John Greenleaf Whittier

Another interesting relative of sorts.  This is not a  claim to fame but an interesting factoid.

Actually given the time the Greenleafs, Berrys and Blanchards have been in America and the large number of children, it would be impossible not to be related to a large number of interesting people. 

 John Greenleaf Whittier

His middle name is thought to mean 'feuillevert' after his Hugenot forbears

4th cousin 6x removed

Birth 17 Dec 1807 in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, USA

Death 7 Sep 1892 in ◘ Hampton Falls, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA

John Greenleaf Whittier was born to John and Abigail (Hussey)

at their rural homestead near Haverhill, Massachusetts

Never married

No children

·         John Greenleaf Whittier (1807 - 1892)   4th cousin 6x removed

·         John Whittier (1760 - 1830)  (father of John Greenleaf Whittier) 3rd cousin 7x removed

·         Sarah (5) Greenleaf -WHITTIER (1721 - 1807)  (mother of John Whittier) 2nd cousin 8x removed

·         Nathaniel (4) Greenleaf (1691 - 1775)  (father of Sarah (5) Greenleaf –WHITTIER)   1st cousin 9x removed

·         Tristram (3) Greenleaf Sr (Capt) (1668 - 1741)  (father of Nathaniel (4) Greenleaf)  8th great grand uncle

·         Stephen (2) Greenleaf Sr (Capt) (1628 - 1690)  (father of Tristram (3) Greenleaf Sr (Capt)) 9th great grandfather

·         John (3) Greenleaf Sr (1662 - 1734)  (son of Stephen (2) Greenleaf Sr (Capt)) 8th great grandfather

·         Daniel (4) Greenleaf (1690 - 1729)  (son of John (3) Greenleaf Sr) 7th great grandfather

·          David (5) Greenleaf (1721 - 1785)  (son of Daniel (4) Greenleaf) 6th great grandfather

·         Daniel (6) Greenleaf (1753 - 1831)  (son of David (5) Greenleaf) 5th great grandfather

·         Sarah Lamson (7) Greenleaf -BERRY (1794 - 1836)  (daughter of Daniel (6) Greenleaf) 4th great grandmother

·         Mary (6) Augusta Berry -BLANCHARD-LANG (1812 - )  (daughter of Sarah Lamson (7) Greenleaf –BERRY) 3rd great grandmother

·         Henry (9) Fiske Blanchard (1838 - 1917)  (son of Mary (6) Augusta Berry -BLANCHARD-LANG) 2nd great grandfather

·         Harry (10) Herbert Blanchard (1867 - 1946)  (son of Henry (9) Fiske Blanchard)  great grandfather

·          Helen Muriel Blanchard -LEADBEATER (1891 - 1989)  (daughter of Harry (10) Herbert Blanchard)  grandmother

·         Herbert Blanchard Leadbeater (1917 - 1998)  (son of Helen Muriel Blanchard –LEADBEATER) father

QUAKER STAR

 John Greenleaf Whittier (December 17, 1807 – September 7, 1892) was an influential American Quaker poet and ardent advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States

He grew up on the farm in a household with his parents, a brother and two sisters, a maternal aunt and paternal uncle, and a constant flow of visitors and hired hands for the farm. Their farm was not very profitable. There was only enough money to get by. Whittier himself was not cut out for hard farm labor and suffered from bad health and physical frailty his whole life. Although he received little formal education, he was an avid reader who studied his father’s six books on Quakerism until their teachings became the foundation of his ideology. Whittier was heavily influenced by the doctrines of his religion, particularly its stress on humanitarianism, compassion, and social responsibility.