Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Heard (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from England, Northern Ireland, and Scotland. Some immigrated to Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Virginia in the 1600's. In the 1700's, some settled in Alabama, Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, and West...

John Ross was born in about 1695 in Scotland. He was a soldier in the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715 and was transported to America in 1716. He married Sarah and they had ten children. He died in 1759 in Hanover County, Virginia. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky and Alabama.

James Francis Madden (1869-1933), son of John Madden and Briget Battle, immigrated im 1884 from Ireland to New York City, and then Keokuk, Iowa. He studied medicine, graduated in 1892, and married fellow student, Maude Guyer, at that time. They settled in Elyria, Ohio, later moving to Toledo, Ohio. Descendants and relatives lived in Iowa, Ohio, Illinois, Montana, California ,New York, Indiana, Arizona, Colorado, Wyoming, Texas, Louisiana, North Carolina,...