Believed to have the largest posterity of all Mayflower passengers. All of his children survived into adulthood and had large families. Amongst his descendants: Ulysses S. Grant, FDR, Alan Shepard, Sarah Palin, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Richard Gere, the Wright Brothers, Henry David Thoreau, Joanne Woodward, Amelia Earhart, Orson Welles, William Jennings Bryan, Johnny Carson, Julia Childes and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.