Newsletter for the collection and interchange of genealogical data and family history about Snead-Sneed-Sneyde individuals and families within the United States. Includes transcripts and extracts from local, county, state and federal sources (city directories, vital records, land and property, probate, census, etc.).

"The ancestry of Thomas Warne, one of the twenty-four Proprietors of East Jersey, is uncertain. That he was born in Plymouth, in Devonshire, County, Cornwall, England and lived sometime in Ireland, we know from his tombstone; but further than that, except that his father's name was Stephen, we are not sure. He died intestate at Perth Amboy, N. J., May 15, 1722, aged 70 years which gives us approximately the date of his birth, viz.--1652--probably...

William Odell was born 24 February 1602 in Wharley, Cranfield, Bedford, England. He married Rebecca Brown. They emigrated and settled in Concord, Massachusetts. They had four children. Descendants and relatives lived in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Virginia, Tennessee, Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas, Utah, Oregon, Alabama, Colorado, Nebraska, Arizona, New Mexico, California, Nevada, Texas, Ohio, Arkansas, Washington and elsewhere.

The authors of this family history define the "Old South" as that era in time prior to the 20th century and encompassing the states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama. The Mintz families of the Old South for the most part "stayed put" choosing not to leave their ancestral homeland during the time when the great push westward was taking place. Several "major" families of the Mintz are identified in this compilation. Nearly all of...

Rev. Thomas Harrison (1619-1682), an intimate of the Cromwell family, served as chaplain of the Virginia colony during Gov. Berkeley's first term. He immigrated to Jamestown, Virginia from England in 1640 and, changing from anti-Puritan to Puritan, moved to Massachusetts and marrying Dorothy Symonds about 1648/1649. He then returned to England. Benjamin Harrison, his brother, then immigrated to become the founder of the Harrison family of the James...

John Wilson married Isabelle Kennedy and immigrated about 1730/1735 from Ireland to Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Elizabeth (McGraudy) Thompson was a widow of Hugh (?) Thompson and she immigrated about 1740, with four sons, from Ireland to Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Michigan, Delaware, North Carolina, Illinois and elsewhere. Includes some family history and genealogical...