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,...

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...

". . . John Fuson of Virginia, . . . of Welsh descent, married a Miss Wheeler of English descent. Their first son was William Fuson, who was a Revolutionary soldier, and who died in Champaign Co., O[hio], A.D 1835, aged about 75 years." Descendants lived in Tennessee, California, Texas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Kentucky, Virginia, Ohio, Kansas, Colorado, Indiana, Illinois, Oregon and elsewhere.