Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Tyson (and variant spellings) families who settled Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia in the 1600's-1700's. During the 1800's, some moved to Australia, and to Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, Texas, and West Virginia. Later descendants also lived in Germany, Mexico, and in Alabama, Arizona,...

Hans Ulerich Fritz (b. ca. 1701) and his son, Wooldrich Fritz (b. ca. 1731), immigrated in 1738 from the Palatinate of Germany to Virginia. Wooldrich and his family later moved to North Carolina. Descendants lived throughout the United States.

Rev. Thomas Harrison (1619-1682), an intimate of the Cromwell family, served as chaplain of the Virginia colony during Gov. Berkeley's first term. He immigrated to Jamestown, Virginia from England in 1640 and, changing from anti-Puritan to Puritan, moved to Massachusetts and marrying Dorothy Symonds about 1648/1649. He then returned to England. Benjamin Harrison, his brother, then immigrated to become the founder of the Harrison family of the James...