Merovingian Lineage of 2008 Presidential Candidates

Interestingly, Senator Clinton’s ancestry is also as colorful as Obama’s, though not as diverse as his. While Obama’s relatives include people from the arts, politics, banking and finance, business, the Mormon church, and even royalty, Clinton’s are more concentrated on two areas: politics and the arts. (Click here for Clinton’s pedigree chart)

Her political relatives include Prime Ministers Pierre Trudeau and Jean Chretien of Canada. Other than these two popular Canadian politicians, most of Hillary’s more popular relatives are from the entertainment industry. Shania Twain is her 9th cousin three times removed, Celine Dion is her 10th cousin once removed, Alanis Morissette is her tenth cousin, while Madonna and Clinton are 10th cousins. Three very interesting notes on Hilary’s genealogy: her royal antecedents are supposed to be the Kings of Navarre, but there are no exact evidences for that; she is also a 10th cousin of Camila Shand, the Duchess of Cornwall and wife of Prince Charles; and, finally, actor Jon Voight is the husband of Marcheline Bertrand [and father of Angelina Jolie], Hillary’s 9th cousin once removed.

This article is based on several online genealogies of the three candidates, the most comprehensive of which is http://www.wargs.com/political.

2030 (=2042) Jean Guyon, sieur DuBuisson
         ~ St-Jean-de-Mortagne, Chartres ou Sees, Perche [now Orne], France, 1 Aug. 1619
         + Château-Richer, Québec, 14 Jan. 1694
        m. Québec, Québec, 27 Nov. 1645

Wikipedia

"...'Bush,' which comes from a translation of the family name du Buisson."

Jean Guyon (1592 - 1663) links to Zacharie Cloutier [translated text]

Zechariah, along with Jean Guyon, the future of Mr. Bush, embarked on March 14, 1634 at Mortagne by Robert Giffard to move faraway New France. ...

Jean Guyon is all religious festivals and popular. Thus, the Journal of the Jesuits taught us that when Corpus Christi in 1646, it works with another migrant percheron Zacharie Cloutier celebrated at the head of the procession, and that, on the occasion of the marriage of Jean Guyon du Buisson, the eldest son of the pioneer, with Elisabeth Couillard, "there were two violins to the wedding, which had not yet been seen in Canada."

Jean Guyon décéde May 30, 1663; Mathurine Robin had preceded it in the grave a year earlier on April 17, 1662.

Over the centuries, their children and descendants have given birth to generations of Guyon, or become Guion Dion. Elles se sont installées au Québec, au Canada et aux Etats-Unis. They have settled in Quebec, Canada and the United States.

In 1730, in line Guyon 2150, which puts it thus at the forefront of French families of America.

238 years later, on March 30, 1968 Celine Dion was born.

See: George W. Bush Jewish lineage;

HEEDING BIBLE PROPHECY: Dragon Court: G.W. Bush Merovingian Lineage

RootsWeb: Guyon-L Archives

The website that lists the Jewish Guyons is: JewishGen.com / [sic] JewishGen.org

“The Guyon line suddenly appears around 1500. That is a time when many Merranos (Jewish families hiding their faith/identity by outwardly joining the Catholic church) flooded into France, mostly from Spain and Portugal. It is merely a possibility but 'Guyon is close to the Hebrew family name 'Dayan' which means 'Judge. 'Dayan' was changed to'Dion' by Jewish families who fled to Russia centuries ago. This family line still exhists today (descendants of the tribe of Dan).”

Tribe of Dan / Tuatha de Danaan = Merovingian Dynasty

“Through the work of Sir Laurence Gardener we discover that Sumaire in the old Irish language means Dragon. He writes: ‘It is also reckoned that the subsequent culture of the region, phonetically called Sumerian (pronounced ‘Shumerian’) was actually Sidhemurian (Shee-murian). This case is now considerable since the early Ring Lords of Scythia (the Tuatha De Danaan king tribe) were actually called the ‘Sumaire’.’

“During the days of the Biblical Great Exodus, a group separated from Moses and went to the North. This group was the Tribe of Dann. Millions went and settled in the European and Scandinavian areas. From there they spread out to other parts of the world...conquering the countries, spreading their Anunnaki seed and replacing the conquered people’s traditions with their own serpent culture.” (“The Tribe of Dann and the Lost Tribe of Israel”)

SEE ALSO: THE LOST TRIBE OF DAN

HEEDING BIBLE PROPHECY: new government; tribe of judah/dan; mount hermon/sion

6. Clinton and Jack Kerouac, eighth cousins, once removed. They both descend from Jean Guyon, who died in Quebec, Canada, in the 17th century.

7. Clinton and Camilla Parker-Bowles, ninth cousins, once removed. They both descend from Jean Guyon, of Quebec, Canada.

9. Hillary Clinton and Celine Dion, tenth cousins, once removed. Both are descendants of Jean Guyon, from Quebec, Canada.

The Ancestors of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (b. 1947)
by William Addams Reitwiesner

In her autobiography, Living History, Sen. Clinton describes her maternal grandmother as "one of nine children from a family of French Canadian, Scottish and Native American ancestry". No records have been found to support this claimed Native American ancestry.

Washington genealogist William Addams Reitwiesner uncovered the ties, reports The Washington Post's Reliable Source column.

It turns out the Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, 60, and the Material Girl, MaDonna [The Black Madonna], 49, are 10th cousins. They share the same great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents – 17th-century French ancestors who moved to Quebec and then came south.

The former First Lady can also count Jolie, 32, as a ninth cousin, twice removed.

An accompanying column carried the headline, "The First Shiksa wants to be a yenta? Oy!"
New York's supercharged Senate campaign took a distinctly Jewish turn last week when the Forward, a weekly Jewish newspaper, reported that Clinton has some Jews on her family tree. Her step-grandfather was Jewish and her mother's half-sister converted.

The Forward called Clinton's grandmother, Della Rosenberg, "the feisty wife of a Yiddish-speaking Jewish immigrant" and predicted that the revelation would boost her Senate chances.

But even if Clinton were Jewish, her background would not influence Jewish voters, according to pollsters, analysts and politicians.
"Ethnicity has very little to do with how Jews vote," said John Zogby, president of Zogby International, a New York-based polling firm that has conducted many surveys of Jewish voters.

"Basically those who really viscerally dislike Hillary will add another notch in the column and ask, 'What's she trying to do?'" Zogby said.

To be sure, Clinton has made courting Jewish voters a central focus of her campaign. One out of every eight voters in New York is Jewish, making them a key constituency in her campaign.

Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch tried to put the revelation into perspective.

"I think it's much ado about nothing," he said Sunday on ABC's "This Week" news show.

"I'm a proud member of the Jewish faith, and it would be wonderful if Hillary were Jewish. But she's not," Koch said.

According to the Forward, Clinton's maternal grandmother, Della Murray, divorced her husband in 1927 and remarried Max Rosenberg in 1933. Together they had a daughter, Adeline.

Like many activists from both parties, Koch said it "means nothing" that Clinton has Jewish relatives.
"Jews don't vote, normally, on the basis of ethnicity," Koch said.

While the impact of the story is not fully known, pollsters are watching the Jewish vote carefully. Zogby predicts that the winner of the Jewish vote will win the election.

A compilation of Zogby polls over the last eight months released this week shows New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani leading Clinton, 43.9 percent to 41.8 percent, among Jewish voters.

The sample of 678 Jewish voters, with a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percent, has 14.3 percent undecided. Among all voters, Giuliani leads Clinton by 46.9 to 41.7 percent, Zogby said.

"Hillary is not doing as well among Jewish voters as a Democrat normally would do," Zogby said.

At the same time, Giuliani does better among Jewish voters than a Republican normally would, he said.

In 1996, Republican Party leaders supported the Senate bid of Dick Zimmer, a New Jersey Republican, in part because he is Jewish. But when the votes were counted, his opponent, Sen. Robert Torricelli (D-N.J.), received almost 80 percent of the Jewish vote, according to exit polls conducted by Zogby for the New Jersey Jewish News. New Jersey's other senator, Frank Lautenberg, a Democrat who is Jewish, received less Jewish support than Torricelli did in his last election, polls showed.

In other recent races, Rep. Jon Fox, a Jewish Republican from suburban Philadelphia, received an estimated 25 percent of the Jewish vote in his losing 1998 battle for re-election against Rep. Joe Hoeffel (D-Pa.). And in New York, some 70 percent of Jewish voters supported Giuliani in his race against Ruth Messinger, a Jewish Democrat.

"Because someone married someone Jewish three decades ago is not particularly relevant," said Matt Brooks, executive director of the Republican Jewish Coalition. He added that the revelation is simply "a humorous one-day anecdotal story."

Max Rosenberg

FORWARD : News
www.forward.com/BACK/1999/99.0 - [Cached]
Published on: 9/10/2000 Last Visited: 9/10/2000

Asked about Max Rosenberg, a spokesman for Mrs. Clinton's Senate exploratory committee, Howard Wolfson, said the first lady has very fond memories of him.
...
Enter Max Rosenberg. Born in 1901 in Russia, the son of Joseph and Mollie, by 1933 Max Rosenberg had made his way to Chicago, where he married Della Murray. A city court judge performed the ceremony, according to a copy of the marriage license. His mother, Mollie, was a member of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society and the Sisterhood of Agudas Achim North Shore congregation, according to a death notice published in The Chicago Tribune. Mollie was a subscriber to the Yiddish Forward, according to court records of her estate. (A Chicago attorney and genealogist, Charles Bernstein, assisted the Forward with the documentary research for this article.).

The backdrop of Max and Della Rosenberg's life puts some aspects of the first lady's relationship with Jews into a new light. Some of her oldest and closest friends and associates include Jewish women -- Sara Ehrman, Ann Lewis, Patty Kenner.

South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com
Jews back Clinton in super way
Staff and wire reports
March 27, 2008

TALLAHASSEE WASHINGTON

A disproportionate share of the Democratic super delegates — the people who may ultimately decide who gets the party's presidential campaign — are Jewish. And, a new survey shows, many are supporting Hillary Clinton.

    More than 70 of the 800 super delegates are Jewish.
    At this point, 36 have declared their support for Clinton. That includes U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston, a national co-chairwoman of the Clinton campaign.
    Another 12 are supporting Barack Obama. That includes U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Delray Beach, Florida co-chairman for Obama.
    And 26 are undeclared.
    Undeclared Jewish super delegates from South Florida are U.S. Rep. Ron Klein, D-Boca Raton; Broward Democratic Chairman Mitch Ceasar; and Diane Glasser of Tamarac, vice chairwoman of the state Democratic Party.
    The information comes from a survey and analysis conducted by the Forward, the influential and well-known Jewish newspaper.
    The Forward concluded that "Jewish insiders could play an outsized role in anointing a nominee" if the nomination ends up being determined by super delegates. — Anthony Man

By Roger Friedman

Can you connect these dots? Madonna-Bill Clinton-Kabbalah-Anthony Pellicano and ... Africa?

Madonna’s disastrous public-relations effort in the small African country of Malawi only gets worse. I can tell you that she has started a new charitable foundation, Raising Malawi, to help orphans in that country, but that the whole thing is a front for the Kabbalah Centre in Hollywood.

To compound matters, Clinton's own foundation is right there on Madge's new Web site as her No. 1 supporter. The Clinton Foundation is the only one of Raising Malawi’s listed partners to have a usable link on the Web site. But the chief individual benefactress is the second wife of a Hollywood billionaire who hired jailed private detective Pellicano to spy on his first wife.

The charity, Raising Malawi, is designed to spread the word of Philip Berg’s Kabbalah Centre, his own version of Kabbalah beliefs and mysticism, through Malawi’s orphaned children.

Indeed, the Web site for Raising Malawi, the new charity, tells the whole story. The entire organization is run by the Bergs as a kind of missionary program for Africa, with Madonna as the leading proselytizer.

No one is as involved as to the extent of the Clintons. According to San Francisco Examiner columnist P.J. Corkery, Clinton makes $10 million a year from Yucaipa a Dubai firm. Ron Berkle, the owner of Yucaipa companies and a major fund-raiser for Bill and Hillary.

And then there is the Clinton connection to the world's biggest exporter of terrorism, Saudi Arabia:

There's been a lot of talk, going back to the presidency of Bush 41, of the Bush family's ties to Saudi Arabia.

Dick Morris: Clinton on Dubai Payroll

    Former President Bill Clinton is up to his eyeballs in dealings with Dubai, his former top political adviser has revealed.
    According to Dick Morris, author of the best-selling book, "Condi vs, Hillary," Clinton is a paid agent of the crown prince of Dubai, now involved in a firestorm over its deal to take over some of the operations at six major U.S. ports.
    "Bill Clinton is a senior adviser - a paid adviser - to a company called Yucaipa which recently set up a relationship with a group called the Yucaipa Investment group to set up a new company called DIGL," Morris said on "The O'Reilly Factor."
    "DIGL Inc. is in charge of managing the investments of the crown prince of Dubai throughout the world. Bill Clinton is paid by Yucaipa a percentage of the profits it makes, and Yucaipa said its profits have exceeded 40 percent in recent years.
    "He is a paid agent of the crown prince of Dubai. That in addition to the roughly million dollars they gave his library, in addition to the probably $600,000 in speaking fees he got, and in addition to the scholarships for Dubai children they endowed through his library. (Continued)

The Clintons on Dubai
By Robert D. Novak
CNSNews.com Commentary
March 02, 2006

Bill Clinton to make $20 million from Dubai-sleeping with the enemy-Now you know why Hillary will not show tax returns!!
Posted by allysonrt on January 23, 2008

Bill Clinton will get $20 million when he divorces Los Angeles supermarket magnate and (alleged) Radar owner Ron Burkle, his business partner of six years, The Wall Street Journal told us this morning. The reason for the split, it seems, is that Burkle’s Yupaica company, for which Clinton was an adviser, can’t seem to stay away from people who could harm Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. For example? Italian developer Raffaello Follieri and Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai and one of the owners behind Xinhua Finance Media Ltd., a Beijing–based news company with close ties to the Communist government of China, which just gave Yucaipa a little cash infusion. Basically, Burkle loves sketchy investments like Eric Benet loved sex with groupies, and at this point in the election and his life, Clinton can’t take the drama. “I love you, but I need to take care of myself,” we imagine him saying to Burkle. “No more drama in my life.” Despite Burkle’s transgressions, the breakup appears to be amicable: A Clinton spokesperson speaks to the Journal not of a SPLIT!!! but “an appropriate transition” out of their business relationship, and Burkle remains a finance chair on Hillary’s campaign.
Clinton, after all, understands promiscuity. Bill Clinton May Get Payout of $20 Million [WSJ]

BUSH/DUBAI CONNECTIONS:

Dubai funds Neil Bush's company

Posted: February 27, 2006
1:00 am Eastern
© 2008 WorldNetDaily.com

Investors from the United Arab Emirates helped fund the $23 million Neil Bush raised for Ignite!, the learning systems company that holds lucrative No Child Left Behind Act contracts in Florida and Texas. The "Cow" is an Ignite! portable computer designed to work in a classroom, providing interactive instruction aimed at improving students' scores on standardized tests. If you loved Billy Carter and "Billy Beer," you're certain to love Neil Bush and the "Ignite! Cow."

Neil Bush's frequent travels to Dubai are documented by Datamatix, a Dubai-based information technology company that has featured Neil Bush as a speaker. The Datamatix website features several prominent photographs of Neil Bush addressing a Dubai conference, identifying Neil Bush as "the brother of U.S. President George Bush."

Bush Family, Dubai Ports World and the Carlyle Group: More incest than a village in Appalachia*

GEORGE BUSH IS DESCENDED FROM SEVERAL ENGLISH & SCOTTISH MONARCHS WHO WERE ALSO ANCESTORS OF JOHN McCAIN

Ancestry of George W. Bush

1232 Robert Livingston, b. Ancrum, Scotland, 13 Dec. 1654, d. 1 Oct. 1728 m. 9 July 1679

[...]

1232 -- Robert Livingston, emigrant from Scotland to New York, is descended from several monarchs of Scotland (and elsewhere).

The most recent monarch Robert Livingston is descended from is King Robert II of Scotland (d. 1390), as follows: 
[...]
     Robert II King of Scots m. Euphemia of Ross / GRANDSON OF ROBERT THE BRUCE, ANCESTOR OF JOHN McCAIN
     Katherine/Jean/Elizabeth Stewart m. David Lindsay 1 E of Crawford / SEE: THE MEROVINGIAN DYNASTY: HRH MICHAEL STEWART OF ALBANY
     Elizabeth Lindsay m. Robert Erskine 1 B Erskine 
     Christian Erskine m. Patrick Graham 1 B Graham 
     Elizabeth Graham m. William Livingston of Kilsyth 
     William Livingston of Kilsyth m. Janet Bruce 
     Alexander Livingston of Over and Nether Inches m. Barbara Forrester 
     Barbara Livingston m. Alexander Livingston, rector of Monyabroch 
     William Livingston, rector of Monyabroch m. Agnes Livingston 
     John Livingston, rector of Ancrum m. Janet Fleming 
     Robert Livingston (number 1232, above)

2002 George Elkington, b. 1650, d. Northampton Twp., Burlington Co., N. J., 19 Dec. 1713 m. Burlington Co., N. J., 6 Aug. 1688

[...]

2002 -- George Elkington, emigrant from England to New Jersey, is descended from several monarchs of England (and elsewhere).

The most recent monarch George Elkington is descended from is King Henry I of England (d. 1135), as follows: 
[...]
     Henry I King of England = (unknown mistress) / WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR, KING WILLIAM I OF ENGLAND (1066-87) WAS THE

     GRANDFATHER OF THE WIFE OF KING WILLIAM I, “the Lion”, OF SCOTLAND, ANCESTOR OF JOHN McCAIN
     Robert of Caen, 1 E Gloucester m. Mabel Fitz Hamon / ROBERT OF CAEN, ILLEGITIMATE SON OF KING HENRY I OF ENGLAND
     Maud of Gloucester m. Ranulph de Gernon, 2 E Chester

     [...]

3380 Obadiah Bruen, b. 1606, d. Newark, N. J., 1680/1 m. ca. 1632

[...]

3380 -- Obadiah Bruen, emigrant from England to Connecticut, is descended from several monarchs of England (and elsewhere).

The most recent monarch Obadiah Bruen is descended from is King Henry II of England (d. 1189), as follows: 
     [...]
     Henry II King of England = (unknown mistress, "Countess Ida") 
     [...]

GEORGE BUSH ALSO DESCENDED FROM:

   King Henry II of England (d. 1189)

   King William I ("The Lion") of Scotland (d. 1214)

   King Henry I of France (d. 1060)

   King Edward I of England (d. 1307)

GEORGE BUSH ALSO RELATED TO MEROVINGIAN BLUE-BLOOD PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY:

Ancestry of George W. Bush

[...]

618 Thomas Newcomb, b. Edgartown, Mass., ca. 1691-2, d. Dutchess Co., N. Y., ca. 1761 m. Lebanon, Conn., 17 Jan. 1720

619 Judith Woodworth, b. Scituate, Mass., ca. 1701

[...]

618 & 619 have other descendants, such as:

Thomas Newcomb m. Judith Woodworth
.Cyrenius Newcomb m. Sarah ----
 .Keziah Newcomb m. Rev. John Dodge
  .Davis Stoddard Dodge m. Nancy Rice
   .Egbert Dodge m. Sarah Louisa Sherwood
    .Ernest Cole Dodge m. Bertha G Layton
     .Marie Odille Dodge m. John Bruce Stewart
      .Mrs PHYLLIS Bruce MacAlpine Stewart SCHLAFLY (b. 1924)

SEE ALSO: MEROVINGIAN LINEAGE OF PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY

**must read** to understand the high rank of george w. bush in the merovingian bloodline:

HEEDING BIBLE PROPHECY: 10.G Dragon Court: Vere/Weir Bloodline: Bush Genealogy

"...'Bush,' which comes from a translation of the family name du Buisson."

DU BUISSON BREWERY VERIFIES THAT "BUSH" IS THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF "DUBUISSON."

"In 1933, wishing to meet the growing competition of English beers, Alfred Dubuisson decided to brew a blend of the Belgian and English tastes. He named his fortunate creation Bush Beer, the English literal translation of the Dubuisson beer."

"Where did the name “Bush” come from? They originally chose the English name “Bush” as a translation of their own name (buisson, in French, is “bush”) as part of their attempt to enter the British market in the 1930s."

RETURNING TO HILLARY'S ANCESTOR, Jean Guyon, sieur DuBuisson, WHICH MEANS "mr. bUSH"...

Zechariah, along with Jean Guyon, the future of Mr. Bush, embarked on March 14, 1634 at Mortagne by Robert Giffard to move faraway New France. ...

Jean Guyon décéde May 30, 1663; Mathurine Robin had preceded it in the grave a year earlier on April 17, 1662.

In 1730, in line Guyon 2150, which puts it thus at the forefront of French families of America.

The website that lists the Jewish Guyons is: JewishGen.com / [sic] JewishGen.org

“The Guyon line suddenly appears around 1500. That is a time when many Merranos (Jewish families hiding their faith/identity by outwardly joining the Catholic church) flooded into France, mostly from Spain and Portugal. It is merely a possibility but 'Guyon is close to the Hebrew family name 'Dayan' which means 'Judge. 'Dayan' was changed to 'Dion' by Jewish families who fled to Russia centuries ago. This family line still exhists today (descendants of the tribe of Dan).”

Pierce is an Americanization of the Jewish name Perez/Peretz/Peres. The name is of Hebrew origin. According to Genesis 38, Pharez (the spelling Perez is also used (in the First Book of Chronicles)) was a son of Judah born to Tamar (who incidentally, was Judah's daughter in law (Judah, the father of the Jews, ...).

Thomas Holbrook (d. 1677) m. Jane Powys
.John Holbrook m. Elizabeth Stream
|.Hannah Holbrook m. Ephraim Pierce
| .Ephraim Pierce m. Mary Low
|  .Mial Pierce m. Judith Round
|   .Nathan Pierce m. Lydia Martin
|    .Isaac Pierce m. Anna Fitch
|     .LEVI PIERCE m. Betsey Slade Wheeler
|      .Elizabeth Slade Pierce m. Courtland Philip Livingston Butler
|       .Mary Elizabeth Butler m. Robert Emmet Sheldon
|        .Flora Sheldon m. Samuel Prescott Bush
|         .Prescott Sheldon Bush m. Dorothy Walker
|          .GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH m. Barbara Pierce
|           .GEORGE W. BUSH, US President
.Thomas Holbrook m. Jane Kingman
.Peter Holbrook m. Alice Godfrey
  .Sylvanus Holbrook m. Naomi Cook
   .John Holbrook m. Zilpah Thayer
    .John Holbrook m. Rhoda Thayer
     .John Holbrook m. Mercy Hill
      .Chloe Holbrook m. James Pierce
       .Jonas James Pierce m. Kate Pritzel
        .Scott Pierce m. Mabel Marvin
         .Marvin Pierce m. Pauline Robinson
          .BARBARA PIERCE

In the 2004 US election you got to choose between the Jew Kerry and the Jew Bush.

Some choice,... like the choice between the front side of a piece of paper, or the back side.

So the result of the election has already been decided before you get to "choose".

Lynne Cheney: ‘Dick and Barack Obama are eighth cousins.’In an MSNBC interview today, host Norah O’Donnell asked Lynne Cheney her views on Sen. Hillary Clinton’s (D-NY) presidential campaign and whether “America is ready for a woman president.” Cheney replied that she actually has a “certain bias”:

One of the things I discovered was that Dick and Barack Obama are eighth cousins. Is that an amazing thing? If you go back eight generations, we have a common ancestor.

When asked if that means she’s “for Barack Obama,” Cheney replied, “No.”

UPDATE: A spokeswoman Lynne Cheney explained to the AP that Obama “is a descendent of Mareen Duvall. This French Huguenot’s son married the granddaughter of a Richard Cheney, who arrived in Maryland in the late 1650’s from England, said Ginny Justice, a spokeswoman for Lynne Cheney.”

The Obama campaign’s response? “Every family has a black sheep.”

Why not inform her readers that Dick is also related to George Bush??

1088 William Fletcher, b. in England in 1622, emigrated with his father, d. Chelmsford, Mass., 6 Nov. 1677 [Fletcher 3 (pp. 11-12)] m. Concord, Mass., 7 Oct. 1645

1089 Lydia (?Fairbanks), widow of Edward Bates, d. Chelmsford, Mass., 12 Oct. 1704

1088 & 1089 have other descendants, such as:
William Fletcher m. Lydia (?Fairbanks)
.William Fletcher m. Sarah Richardson
.Esther Fletcher m. Stephen Pierce (below)
.Benjamin Pierce m. Elizabeth Merrill (below)
|.Benjamin Pierce m. Anna Kendrick
| .FRANKLIN PIERCE (1804-1869), US President
.Esther Pierce m. Nathan Richardson
   .Esther Richardson m. Joshua Pierce
    .James Pierce m. Polly/Mary Stacy
     .Gen. James Pierce m. Chloe Holbrook
      .Jonas James Pierce m. Kate Pritzel
       .Scott Pierce m. Mabel Marvin
        .Marvin Pierce m. Pauline Robinson
         .Barbara Pierce m. George Herbert Walker Bush (below)
          .GEORGE WALKER BUSH (b. 1946), US President

2080 John Swett, b. Wymondham, Norfolk, ... 1585, d. Newbury, Mass., 13 June 1651 m.

2080 & 2081 have other descendants, such as:
John Swett m. Sarah ----
.Benjamin Swett m. Esther Weare
.John Swett m. Bethiah Page
.Benjamin Swett m. Abigail Darling
   .Benjamin Swett m. Mary Elliot
    .Benjamin Swett m. Mary Parker
     .Moses Swett m. Fanny Cummings
      .Sarah A. Swett m. Benjamin Warren Bean
       .LEON LEONWOOD BEAN (1872-1967), haberdasher

"One of my father's great-grandmothers, Katurah Vaughn, was a servant girl in South Wales when she encountered a Mormon missionary in 1848 at a meeting near her home. It had been only a year since Brigham Young had led the first company of Mormons to the valley of the Great Salt Lake, but missionaries were already abroad, and the effort in Wales, led by the charismatic Dan Jones, was an astonishing success. Katurah and a young man named William, whom she met at the meeting and married shortly thereafter, were among thousands baptized in the new faith. They were also part of the first group to emigrate to what Mormons called the New Zion, and although it is unlikely that either had ever been more than ten or twenty miles from home, the two of them traveled...to Liverpool, where they boarded a sailing ship, the Buena Vista, to cross the Atlantic...

"...my grandfather...Leon Edwin, or Lyn...won the heart of the daughter of Swedish and Danish immigrants deeply committed to the Mormon church, and they may have tried to increase Lyn's commitment, but if so, they merely irritated him...

"One connection he did keep was with his Masonic lodge. Faithful about attending meetings, he was extremely proud when he became a 32nd-degree Mason, an attainment that would only have deepened his estrangement from the church. Its hierarchy was irritated by Masonic claims that Mormons had purloined some of their rituals and suspicious that the Masons were trying to be a church themselves. Whether these disputes meant anything to my grandfather isn't clear, but he did cast his lot with the Masons and quit going to church entirely. Anna became an enthusiastic member of Eastern Star, the Masonic women's organiztion, but she didn't let that stand in the way of her religion. She simply ignored whatever arguments the Masons and Mormons were having and kept going to church on Sunday...

"My father had joined the Casper Lodge of the Masons, which meant that I, like a lot of my friends, was eligible for membership in Job's Daughters, an organization for girls from fifth grade through high school. I was very impressed with the idea of becoming Honored Queen, the highest position in Job's Daughters and an office that involved a crown, a long velvet cape, and getting to run the meetings...

"...Many years later when I joined the Methodist church, everyone was fine with that. And when my brother Mark fell in love with a Jewish woman and decided to convert, it caused hardly a stir." (Lynne Cheney, Blue Skies, No Fences: A Memoir of Childhood and Family, pp. 101-2, 108, 110, 111-12, 96-7, 114)

Second lady Lynne Cheney, a descendant of Mormons, is defending Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney against what she calls “virulently anti-Mormon” criticism.

“I have been really astounded by the ferocity of some of the statements that people I would not expect to make have made about Mormonism,” Cheney told The Examiner in an interview.

She said Slate magazine published an article by Jacob Weisberg “that was just virulently anti-Mormon.” The December column branded Mormonism a “fraud” and ridiculed Romney for believing in the “whoppers” of church founder Joseph Smith, whom Weisberg called “an obvious con man.”

Cheney, who recounts her Mormon roots in a new book, “Blue Skies, No Fences,” said there is more religious criticism of Romney than there was of his father, the late Michigan Gov. George Romney, when he ran for president 40 years ago.

“It surprises me because it wasn't that way when his father ran,” she said. “So I think we need to kind of say take a deep breath here. This is a country where people have the right to worship freely.”

Cheney's paternal grandparents were Mormons, though her father, Wayne Vincent, rejected Mormonism and sent his daughter to a Presbyterian church that he and his wife never attended. Cheney later became a Methodist.