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