 It is one of the Boston Brahmins, a bourgeois family, whose ancestors had become wealthy and held sway over the American education system.All are the descendants of two men named Andrew Eliot, father and son, who emigrated from East Coker to Beverly, Massachusetts between 1668 and 1670.The elder Andrew (1627-March 1, 1703/04) served the town and colony in a number of positions and in 1692 was chosen as a juror in the Salem witch trials.