The founder of the Bowdoin family in North America was Pierre Baudoin. He and his wife Elizabeth (c. 1643-1720) has four children, the first three born in France and the fourth probably in North America. In 1686 Pierre and his family moved to North America. At first, they settled in Salem, Massachusetts. Later, they went to Maine and then to Boston, Massachusetts, where Pierre died in 1704. Descendants lived in Massachusetts, New York and elsewhere....

The Bowlby family descends from Hugh de Bolbec who came to England with William the Conquerer in 1066. This Hugh de Bolebec was a cousin of Walter Giffard, first Earl of Buckingham. The Bowlbys held estates in Buckinghamshire. Another branch of the family moved to Yorkshire where thay too held estates. Thomas Bowlby (1665-1730), of the Yorkshire Bowlbys, came to America in the early 1700s and left large estates in Hunterdon County, New Jersey to his...

Henry Dow (1605-1659) was a descendant of Joseph Dow (d.1561) of Tylner, Norfolk County, England. Henry married widow Joan Nudd (widow of Roger Nudd), and immigrated in 1637 to Watertown, Massachusetts. They moved to Hampton, Massachusetts in 1644. Thomas Dow (d.1654) immigrated from England to Newbury, Massachusetts in 1639. There were also five other immigrant Dow individuals whose posterity is traced in this work (see p. 770 in v. 4 for a listing...

William Hartwell (1613-1690) was born in Kent, England. He settled at Concord, Massachusetts, probably in 1636. He was the father of two sons and three daughters. Descendants lived in Massachusetts, New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, Connecticut, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Illinois, California, Missouri, Minnesota, Texas, Michigan, Alabama, Idaho, Washington, Canada and elsewhere.

Andrew Jones (b. 1764) immigrated from Wales to Morris Co., New Jersey and ". . . some time later (1793) married Margaret Wolfe who was born in New Jersey, Morris county in 1765."--P. 11. They lived in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and finally settled in Hardin county, Ohio. Both died in about 1832. Descendants and relatives lived in Ohio, Texas, Arizona, Indiana, Massachusetts, New York, Missouri, Oregon, Iowa, Illinois, Florida, Colorado and elsewhere....

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Stephen Streeter immigrated to New England about 1639-1640, probably from Goudherst, Kent, England. He married Ursula Adams, daughter of Henry Adams of Braintree, Mass., about 1640. Their children were Stephen, b. abt. 1641; Sarah, b. abt. 1643; Hannah, b. 1644; Samuel, b. abt. 1647; Rebecca, b. abt. 1649; John, b. abt. 1651; and Mary, b. 1653. Stephen Streeter died in 1652. Descendants lived in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, Rhode Island,...

Charles Glidden (ca. 1632-1707), was probably born in the parish of Buckland-Brewer, coucnty of Devon, England. He married Eunice Shore in 1658 and they came to Boston ca. 1660. They later moved to New Hampshire. Descendants lived in New Hampshire, Maine, New York, Ohio, Vermont, Massachusetts, Québec, Washington, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, Louisiana and elsewhere.

"Hugh Jones, Immigrant of Salem, Massachusetts, being one of the earliest pioneers. Was born in Wincanton, England 1635; emigrated to Salem, Massachusetts in 1650, where he died about 1688. He married first, Hannah, daughter of John and Margaret Tompkins of Salem, Massachusetts, June 26, 1660. She was born February 21, 1640-1 and died May 10, 1672. He married second, December 31, 1672, Mary, Baptized March 29, 1649, daughter of John and Martha...