Samuel Cooksey was born before 1673. His second wife was Christian Tennis, daughter of Justinian Tennis or Tennison and Katherine Gresham. They had one son, William Cooksey. Descendant James B. Cooksey was born in about 1810. He married Biddy S. Malone, daughter of Peter Malone and Mary Whayland, in about 1832 in Somerset (now Wicomico) County, Maryland. They had eight children. Descendants and relatives listed lived mainly in Maryland and Washington,...

James Park (1746-1837), of Huguenot and Scottish lineage, immigrated from Nova Scotia to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and served in the Revolutionary War. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Kentucky and elsewhere.

Dozens of Payne families lived in Tennessee by the late 1700's. Pleasant Payne moved there from Virginia, and later went to Kentucky. Other related families included the Stamps, Shaw, Kelsey, Cooksey, Stahl, Cherry and Willoughby families.

The Horn family from Shenandoah Co., Va. through S.W. Virginia, Carter Co., Tennessee and on to Kentucky. Aron Horn (d. 1779) probably came to America from Germany. He and his wife Elizabeth had seven children: 1. Christopher (1752-1837), who married (2) Elizabeth (b. 1781) in 1817 in Knox Co., Ky.; 2. Polly born ca. 1759, lived in Estill Co., Ky. and married Joseph Proctor (b.ca. 1755) in 1777; 3. Aaron, who was born ca. 1760 in Baltimore, Md. and...

Isreal Walter died ca. 1818 in Russell County, Virginia. He and his wife Elizabeth (Betsy) Holbrook had six known children. They lived in Big Sandy Valley, Kentucky. From there the descendants scattered to Virginia, North Carolina, Indiana, Tennessee and elsewhere.

James Harris, son of James Harris and Hannah Stapleton, was born in 1777 in Rowan County, North Carolina. He married Ann Thompson, daughter of John Thompson and Ann Wallace, in 1797. He died in 1863 in Bedford County, Tennessee,.

Chiefly a record of the Tennison family from 1650-1770 in the counties of St. Mary's and Charles in Maryland. Also includes the Dennis family in Virginia before 1650. Volume 3 deals with the Tennisons in southern Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina from 1650 to 1800.

Henry Newby, son of Henry Newby, was born in about 1675/1680 near Liverpool, England. He came to America in about 1696 as in indentured servant. He married Mary Whalley, daughter of James Whaley. They had seven children. He died in 1741 in White Chapel Parish, Lancaster County, Virginia. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Virginia, Tennessee, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico and California.

John Brunson, Sr. was born in about 1545 in England. He married Joan in about 1576 and they had three children. Their son, Roger, was born in 1576 in Earl's Colne, Essex, England. He married Mary Underwood 12 May 1600 in Lamarsh, Essex. They had eight children. Their children, John, Richard and Mary, immigrated to Connecticut in about 1635. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Connecticut, Alabama and Florida.

Samuel Cooksey was born in about 1641. He died in 1709 in Charles County, Maryland. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in England, Maryland, Virginia and Kentucky.