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