Family history and genealogical information about the descendants of Joseph Caldwell who was likely born ca. 1725 in Ireland. He immigrated to America and married Mary Poak 26 January 1743 in Philadelphia. They moved to Fairfax Co., Virginia sometime prior to the year 1761 and were the parents of five known children. Descendants lived in Virginia, Missouri, Kentucky, Washington D.C. and elsewhere.

Alexander McMakin was in Baltimore, Maryland in 1765 and later moved to Loudoun County, Virginia where he died ca. 1817. His son, Benjamine Perrine (1763-1804) and his wife, Mary Carr, moved to Spartanburgh District, South Carolina from Loudoun County in 1783. Descendants lived throughout the southern U.S., Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Oklahoma, California, Illinois, Nebraska, and elsewhere.

"Down in the south eastern corner of Indiana ... lies modest, little Switzerland County. As her name suggests she was settled by the French Swiss who showed their loyalty to the tiny Alpine Republic, their mother land, by the names they gave to their adopted county and to the town they settled as the seat of their government. Prominent among these emigres was the Dufour family of five brothers and three sisters who came to America in 1801. The...

"The early records of our strain of the Stump family, comes mostly by word of mouth, as...few records were kept. So the best information we have is that our Great-Great-Grandfather Peter Stump whose date, and place of birth is unknown. Had [sic] a half brother Christopher Stump, and they lived in Berks Co., Penn. not far from Philadelphia, and that Great-Great-Grandfather who was of German decent, Md. [sic] a lady by the name of Catharine Widen (or...