Genealogical research and family histories on the ancestral and allied families of Emma Finney Welch, compiler, and her husband. She was born in 1855 at Middlebush, Somerset County, New Jersey, the daughter of John Finney (1829-1894) and Eliza Boice Coriell Finney (b. 1831). She married Ashbel Welch in 1878 at Lambertville, New Jersey. He was born at Lambertville in 1854, the son of Ashbel Welch (1809-1882) and Mary Hannah Seabrook Welch (1813-1874)....

William Willemsen (ca. 1637-ca. 1721) was born in Amsterdam, Holland, immigrated from Holland to New Amsterdam in 1657 and settled at Gravesend, Long Island. He married Mayke Peterse Wyckoff, daughter of Pieter Classz and Grietze Van Ness Wyckoff of Gravesend, Long Island, in about 1678. Descendants lived in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Minnesota, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio and elsewhere.

Nicholas Stillwell, an Englishman, and his first wife, Abagail, had two sons. After her death, he and his sons immigrated to America and settled on Manahttan Island, ca. 1638. There he married 2) Ann Van Dyke. They had seven children. The family later settled on the eastern shore of Staten Island, where he died in 1671. Descendants lived in New York and elsewhere. Few locality names mentioned.

John or Jan Emans was born between 1625 and 1630. He married Sarah Jansen in about 1660 in Gravesend, New York. They had seven children. He married Engeltie Cranen in about 1680 and they had one child. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in New York and New Jersey.

"Johann Balthaser Harff, the progenitor of the Harff-Hurff family of Gloucester County, N. J. was born in Germany about 1700 and died in Gloucester County, N. J. before April 24, 1784 ...He married in Germany about 1730/35. Catharine ( ) last name unknown, born in Germany about 1702 and died in Glo. Co., N. J., after July 1798. Both are probably buried in St. John's P. E. Cemetery, Chews Landing, N. J."--P. 63. Johann emigrated to America on...

John Milk was appointed cowherd for the town of Salem, Massachusetts, in 1662. The same year he was chosen for the duty of chimney sweep. He married Sarah Wesson in 1665. They had two children, 1668/9-1670. He died at Salem, ca. 1689. His son, John Milk, Jr. (b. 1668/9), shipwright, married Elizabeth Hempfield in 1689 at Marblehead, Massachusetts. They had two sons, ca. 1690-ca. 1694. He married 2) Mary Scolly in 1707 at Boston. They had three...