Periodical for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Edson (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from England, France, and Scandinavia. Some focus is on (but not limited to) the descendants of the Puritan Deacon Samuel Edson (ca. 1613-ca. 1692), who left Warwickshire, England, and was one of the original settlers of Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Massachusetts in the 1600s. Samuel and his wife, Susanna are buried in...

Samuel Palmer (1784-1855) married Sarah Skinner in 1807 and lived in Orleans County, Vermont. In 1817 they moved to Franklin County, Vermont where they raised 8 children. In 1836 the family migrated to Franklin County, Ohio; by 1844 they had moved on to Indiana. Includes families of Brewer, Deeter, Gerkin, Lambkin/Lampkin/Lamkin, Marrs, Melvin, Orcutt, Rimmel, Secrist, Sellers, Snodgrass, Stringfellow, Trumbull, Trump, Verba, Wise and others.

Lucille Kinney was born in Washington in 1918. She married Perry Russ in 1939 and they had 2 children. Information on her ancestral lines is included in this volume. Her ancestors were early settlers in New England and gradually moved west with the pioneers settlers eventually settling in the Pacific northwest. Relatives live across the United States. Includes Kinney, Orcutt, Sparrow, McKellips, Butler, Simpson, McKay, McGill, and related families....

William Orcutt married Mary Lane in 1663 in Hingham, Massachusetts. He died in 1693 at Bridgewater, Massachusetts. His son, John (1669-1753) was born in Scituate, Massachusetts. Descendants lived in Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, New York, Kentucky, Ohio, Iowa, Indiana, Québec, Kansas, Indiana, and elsewhere.

Charles Friedrich Justus Smidt was born ca. 1840 in Rathnow (County?), Brandenburg, Prussia, to Carl Friedrich and Caroline Julian Smidt. Justus came to the United States around 1860. In 1871, he married Amalia (Emma) Meyer, daughter of Henry and Theresa Meyer, in Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin. They moved to Minnesota in 1874. They had six children, the first one being born in Wisconsin and the rest in Minnesota. Amalia died in 1892 and Justus in...

Lyman Stewart (1840-1923) was born in Venango County, Pennsylvania. He was descended from Samuel Stewart (1698-1770) who immigrated to America from Scotland. Lyman was a farmer and tanner and fought in the Civil War and later worked in the Pennsylvania oil fields. In the 1880s he, his wife, Sarah Adelaide Burrows (1841-1912), and their children moved to California where he continued his work in the petroleum industry. In 1890 he co-founded Union Oil...

William Orcutt was born in 1725 in Tolland, Connecticut. Descendants lived in New York, Wisconsin, South Dakota, Nebraska, and elsewhere. Robert Gorst (1796-1863) was born in Northwich, Lancashire, England and came to the U.S. in 1845, settling in Wisconsin. Descendants lived in Wisconsin, Iowa, Wyoming, Nebraska, Michigan, and elswhere. Robert Pease (1607-1644) came to Massachusetts in 1634. Descendants lived in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York,...

Nicholas Davison (1611-1664), of Scottish lineage, married Joan Hodges, and immigrated during or before 1639 from Lynn, England to Charlestown, Massachusetts. Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, South Dakota and elsewhere. Some descendants immigrated to Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and elsewhere in Canada.

John Abel (1757-1836) was born in Lebanon, Connecticut, son of David Abell I and Alice (Roberts) Abell. He married Mary Luce, daughter of Rowland Luce and Mary Butler Luce. They lived in Connecticut, New York, and Ravenna, Ohio. Their daughter Lury married Milton Armstrong in Ohio in 1816. Descendants live in Ohio and elsewhere.