Thomas Skiles Jr. was born November 12, 1668 in the Wicomico section of Somerset County, Maryland. He was the son of Thomas and Alice Skiles. He married about 1688 a woman named Naomi... . Thomas and Naomi had six children namely: Alice, Elizabeth, Sarah, John, Henry, and William. Thomas died before October 11, 1737. Descendants are located in California, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Texas and elsewhere. Includes Elliott,...

Descendants of John Bounds and his wife Ann Hiam (d. 1677). They migrated to Somerset Co., Maryland from Northumberland Co., Virginia ca. 1671. They settled in the Northern section of Somerset Co., which is now called Wicomico County, owning land in Somerset and Dorchester Counties. By 1685 John had married Mabel, his second wife, who died before 1700. Descendants live in Maryland, Mississippi, Texas, New Jersey, North and South Carolina, Virginia,...

Contains the families of Samuel Powell, born ca. 1616 in England died 1666 in Northampton County, Virginia, Walter Powell born ca. 1626 and died June 27, 1695 in Somerset County, Maryland, Henry E. Powell born ca. 1817 in Maryland and died in 1880 at Cedar Grove Farm in Somerset County, Maryland and other Powell families. "No connection can be made at this time between the families of Samuel Powell and Walter Powell and questionable connections between...

John Henry Riggin (1834-1913), son of George William Riggin and Martha Patsy Rounds, was born in Pittsville, Wicomico County, Maryland. In 1856 he settled in Fayette, Missouri, later moving to Arkansas. He married Martha Van Callaway in 1866 and later after her death, he married her half sister, Louisa Callway in 1880. Callaway ancestry is traced to Peter Callaway who was born before 1649 in Somerset County, Maryland. Descendants lived in Arkansas...

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Russell (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from England, Germany, Ireland, Normandy, Scotland, and Wales. Some allied families came from Africa, France, and Norway. In the 1600s, some ancestors immigrated to Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Virginia . In the 1700s, some settled in Kentucky, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New...