Americans) in the tradition of other games we have played ("Who has
the most royal descents?"; "Who is descended from the most recent
King?"). While I have a number of royal descents, they are all fairly
remote. However, the above-entitled game is one I think I have at
least a chance of winning ...
Limiting yourself to only your American immigrant ancestors (and
coming forward to the end of the colonial period), who has the most
ancestors with entries in the new _Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography_ (2004)?
I've just counted mine and found:
--Major John Mason
--Rev. Henry Whitfield
--Rev. John Lothropp
--Gov. Thomas Mayhew
--Peter Folger
--Rev. Robert Craghead (who technically did not immigrate, but his
daughter did)
--William Brewster
I think I benefitted from a more inclusive policy under the new Oxford
ed. of the _Dictionary_ (I believe Mayhew, Folger, Craghead, and
Brewster are all new to this edition).