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redwitch

(15,308 posts) Sun Jul 5, 2026, 09:16 AM 18 hrs ago

I found out yesterday that I am related to a signer of the Declaration of Independence!

I am pretty stoked!
The local chapter of the DAR held a reading of the Declaration at a park near me yesterday and I went. I couldn’t wait to tell my friends who are in the DAR that I may be joining them!
Ancestors is Charles Carroll of Carrollton.

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I found out yesterday that I am related to a signer of the Declaration of Independence! (Original Post) redwitch 18 hrs ago OP

Cool. I'm a DAR. It can be fun. ❤️ littlemissmartypants 18 hrs ago #1

There are millions of Americans from various races/ethnicities who descend from wnylib 18 hrs ago #2

Patrick Henry descendant here. Eko 15 hrs ago #3

I am as well. Samuel Adams mzmolly 13 hrs ago #4

littlemissmartypants

(35,707 posts)

1. Cool. I'm a DAR. It can be fun. ❤️

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Sun Jul 5, 2026, 09:22 AM

18 hrs ago

wnylib

(26,934 posts)

2. There are millions of Americans from various races/ethnicities who descend from

Reply to redwitch (Original post)

Sun Jul 5, 2026, 09:38 AM

18 hrs ago

colonists, Puritans, early founders of the nation, signers of the DOC, Revolutionary War vets, or are related to former presidents.

Most don't know it unless they find records or DNA results in genealogy research.

Fun to discover it, isn't it?

I was surprised to find several colonial Puritans from MA and CT in my grandmother's ancestry. FDR descended from one of the same colonial couples that I do, which, I guess, makes him a very, very distant relative.

Genealogy shows us that all people everywhere are connected in many ways.

Eko

(10,261 posts)

3. Patrick Henry descendant here.

Reply to redwitch (Original post)

Sun Jul 5, 2026, 12:27 PM

15 hrs ago

mzmolly

(52,886 posts)

4. I am as well. Samuel Adams

Reply to redwitch (Original post)

Sun Jul 5, 2026, 02:09 PM

13 hrs ago

is a distant cousin.

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