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This is the Sir Robert Parke who came to America from England in the "Arbella" as secretary to John Winthrop in 1630. This genealogy book of 490 pages covering 14 generations of his descendants, including well-known figures such as William "The Signer" Williams, Maj.-Gen. George B. McClellan, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Katharine Hepburn, Julia Child, Princess Diana, Humphrey Bogart, President Warren Harding, Oliver Platt, and the Ford and Firestone heirs. Also included are surnames Abbott, Ashley, Avery, Bailey, Baldwin, Barnes, Bass, Benedict, Bishop, Brewster, Brooks, Brown, Cook, Cotton, Douglas, Ely, Fairbanks, Field, Floyd, Foster, Freeman, Gardner, Gore, Green, Hamilton, Hammond, Harris, Holmes, Houghton, Hunt, Johnson, Jones, Kent, King, Leeds, Lyons, McCall, Mitchell, Morgan, Nichols, Page, Palmer, Parker, Parks, Parsons, Peabody, Perkins, Porter, Rockwell, Rowe, Seymour, Smith, Spencer, Stone, Strong, Sullivan, Taylor, Tracy, Watson, Wheeler, Whitney, Wood, Wright, Young, and many others.