Gateway ancestors

Following up, here's a list of the "gateway ancestors" who serve as the common link between yours truly and the notables mentioned in yesterday's post.  The numbers in parentheses after their names refers to their sequential order on my ahnentafel.  Thus, the lower the number the closer the kinship to me.

Edward Allerton (#10326) - Zachary Taylor & Joanne Woodward

Sir Edward Aston (#25184) - Harry Cust

Lancelot Bathurst (#2162) - Chris Dudley

Robert Batte (#16648) - Britney Spears

Moses Blakesley (#1088) - Jon Huntsman

Robert Bolling (#1086) - Mary Custis Lee

Robert Bolling (#2172) - Admiral Richard Byrd & Edith Wilson

Richard Cocke (#4348) - Bill Bradley

James Coffin (#2574) - Nathaniel Gorham, Edith Roosevelt, and James Spader

John Coffin (#1282) - Levi Coffin

Peter Coffin (#5128) - Calvin Coolidge, Amy Poehler, Kyra Sedgwick, and Robert Gould Shaw

Tristram Coffin (#2564) - Gerald Ford, Herman Melville, Herman Webster Mudgett, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Tennessee Williams

Jordan Flake (#74) - Jeff Flake

Peter Folger (#2582) - Abigail Folger, Henry Clay Folger, Jr., James Athearn Folger, Sr., and Benjamin Franklin

Richard Gaines (#266) - Jimmy Carter

Richard Gardner (#2562) - Richard Chamberlain, Sam Ervin, Erle Stanley Gardner, and George Plimpton

John Jones (#520) - John Anthony Winston

Thomas Judd (#4576) - Nancy Reagan

Richard Kimball (#10302) - Sir Timothy Berners-Lee

Samuel Lathrop (#4382) - Benedict Arnold, Thomas Dewey, John Foster Dulles, Ulysses S. Grant, Frederick Law Olmstead, Anthony Perkins, Mitt Romney, and Adlai Stevenson, III

Robert Lowry (#152) - Robert Lowry

John Macy (#160) - William H. Macy

John Macy (#1280) - Charles Austin Beard, Rita Hayworth, George Nelson Macy, Rowland Hussey Macy, and Ezra Pound

Robert Macy (#320) - Dick Lugar

Thomas Macy (#640) - Lucretia Mott & Chris Van Hollen

Charles Miller (#308) - Mary Chesnut & Stephen Decatur Miller

James Lorenzo Morgan (#32) - Andrea di Robilant

John Moss (#2190) - Clint Eastwood

Robert Munford (#2970) - George H.W. Bush, George Bush, and Jeb Bush

Patrick Norton (#28) - Katie Coyle & Erin Willett

Thomas Joseph Norton (#14) - Pat Pacillo

Degory Priest (#5162) - Richard Gere, Franklin Roosevelt, and Dick Van Dyke

John Severance (#5150) - Albert Fish

Samuel Shattuck (#5126) - T.S. Eliot, John Marshall Harlan, John Kerry, and Sandra Day O'Connor