# Appleton family

The Appleton family is an American political, religious and mercantile family.

## Family tree

* Samuel Appleton (1586–1670), who emigrated to Ipswich, Massachusetts around 1636. Married (1) 1616: Judith Everard; (2) 1670: Martha
** Martha Appleton (1620–1659) ∞ Richard Jacob (d.1672)
** John Appleton (1622–1699) ∞ Priscilla Glover (d. 1698)
*** John Appleton (1652–1739) ∞ Elizabeth Rogers (d. 1754)
**** Daniel Appleton (1692–1762)
**** Nathaniel Appleton (1693–1784)
***** Nathaniel Appleton Jr. (1731–1798)
****** Nathaniel Walker Appleton (1755–1795)
******* Nathaniel Walker Appleton Jr. (1783–1848)
******** Charles Tilden Appleton (1809–1859)
******** William Channing Appleton (1812–1892)
******* Charles Henderson Appleton (1784–1831)
******** Charles Dawes Appleton (1810–1886)
******** George Dawes Appleton (1818–1890)
**** Margaret Appleton (1701–1740) ∞ Edward Holyoke (d. 1769)
*** Priscilla (1657–1743) ∞ 1684: Rev. Joseph Capen (1658–1725)
** Samuel Appleton (1624/6–1696) ∞ (1) 1651: Hannah Paine; (2) Mary Oliver (1646–1698)
*** Isaac Appleton (1664–1747) ∞ Priscilla Baker
**** Isaac Appleton (1704–1794) ∞ Elizabeth Sawyer (1709–1785)
***** Isaac Appleton (1731–1806) ∞ Mary Adams (1741–1827)
****** Isaac Appleton (1762–1853)
****** Samuel Appleton (1766–1853) ∞ 1799: Mary Gore
****** Nathan Appleton (1779–1861) ∞ (1) 1806: Maria Theresa Gold; (2) 1839: Harriet Coffin Sumner
******* Thomas Gold Appleton (1812–1884)
******* Mary "Molly" Appleton (b. 1813) ∞ Robert James Mackintosh (1806-1864)
******** Ronald Mackintosh
******* Charles Sedgwick Appleton (1815–1835)
******* Frances "Fanny" Elizabeth Appleton (1819–1861) ∞ 1843: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)
******** Charles Appleton Longfellow (1844–1893)
******** Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow (1845–1921) ∞ 1868: Harriet "Hattie" Spelman
******** Fanny Longfellow (1847–1848)
******** Alice Mary Longfellow (1850–1928)
******** Edith Longfellow (1853–1915) ∞ Richard Henry Dana III (1851–1931)
******** Anne Allegra Longfellow (1855–1934)
******* George William Appleton (1826–1827)
******* William Sumner Appleton (1840–1903) ∞ Edith Stuart (d. 1892)
******** William Sumner Appleton Jr. (1874–1947)
******* Harriet Sumner Appleton (1841–1923) ∞ Greely S. Curtis (1830–1897)
******* Nathan Appleton Jr. (1843–1906)
***** Francis Appleton (1733–1819) ∞ Elizabeth Hubbard (1730–1815)
****** John Appleton (1763–1849) ∞ Elizabeth Peabody (d. 1809)
******* John Appleton (judge) (b. 1804) ∞ 1834: Sarah Newcomb
******** John Francis Appleton (1838–1870)
******* Elvira Appleton (1804–1852) ∞ George S. Gibson
****** Mary Appleton (1764–1820)
****** Elizabeth Appleton (1767–1850)
****** Rev. Jesse Appleton (1772–1819) ∞ Elizabeth Means (1779–1844)
******* Mary Means Appleton (1801–1883) ∞ John Aiken (1797–1867)
******** William Appleton Aiken (1833–1929) ∞ Eliza Coit Buckingham (1838–1924)
******** Mary Appleton Aiken ∞ Francis H. Snow (1840–1908)
******* Frances Appleton (1804–1839) ∞ Alpheus Spring Packard Sr. (1798–1884)
******** William Alfred Packard (1830–1909)
******** Alpheus Spring Packard Jr. (1839–1905)
******* Jane Means Appleton (1806–1863) ∞ U.S. President Franklin Pierce (1804–1869)
******** Franklin Pierce Jr. (1836–1836)
******** Franklin "Frank" Robert Pierce (1839–1843)
******** Benjamin Pierce (1841–1853)
******* William Appleton (1808–1830)
******* John Appleton (1814–1817)
***** Rev. Joseph Appleton (1751–1795)
****** William Appleton (1786–1862) ∞ Mary Ann Cutler (1794-1860)
******* William Sullivan Appleton (1815–1836)
******* James Amory Appleton (1818–1843) ∞ Mary Ellen Lyman (1819–1875)
******* Sarah Elizabeth Appleton (1822–1891) ∞ Amos Adams Lawrence (1814–1886)
******* Francis Henry Appleton (1823–1854) ∞ Georgiana Crowninshield Silsbee (1824–1901)
******* William Joseph Warren Appleton (1825–1877) ∞ Emily Warren (1818–1905)
******** Emily Appleton Beebe (b. 1846) ∞ 1869: J. Arthur Beebe (d. 1911?)
******** William Appleton Jr. (b. 1848)
******** Susan Warren Appleton (1848–1872)
******* Edward H. Appleton (1827–1827)
******* Harriet Cutler Appleton (1828–1857) ∞ Franklin Gordon Dexter (1824–1903)
******* Hetty Sullivan Appleton (1831–1901) ∞ Thomas Jefferson Coolidge (1831–1920)
******* Charles Hook Appleton (1833–1874) ∞ Isabella Mason (1835–1869)
***** Samuel Appleton (1738–1819) ∞ Mary White (d. 1834)
****** Mary Appleton (1773–1829) ∞ Amos Sawyer (d. 1851)
****** John White Appleton (1780–1862) ∞ (1) 1806: Sarah Porter (d. 1809); (2) 1810: Sophia Porter (d. 1860)
******* Elisha William Appleton (b. 1810) ∞ 1837: Martha Wylly
******** John Howard Appleton (1844–1930)
******* Sarah Porter Appleton (b. 1812) ∞ 1845: John Goodenow
******* John Appleton (1815–1864)
******* Abby Eliza Appleton (b. 1882) ∞ 1841: George Freeman Emery
****** Joanna Appleton ∞ (1) Samuel Safford (d. 1816); (2) Eben Dodge (d. 1872)
****** James Appleton (1785–1862) ∞ 1807: Sarah Fuller (1787–1872)
******* Samuel Gilman Appleton (1808–1873) ∞ 1829: Sarah Gardiner
******* Sarah Fuller Appleton (1811–1884) ∞ 1833: Rev. Stephen Caldwell Millett
******* James Appleton (1813–1884) ∞ 1842: Sarah Bristol Edwards
******* Mary White Appleton (1815–1905)
******* Elizabeth Putnam Appleton (1818–1897) ∞ 1845: Shelton L. Hall
******* Joanna Dodge Appleton (1821–1870) ∞ 1843: Peyton R. Morgan
******* Hannah Fuller Appleton (1823–1903) ∞ Robert Helyer Thayer (1820–1888)
******* Daniel Fuller Appleton (1826–1904) ∞ (1) Julia Randall (d. 1886); ∞ (2) 1889: Susan Cowles
******** Francis Randall Appleton (1854–1929)
******* Harriette Hooper Appleton (1828–1905) ∞ 1849: Rev. John Cotton Smith
******* Anna Whittemore Appleton (1831–) ∞ Dr. Charles H. Osgood
*** Oliver Appleton (1676–1760) ∞ Sarah Perkins (1677–1770)
**** Sarah Appleton (1709–1798) ∞ (1) 1727: Benjamin Swain; (2) 1752: Benjamin Wyman (d.1774)
**** Hannah Appleton (b. 1711) ∞ 1730: Thomas Swain
**** Samuel Appleton (1710–1780) ∞ (1) 1736: Mary Phillips (d. 1737); (2) 1739: Mary Stevens; (3) 1743: Mary Russell (1715–1803)
***** Mary (1746–1830) ∞ 1769 Moses Gale (d. 1827)
***** Daniel Appleton (1750–1828) ∞ Lydia Ela (1747–1826)
****** Daniel Appleton (1785–1849) ∞ 1813: Hannah Adams (1791–1859)
******* William Henry Appleton (1814–1899) ∞ 1844: Mary Moody Worthen (1824–1884)
******** William Worthen Appleton (1845–1924) ∞ Anna Debois Sargent (1845–1908)
********* William Henry Appleton (1866–1951)
******** Kate Appleton (1848–1873) ∞ 1872: Hobart Seymour Geary (1838–1918)
******** Mary Appleton (d. 1934)
******** Henry Cozzens Appleton (1863–1925) ∞ Dora Threlkeld (1847–1927)
******* Maria Louisa Appleton (b. 1815) ∞ James E. Cooley (1802–1882)
******* John Adams Appleton (1817–1881)
******* Charles Horatio Appleton (1819–1820)
******* George Swett Appleton (1821–1878) ∞ 1847: Caroline Osgood
******** Ellina Appleton (b. 1848) ∞ 1867: William A. Fraser
******** Walter Stone Appleton (b. 1849) ∞ Annie P. Beach
******** Emma Appleton (b. 1852) ∞ Madan
******** George Swett Appleton (1854–1886)
******** Francis Appleton (b. 1856)
******* Daniel Sidney Appleton (1824–1890) ∞ Melvina W. Marshall (d. 1878)
******* Samuel Frances Appleton (1826–1883)
******* Sarah Emeline Appleton (1829–1861) ∞ Leopold Bossange
** Sarah (1629–1714) ∞ Rev. Samuel Phillips (d. 1696)
** Judith (1634–1659) ∞ 1657: Samuel Rogers (d. 1693)

## Arms

Coat of arms of Appleton family :
* CrestAn elephant's head couped sable, tusked and eared or; round the trunk a serpent entering the mouth vert
* EscutcheonArgent, a fess sable between three apples gules, slipped and leaved vert
* MottoDifficiles sed fructuose (Difficult but fruitful)