"... I wish to acknowledge, to the fullest extent, my obligation to Mr. D. Williams Patterson ... who has been my assistant since 1873. Not only has he acted as my amanuensis ... but he has also added largely to the bulk and value of the book by his own researches, especially in the female lines"--Preface, p. vii of v. 1. Henry Whitney (1620?-1673?) emigrated by 1649 from England to Southold, Long Island, New York. He moved to Huntington, Long Island,...

Periodical for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Murphree (and variant spellings) families in America. Main focus is on the ancestors, descendants, and relatives of the Irishman Daniel Murphree (ca 1715-1771), and his wife Sarah. Some of their descendants joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and were part of the Latter-day Saint pioneers' migration to Utah. Descendants also lived in Alabama, California,...

Benjamin Brackett (ca. 1740-1810) was living at or near Charleston, South Carolina, 1767-1770. By 1772, he was living in Old Tyron County, North Carolina. He was in Rutherford County, North Carolina, by 1800 and had moved to Burke County, North Carolina, by 1805. He married twice and was the father of at least seven children. He died before July 1810. Descendants and relatives lived in North Carolina, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Texas, Georgia, California,...

Wigard Levering was born "...about the year 1648..."-- p.12 "in Gamen in Germany.."--p. 1, to Mr. and Mrs. Rosier Levering. In 1671-2 he married Magdalena Boker who was born in Leyden, Holland to William and Sidonia Williams Braviers Boker. They came to America, accompanied by his brother Gehard Levering, arriving in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania prior to August 1865. Wigard "...and his brother Gerhard ware naturalized May 7th, 1691."--p. 149. Wigard's...

William Odell was born 24 February 1602 in Wharley, Cranfield, Bedford, England. He married Rebecca Brown. They emigrated and settled in Concord, Massachusetts. They had four children. Descendants and relatives lived in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Virginia, Tennessee, Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas, Utah, Oregon, Alabama, Colorado, Nebraska, Arizona, New Mexico, California, Nevada, Texas, Ohio, Arkansas, Washington and elsewhere.

Christopher Tillman came to Virginia from England in 1638. "Gibson Tillman, son of Christopher Tillman, the Virginia emigrant, was born about 1640 in Accomac County, Va., and died Mazy 9, 1720 in Somerset Co., Maryland."--P. 3. Descendants and relatives lived in Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Ohio, Iowa, Oklahoma, Missouri, Indiana, Illinois, Georgia, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Kentucky, Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi...

John Chynne, son of Thomas Chynne, was born in about 1640 in London. He married Elizabeth Travers, daughter of Raleigh Travers and Elizabeth. They had three children. He married Alice Smoot, daughter of William Smoot and Grace Wood, in about 1682 in Lancaster County, Virginia. They also had three children. He died 21 May 1692 in Morattico Creek, Lancaster, Virginia. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky,...

Ancestors and some of their descendants of Lee Powers Hynes, son of Charles Henry and Joanna Maxey Wait Hynes. Lee was born 15 October 1881 at Old Ripley, Illinois. On 28 June 1904 he married Grace Etta Carpenter, daughter of Edgar and Etta Towers Carpenter, at La Porte, Indiana. Grace was born 9 August 1882 at Schenectady, New York. She died 16 March 1956 at Schenectady, New York and was buried at Delmar, New York. Lee married, secondly, Grace...