Robert Fisher (1799-1875) was born at Yarm, North Riding, Yorkshire, England, the illegitimate son of Andrew Fisher (1769-ca. 1832) and Elizabeth Cooper (b. 1778). In 1801, his mother traveled to London where she married her son's father. The family immigrated to the United States in 1802 and settled at New York City. Robert Fisher married Marie Elizabeth Anspake (1799-1887), daughter of Frederick and Catherine Bogardus Anspake, in 1822. They had...

Dirck Evertse (Evert Dircksen Terwilliger) was born in about 1650 in Vianen, Holland. He emigrated in 1662 and settled in New York.

Chiefly ancestors, with some of their descendants, of John David Hammond. He was born in 1916 at Glen Ellyn, Illinois, the son of Ralph David Hammond (1880-1935) and Lillian Mae Anderson Hammond (1879-1958). He married Jean Elizabeth Collard (1916-1846) in 1939. They had one daugher born in 1940. He married 2) Genevieve Stanfsfiled in 1947. They had a son born in 1948. He retired in 1976 and John and Genevieve moved to Safford, Arizona in 1986....

"Adventures with the Ancestors is a collection of [127] American history stories of pioneers on the early frontier. The characters are real people in real circumstances, the ancestors of a single family. . . You'll encounter indentured servants and plantation owners in 17th century Virginia, Dutchmen, Frenchmen, and Germans in the Hudson Valley, a caveman in Pennsylvania, land speculators in the Shenandoah Valley, strong women and wronged women,...