Palin Descent from Pilgrim Richard Warren
The Mayflower Passenger with 14 Million Descendants
Jun 27, 2009
Richard Warren (ca. 1580-1628), was one of the 19 Mayflower Compact signers who survived the first winter. He also was among the 10 members of the Nov. 11, 1620 landing party at Cape Cod Nov. 11, 1620. His wife, Elizabeth, and his five daughters were aboard the ship Anne, arriving in 1623. His two sons Nathaniel and Joseph were born in Plymouth.
Records of Richard and Elizabeth Warren
Evidence indicates Warren was a man of importance. His widow’s land transactions indicate she had access to money. Warren was not with the pilgrims in Holland, but joined them in Southampton to become a Mayflower passenger. He may have been a London merchant; if so, he is not mentioned in any contemporary London records. Warren died in 1628.
Plymouth County Records (8:35) mention Elizabeth Warren’s death as follows: "Mistris Elizabeth Warren, an aged widdow, aged above 90 yeares, deceased on the second of October, 1673, whoe, haveing lived a godly life, came to her grave as a shocke of corn fully ripe."
Sarah Palin’s Descent from Richard Warren
- Richard Warren and his wife, Elizabeth, were married in 1610 at Great Amwell, Herts, England. Her maiden name may have been Walker. They had only five years together in Plymouth before he died, leaving her with young children. She lived until 1673.
- Abigail Warren married Anthony Snow at Plymouth in 1639. He lived until 1692.
- Lydia Snow was born ca. 1640 at Plymouth and married Stephen Skiffe (1641-1710) of Sandwich, MA, where both died.
- Abigail Skiffe (1666-1718) of Sandwich, MA, married Shubael Smith (1653-1734) of Barnstable, MA in 1684 at Sandwich; both died at Chilmark, MA.
- Abigail Smith, born at Sandwich, MA, in 1691, died sometime after Feb. 10, 1733. She married at Sandwich in 1709 Barnabas Gibbs, born there in 1684 and died at Sandwich before May 5, 1734.
- Susannah Gibbs (1712-1786) of Sandwich, MA, married Thomas Claghorn (1692-1784) of Barnstable, MA; both are buried in Edgartown, MA.
- Lydia Claghorn, probably born in Edgartown in 1744, married Cornelius Norton (b. 1746) there in 1765.
- Susan/Susanna Norton was born in Maine and died at Abbot, Maine, in 1800. She married James Gower (1772-1855) of Topsham, ME, in 1800.
- Cornelius Norton Gower was born in 1810 at Industry, ME. He married Abigail Hawes, who was born in 1813 at Augusta, Maine.
- Arthur Collins Gower (1852-1943) of Abbot, ME, married Mary Schmolz in 1880 in Cook Co., IL; she was born in Germany .
- James “Carl” Gower (1882-1954) was born in Wisconsin and died at Pocatello, ID. He married ca. 1904/5 Cora Strong, born in 1886 in Chippewa Co., WI and believed to have died prior to Carl’s 1925 remarriage.
- Helen Louise Gower (1907-1985) was born in Wisconsin and died in Richland Co., WA. She married in 1929 at Pocatello, ID, Clement J. “Clem” Sheeran (1907-1992), a Washington native who also died in Richland Co.
- Sarah “Sally” Sheeran, born in 1940 in Richland, WA; she married Charles “Chuck” Richard Heath, who was born in 1938 in Los Angeles, CA. They are the parents of Alaska Gov. Sarah Louise (Heath) Palin (b. 1964).
Other famous Richard Warren descendants include Presidents Ulysses S. Grant and Franklin D. Roosevelt, astronaut Alan Shepard, authors Laura Ingalls Wilder and Henry Thoreau, actor Richard Gere, talk show host Johnny Carson, and aviation pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright and Amelia Earhart.
Sources:
Presented by William Addams Reitwiesner, a Library of Congress staff member, from data primarily compiled by genealogists Robert Battle and Michael Hurdle; arranged in this form by the current author; records of Pilgrim Hall Museum, Plymouth, MA.
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