James Constantine Dearborn * was the great-great-grandson of Hippolyta Black and Absalom Thorn, the great-grandson of Patience Hallowell and Ezra Thorn, the grandson of Sarah Thorn and Hercules Dearborn, the son of Verity Smith and Michael Dearborn, the husband of Roberta Carling, the father of Gideon Dearborn and James Dearborn II, the father-in-law of Mildred Seelye, and the grandfather of Hilary, Darla, and Mary Dearborn.