Adam Belcher - born 30 June 1756, died 30 May 1819 - married Elizabeth Bennett (1780); Sarah Bennett (1791).

Ione Louise Ward was born in 1907. She married John Ryan Lynch and they lived in California. They had no family but Louise spent many years as a genealogist. Information from her files is included in this material. Genealogical correspondence and information on a variety of family lines are given in these records. Includes surname index. Includes Belcher, Brown, Sheldon, Silverthorn, Smith, Wilcox, Harwood, and related families.

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Clay families who came mainly from England and immigrated to America. Some focus is on (but not limited to) John Clay (born ca.1614), who left England to settle in Charles City County, Virginia, and died before 1660. His descendants lived in Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere. It also includes transcripts of various Clay genealogies...

Jonathan Belcher (1681/2-1757) of Cambridge, Massachusetts, the son of Andrew Belcher, a prosperous shipping merchant, traveled extensively in Europe, became possibly the first American-born Freemason and Royal Governor of Massachusetts and New Hampshire in 1730. His grandfather, Andrew (1617?-1673?), the son of Thomas (d. 1618) and Anne Solme of London and Sandon, Essex, England, emigrated to Sudbury, Massachusetts about 1638 and married Elizabeth...

John Root (1608-1684) emigrated from England to Farmington, Connecticut and married Mary Kilbourne in 1640. Descendants moved chiefly to the Midwest.

William Wright and Nellie were probably the parents of Anselm or Ansolem Wright, who was born in about 1804 in Franklin County, Virginia. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Virginia. Includes Belcher, Ribble, Thomas and related families.

Ancestry and progeny of Thomas Baldwin Marsh (1800-1866), who moved from Massachusetts to the state of New York and became a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He moved (via Missouri, Illinois, and Nebraska) to Ogden, Utah and married twice. His direct immigrant ancestor was James Fordyce (b.1684), who emigrated from Scotland to Westerley, Rhode Island. Fordyce descendants later immigrated to Nova Scotia, and some later returned...

William Brewster Barnard (b. 1921) married Harriett Johanna LeBotz. He was a descendant of William Brewster (1566/7-1644), who arrived in America on the Mayflower. Includes ancestry to Kenneth MacAlpin, King of Scots, 849-859; through Alfred, the Great (849-901), as well through Charlemagne; and to Clovis, the Riparian (alive 420), known as the Frankish King of Cologne.

Andrew Cook (1769-1855), a son of Andrew Cook, Sr., was born in England. The family immigrated to America ca. 1789, settling first in Pennsylvania. He married Anna Christina Palmer (1770-1849) in 1789. They had twelve children. In 1800, they moved to Ontario, where most descendants live. Some also live in the United States.