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Richard Warren Influence On Family History

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My family’s past is one full of interesting characters who have made a lasting impact on America as we know it. My research is based mostly from one of my cousins, Sandy Lee, who has researched our family tree herself over the past few years, providing me with several documents, portraits, and noteworthy accomplishments of my ancestors. Multiple names carry significance in my family. Some include, “Warren” (ancestor on my paternal grandmother’s side) and “Rush” (ancestor on my paternal grandfather’s side) both direct ancestors. Richard Warren is the furthest ancestor back in time whom I am researching and he came to America aboard the Mayflower in 1620. He had a relatively substantial family that passed down his legacy. I am also a descendant of a Declaration of Independence signer, Benjamin Rush. Rush studied …show more content…

Among the signers of the Mayflower Compact, Warren was a prominent citizen in the places that he lived throughout his life, notably, Plymouth where the passengers settled. Since Warren came alone, his wife and daughters had to stay behind; they came a few years later in 1623 aboard “Anne”. When everyone was together, Richard and Elizabeth had more children, all sons. Before Richard passed away in 1628, he received acres of land and participated in the 1627 Division of Cattle with his family. In Nathaniel Morton’s book, “New England’s Memorial, written in 1669, a record of Richard Warren’s death is recorded: "This year [1628] died Mr. Richard Warren, who was a useful instrument and during his life bore a deep share in the difficulties and troubles of the first settlement of the Plantation of New Plymouth." This is the only evidence of his death in known existence. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the first American in space, Alan B. Shepard, Jr., Henry David Thoreau, and Civil War General/President Ulysses S. Grant are all fairly popular descendants of Richard

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