The Probasco family, a family from Madrid, Spain, who became converted to the Protestant faith, immigrated to Holland, Brazil, and finally to New York. Christoffel Jurrianse Probasco, only son of Jurriaen Probatski and his wife, Heyltien Aertss, was baptized in Brazil in 1649. He took the oath of allegiance in Kings County, New York, in 1687 and stated he was thirty nine and had been in New York for thrity three years. He and his wife, Eytie Strycer,...

John Foster New (1762-1842) married Sarah Elizabeth Wright and immigrated from England to Stokes County, North Carolina, moving later to Warren County, Kentucky about 1812 and to Wayne County and then Hancock County, Indiana. Descendants lived in North Carolina, Kentucky, Indiana, Missouri, Idaho and elsewhere.

"The ancestry of Thomas Warne, one of the twenty-four Proprietors of East Jersey, is uncertain. That he was born in Plymouth, in Devonshire, County, Cornwall, England and lived sometime in Ireland, we know from his tombstone; but further than that, except that his father's name was Stephen, we are not sure. He died intestate at Perth Amboy, N. J., May 15, 1722, aged 70 years which gives us approximately the date of his birth, viz.--1652--probably...