The descendants of Peter (ca. 1685-1711), Conrad (ca. 1694-1749), and Caspar Hamm (ca. 1698-1769), who emigrated with their family from the Palatinate region of Germany to colonial New York about 1710. Their descendants settled throughout New York State and elsewhere in the United States. The name is also spelled Ham.

Chiefly information on the Ham/Hamm and Farneyhough/Farneynow families of Virginia, originally gathered while searching the ancestral lines of Mrs. T. T. McCarley of Nashville, Tennessee, with additional material later added.

Family history and genealogical information about the descendants of William Ham Sr. who was born ca. 1726 in Virginia or North Carolina. He married Prudence (surname unknown) sometime prior to the year 1749. They lived in North Carolina and were the parents of five sons and four daughters. Descendants lived in North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama and elsewhere.

William Hamm was born in Germany. He married Martha Sherman in about 1760. They had five known children. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas and Texas.

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Bennington (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Allied families also came from France, Germany, Holland, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland. Early Bennington ancestors settled in Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Virginia in the 1600s. Some were Quakers. In the 1700s, some settled in Georgia,...

Descendants of three brothers, who immigrated to America in 1710 from Palatinate, Germany. Conrad Hamm (ca. 1688-1750) immigrated to New York. He died in Livingston Manor, New York. He married Rachel Rohrbach, daughter of Johannes Rohrbach and Anna Catherine, in 1709. They had eleven children. Peter Hamm (b. ca. 1685) married (2) Anna Catharina Sibylla ca. 1712. He had six children, one born in Germany from his first marriage, and five born in New...