Joseph Cookson (ca. 1798-ca. 1865) was probably born in Georgia or South Carolina. He married Christina Vandergriff in Rhea County, Tennessee in 1820. He lived in Tennessee with the Cherokee indians and moved with them to Oklahoma. Descendants (spelling the surname Cookston) and relatives lived in Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Texas, Colorado and elsewhere.

William Franklin Ellis (1845-1919) was born in Haynesville, Maine. In 1872, he married Eliza Helen Patchell of Canada. Descendants and relatives lived in Main, Massachusetts, New Jersey, California and elsewhere.

Avery Vann was born in the 1770's, son of James Clement Vann. He married Margaret McSwain, daughter of Alexander McSwain. Their daughter, Keziah, married Robert Webber (b. 1810). Andrew Jackson Griffin (1824-1895), son of Daniel Griffin Jr. and Ollie Lasley, married Ailsey Webber. Bob Lawley was born in Mississippi and married Matilda Brown (1850-1934), born in Tennessee. Many family members were Cherokee and eventually settled in Oklahoma.

James Upjohn (1732-1818), a Quaker, married Mary Hatch in 1755. One of his sons, William Upjohn (1770-1847), married Mary Standard in 1796, and sent his two oldest sons to see about the possibilities of immigration to the United States in 1828. They took two years, and one son then returned to collect the family in 1830. The ocean journal of William appears in v. 2. The family immigrated to Greenbush, New York (across the river from Albany), and later...

Abraham Lemaster (ca. 1638- 1722) was born in Ste. Marie's Parish on the Isle of Jersey to John and Sarah Lemaster. He died in Charles County, Maryland. He was the father of six children. He came to America as a servant to John Smith ca. 1661. Descendants lived mainly in Maryland, Kentucky, South Carolina, Indiana and Texas.