Susan Trask Waters

Susan Trask Holman

• Birth: Feb 22 1784 - Sutton, Massachusetts
• Death: Nov 28 1849 - Millbury, Massachusetts
• Parents: Jonathan Holman, Susanna Trask
• Husband: Asa Waters, Jr.
• Child: Susan Holman Torrey

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She married Asa Waters, who was a descendant of Henry Squire.

This gives us a link into four other presidents, by marriage and not by blood, as follows:

A Line of Descent to President Millard Fillmore

Henry Squire (c1563-bef1649); Somersetshire, England, had a daughter:

Ann Squire (1591-1662), who married Aquila Purchase (c1588-c1633), in 1614, and had a daughter:

Abigail Purchase (1624-1675), who married Sampson Shore (c1615-c1679), in c1639, and had a son:

Jonathan Shore (1649-1724), who married Priscilla Hathorn (b. 1649), in 1669, and had daughter:

Phoebe Shore (1674-1717). who married Nehemiah Millard (1668-1751), in 1697, and had a son:

Robert Millard (1702-c1784), who married Hannah Eddy (c1704-1739), in 1726, and had a son:

Abiathar Millard (1744-c1811), who married Tabatha Hopkins (b. 1745), in 1761, and had a daughter:

Phoebe Millard (1780-1831), who married Nathaniel Fillmore, Jr. (1771-1863), in 1796, and had a son:

Millard Fillmore (1800-1874), 13th President of the United States.

A Line of Descent to President William Howard Taft

Henry Squire (c1563-bef1649); Somersetshire, England, had a daughter:

Margaret Squire (1596-1675), who married John Shepard, and had a daughter:

Hannah Shepard, who married Thomas Holbrook, and had a son:

John Holbrook (1667-1741), who married Silence Wood (1676-1756), in 1693, and had a son:

John Holbrook, Jr. (1694-1756), who married Ruth Hill (d. 1747), in 1719, and had a daughter:

Silence Holbrook (b. 1724), who married Samuel Goodale (1708-1769), in 1743, and had a daughter:

Sarah Goodale (1745-1828), who married Asa Waters (1741-1813), in 1764, and had a son:

Asa Waters, Jr., (1769-1841), who married Susan Trask Holman (1784-1849), in 1802, and had a daughter:

Susan Holman Waters (1803-1866), who married Samuel Davenport Torrey (1798-1877), in 1824, and had a daughter:

Louisa Maria Torrey (1827-1907), who married Alphonso Taft (1810-1891), as his first wife, and had a son:

William Howard Taft (1857-1930), 27th President of the United States.

Line of descent to President Calvin Coolidge

Henry Squire (c1563-bef1649); Somersetshire, England, had a daughter:

Edith Squire

Henry Adams, m. Edith Squire and had:

Samuel Adams, m. Rebecca Graves, and had:

Susanna Adams, m. David Waldo; and had:

Bethia Waldo, m. Edmund Littlefield, Jr.; and had:

Esther Littlefield, m Samuel Soper, Jr.; and had:

Esther Soper, m. Silas Briggs; and had:

Asa Briggs, m. Elizabeth Paul; and had:

Sally Brgiggs, m. Israel Putnam Brown; and had:

Sally Brown, m. Israel C. Brewer; and had:

Sarah Almeda Brewer, m. Calvin Galusha Coolidge; and had:

John Calvin Coolidge, m. Victoria Josephine Moor; and had:

John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. (1872-1933); 30th President of the United States.

m. Grace Anna Goodhue; First Lady

The link to Adams is through Edith daughter of Henry Squire.

References:

• Henry Adams of Somersetshire, England and Braintree, Mass., compiled by J. Gardner Bartlett for Edward Dean Adams, privately printed, New York, 1927.
• Dorset Pilgrims, by Frank Thistlethwaite, pub. by Heart of the Lakes, Interlaken NY, 1993.
• https://famouskin.com/family-group.php?name=13136+william+howard+ta...
• 1. The American Genealogist, New Haven, Connecticut: D. L. Jacobus (issues newer than 5 years not online), 1945, Vol. 22, pp. 208, 210, New England Historic Genealogical Society (Online Database).
• 2 Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 433, 462-463, 486, 583
• https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LB24-G14