His colonial ancestors included John Pike ( 1613-1688 / 1689 ), the founder of Woodbridge, New Jersey.

The celebration of deeds of ancient Danish and Swedish heroes, the poem beginning with a tribute to the royal line of Danish kings, but written in the dominant literary dialect of Anglo-Saxon England, for a number of scholars points to the 11th century reign of Canute, the Danish king whose empire included all of these areas, and whose primary place of residence was in England, as the most likely time of the poem's creation, the poem being written as a celebration of the king's heroic royal ancestors, perhaps intended as a form of artistic flattery by one of his English courtiers.

Eisenhower's Pennsylvania Dutch ancestors, who were primarily farmers, included Hans Nikolaus Eisenhauer of Karlsbrunn, who migrated to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1741.

These included an emphasis on human sacrifices in large numbers, to the ancestors of the monarch.

Thriving also, were the early ancestors to mammals, the synapsida, which included some large members such as Dimetrodon.

Bruce's Irish ancestors included Eva of Leinster ( d. 1188 ), whose ancestors included Brian Boru of Munster and the kings of Leinster.

pre-eminent families in the land ; and one of her ancestors included King Edward I of England.

In the Homeric epics, the Greeks of prehistory are viewed as the ancestors of the early classical civilization of Homer's own time, while the Mycenaean pantheon included many of the divinities ( e. g. Zeus, Poseidon and Hades ) attested in later Greek religion.

His supporters included the National Republicans, who were beginning to identify as " Whigs " in honor of ancestors during the Revolutionary War.

Notably they included the Zafiraminia, traditional ancestors of the Antemoro, Antanosy and other east-coast ethnicities.

He was descended from the Jansen ( a. k. a. Johnson ) family of New Amsterdam, and included among his ancestors the Huguenot Jacques Cortelyou, who laid out the first town plan of New Amsterdam for Peter Stuyvesant.

The higher population figures for the Baloch may only be possible if a large number of " Baloch " are included who speak different languages like Saraiki, Sindhi, Punjabi and Brahui, and who often claim descent from Baloch ancestors.

And since the traditional Fon, as most traditional African peoples, saw the visible world as only a part of a larger reality that included the unseen and spirit world, ' messengers ' would be sent to the ' council of the dead kings ,' and other ancestors to determine whether these important powers were in concurrence with the policies and justice meted out.

Some included ancestors of giant beaked whales ( Berardius ), such as Microberardiusand Cuvier's beaked whale ( Ziphius ) had many relatives, such as Caviziphius, Archaeoziphius, and Izikoziphius.

Even historical figures such as Attila the Hun, Blackbeard, and Antonio López de Santa Anna, Billy The Kid, and Cao Cao have been included among his ancestors.

His ancestors included African-American landowners in Blakely.

Spencer was born in the Hudson River valley south of Albany ; his ancestors included a United States Supreme Court Chief Justice and two governors of New York.

His royal ancestors included Áed himself, Constantine II of Scotland ( reigned 900-943 ), Indulf ( reigned 954-962 ), and Cuilén ( reigned 967-971 ).

When extinct species are included in a tree, they are terminal nodes, as it is unlikely that they are direct ancestors of any extant species.

Although this is uncertain, the breed's ancestors may have been short-haired cats brought to Norway by the Vikings around 1000 AD, and may also have included the long-haired Siberian and Turkish Angora.

It was still included among the subsidiary titles of several German ( semi -) sovereign princes ; and the king of Prussia, whose ancestors were burgraves of Nuremberg for over 200 years, maintained the additional style of Burggraf von Nürnberg.

The Eastern Orthodox Church and Eastern Catholic Churches celebrate the feast day of the " Holy Righteous Prophet and King David " on the Sunday of the Holy Forefathers ( two Sundays before the Great Feast of the Nativity of the Lord ), when he is commemorated together with other ancestors of Jesus.

The two different historical Estonian languages ( sometimes considered dialects ), the North and South Estonian languages, are based on the ancestors of modern Estonians ' migration into the territory of Estonia in at least two different waves, both groups speaking considerably different Finnic vernaculars.

There are legends from the Taíno people that their ancestors emerged in ancient times from two caves in a mountain underground.

Hyenas first arose in Eurasia during the Miocene period from viverrid-like ancestors, and developed into two distinct branches ; the lightly built dog-like hyenas and the robust bone-crushing hyenas.

It was expected that dating the split of the ancestral human louse into two species, the head louse and the pubic louse, would date the loss of body hair in human ancestors.

However, a new translation of two stanzas of the Rig Veda indicate that the Brahmins may have had the idea, common among small-scale societies around the world, that an individual cycles back and forth between the earth and a heavenly realm of ancestors.

Alpacas are descended from wild vicuna ancestors, while domesticated llamas are descended from wild guanaco ancestors, though a considerable amount of hybridization between the two species has occurred.

Inhabitants (" Mountaineers ") are divided into two rigid hereditary castes, the " crew " and the " colonists ", depending on whether their ancestors piloted the colonizing vessel.

and were members of the family Elephantidae, which contains, along with mammoths, the two genera of modern elephants and their ancestors.

Near Earth most of the ship's 1500 passengers are killed by meteors, and only two men and six women land in a lifeboat and become the ancestors of humanity.

It has six sets of chromosomes, two sets from each of three different diploid species that are its distant ancestors.

He references in this regard the fact that the genealogies in these two gospels list twenty-six ( Luke ) to forty-one ( Matthew ) completely different ancestors for the generations from David to Jesus.

In East Timor, one of the two predominately Christian nations in southeast Asia ( the Philippines being the other ), for some, the roof of the house is reserved for gods and spirits of ancestors, the lower portion remains for the nature spirit and usually occupied by animals, and the cock is admired because of courage and perseverance, with the courage of a man compared with that of the cock, with the cockfight occurring regularly and “ many tais designs include the cock ”.

Robert Chambers, in his 1832 work, Book of Days notes that " two popular observances belonging to Christmas are more especially derived from the worship of our pagan ancestors — the hanging up of the mistletoe and the burning of the Yule log.

The modern herds are managed as two separate lines – one consisting of only Bison bonasus bonasus ( all descended from only seven animals ) and one consisting of all 12 ancestors including the one Bison bonasus caucasicus bull.

In 1974 historian Jerzy Ochmański noted that Zadonshchina, a poem from the end of the 14th century, contains a line in which two sons of Algirdas name their ancestors: " We are two brothers – sons of Algirdas, and grandsons of Gediminas, and great-grandsons of Skalmantas.

Jean Macquart and Pascal Rougon are two instances of individuals liberated from the blemishes of their ancestors by the operation of the process of innéité.

Jacob's twelve sons ( in order of birth ), Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph and Benjamin, become the ancestors of twelve tribes, with the exception of Joseph, whose two sons Mannasseh and Ephraim become tribal eponyms.

The sentence “ Napoleon is one of my ancestors ” apparently commits us only to the existence of two individuals ( i. e., Napoleon and the speaker ) and a line of ancestry between them.

The origins of this sport is claimed to be derived from the Athenians when Themistocles, marching his army against the Persians, chanced upon two cocks fighting and charged his army saying “ Behold, these do not fight for their household gods, for the monuments of their ancestors, for glory, for liberty or the safety of their children, but only because one will not give way to the other .” Inspired, his army defeated the Persians and after ordained by law, cockfighting was annually practiced as " an institution partly religious and partly political at Athens, and continued there for the purpose of improving the seeds of valour in the minds of the Athenian youth ".

It has further been suggested that people traveled back and forth between the two areas before the ice age receded, and that the ancestors of the Koryaks had returned to Siberian Asia from North America.

He had 3 sons from two marriages, two of whom became the ancestors of the two branches of the family: