"This work covers one half of the ancestry of the writer's mother, Marian Lucile Wright, including the ancestry of her paternal grandfather Henry Holman Wright and her maternal grandmother Sarah Rachel. This is an arbitrary split that enables the writer to gather into one volume her numerous lines of descent that pass through the colony and state of New Jersey"--Introduction, p. [vii].

Digory Sargeant was born in Cornwall, England in 1655. His parents were John Sargeant and Martha Axford. He was living in Massachusetts by 1675. He married Constance James in about 1693 and they had one daughter, Martha, who married Daniel Shattuck (1692-1760). Digory married Mary in about 1696 and they had five children. Digory died in the winter of 1703/4. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Minnesota...

Morris O'Friel (d.1778), of Scottish lineage, immigrated with his family from Ireland to Orange County, Virginia during or before 1738. Descendants (chiefly spelling the surname Friel) lived in Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, California (via the Isthmus of Panama in 1852) and elsewhere.

James Goodwin was born in London. He married Rachel (1630-1666) and they had seven children. He married Blanche Moore and had two children. They emigrated and lived in Virginia. Includes information on various Goodwin families living in Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, New York , Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Carolina, Wisconsin and Tennessee. Relationships between all of these families are not established.

Thomas Wells (c. 1600-c. 1637) was born in Eversham, Worcerstershire, England. He married Frances Albright (c. 1600-1678) in 1625. They had four children. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in England, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Illinois, and California.

John Garretson, probably of Dutch lineage and possible an immigrant, lived in New Castle, Delaware before 1657. Descendants lived in Delaware, Pennsylvania and elsewhere. This periodical allows the interchange of genealogical and family history data about Garretson individuals and families throughout the United States. Includes changes of officers in the Garretson Society.

Chiefly a record of some of the descendants of Nathaniel Ely. He was christened 28 Sep 1572 at Tenterden. He married 9 Jun 1597 to Susan Dowle at Tenterden. He died ca. 13 Aug 1615. They were the parents of four sons and three daughters. Their son Nathaniel, who was born ca. 1605, married Martha and immigrated to New England ca. 1634. Descendants lived in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, and elsewhere.

Robert Day (ca.1604-1648) emigrated from England to Newtown (now Cambridge), Massachusetts in 1634, and married twice (once in England). Descendants and relatives lives in New England, New York, Ohio, Michigan, Nebraska, Oregon and elsewhere. Some descendants immigrated to Ontario and elsewhere in Canada.