuel Bradlee, constable of Dorchester, Massachusetts.
  • Nathaniel Bradlee, Boston Tea Party participant, member of Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association.
  • Josiah Bradlee I, Boston Tea Party participant; m. Hannah Putnam.
  • Josiah Bradlee III (Harvard), m. Alice Crowninshield.
  • Frederick Josiah Bradlee I (Harvard), Director of the Boston Bank.
  • Frederick Josiah Bradlee Jr. (Harvard, 1915), on the first All-American football team at Harvard; m. Josephine de Gersdorff.
  • Frederick Josiah Bradlee III, Broadway actor, author.
  • Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee (1921–2014) (Harvard, 1942), Chief Executive Editor of The Washington Post.
  • Ben Bradlee Jr. (born 1948), journalist and writer.
  • Joseph Putnam Bradlee (1783–1838), Commander of the New England Guards, chairman of the State Central Committee, Director and then President of the Boston City Council.
  • Samuel Bradlee Jr., lieutenant colonel during the American Revolutionary War.
  • Thomas Bradlee, Boston Tea Party participant; member of Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics Association; Member of the St. Andrews Lodge of Freemasons.
  • David Bradlee, Boston Tea Party participant; Captain in the Continental Army, member of the St. Andrews Lodge of Freemasons.
  • Sarah Bradlee, "Mother of the Boston Tea Party".

= Brinley =

Brinley Family of Boston, Newport, Rhode Island, and Shelter Island, New York:

  • Francis Brinley, Esq. (1632–1719), arrived from England in 1651 after the English Civil War, with his two sisters, children of Thomas Brinley, auditor to King Charles I&II, his original home became Newport's White Horse Tavern, Judge, book collector, land-owner (RI, MA, NJ), Governor's assistant, m: Hannah Carr (niece of RI Gov. Caleb Carr). Boston estate at Hanover and Elm, current site of Government Center.
  • William Brinley, Esq. (1656–1704), first son of Francis, Judge in Newport, co-founder of Trinity Church, Newport, first Anglican church in RI, disinherited by father after marriage.
  • William Brinley, Esq. (1677–1753), only child of Wm. Brinley, Judge in Monmouth, NJ, passed over for younger cousin Francis Brinley.
  • John Brinley (1713–1775), Brinley grist mill owner in Oakhurst, NJ.
  • William Brinley (1754–1840), Major in Revolutionary War.
  • Sylvester C. Brinley (1816–1905), founded Brinley, Ohio (a.k.a. Brinley Station) in 1855.
  • Thomas Brinley (1661–1693), second son of Francis, Boston/London merchant, co-founder of King's Chapel, Boston, first Anglican church in colonial New England.
  • Eliakim Hutchinson (1711–1775), Judge, Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for Suffolk County, and one of Boston's richest men, owner of Shirley Place (now Shirley-Eustis House) m:Elizabeth Shirley (daughter of MA Gov William Shirley).
  • Colonel Francis Brinley{{Cite web |title=Colonel Francis Brinley |date=1729 |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/12600}} (1690–1765): Colonel in Ancient & Honorable Artillery Company, merchant, land-owner (Datchet House/Brinley Place-Roxbury, Brinley Place-Framingham), one of the richest Bostonians of the 18th century, grandfather's heir, m: Deborah Lyde, granddaughter of Judge Nathaniel Byfield.
  • Francis Brinley Fogg Sr. Esq. (1795–1880), m. Mary Middleton Rutledge of Middleton Place, TN state senator, started Nashville public schools, school board president, namesake Fogg School opened in 1875, a founder of Sewanee University of the South. and Christ Church Cathedral Nashville.
  • Catherine Grace Frances Moody Nevinson Gore (1798–1861), English writer.
  • Francis William Brinley (1796–1859), merchant, mayor of Perth Amboy, NJ, Surveyor of NJ state.
  • Francis Brinley Jr., Esq. (1800–1880), Harvard 1818-Porcellian Club, President of Boston Common Council, MA state legislator (House and Senate), clerk to Secretary of State, Daniel Webster, delegate to state constitutional convention, commander of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company.
  • Edward Brinley (1809–1868), Importer for Edward Brinley & Co., Old Faneuil Hall, Boston.
  • George Brinley (1817–1875), noted book collector, pioneer of the Americanist movement.
  • Emily Malbone Morgan (1862–1939), founder of the Colonel Daniel Putnam Association and the Society of the Companions of the Holy Cross.
  • Godfrey Malbone Brinley (1864–1939), top 10 US tennis pro, later master at St. Paul's school.
  • Edward Brinley Faneuil Adams (1871–1922), Harvard 1892/Law 1897, Harvard Law librarian.
  • Daniel Putnam Brinley (1873–1963), artist (painter, muralist, impressionist).
  • Charles Henry Brinley Esq (1825–1907), Judge in AZ, involved in early CA/AZ politics, int'l merchant, appointed Vice Consul to Mexico by Pres Theo. Roosevelt.
  • Charles Brinley (1880–1946), silent actor.
  • Emily Borie Ryerson (1863–1939), Titanic survivor, suffragette, philanthropist.
  • Anne Brinley Coddington (1628–1708), third wife of Governor William Coddington, who arrived with the Winthrop fleet in 1630 and became an early MA magistrate, the first Governor of Rhode Island/founder of Portsmouth and Newport, RI, and mother and grandmother of subsequent Governors.
  • William Coddington Jr.(1651–1689), colonial Governor of Rhode Island.
  • Mary Coddington (1654–1693), wife of Gov. Peleg Sanford of RI.
  • William Coddington III (1680–1755), colonial Governor of Rhode Island, merchant, judge, m: Content Arnold.
  • Margaret Sanford Hutchinson (1716–1754), wife of Thomas Hutchinson (governor), last loyalist Gov. of MA.
  • Lucretia Rudolph Garfield (1832–1918), First Lady, wife of 20th U.S. President James A. Garfield.
  • Ted Danson (born 1947), actor, activist.
  • Grisell Brinley Sylvester (1635–1687), wife of Nathaniel Sylvester, together they became the first white settlers and owners of all of Shelter Island, NY. She is credited with bringing boxwoods to the colonies.
  • Brinley Sylvester (1690–1752), built Sylvester Manor on Shelter Island, which was made a non-profit educational farm by the 11th generation heir.
  • Charles Ward Apthorp Jr. (1729–1797), owner of Manhattan's Apthorp Farm, merchant, NY Governor's Council 1763–83
  • Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton (1759–1846), poet, wife of Perez Morton, MA Speaker and AG.
  • Charles Bulfinch (1763–1844), Harvard 1781/4, architect in Boston and of the US Capitol building.
  • Sen. James Lloyd (1769–1831), Harvard 1787/90, US Senator from MA, merchant, businessman.
  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945), Harvard 1904, 32nd and longest serving President of the United States.
  • Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee (1921–2014), Harvard 1942, Executive Editor of The Washington Post.

= Buckingham =

{{Main|Buckingham (surname)}}

Originally from Boston and Britain:

= Cabot =

{{main|Cabot family}}

= Chaffee/Chafee =

{{Further|Chaffee (surname)}}

Originally of Hingham, Massachusetts:{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ahUWAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22john+hancock%22+hingham&pg=PA170 |title=History of the Town of Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, Solomon Lincoln Jr., Caleb Gill, Jr. and Farmer and Brown, Hingham, 1827|last1=Lincoln|first1=Solomon|year=1827}}

  • Thomas Chaffee (1610–1683), businessman and land-owner.
  • Jonathon Chaffee (1678–1766), businessman and land-owner.
  • Matthew Chaffee (1657–1723), Boston land-owner.
  • Adna Romanza Chaffee (1842–1914), U.S. general.
  • Adna R. Chaffee Jr. (1884–1941), U.S. general:
  • Zechariah Chafee (1885–1957), philosopher, civil libertarian.
  • John Chafee (1922–1999), U.S. senator.
  • Lincoln Chafee (born 1953), former U.S. senator, former Rhode Island governor, 2016 U.S. presidential candidate for the Democratic party.

= Choate =

{{Main|Choate (surname)}}

= Coffin =

{{Main|Coffin (whaling family)}}

Originally of Newbury and Nantucket:

= Coolidge =

= Cooper =

= Crowninshield =

{{Main|Crowninshield family}}

Descendants by marriage:

= Cushing =

{{Main|Cushing (surname)}}

Originally of Hingham, Massachusetts:{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ahUWAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22john+hancock%22+hingham&pg=PA170 |title=History of the Town of Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, Solomon Lincoln, Jr., Caleb Gill, Jr. and Farmer and Brown, Hingham, Mass., 1827|last1=Lincoln|first1=Solomon|year=1827}}

Descendant by marriage:

= Dana =

Dana Family

= Delano =

Delano Family

= Dudley =

Dudley Family

= Dwight =

Dwight Family

= Eliot =

Eliot Family

= Emerson =

Emerson Family

= Endicott =

Endicott Family

Salem:

Dedham:

= Everett =

Everett Family

Descendants through the marriage of Sarah Preston Everett (1796–1866) and noted journalist Nathan Hale (1784–1863):

= Fabens =

Of Marblehead and Salem:{{Cite book |last=Perkins |first=George Augustus |url=https://archive.org/details/someofdescendant1881perk |title=Some of the descendants of Jonathan Fabens of Marblehead |year=1881 |via=archive.org}}

  • William Fabens (1810–1883), lawyer, member of Assembly, Senate.
  • William Chandler Fabens (1843–1903), Lynn attorney,Perkins namesake of Fabens Building.
  • Samuel Augustus Fabens (1813–1899), master mariner in the East India and California trade.
  • Francis Alfred Fabens (1814–1872), mercantile businessman, San Francisco judge, attorney.
  • Joseph Warren Fabens (1821–1875), U.S. Consul at Cayenne, businessman, Envoy Extraordinary of the Dominican Republic.
  • George Wilson Fabens (1857–1939), attorney, land commissioner and superintendent of Southern Pacific Railroad, namesake of Fabens, Texas.{{Cite book |url=http://www.fabensisd.net/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=337295&type=d&pREC_ID=744789 |title=History of Fabens, Texas |publisher=Fabens Independent School District}}

= Forbes =

Forbes Family

= Gardner =

Gardner Family

Originally of Essex county:

  • Samuel Pickering Gardner (1767–1843),{{Cite news |last=Hall |first=Alexandra |year=2009 |title=The New Brahmins |work=Boston Magazine |url=http://www.bostonmagazine.com/articles/the_new_brahmins/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100831041841/http://www.bostonmagazine.com/articles/the_new_brahmins/ |access-date=August 31, 2010|archive-date=2010-08-31 }} merchant.
  • John Lowell Gardner (1808–1884), merchant.
  • John Lowell Gardner II (1837–1898), merchant.
  • Augustus P. Gardner (1865–1918), U.S. congressman.
  • Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840–1924), art collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts.
  • Isabella Gardner (1915–1981), poet.

= Gillett =

  • Jonathan Gillett (1609–1677), colonist
  • Edward Bates Gillett (1817–1899), attorney
  • Frederick Huntington Gillett (1851–1935), 37th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
  • Arthur Lincoln Gillett (1859–1938), clergyman
  • Ezra Hall Gillett (1823–1875), clergyman and author
  • Charles Ripley Gillett (1855–1948), clergyman

= Hallowell =

Hallowell Family

= Healey/Dall =

  • Mark Healey (1791–1872), originally of New Hampshire, merchant and first president of the Merchant's Bank{{Cite web |title=Dall-Healey Family Papers |url=https://www.masshist.org/findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fa0057 |website=Massachusetts Historical Society| date=March 2004 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071024095804/https://www.masshist.org/findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fa0057|archive-date = 2007-10-24}}
  • Caroline Wells Healey (1822–1912), writer, feminist, and abolitionist
  • Charles Henry Appleton Dall (1816–1886), first Unitarian minister to India
  • William Healey Dall (1845–1912), malacologist, paleontologist, and explorer of Alaska

= Holmes =

Holmes Family

= Jackson =

Jackson Family

  • Edward Jackson (1708–1757), colonist; m. Dorothy Quincy Jackson
  • Jonathan Jackson (1743–1810), merchant, revolutionary; m. Hannah Tracy Jackson
  • Charles Jackson (1775–1855), Massachusetts Supreme Court justice
  • James Jackson (1777–1867), Physician m. Elizabeth Cabot
  • Francis Henry Jackson (1815–1873), m. Sarah Ann Boott
  • James Tracy Jackson (1843–1900), m. Rebecca Nelson Borland
  • James Tracy Jackson Jr. (1881–1952), m. Rachel Brooks
  • Francis Gardner Jackson (1914–1970), m. Jane Matthews
  • Francis Gardner Jackson Jr. (born 1943), m. Pamela Graves Hardee
  • Patrick Graves Jackson (born 1969), Surgeon, husband to Ketanji Brown Jackson{{Cite web |title=Jonathan Jackson |url=https://www.ourfamtree.org/browse.php/Jonathan-Jackson/p452870 |website=Our Family Tree |quote=Jonathan Jackson → James Jackson → Francis Henry Jackson → James Tracy Jackson → James Tracy Jackson, Jr. → Francis Gardner Jackson → Francis Gardner Jackson, Jr. → Patrick Graves Jackson}}. and related to Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
  • Amelia Lee Jackson: wife of Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
  • Patrick Tracy Jackson (1780–1847), co-founder of the Boston Manufacturing Company
  • Hannah Jackson, wife of Francis Cabot Lowell
  • Lydia Jackson, wife of Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Greling Jackson

= Knowles =

Knowles Family

= Lawrence =

Lawrence Family

Descendant by marriage: Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1856–1943), president of Harvard University

= Lodge =

Lodge Family

= Lowell =

{{Main|Lowell family}}

= Lyman =

  • Theodore Lyman (1753–1839), China trade merchant, commissioned Samuel McIntire to build one of New England's finest country houses, The Vale
  • Theodore Lyman II (1792–1849), brigadier general of militia, Massachusetts state representative, mayor of Boston
  • Theodore Lyman III (1833–1897), natural scientist, aide-de-camp to Major General Meade during the American Civil War, and United States congressman from Massachusetts
  • Theodore Lyman IV (1874–1954), director of Jefferson Physics Lab, Harvard. The Lyman series of spectral lines, the crater Lyman on the far side of the Moon, and the Lyman Physics Building at Harvard are named after him.

= Minot =

Minot Family

= Norcross =

Norcross family

Original from Watertown, Massachusetts

= Oakes =

Oakes family

= Otis =

Otis family

  • James Otis Jr. (1725–1783), revolutionary{{Cite book |last=Waters |first=John J. |url=https://uncpress.org/book/9780807838372/the-otis-family-in-provincial-and-revolutionary-massachusetts |title=The Otis Family in Provincial and Revolutionary Massachusetts |publisher=U. of North Carolina Press |year=1968 |isbn=978-0-8078-3837-2}}
  • Mercy Otis Warren (1728–1814), playwright, revolutionary
  • Samuel Allyne Otis (1740–1814), politician
  • Harrison Gray Otis (1765–1848), U.S. senator, mayor of Boston

= Paine =

Paine Family

= Palfrey =

Palfrey Family

  • Peter Palfrey (1611–1663), one of the founders of Salem, Salem representative to the first General Court of Massachusetts Bay Colony{{Cite web |title=The May-Pole of Merry Mount, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1836 |url=https://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/nh/mmm.html}}
  • William Palfrey (1741–1780), American patriot, Aide-de-camp to George Washington, chief clerk to John Hancock, successful merchant{{Cite web |title=Research Guides: John Gorham Palfrey - the First Dean of Harvard Divinity School: Home |url=https://guides.library.harvard.edu/hds/john-gorham-palfrey/hds/john-gorham-pafrey/home}}
  • John G. Palfrey I (1796–1881), played a leading role in the creation of Harvard Divinity School, first Dean of Harvard Divinity School, U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts, Unitarian minister, historian{{Cite web |title=Research Guides: John Gorham Palfrey - the First Dean of Harvard Divinity School: Harvard Divinity School |url=https://guides.library.harvard.edu/hds/john-gorham-palfrey/hds}}
  • Francis Winthrop Palfrey (1831–1889), historian, decorated Union officer
  • Sarah Palfrey Danzig (1912–1996), won 18 national tennis championship titles (singles, doubles, mixed doubles)
  • John G. Palfrey V (1919–1979), member of President Kennedy's Atomic Energy Commission, Dean of Columbia University{{Cite web |title=Swearing-in ceremony, James Ramey & John Palfrey, Members of Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), 12:30PM | JFK Library |url=https://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/JFKWHP-1962-08-31-C.aspx}}{{Cite web |title=John Gorham Palfrey - WikiCU, the Columbia University wiki encyclopedia |url=http://www.wikicu.com/John_Gorham_Palfrey}}
  • John G. "Sean" Palfrey VI (born 1945), pediatrician and advocate, Harvard Faculty Dean of Adams House with Judy Palfrey{{Cite web |title=John G. "Sean" Palfrey VI |url=https://adamshouse.harvard.edu/people/sean-palfrey|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151206165839/https://adamshouse.harvard.edu/people/sean-palfrey|archive-date=2015-12-06}}
  • John G. Palfrey VII (born 1972), educator and author, historian, Headmaster of Phillips Academy{{Cite web |date=7 July 2015 |title=How John Palfrey is Bringing America's Most Elite Boarding School into the Digital Age |url=https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/news/a3371/class-rebel/}}

= Parkman =

Parkman Family

= Peabody =

Peabody Family

= Perkins =

Perkins Family

= Phillips =

Phillips Family

Other notable relatives:

= Putnam =

Putnam Family

= Quincy =

Quincy Family

= Rice =

Rice Family

Originally of Sudbury, Massachusetts:

= Saltonstall =

Saltonstall Family

  • Leverett Saltonstall I (1783–1845), politician, educator{{Cite book |last=Moody |first=Robert |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=es14AAAAMAAJ |title=The Saltonstall Papers, 1607–1815: Selected and Edited and with Biographies of Ten Members of the Saltonstall Family in Six Generations |year=1975 |volume=1 |isbn=9780934909242 |quote=1607–1789}}

{{cite book | first = Robert | last = Moody | title = The Saltonstall Papers, 1607–1815: Selected and Edited and with Biographies of Ten Members of the Saltonstall Family in Six Generations | volume = 2 | quote =1791–1815 | year = 1975 | isbn = 9780934909242 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=es14AAAAMAAJ}}

= Sargent =

= Sears =

Sears Family

= Sedgwick =

Sedgwick Family

= Shattuck =

= Shaw =

= Storrow =

= Sturgis =

  • James Perkins Sturgis (1791 - 1851), wealthy merchant
  • Nathaniel Russell Sturgis (1779 - 1856), merchant and socialite m. Susannah Thomsen Parkman, daughter of Samuel Parkman, an influential merchant
  • Sarah Blake Sturgis (1815–1902), abolitionist, women's rights supporter, anti-imperialist and philanthropist
  • Ann Cushing Sturgis Paine, married into the Paine family
  • Russell Sturgis (1805–1887), merchant active in the China trade
  • Henry Parkman Sturgis, United States Consul to the Philippines

= Thayer =

Thayer Family

  • Brevet Brigadier General Sylvanus Thayer (1785–1872), U.S. general (Army), Father of West Point
  • Nathaniel Thayer (1769–1840), Unitarian minister; father of
  • Nathaniel Thayer Jr. (1808–1883), financier, philanthropist; partner in John E. Thayer and brother firm which he left to clerks Kidder and Peabody after his retirement. One of the most generous citizens of Boston donating Thayer Hall to Harvard University; an overseer of Harvard, 1866–1868, and a fellow, 1868–1875; father of
  • Nathaniel Thayer, III (1851–1911), capitalist, pioneer railroad promoter
  • Bayard Thayer (1862–1916), millionaire sportsman, horticulturist
  • Eugene Van Rensselaer Thayer (1855–1907), financier, capitalist; father of
  • Eugene Van Rensselaer Thayer Jr. (1881–1937), Harvard class of 1904; President of Merchants and Chase National Banks; Chairman of Stutz motorcars
  • James Bradley Thayer (1831–1902), American legal writer, educationist
  • Ernest Thayer (1863–1940), American poet, author of "Casey at the Bat", and uncle of Scofield Thayer
  • Scofield Thayer (1889–1982), American poet, publisher
  • Eli Thayer (1819–1899), member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts
  • John A. Thayer (1857–1917), member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts
  • John R. Thayer (1845–1916), member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts
  • Brevet Major General John Milton Thayer (1820–1906), U.S. senator, U.S. Civil War general (Union Army); governor of Nebraska
  • Webster Thayer (1857–1933), judge at the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti
  • William Greenough Thayer (1863–1934), American educator; father of
  • Sigourney Thayer (1896–1944), theatrical producer, aviator, poet
  • Tommy Thayer (born 1960), lead guitarist for the rock band Kiss

= Thorndike =

Thorndike Family

= Tudor =

Tudor Family

= Warren =

= Weld =

Weld Family

= Whitney =

{{main|Whitney family}}

= Wigglesworth =

Wigglesworth Family

= Winthrop =

Winthrop Family

Patrilineal descendants:

Other descendants:

  • Kwame Anthony Appiah (born 1954), philosopher, author, cultural theorist and descendant in the female line of John Winthrop.{{cite book | editor-last1 = Howard | editor-first1 = Joseph Jackson | editor-last2 = Crisp | editor-first2 = Frederick Arthur | title = Visitation of England and Wales, Volume VII | pages = 150–151 | publisher = Privately printed | location = England | year = 1899 | oclc = 786249679 }} [https://archive.org/stream/visitationofengl07howa#page/n5/mode/2up Online.]{{cite book | last = Stark | first = James Henry | title = The loyalists of Massachusetts and the other side of the American Revolution | url = https://archive.org/details/loyalistsofmass00staruoft | pages = 426–429 | publisher = J.H. Stark | location = Boston, Massachusetts | year = 1910 | oclc = 1655711 }}

Bibliography

  • Cleveland Amory, The Proper Bostonians, 1947

See also

References