Three sons of Daniel and Anna Schubdrein's children were the first of the family to immigrate to America. They sailed as indentured servants of a Swiss clergyman. When they landed in Savannah, Georgia the pastor from Ebenezer, Georgia purchased their freedom in exchange for them agreeing to settle in Ebenezer and practice their trades of carpentry and masonry. The spelling of the family name "Schubdrein" continued for about a generation. The spelling...

Richard Massey was born 13 August 1661 in Cheshire, England. His father was Edward Massey of Puddington. He emigrated in about 1684 and settled in Charles City County, Virginia. He had three sons, Hezekiahm, Joseph and Richard. He died in 1699. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in England, Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee.

Isaac Brownson aka Brunson, son of John Brownson and Hannah, was born in 1672 in Wetherfield, Connecticut. He married Thankful Dibble and they had two known sons. He married Margaret and they had five sons. He died in 1739. His family settled in South Carolina.

Henry Lyon was probably born in England in about 1623. He married Elizabeth Bateman in Fairfield, Connecticut in about 1652. Descendant, Thomas Rice Lyon, was born 31 May 1854 in Conneaut, Ohio. His parents were Robert Bond Lyon (1796-1854) and Clarissa Kellogg (1819-1896). He married Harriet Wade Rice 26 October 1875 in Ludington, Michigan. They had six children. Thomas died in Chicago in 1909. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly...

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Graves (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from England, Germany, and Ireland. Some allied families came from England, France, Germany, Norway, Prussia, and Wales. Some focus is on, but not limited to Captain Thomas Graves, who settled in Jamestown, Virginia in 1607. Other immigrant ancestors immigrated to Jamaica and Barbados (West Indies), and to Connecticut,...