The immigrant ancestor, William Stewart (b. ca. 1738), son of Alexander and Rebecca Galbraith Stewart, was born at the family home on the estates of the Stewarts of Fort Stewart at Green Hill near Letterkenny, County Donegal, Ireland. After his father's death, about 1745, his mother brought him with the other younger children to Donegal, Lancaster Co., Pa. where some Galbraith family members had settled earlier. In 1760 William married Mary Gass (b....

William Stephenson/Stevenson (1725-1809) emigrated from Northern Ireland and settled in Pennsylvania in 1748. He married Mary McLelland and eventually settled in North Carolina in 1763.

"Deacon Thomas Hanchett, the ancestor of all the American Family, was born in England, probably not earlier than 1620. When he emigrated to this country is not known, although if, as is supposed, he was the brother of John Hanchett, of Boston, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, it is probable that he came here with the latter, who is first reported in this country in 1634...Deacon Thomas Hanchett died in Suffield, Ct., 11 June 1686..."--P. [1]. Thomas...

William Diehl immigrated from Germany (via Rotterdam) to Philadelphia in 1738, and settled in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. He moved later to Lincoln (now Catawba) County, North Carolina, and married twice. Descendant "Enoch M. Rogers first settled in Ellendale township, Alexander county, North Carolina. About the year 1890 he joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and with his entire family removed to Manassa, Colorado, a Mormon community,...

Family history and genealogical information about the descendants of Jacob Albright (or Allbright) who was born ca. 1795. He married Effy Erwin 19 October 1815 in Muskingum Co., Ohio. They lived in Ohio and were the parents of five sons and seven daughters. Descendants and relatives lived in Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Michigan, Texas, Florida, Nebraska, Montana, Missouri, Illinois and elsewhere.