Genealogical tables. Henry Farris (b. ca. 1670) emigrated from Glamorgan, Wales, ca. 1699, and settled near Richmond, Virginia. He was the father of at least seven children, born ca. 1709-ca. 1729. His son, James Easom Farris and his wife, Susanna Samantha Luellen Malcolm, had fifteen children, ca. 1744-1778. The family lived at Lunenburg, Halifax, Charlotte County, Virginia, until 1779, when they migrated to Lincoln County, Kentucky. Their grandchildren,...

Thomas Riddle was born in 1740 in Scotland or England. He came to America ca. 1760 and settled in eastern Virginia. He married "Happy" Roberts in 1770. He died in 1785. Descendants lived in Tennessee, North Carolina, Kentucky, Michigan, South Carolina and elsewhere in the United States.

Genealogy, 1609-1950.

Joseph J. Ganey (1861-1935) was born in Henry, Alabama to John M. Gainey and Sarah Craddock. He married 1847 in Camp Co., Texas, Nancy Ellen Phennell (1871-ca. 1910), daughter of Benjamin Joseph Phennell and Nancy Davis. They were parents of eight children born in Franklin and Wood Co., Texas. Descendants live in Texas, Alabama and elsewhere. Includes Ganey/Gainey, Cook, Farris, Jordan and allied families.

Benjamin Carter, a son of John Carter, was born in Virginia and moved to South Carolina with his parents. He moved to Missouri ca. 1807, and he and his wife appear to have had nine children. Most descendants live in Missouri.

Chapter 4 lists "Howell's in the Revolutionary War.". James Howell (ca.1760/1770-1825) moved from New Jersey (possibly Sussex county) to Virginia, and about 1800 to Gallia County, Ohio. In 1827 the family moved (via Indiana) to Macon County, Illinois. Descendants and relatives lived in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, California and elsewhere. Includes some ancestors in Wales and some in England.

Conrad Gunter, a German in the British Navy, retired and settled in Warwick, New York in 1753, and later moved to St. John, New Brunswick and still later returned to New York. His son, John Gunter (1793- 1876) married Nancy Ann(?) Currey and lived in Queens County, New Brunswick. Descendants lived in New Brunswick and elsewhere. Some descendants of Conrad lived in New York and elsewhere in the United States.

John Foote (ca. 1758-1841) was born in Dublin, Ire. In 1774, he was seized by a "press gang" and forced to fight in the Revolutionary War for the British. At the close of the war, he went to N.C. and later to Ky. In 1819, he took his family of nine to Indiana. He died in Montgomery Co., Ind. Descendants have scattered throughout the United States.

Bryan McDonald (d.1707), of Scottish lineage, emigrated from Ireland to New Castle County, Delaware during or before 1689. Descendants and relatives lived in Delaware, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas and elsewhere.

Benjamin Hammond Taylor, son of Robert Hamner Taylor and Susannah, was born 12 May 1795 in McDowell County, North Carolina. He married Marab Mauney (Mooney), daughter of David Mooney and Mary Monroe, about 1817 in North Carolina. They had 14 children. Marab died on 12 Oct 1865 in Dysartville, McDowell County, North Carolina, and Benjamin died there on 6 Mar 1869. Their descendants have lived in North Carolina, Texas, Florida, Georgia, and other...