I am related to the following list of famous people. I figure is someone has a Wikipedia page, they are considered famous.
Stephen Bachiler (10x great grandfather) - He arrived in America in 1632 with his widowed daugher (Deborah Wing) and her three sons. He was an Oxford educated clergyman and had Puritan leanings, but wasn't necessarily part of the movement. In fact, he cast the only dissenting vote in the expultion of Roger Williams. Author Robert Charles Anderson's said of Bachiler in The Great Migration Begins "Among the many remarkable lives lived by early New Englanders, Bachiler's is the most remarkable."
Clara Barton (sixth cousin five times removed) - Founder of the American Red Cross.
Raymond O. Beaudoin (second cousin twice removed) - Winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor. During the Battle of the Bulge, with his unit pinned down and outnumbered, he charged the sniper's nest most responsible for their situation so that his men could safely send for help. The nest was some 90 yards away and he reached the nest despite a barrage of rifle and bazooka fire. Once at the nest, he killed three of the four inhabitants. The fourth fled and was subsequently gunned down by the American unit. He continued his attack by running towards another dugout and was cut down by a burst of machine gun fire. As a result of his actions, his unit was able to secure help and this eventually led to an American victory.
Aaron Draper Shattuck (first cousin five times removed) - He was an American painter who was most known for his paintings of New England landscapes. Interestingly, he lived to the age of 97, but stopped painting at the age of 57 after an illness.
Silas Wright (first cousin six times removed) - Governer of New York (1845-1846), United States Senator (1833-1844) and appeared on the $50 Gold Certificate from 1882 to 1912.
