"William Hele, first in America, was born in 1613, evidently a descendant of Hugh Hale, progenitor of the Cornwood line of Hale's in Devon [England] ... American histories say William Hele came first to Lynn, Mass. about 1640 where he early joined the church; became a freeman in Marshfield in 1643, was of Roxbury in 1649, and finally was dismissed from the church in "Lin" to join that in Cambridge with his family ... He had five wives ... He died...

"William Mason - Mary Bowman Patterson, married at Ten Mile Crossing, County, Tyrone, Ireland, and emigrated to the United States in 1788, locating near Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania.--P. 1. Descendants and relatives of the Mason, Frazier, Thomas and other families represented in this work lived in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, Missouri, Kansas, Michigan, Illinois, Oklahoma, California, West Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey and elsewhere....

Richard Earl DeLong Sr. (1878-1938) and Rebecca Jane Hickman were married in 1901, in Boone, Iowa. Descendants lived in Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Arkansas, Texas, Arizona, Nevada, California, Idaho and elsewhere.