John Adams HBO series and real history

[Carol]

-John Adams's grandmother was Hannah Bass.
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> Carol, JA is descended from John and Priscilla Alden. Doesn't that
line lead to Martha Carrier?
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Carol:
Thanks for trying! Hannah Bass *was* descended from the Aldens, but
she married Joseph Adams, who was Hannah Adams' cousin, so unless
there's some other connection, Hannah Bass isn't my ancestor. And the
Carrier line of my ancestry goes through my father's father while the
Adams line goes through his mother. 

We've also got a connection with Sir Francis Drake (one ancestor is
his cousin); a Pilgrim ancestor, Richard Warren, whose descendants
eventually get connected with the Carrier line; a semi-famous colonial
preacher ancestor named Michael Wigglesworth; and a *possible*
connection with Francis Bacon that I haven't followed up. The
Ahnentafel charts give me a headache, and Ancestry.com is also hard to
follow unless your monitor is a lot bigger than mine.

It would have been nice to be descended from a President and a
*famous* pair of Pilgrims. Instead I get Pilgrims that no one ever
heard of and a Salem witch.

Carol, hoping she hasn't bored anybody with all this genealogy!