Descendants of Archibald Forbes in the United States

• Reverend John Forbes, (b. Strathdon, Scotland, 1740-1783), m. to Dorothy Murray, (b. United States)
  • John Murray Forbes, (1771-1831)
  • Ralph Bennett Forbes, m. to Margaret Perkins (sister of Colonel Thomas Handasyd Perkins)
    • John Murray Forbes of China and Boston, b. France (1813-1898), m. to Sarah Swain Hathaway, (1813-1900)
      • William Forbes, (1840-1896), m. to Edith Emerson, (1841-1928), daughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson
        • Ralph Emerson Forbes (d. 1937), m. to Elise Cabot Forbes (daughter of Godfrey Lowell Cabot)
          • Ruth Forbes (1903-1998) m. 1st George Lyman Paine Jr, m. 3rd Arthur M. Young
            • Cameron Paine
            
            Michael R. Paine
        • William Cameron Forbes, (1870-1959), Gov. Gen. Philippines
        • Edith "Violet" Forbes
        • John Murray "Don" Forbes (Jr?)
        • Edward Waldo Forbes
        • Waldo Emerson Forbes
        • Alexander Forbes
      • Alice Hathaway Forbes (1838-)
      • Ellen Randolph Forbes (1838-)
      • Mary Hathaway Forbes (1844-)
      • John Malcolm Forbes (1847-1904), m. to Sarah Coffin Jones (1852-1891)
      • Sarah Forbes (1853-)
    • Captain Robert Bennett Forbes (1804-1889), m. to Rose Greene Smith (1798-1885)
      • Robert Bennett Forbes (1836-)
      • Edith Forbes (1842-), m. to Charles Eliot Perkins
      • James Murray Forbes (1845-), m. to Alice (Bowditch) Forbes
        • Allan Forbes (1874-)
        • Mary Bowditch Forbes (1878-) (founder of the Mary Bowditch Forbes Collection of Abraham Lincoln memorabilia.)
        • Dorothy Forbes (1880-)
  • Thomas Forbes
  • Colonel James Grant Forbes, (b. British occupied Spanish Florida, St. Augustine, Florida, 1769), m. to Francis Elizabeth Blackwell
    • Reverend John Murray Forbes, (1807-1885), m. to Anne Howell, (d. 1849)
      • Francis Blackwell Forbes, (1839-1908), m. to Isabel Clarke Forbes, of China and France
        • James Grant Forbes, (b. Shanghai, China, October 22, 1879 - d. Paris April 24, 1955), m. to Margaret Tyndal Winthrop, (1880-1970)
          • James Forbes
          • Jock Forbes
          • Griselda Forbes
          • Angela Forbes
          • Eileen Forbes
          • Monica Forbes
          • Alistair Forbes
          • Ian Forbes
          • Iris Forbes, m. to Terence Armstrong (1920-1996) (British Arctic researcher)
            • Kevin Armstrong (teacher)
          • Fiona (Forbes) Lalonde m. Alain-Gauthier Lévy, later Lalonde (after name change)
            • Brice Lalonde, a French politician, who ran for President of France as the Green Party candidate in 1981
          • Rosemary Forbes Kerry, (b. Paris, October 27, 1913), m. to Richard Kerry
            • Cameron Kerry
            • Diane Kerry
            • Peggy Kerry, m. to George Kaler
            • John Forbes Kerry, (December 11, 1943 - )
        • Francis Murray Forbes, (founder of Cabot, Cabot & Forbes)
          • Cynthia (Forbes) Lyman, m. to John Lowell Lyman
            • Griselda Lyman, m. to Duncan Alexander White
        • Ethel A. Forbes, b. 1880 Shanghai, China
        • Charles Stewart Forbes, b. 1879 Shanghai, China
        • Evelyn Forbes Potter