This article will list, in the approximate order received, additions to Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, published in January 2009. Readers are invited to submit additions (or regrettably, and we hope only a few, corrections), and the list may also appear elsewhere on this website or http://www.notablekin.org/, or in future issues of New England Ancestors.

1. Dorothy ____, wife of the immigrant John Plumb of Wethersfield and Branford, Conn., and an ancestor of F.D. Roosevelt (p. 550), was Dorothy Chaplin, sister of Mrs. Martha Chaplin Parke (p. 636), first wife (and first cousin) of the immigrant Robert Parke of New London and Stonington, Conn., an ancestor of President Harding, the first (Mrs.) [Thomas] Woodrow Wilson, Bess Truman (pp. 642-43), and the late Diana, Princess of Wales and her sons. Dorothy and Martha were daughters of William Chaplin (and Agnes Holborough), son by an unknown wife of William Chaplin, d. 1575-77/8, of Long Melford, Suffolk. This last couple (the elder William Chaplin and ____ ____) were parents also of an Alice Chaplin, wife of an elder Robert Parke and mother of the immigrant to New London named above. See TAG 82 (2007): 250-61. The Chaplin-derived kinship between Harding and FDR is the first between these two presidents, so FDR now has 18 presidential kinsmen, equal to G.H.W. and G.W. Bush, and Harding has 9 (pp. 591-93).
   
   
2. Grant and F.D. Roosevelt ancestor John Scudder (p. 56 [#142], 455) was a son of Henry Scudder, d. 1594-95, of Horton Kirby, Kent, and Elizabeth ____. An almost certain granddaughter of this last couple was the immigrant Bridget ____ (1600/5-1671/80) of Salem, Mass., wife of Thomas Verry and Edward Giles and mother of Eleazer Giles (p. 95), Taft ancestor #228. If Bridget’s Scudder ancestry is accepted, despite lack of final proof, the resulting kinship of Grant and Taft is the first between these two presidents. Taft would then have 17 presidential kinsmen, and Grant eight. See TAG 72 (1997): 285-300.
   
   
3. 4. Grant and F.D. Roosevelt ancestor Elizabeth (Stoughton) Scudder (pp. 56 [#143], 455) was a daughter of Rev. Thomas Stoughton, b. ca. 1555, vicar of Naughton, Suffolk, and Coggeshall, Essex, and his first wife, Katherine ____. A son of these last, Elizabeth’s brother, was Israel Stoughton (1602/3-1644), founder of Dorchester, Mass., and noted militia officer, who married Elizabeth Knight, maternal aunt of Yale College benefactor Elihu Yale, and left (in addition to William Stoughton, chief justice of Mass. during the Salem witchcraft trials) a daughter, Rebecca Stoughton, who married William Tailer. Elizabeth (Tailer) Nelson, a daughter of these last, was FDR ancestor #175, p. 124. Thus FDR had two Stoughton descents, not just one. See TAG 72 (1997): 295-97, 29 (1953): 193-204, 33 (1957): 105-12 and the Nelson work by Temple Prime cited on p. 263.
   
   
4. Taft ancestor William Eure, 1st Baron Eure, p. 429, was a son of Sir Ralph Eure (and Muriel Hastings), son of Sir William Eure (and Margaret Constable), son of Sir Ralph Eure and Elizabeth Greystock, daughter of John Greystock, 4th Baron Greystock, and Elizabeth Ferrers, daughter of Robert Ferrers, 2nd Baron Boteler of Wemme, and Lady Joan Beaufort (pp. 648-49). Thus Taft is a tenth presidential descendant of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, and a fifteenth presidential kinsman of modern royalty generally. See P1 A, pp. 296-98, (Eure, Mansfield), 363 (Greystoke/Greystock), 134-35 (Ferrers), 75-77 (Beaufort). This line was kindly brought to my attention by Martin E. Hollick of West Roxbury, Mass.
   
   
5. As per NEA 10 (2009): 1: 36-38, the wife of presidential patrilineal ancestor Abraham Tru(e)man (H.S Truman ancestor #32) was Ann ____, who appeared as a witness in the 1744 will of Richard Ferris, and was named in her husband’s will of 1795. She was thus probably the mother of William Truman (1740/50-1796) of Bedford and Franklin cos., Virginia.