John Bunyan was born in 1628 to Thomas and Margaret Bunyan at Bunyans End in the parish of Elstow, Bedfordshire, England. He married and was the father of four children. His wife died in 1658 and he married Elizabeth in 1659. They had two children. He was a writer and preacher is best remembered as the author of the religious allegory The Pilgrim's Progress. He died in 1688 in London, England.

Supplements 1-2 (tempbound separately) are to work entitled: A history of the Otstot(t) family in America : also being a guide to the descendants of Jost and Katherine Otstadt / by Charles Mathieson Otstot. Arlington, Va. : C.M. Otstot, c1973 (Baltimore, Md. : Gateway Press). Supplement 1 is chiefly additions, with a few corrections, discovered during 1974 to the above work. Supplement 2 contains chiefly major new material related to the family lines...

Peter Meuse Vrooman (d.1684) immigrated from Holland to Albany, New york, and married Volkje Pieterse Stavast, widow of Gerrit Jansen Stavast, in 1675. Two brothers, Jacob Meuse Vrooman and Hendrick Meuse Vrooman, immigrated with Peter. Descendants and relatives of the three brothers lived in New York, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, South Dakota, Washington and elsewhere.