Annual reunion reports of the Nye Family of America Association, descendants of Benjamin Nye. Benjamin Nye immigrated from England to Massachusetts in the early 1600s. He built the historic Grange Homestead on Old Country Road, East Sandwich, Massachusetts in 1669, and the adjacent Grange Grist Mill in 1685. In 1640, Benjamin married Katherine Tupper in Sandwich, Massachusetts. Later Nye families also lived in Alberta, New Brunswick, and Ontario...

Russell Sidney White was born in 1928 in Attleboro, Massachusetts. His parents were Sidney Russell White (1901-1982) and Ina Adele Simmons (1898-1955). He married Edith Marion Nowers, daughter of Eardley Francis Nowers (1889-1963) and Marion Francis George (1889-1975), in 1950 in Sharon, Massachusetts. They had four children. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in England, Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont, Delaware, New York and Bermuda....

George Soule was born before 1600 in England. He emigrated on the Mayflower as the servant of Edward Winslow. He may have married Mary Buckett in about 1626. They had nine children. Traces their descendants in the fifth and sixth generations beginning with Nathan Weston, son of Nathan Weston, born 11 July 1723 in Plympton, Massachusetts. He married Hannah Everson 29 August 1751 in Kingston. They had eight children. He died in about 1780 in...

John Niles was born in about 1602, possibly in Beaminster, Dorset, England. He married Jane in 1635/6 in Dorchester, Massachusetts. They had seven children. He married Hannah Ames in about 1756. They had one son. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and New Hampshire.

Walter Ker was born in 1656 in Scotland, where he was a parishioner in the Dalsert, Lanarkshire parish. He and his wife Margaret emigrated to America in 1685. They eventually settled at Freehold, Monmouth Co., New Jersey, where he died in 1748. Margaret Ker " ... was born in 1651 and died October 1, 1734. She may have been the daughter of James Johnstone. Walter and Margaret are buried on a hilly point one-half mile east of the present Tennant...

Isaac Barton came from Killcomonbegg, Ireland in 1714 and settled in Pennsylvania. Descendants lived in Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, California, and elsewhere. One descendant, Serena Barton married John Calvin Hancock in 1838 in Boone County, Missouri. He was a descendant of William Hancock (1738-1824) of Goochland, Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri.

Ludowick Hawksie, a Quaker, according to tradition, emigrated from Scotland in the middle of the seventeenth century. He settled in that part of Sandwich, Massachusetts, known as Spring Hill. He married Mary Presbury in 1664. They had eight children, 1665-1681. Descendants to the sixth generation, listed, lived in Massachusetts, Maine and elsewhere. Descendants spelled their surname "Hoxie". Record follows male lines only. However, married surnames...