William Clinton Sterling, Jr. was born 10 April 1934 in New London, New Hampshire. His parents were William Clinton Sterling (1906-1973) and Doris Ethelyn Watson (1911-1981). His grandparents were Simeon W. Sterling, Evelyn Frances Skillings, Edward Alexander Watson and Louise Allen Peakes. He married Mary-Jane Barnard 1 June 1958. Mary-Jane was born 19 August 1935 in Manchester, New Hampshire. Her parents were Foster Irwin Barnard (1905-1994)...

Descendants of Joseph Stern (d. ca. 1777/1778), who married Mary Maulsby before 1754 and purchased land in Roxborough Township, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania in 1765.

John Whipple, son of Matthew Whipple, was baptized 29 August 1596 in Bocking, Essex, England. He married Susanna in about 1620 and they had eleven children. They emigrated in about 1638 and settled in Ipswich, Massachusetts. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in England, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York and Illinois.

"Most of this book deals with John Nelson Biard and his descendants."--Pref. John Nelson Biard, son of Henry and Keranhappuch Baird, was born 15 January 1780 in Buckingham Co., Virginia and died 9 January 1839 in Limestone Co., Alabama. By 1799 the Biard family was living in Blount Co., Tennessee. It was here that John married Rebecca Stone of Sevier Co., Tennessee in about 1803. Rebecca, daughter of Ezekiel and Jane Stone, was born 12 October1782...