Frederick (Friedrich) Helf, son of Johann Georg Helf and Ottilia Müller, was born in 1818 in Pfifflingheim, Germany. In the late 1830s, he immigrated to Pennsylvania, settling in Pittston, Luzerne County. In 1844, he married Frances J. Sawyer (born 30 Jan 1825) and in 1864, they migrated with their six children to Livingston County, Missouri. They later moved to Plymouth, Carroll County, Missouri. Includes ancestry of Frederick and his wife, Frances....

Richard, b. ca. 1614, and Peter Montague were sons of Peter and Elanor Allen Montague " ... of Boveney, Parish of Burnham, Buckinghamshire, England."--P. 41. Richard and Peter came to America in about 1634, Peter settling in Virginia, while Richard " ... went to New England in America."--P. 20. Richard married Abigail Downing, daughter of Rev. Dr. Downing, of Norwich, England in about 1637. Richard Montague, of Hadley, Massachusetts, died 14 December...

"Matthew Griswold, the first of the name, came to America in 1636. Afterwards his three borthers came. Thomas who settled at Windsor, John at Wethersfield and George at Saybrook. From these three are descended all the Griswolds in this country. ... Matthew, 1st, went to Windsor, married Annah (or Hannah), daughter of the first Henry Wolcott. ... [His] own last resting place [is] in the cemetery at Saybrook, [Connecticut]."--P. 18-19. Matthew was...

"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...

John Adam Harpole came to Pennsylvania in 1738. One son, Nicholas (1730-1800) lived in Augusta County, Virginia by 1763. Another son, Adam (1734-1798), married Sarah Thorn. Descendants lived in Tennessee, West Virginia, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Illinois, Ohio, Kansas and elsewhere.

Thomas Welles (ca. 1590-1660), son of Robert and Alice Welles, was born in Stourton, Whichford, Warwickshire, England, and died in Wethersfield, Connecticut. He married (1) Alice Tomes (b. before 1593), daughter of John Tomes and Ellen (Gunne) Phelps, 1615 in Long Marston, Gloucestershire. She was born in Long Marston, and died before 1646 in Hartford, Connecticut. They had eight children. He married (2) Elizabeth (Deming) Foote (ca. 1595-1683) ca....

John Michener (d.1765), a Quaker, married Sarah Moore in 1686 and they immigrated almost at once from England to Philadelphia, where their daughter, Sarah, was born in 1687. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Michigan, Illinois, California, Washington, Colorado, Nebraska, Minnesota, West Virginia, Alabama, Wisconsin, Idaho, New Jersey, Florida, Wyoming, Utah, Canada and elsewhere....