"Early in the 17th century, four sons of Allen Foster of England, viz., Jonathan, David, Ephraim and Samuel, came to this county. One settled in Maine, another on Long Island, another in northern New Jersey, and Samuel in Cape May, south New Jersey...".

James Rundell was born in Massachusetts in 1802. He married three times and had seven children. He brought his family west, eventually settling in Michigan. Information on many of his descendants is given in this volume. Today descendants have lived in Michigan, Virginia, Florida, California, Georgia, Massachusetts and elsewhere.

Thomas Burnham settled in Connecticut with the early Puritan settlers. Material from a book published in 1895 on his descendants is included with new material on the descendants of John Burnham who settled in Massachusetts before 1650 and ministered to a church in Chebacco. Descendants and relatives lived in Massachusetts, Maine, New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Hampshire, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, California and...

William Gerrish was born 20 August 1617 in Bristol, Somerset, England. His parents were John Gerish and Anne. He marrried Joanna Lowell, daughter of Percival Lowle, in 1645 in Newbury, Massachusetts. They had ten children. Elizabeth Gerrish, who married Walter Price (1613/14-1674), was probably William Gerrish's sister. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Massachusetts and Maine.

Elisha Shepard Andrus (1808-1876) and Lavina Locke raised their family around Bradford Co. Pennsylvania. The children settled in Pennsylvania and New York, but descendants have since scattered throughout the United States.

Sir Robert Crosse was born in Charlinch, Somerset, England in about 1552. He married Olyve Turner in 1576 in London. They had eight children. A possible descendant, Silvester Crosse, son of John Crosse and Margaret Wright, was born in about 1638. He emigrated in about 1682 and settled in Charleston, South Carolina. Traces descendants of this and other Crosse and Cross families, primarily in Maryland, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee,...

John Berndhissell was born in 1712 and immigrated to Philadelphia in 1732 and settled in Virginia. He died possibly before 1783 in Culpepper County. He had at least four sons, John, Leonard, Thomas, and William. Descendants lived in Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, West Virginia, Oklahoma, Wyoming, Indiana, Michigan, Arkansas, New Mexico, California, Washington, Kansas and elsewhere. Descendants use the Barnhysel/Barnhisel and Hisle/Hysell/Hisel...

Henry Lyon was probably born in England in about 1623. He married Elizabeth Bateman in Fairfield, Connecticut in about 1652. Descendant, Thomas Rice Lyon, was born 31 May 1854 in Conneaut, Ohio. His parents were Robert Bond Lyon (1796-1854) and Clarissa Kellogg (1819-1896). He married Harriet Wade Rice 26 October 1875 in Ludington, Michigan. They had six children. Thomas died in Chicago in 1909. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly...

Chiefly descendants of Robert Judkins who was born about 1621 in Scotland. He was " ... taken as a prisoner of war at the battle of Dunbar, September 1650, sent to Boston, Massachusetts as a prisoner and arrived about January 1650-51. Was bound out to a party in Dover, New Hampshire and there served his time, near seven years."--P. 1. "He was married prior to 1670 to Sarah, daughter of John Smyth, of Cape Neddick, she was born 1645."--P. 3. Records...