Periodical for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the High (and variant spellings) families in America. Some anglicized their names to High after coming to America, such as the Swedish Hygs families, John Hye, who settled in the West Indies, and the German Hoch families who settled in Pennsylvania. Main focus of this journal is on descendants of the Englishman, Thomas High (1647-1687) who came to Virginia from England in 1660. Most...

Revision lists (census lists used to levy a poll tax) for Verkhni︠a︡i︠a︡ Nempa, Arensburg, Livonia, Russia; later Hoch-Nempa, Oesel, Livland, Russia; later Nômpa-Oremäe, Estonia. The lists contain the names of all taxable persons arranged by household, giving the relationship to the head of house and ages. Text in German and Russian.

Early ancestor, William Gray, resided in Harrow-on-the-Hill (now London), Middlesex, England. His will was proven 18 November 1663. His grandsons, John and Henry, immigrated to Fairfield, Connecticut by 1639. John married (1) Elizabeth Frost, daughter of William Frost (d. 1645). They were the parents of three children. John moved with his family to Flushing on Long Island in 1649. He married (2) the daughter of John Ramsden, first name unknown. John...

Wilmer Leech (1777-1847) was born in or near Phildelphia, Pennsylvania. He married Sarah Hull in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana, and elsewhere.

Family history and genealogical information about the descendants of Rudolph Hoch who was born sometime in the last part of the 17th century in Switzerland. He married Veronica (surname unknown). They immigrated to America ca. 1717 with two sons from a village in the Canton of Basel, Switzerland. Rudolph and Veronica settled in Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania and were Mennonites seeking religious freedom. Descendants lived primarily in Pennsylvania.