Word: descendantal
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First, she was Edith Boiling of Wytheville, Va., of an ancient family, descendant in the ninth generation of Pocahontas.
The present Duke is a descendant of another famous soldier, the Duke of Berwick, illegitimate son of James II of England, whose title he still possesses, being the tenth Duke. The first Duke of Berwick saw service under his father and later under Louis XIV of France. Montesquieu in his...
The Duke is also a descendant, through the Larreategui family, of Christopher Columbus.
*"The oldest daily newspaper in America," descendant of the American Daily Advertiser (1784) and Benjamin Franklin's Weekly Pennsylvania Gazette (1728).
Another member of the University who will figure in the day's proceedings is J. B. Buttrick '28, of Concord. Buttrick is the direct descendant of the Major John Buttrick who led the attack of the minute men across the Concord bridge during the defense of the town by the...