{"id":3943,"date":"2016-06-15T07:25:52","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T11:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=3943"},"modified":"2016-06-15T07:25:52","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T11:25:52","slug":"jett-american-princess-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/15\/jett-american-princess-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Jett, American Princess &#8211; update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I blogged about Jett&#8217;s amazing colonial lineage (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/21\/jett-american-princess\/\">Jett, American Princess<\/a>). I have since completed a second round of research on her ancestors &#8211; all of which\u00a0derive from her paternal great-grandfather (her paternal grandfather&#8217;s father), Elbridge Scribner Stone. Here are some salient statistics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She has, through this great-grandfather, 268 known\u00a0immigrant ancestors.<\/li>\n<li>Of those 268, 266 (99.3%) arrived in America before 1700 and\u00a0246 (91.8%) arrived before 1650.<\/li>\n<li>Of those 268, 243 (90.7%) landed in Massachusetts.<\/li>\n<li>Of the 102 passengers aboard the <em>Mayflower<\/em>, 10 are\u00a0direct ancestors.<\/li>\n<li>Of the\u00a053 <em>Mayflower<\/em> passengers who survived the first winter, 7 are direct ancestors:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Constance_Hopkins\">Constance Hopkins<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Francis_Cooke\">Francis Cooke<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Alden\">John Alden<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Priscilla_Alden\">Priscilla Mullins Alden<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Warren\">Richard Warren<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Susanna_White_(Mayflower_passenger)\">Susanna White<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Resolved_White\">Resolved White<\/a>, Susanna&#8217;s son<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As most early colonial families were quite large &#8211; 10 children was not uncommon &#8211; she also has a slew of distant cousins. That group reportedly includes John Adams, Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.<\/p>\n<p>All of this is pretty amazing, really.\u00a0 I doubt if you will find a purer line of colonial ancestors anywhere. The Cabots and Lodges have nothing on Elbridge Scribner Stone.\u00a0 The last two generations have diluted that purity a bit.\u00a0 Jett&#8217;s mother was Irish from 19th century immigrants and her paternal grandmother was a World War II bride from England. So the &#8220;colonial&#8221; aspect is diminished some for her, but she has continued the theme of English\/Irish purity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I blogged about Jett&#8217;s amazing colonial lineage (Jett, American Princess). I have since completed a second round of research on her ancestors &#8211; all of which\u00a0derive from her paternal great-grandfather (her paternal grandfather&#8217;s father), Elbridge Scribner Stone. Here are some salient statistics: She has, through this great-grandfather, 268 known\u00a0immigrant ancestors. 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