Thomas Hill was born in Wiltshire, England in 1723 and immigrated to Maryland before 1750. He married Rebecca Miles in 1753 and in 1878 moved to Cartwright's Creek near Bardstown, Kentucky. He died in 1820.

"A narrative and crhronology of the Hancock lineage from the 1500 A.D. from England to Virginia and on to Kentucky, Arizona and California with lines of other closely related families including the Wathen, Burch, Luckett and Thomas families, also listed are the Austins, Buckmans, Flournoys, Griffiths and others." - t.p. Includes also the Abell, French, Greenwell and related families.

David D. Rainey was born ca. 1735 in Orange County, North Carolina. He and his wife Jiney had eight children, all born in Orange County. They moved from North Carolina to Greene County, Tennessee, ca. 1804. Their eldest son, David Lemuel, married Nancy Davis, and had eight children from 1802-1817. Their family moved from Tennessee to Missouri in the early 1800's, and later to Nauvoo (Illinois), then to California, Oregon, Texas, and Utah in the 1800's...

John Craycroft (d.1697) and his family immigrated from England to Calvert (later Prince George's) County, Maryland during or before 1669. Descendants lived in Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri and elsewhere.

Supplement to: The Lucketts of Portobacco : a genealogical history of Samuel Luckett, gent. of Port Tobacco, Charles County, Maryland / by Harry Wright Newman ; [revision] compiled by Lois Luckett. Old Monroe, Mo. : L. Luckett, 1980. Samuel C. Luckett (1831-1911), direct descendant of immigrant Samuel, moved from Kentucky to Lincoln County, Missouri and married Nancy Jane Ware in 1854. Descendants and relatives lived in Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana,...

Marmaduke Semmes (ca.1635-1693) immigrated before 1662 to southern Maryland, probably near St. Mary's City. "The exact date of his arrival in America and the place from which he came are still a mystery; however he was probably single and in his twenties"--P. 273. In 1669 he married Fortuna Mitford Champ, widow of Bulmer Mitford and of William Champ. Fortuna's maiden name might have been either Milburn or Cleburne. Descendants and relatives lived...

Ancestors and descendants of James Vance Jr. (1854-1924), a Latter-day Saint son of James Vance and Susannah Benson. James Jr. was born in Alpine, Utah County, Utah, and married Amelia Caroline Anderson in 1874 in Salt Lake City. After several moves, they settled in Mesa, Arizona and some years after the death of his first wife, James Jr. married Emma Geneva Johnson in 1895. Later they immigrated to Raymond, Alberta, Canada. Most ancestors and descendants...

William Stafford emigrated from England in 1622 and settled in Virginia. He married Frances Mason ca. 1640. He later died ca. 1654/5. One of their descendants, Leroy Augustus Stafford (1822-1864), son of Leroy and Elizabeth Susan Calliham Stafford, was born near Cheneyville, Louisiana. He married Sarah Catharine Wright, daughter of Jesse Durastus Wright and Sarah Robert Grimball, in 1843.

This volume includes a cemetery reading of the old and new cemeteries of the Wesley-Smith United Methodist Church. These cemeteries are the burial sites of Afro-Americans. Biographical information about those buried at the cemetery is also given. The surname "Luckett" is one of the most common names of those discussed in this vol. A short history of the church is also given.

"William Jackson was born in Reading, Berks Co., Pennsylvania on May 30th 1780. He was the son of Samuel and Mary (Scarlett) Jackson of Reading. ... On December 15th 1808 he was married to Rachel Tomlinson, ... Rachael Tomlinson was a daughter of James and Sarah (Yarnall) Tomlinson, of Bloom Township, Northumberland Co., Pa. She was born on July 15th, 1791."--P. 1-2. They lived in Berwick, Pennsylvania and eventually settled in Bloom Township,...