If you have sny colonial New England ancestry, there is a good chance that you are related to him as well. Well, I really don't know as as far back as I've traced it is to my great grandfather and he was a pioneer in wyoming. Geeze, I could be related to Cheney, perish the thought. I think there was an Indian in the woodpile as the saying goes and I'm 1/8 th cree or some kind of Indian.