Cornelius Barentse Slecht married Tryntje Tysse Bos, and the family emigrated in about 1652 from Holland to Kingston, New York. John Slack (1778-1826), a direct descendant in the sixth generation, was born in Bedford County, Virginia, married Nancy Huddleston in 1798, and moved later to Kanawha County, West Virginia. Descendants of Cornelius lived in New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Florida and elsewhere....

Ebenezer Samis was born in 1742 in Huntington, Suffolk, New York. He married Sarah Tuttle. They had nine children. He died in Ontario, Canada. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Michigan, Ontario and British Columbia.

"Adventures with the Ancestors is a collection of [127] American history stories of pioneers on the early frontier. The characters are real people in real circumstances, the ancestors of a single family. . . You'll encounter indentured servants and plantation owners in 17th century Virginia, Dutchmen, Frenchmen, and Germans in the Hudson Valley, a caveman in Pennsylvania, land speculators in the Shenandoah Valley, strong women and wronged women,...

The genealogy of Lawrence Townsend Slaght (1912-1983), who was born in Plainfield, Bremer Co., Iowa, a son of Elna Townsend and Ralph Slaght. The Townsends came originally from England. Their ancestral home is Raynham Hall, Oyster Bay, N.Y. The emigrant ancestor of the Slaght family in America was Cornelius Barentse Slecht. He came from Woerdon, Holland with his wife and at least four children abt. 1652. He settled at Esopus (now Kingston), N.Y. The...

Research files for the Wood family. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in England, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and Ohio.