George R Griffiths

Robert Griffith (ca.1805-1866) married Eleanor Watkins in 1820 and immigrated in 1837 from Wales to Allen County, Ohio. Descendants lived in Ohio, Virginia, Maryland, Arizona and elsewhere.

William Ennes, possibly the son of Alexander Innies and Elispet Tod, was baptized in Urquhart, Elgin, Scotland 6 May 1658. He first appears in the records of Kingston, N.Y. in 1694 at the baptism of his first child. He died 1712. He married Cornelia Viervant (b. ca. 1669), daughter of Cornelis Arents Viervant and Jeanne Lesueur (Abbott). They had at least seven children. Cornelis Arents Viervant came from Lexmont, Land of Vianen, Utrecht, Belgium....

Guillaume Vigne emigrated from Valenciennes, France to America in about 1613-1614. He and his wife, Adrianna Cuveille, settled in New Amsterdam in about 1623. They were the parents of four children. One of their grandchildren married into the Rosenkrans family. The first Rosenkrans to settle in New Amsterdam was Harman Rosenkrans who descended from a Norwegian family which had settled in Holland in about 1520. Descendants live in New York.

Bastiaen (or Sebastian) Van Kortryk was born in Kortryk in the province of West Flanders (Belgium) in 1586. He moved to Holland in 1615 and settled in Leerdam. His children, including two sons (Jan and Michiel Bastiaensen), came to New Amsterdam in 1663 with their families. Descendants lived in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and elsewhere.

Marinus Van Aken (1660-1724) married Pieternel/Petronella De Pre and they were the parents of eight children. They settled in Ulster County, New York. Descendants live in New York and other parts of the United States.

The Brees family appears to have originated in Llanbrynmair, Powys, Wales. Members of the family intermarried with other families which lived in and around Llanbrynaire, Wales. These families included James, Evans, Nicholas and Vaughan. Descendants immigrated to America and settled in Ohio and other parts of the United States.

The Ford family originally of England. Three brothers, Richard, Daniel and Elijah Ford, came from England ca. 1774/75 and settled in Virginia or Maryland. Descendants in this book are through Richard Ford (1755-1809). He was apparently in Cecil Co., Maryland, when he married Mary Gillis (d. 1808), daughter of Henry Gillis of Ann Arundel County. Family appears in Cecil Co., Md. census of 1790, and by 1800 they are listed in Red Lion Hundred, New Castle...

The Davies/Davis family originated in the parish of Llanbrynmair, Powys, Wales. Sion or John Dafydd (d.1670) is the earliest known ancestor of the Davies/Davis family. Members lived for generations in Llanbrynmair, Wales. Descendants immigrated to the United States in the nineteenth century.

Edward Kibbe was born in 1611 in Exeter, England. He married Mary Partridge in 1639 and they immigrated to America in 1643. Edward and Mary settled in Boston, Massachusetts and had ten children. Edward had a 3rd great grandson named Ephraim Kibbey. Ephraim was born in Connecticut 20 November 1756 and married Phebe Ann Crane sometime prior to 1781. He served as an officer in the Revolutionay War and was the father of seven children. Descendants of...

Epke Jacobse (son of Jacob) Banta was a farmer from Harlingen, Holland, called "the common ancestor of the prolific family of that name". Epke emigrated, with his wife and 5 children, on 13 February 1659. They settled at Flushing. Later they went to Bergen, near Hackensack New Jersey. Dirck Bensingh married Catalina Berck. They emigrated from Groningen, Sweden, via Amsterdam to New Amsterdam on 23 August 1649. He died in Albany on 12 February 1659....