John Browne (1583-1662), a native of England, immigrated to Plymouth, Massachusetts during or before 1633. In 1638 he moved to Cohannet (now Taunton), Massachusetts. John and his wife, Dorothy (d.1674) had children: Mary, James and John. They were buried at Swansea, Massachusetts. Descendants listed, chiefly following line of descent through their son, Ensign John Brown (d. 1662) to the author, George Tilden Brown, who was born in 1848 at West...

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Sikes (Sykes) families who came mainly from England, especially from Thornhill in Yorkshire County, also from Leeds County. Other Sikes ancestors came from Holland, Lithuania, and Russia. Many immigrated to North America in the 1600's-1800's. In the 1600's, some settled in Newfoundland (Canada), Barbados, and in Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,...

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Butcher families who came mainly from England and Germany. Some early ancestors settled in Delaware, Pennsylvania and Virginia in the 1700's. During the 1800's, some migrated to Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma and the Choctaw Nation in Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. Later families and...

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Franklin (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from Kent County, England. Some of their related families also came from England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. In the 1600s, some immigrated to the United States and settled in South Carolina and Virginia. In the 1700s, some settled in Georgia, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode...

Robert Moon was born in about 1621 in England. He married Dorothy. They were living in Boston, Massachusetts by 1644. They had five or six children. He died in Rhode Island before July 1698. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Rhode Island, New York, Michigan and Kansas.

The Thayer family in America. Nathaniel Thayer came from Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England and settled at Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts in 1660. He was christened 1640 at St. Mary's Church in Thornbury. He married Abigail Harvey, the daughter of William Harvey, shortly after his arrival in America. Nathaniel was the nephew of Richard and Thomas Thayer, the sons of Richard Thayer and Miss Dimery. Richard Thayer, the immigrant of 1641, settled in...

James Knox Trigg (1922-2008), son of James Knox Trigg (1886-1950) and Wilba Fox (1899-1944), was born in Tennessee. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Tennessee, Maryland, Virginia, Indiana Kentucky, Georgia and Missouri.

Willis Oliver Smith was born in Kansas in 1915. He married Anita Gertrude Smythe and they were the parents of three daughters. Information on their ancestral lines back into colonial New England is given in this volume. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived in Kansas, Illinois, Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maine, Kentucky, Indiana, West Virginia, North Carolina, Virginia, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Canada, Switzerland, England...

Chiefly descendants of Jacob Springston(e) and Abraham Springston(e). "Jacob Springston(e), who died about 1778, probably in what is now Randolph County, West Virginia, married before 1772 to Elizabeth Lambert. Jacob's estate was granted his widow by the Augusta County Court, at Staunton, Va. on Nov. 17, 1778."--p.3. "Abraham Springston(e) who may have been a brother of Jacob Springstone...apparently lived in the Tygart Valley, Randolph Co. as...