Julius V. Thomasson (1800-1890) was born in Virginia. He married twice and lived in Cincinnati, Ohio then settled in Butler, Pendelton County, Kentucky. Descendants (spelling the surname Thomason) and relatives lived in Kentucky, Ohio, Arizona, California, Texas and elsewhere. Also includes ancestors and relatives of the Hastings family.

Bayard Taylor was born in 1825 in Chester Country Pennsylvania which is a rich farming country. After some travel in Europe he became editor of a country newspaper and published some personal writings. Later he moved to New York to try his fortune in literature with the hope that he could maintain himself. He took trips to Mexico, the far East and Africa. During all these travels he was sending articles to different newspapers. In 1854 Bayard...

Jonathan Fish (1615/1616-ca.1663), son of Thomas Fish and Mary Sprigge, immigrated between 1635 and 1637 from England to Lynn, Massachusetts with two younger brothers, Nathaniel and John. Jonathan later moved to Sandwich, Massachusetts and about 1659 to Newtown, Long Island, New York. Hamilton Fish (1808-1893), a direct descendant in the seventh generation, lived in New York and married Julia in 1836 near Elizabeth, New Jersey; Hamilton was active...

Duncan McElmurry came to Canada from Ireland with his wife Margaret Forsyth and at least two children about 1842. Eventually they settled in Ontario where Duncan died in 1848. Margaret remarried and had two daughters to add to the four boys she had had with Duncan. Information on their descendants is included in this volume. Descendants now live in both in Canada and many of the northern states of the United States. Includes McElmurray, McElmury,...

Joseph Paull (b.1657) married Margaret Roberts in 1680, and immigrated in 1685 from England to Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. Descendants and relatives (chiefly spelling the surname Paul) lived in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and elsewhere.

"Jacob Leisler ... from Frankfort, came to New Netherland a soldier in the West India Company's service in 1660. He embarked in the ship Otter from Amsterdam, the 27th of April of that year. There was a tradition among his descendants that he came originally from France, and a vague report, a hundred years or so ago in New York, that he was Swiss. It is more likely that he was born in Frankfort, and was, therefore a native of Germany."--P. 7. ...

Abraham Isaacse Ver Planck married Maria, daughter of Guleyn Vigne. They emigrated from Netherlands in the 1630s and settled in New York.