Helen Schatvet Ullmann

Theophilus Eaton and John Davenport led the first settlement of New Haven, Connecticut. Theophilus was born in 1590 in Stony Stratford, Oxford, England. His parents were Richard Eaton and Elizabeth. He married Grace Hiller and Ann Lloyd Yale. His ancestors and relatives lived mainly in Connecticut and England.

Robert Taft was probably born in Ireland in about 1640. He married Sarah and they had five sons. He emigrated in about 1675. They lived in Mendon, Massachusetts.

Solomon Mason was born 6 January 1759 in Ashford, Connecticut. His parents were Solomon Mason (1725-1786) and Sarah Smith. He married Margaret Harris (1756-1840), daughter of John Harris and Deborah Guild, 30 January 1783 in Hardwick, Massachusetts. They had seven children. He died in 1793 in Greenwich, Massachusetts. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Massachusetts and New York.

Anne Christophersdatter was born 14 April 1813 in Ståvi in Vestre Bærum, Akershus, Norway. She married Mathias Wilhelmsen Hval (1790-1847) and had three children. She married Martin Larsen Fusdal, who later took the name Reistad, and had two children. Her daughter, Karen Mathea, married twice. First to Lars Dahl and second, to Halvor Schatvet. Descendants and relatives lived in Norway, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Michigan, Massachusetts,...

Chiefly a disertation on who Hannah Underwood was. She married William Shattuck 19 Mar 1687/8. He was of Groton and she of Watertown.

Chiefly a record of some of the ancestors of Thomas Wait. He was born ca. 1615 in England or Wales. He immigrated to Boston ca. 1634. He married ca. 1639 to Elen or Eleanor. He died ca. 13 Sep 1665. He was the father of seven children.

Richard Morton was born ca. 1640 probably in England. He married ca. 1665 to Ruth Edwards. She was born in 1643 in Connecticut to John and Dorothy Edwards. They had 9 children. They moved around 1667 to Massachusetts. Richard died in 1710 while his wife died in 1714. Descendants lived in Massachusetts and Vermont. Richard Morton, the second great-grandson of Richard Morton (d. 1710), was born in 1755 in Massachusetts to Martin and Jerusha (Twitchell)...

Hubbell Stevens (1735-1823), son of Elnathan and Mary (Hull) Stevens, was born at Killingworth, Connecticut. He married (1) Deborah Jones ca. 1756, daughter of James and Sarah (Willard) Jones and (2) Anna Shepard, ca. 1778, daughter of John and Rebecca Shepard. Descendants lived in Connecticut, New York, Michigan, California, Massachusetts, Ontario, and elsewhere. .

"Many years ago I began trying to identify the parents of my Mary "Polly" Murphy who had married Benjamin Billings. I had their marriage date from a family record that my grandmother had acquired. In the process I collected information on dozens of Murphys, Murfeys, Murpheys in Newport, Rhode Island." -- Intro.