Johann Schroeder was born ca. 1829 in Holstein, Germany and probably died there ca. 1880. He married Metta Juergens Hamdorff (1825-1905), daughter of Frederich and Anna Schramm Juergens. She immigrated to the U.S. in 1880 and later died in Davenport, Iowa. Their son, Claus Hinrich Schroeder, married Miena Sophia "Minnie" (Friedrick) Christensen in 1895, daughter of Henry and Maria (Plahs) Friedrick. They were married in Davenport, Iowa. Descendants...

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Atwood families whose ancestors came mainly from England and Germany to America from the 1600's through the 1800's. Early immigrant ancestors settled in Massachusetts and North Carolina in the 1600's. During the 1700's, some Atwood families also lived in Connecticut, Maryland, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Later descendants also lived...

John Hill was born between 1760 and 1770, probably in Pennsylvania. His father's name is unknown, but he is believed to have been from Ireland. He married Rebecca Semans, daughter of William Semans and Ellen Beason, before 1799. They had eleven children. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut, Ohio, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Colorado.

Charles Gosnell was born in about 1730 in Maryland. He had five children. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in South Carolina, North Carolina and Tennessee.

Nicholas Fessenden (ca. 1650-1719) immigrated to Massachusetts about 1665/1666, and married Margaret Cheney. They lived at Cambridge, Massachusetts. Descendants lived in Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Michigan, Oregon, California, Arizona, Utah, Washington, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ohio, Maine, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Canada and elsewhere.

John Michener (d.1765), a Quaker, married Sarah Moore in 1686 and they immigrated almost at once from England to Philadelphia, where their daughter, Sarah, was born in 1687. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Michigan, Illinois, California, Washington, Colorado, Nebraska, Minnesota, West Virginia, Alabama, Wisconsin, Idaho, New Jersey, Florida, Wyoming, Utah, Canada and elsewhere....