William Cole was born in Warwick County, Virginia, in 1638. He was an attorney and held important government positions in colonial Virginia. He married 1) before 1674, name unknown; 2) Ann Digges (1658-1686), daughter of Governor Edward Digges, in 1681; and 3) Marthat Lear (1668-1704), daughter of Col. John Lear, in 1687. He had seven children. He died at "Boldrup", Warwick County, in 1694. Captain Armistead Beresford Cole, a descendant of William...

Nicholaus Schweyer came from Germany to America in 1752.

John Hedden (1795-1868) married Elizabeth Bowman (1795-1869). They were both born in New Jersey and both died in New Columbus, Pennsylvania. The first of their six children was born in 1827. Descendants remained in Pennsylvania for a while, but eventually migrated south and west.

William Powell Lear (1902-1978) was the son of Reuben Marion Lear (1878- 1955) and Gertrude Elizabeth Powell (1883/4-1934) of Hannibal, Marion, Missouri. His father Reuben, was the son of John William Lear and Mary Elizabeth Atkins (sometimes written as Adkins). They lived in both Macon and Marion counties, Missouri. John William Lear's parents were Jesse M. Lear and Nancy Fagan of Miller Twp., Marion County, Mo. Jesse (b.1817) was born in Bourbon...

A collection of genealogical documents collected by James E. and Mildred Cosgriff, Marie Lyle Emerson, Marian Sturdevant and others. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Ireland, Vermont, Nova Scotia, New York, Louisiana and Texas. Includes Brisko, Crowder, Soule and related families.

Descendants of William Tunnicliffe (1780-1844) of Shelton, Staffordshire, England, whose son Edward (1813-1902) married Sarah Cooper (1819-1902) in 1836 in Derbyshire and settled in Kewanee, Illinois. Other descendants settled in Ohio, Iowa, West Virginia, Nebraska, California, Michigan, Colorado, Canada, and elsewhere.

Matthias Lehrer (1714-1787) immigrated in 1738 from the Palatinate of Germany to Philadelphia, and in 1744 married Catharine Margaretha Moyer, a fellow passenger. After 1750 they moved to Rockingham County, Virginia, and it was after Matthias died that his widow began to spell the surname as Lair. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Texas and elsewhere. Includes index (listing Lear as another variant spelling). Includes...

The progenitor of the Missouri clan of the Bigger/Biggers family, William Bigger (b. ca. 1650), was of Scottish descent and came to Colonial America ca. 1671 settling in New Kent Co., Va. He was married to Martha Woodward, daughter of William Woodward. They had only one child, William II (b. 1680). Descendants in this book are mainly those of William Biggers (1776- 1842), son of David and Elizabeth Ferguson Bigger, who was born in Louisa Co., Va....

The earliest known Terrill ancestor, Roger Terrill (d. 1682), was born in England and died in Milford, Connecticut. He was married to Abigail Ufford, daughter of Thomas Ufford and Isabel Camp in 1639. Roger Terrill came to America from Nanzing, Essex, England on the ship "Lion" arriving in Boston in 1632. The earliest known LeRoy ancestor is Richard LeRoy of Creance, Normandie, France and his wife, Pilette Jacquet. They had one son, Simeon LeRoy (1640-aft....