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...

Chiefly ancestors and descendants of Junius Greeley Hopkinson and Perry Hopkinson, who were both sons ofJohn Tufts and Sarah Greely Hopkinson. Junius " ... was born June 1, 1838, in Warren County, Ohio. He moved with his parents from Ohio to Muscatine County, Iowa, in 1854 and lived in Iowa for the rest of his life. He married Jeanette Eveland, Oct 3, 1857 at North Prarie, Iowa. Jeanette was born Sept. 3, 1837, at Goshen, Ohio, and died Mar. 14,...

John Ables (Abless) was born Jan. 1, 1780 in Amsterdam, Holland. John came to America as a child, leaving Holland in 1783 and landing alone in Philadelphia in 1784. It is not known whether his mother departed with him and his father. It also appears that his father did not complete the journey. John married two wives: Ann Borton, who died in 1813 in Oxford Ohio & Alazannah Cochran who died Nov. 11, 1854 in Salem, Iowa. Mr. Ables (Abless) died Sept....

Three brothers, Johann Peter Kachlein (1722-1789), Karl Christian Joseph (known as Charles) Kathlein (1726-1788), and Johann Andreas (Andrew) Kachlein (1728-1781), immigrated from Germany to Pennsylvania and settled in Bucks County or Northampton County. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Wisconsin, Utah, Idaho, Alaska and elsewhere. Some descendants immigrated to New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Alberta and elsewhere...

"Peter Hott arrived in America , 1685; coming via Holland from Banfanhoff, Germany. The family lived in Germany about three hundred years, where they fled to avoid persecution in France. He settled in Lancaster Co., Pa."--P.1. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, West Virginia, Texas, Nebraska, Iowa, Utah, Idaho, Colorado, Washington and elsewhere.

John Hannum (d.1730), a Quaker, immigrated from England to Chester County, Pennsylvania, and married Margery Southery before 1697. " ... She died about 1742, and it is the prevailing belief in the family that they were both buried at St. Johns Church, Concord [twp., Chester Co., Pennsylvania].'--P. 5. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Iowa, Missouri, Tennessee, Texas, Kentucky, New Jersey, Deleware, Virginia,...

David Adams (1796-1856) was born in New Jersey and died in Illinois. He married Matilda Kitchell and they had nine children. Descendants and relatives lived in Illinois, California, Nebraska, Montana, Washington, Wisconsin, Oregon, Colorado, Oklahoma, Minnesota, Wyoming, Texas, Missouri, Utah, Idaho and elsewhere.

"Frederick Kanapper our earliest known ancestor, resided near Osnabruck, Hanover, Germany (two miles from Malta.) The maiden name of his wife is unknown (her given name was Mier ____.) The name was spelled Kanapper in the family bible ... but through the years the name became Knaper. Frederick and Mier Kanaper did not come to the United States, as did four of their five children. Their youngest daughter Clara came to Pennsylvania in 1850 having...

John Johnson (d.1659) and his family immigrated from England to Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1630; he married twice (once in England). Descendants lived in New England, New York, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin and elsewhere.