17 steps, 8th cousins twice removed, descended from Jonathan Wade.
Oddly, I'm also 17 degrees from Walter Howe, but 7th cousins twice removed. This is possibly because the connection can be traced through sisters Jane and Anna Jewett, who both married my 5th great-grandfather, Aquila Pingry, and both contributed to my family tree. The one sister appears in Connection Finder and the other in Relationship Finder. Even so, I don't understand how an 8th cousin 2x removed and a 7th cousin 2x removed can both be 17 degrees distant.