Descendants of Elizabeth Chard and Aaron Cooke:
- Arthur Twining Hadley (1856–1930), economist and president of Yale University (1899–1921)
- Henry Lee Higginson (1834–1919), banker, founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and Harvard benefactor
- Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823–1911), reformer, essayist, Colonel of the 1st black Union regiment
- John Phillips Marquand II (1893–1960), novelist
- William Sydney Porter (“O. Henry”) (1862–1910), short story writer
- William Williams (1731–1811), signer of the Declaration of Independence
- Eliphalet Remington, Jr. (1793 — 1861), inventor and firearms manufacturer
- Frederic Sackrider Remington (1861–1909), painter, illustrator, and sculptor noted for his realistic portrayal of life in the American West
- Noah Webster, Jr. (1758–1843), lexicographer and compiler of American Dictionary of the English Language