Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Barnard families who came mainly from Essex, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Somerset, and Suffolk, England. Some immigrated to Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island in the 1600's. In the 1700's, some settled in Kentucky, Maine, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Virginia. Some prominent family lines include: Thomas and Eleanor Barnard; their son Tom, Jr. who married his first...

John Bissell was born ca 1590-91 in Somersetshire, England. John married twice but neither wife's name is known. The date of his coming to America is thought to be ca 1628. He died in Windsor, Connecticut on 3 October 1677. Variant spellings of the name Bissell are: Bessell, Buissel, Buscel, Bushell, Buscall, Bichell, Bushall, Bizzell, Bisley, Bixley, Beasley and Bussell.

John Frank Phillips married Harriett Hammond Hoyt in 1907, and lived in New York, New York, and Irvington, New York. He died after 1918. Includes Hoyt, Bradley and related families.

Ancestors of Myron Asem Eddy of Newark, New Jersey. Myron Asem Eddy was born in 1840, the son of Asem Eddy (1812-1855) and his wife, Mary Ann Hoyt, the daughter of Oliver Hoyt (1771-1856). He married Helen D. Van Hoesen (1842-1913) in 1867. Some ancestors lived in Rhode Island.

"Nathaniel Cooke...was probably born in England and came to this country at a date unknown. He was one of the first settlers of Windsor, Conn.,... He married Lydia Vore June 29, 1649, Lydia, dau. of Richard and Ann Vore...Nathaniel Cooke d. May 19,1688 and Lydia, his wife, died June 14, 1698."--P.7. Descendants lived in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Illinois, Iowa, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, California, Missouri and...

John Hoyt, born about 1610-1615, was one of the original settlers of Salisbury, Massachusetts. It is not certain whether he came directly from England or had previously lived in other towns in America. But he did have at least two chldren born before 1639.

Tristram Thomas (ca. 1580-1640) was born in Sundridge, Kent County, England. His son, Christopher (1609-1670) was born in Sundridge and died in Talbot County, Maryland. One descendant, Elijah Thomas (1815-1906), was born in Rockingham, Richmond County, North Carolina and joined the L.D.S. Church and eventually came to Utah. Also includes descendants of William Empey, born ca. 1754 in Osnabruck, Ontario. Adair family is traced to Joseph Adair, born...

Dudley Marvin Hoyt (1812-1846), son of Cephas Hoyt, was born in Deerfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts, and moved to Norfolk, Virginia in 1833, and then to Richmond, Virginia. He was buried in Baltimore, Maryland.

"The American Sherman of this genealogy are descendants from related emigrant Shermans, who beginning with Philip Sherman in 1633, left England in the third decade of the 17th century. They are Philip and his brother, Samuel (Sam., Henry, Henry); their first cousin, Capt. John (John, Henry, Henry); their second cousin, Phebe Whiting Barnard (Ann, Henry, Henry), with her sons, John & Samuel Barnard; their first cousin, once removed, Richard (Edmund,...

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Morrissette (and variant spellings) families who emigrated from France, settled in Quebec, Canada, and later moved to the United States. One early ancestor was Jean Morisset, who immigrated from St. Gilles, borough of Surgeres, France to the Cote de Beaupre near Quebec City, Canada in 1661. Jean Morisset (1641-1669) married Jeanne Choret (1652-1718), and had fourteen children....