"The Lee family papers, 1535-1957, consist of twenty archival boxes of loose manuscripts, one oversize folder and 164 volumes of business records, letterbooks, personal journals and scrapbooks. The collection consists chiefly of the personal papers of Henry Lee (1782- 1860), a prosperous India merchant and free trade economist and publicist; his wife, Mary Jackson Lee (1783-1860); and their son, Henry Lee Jr. (1817-1898), a banker, theatrical entrepreneur...

William Knox (b. 1720), the son of James Knox (the Scottish emigrant to Strabane, Ireland), also had a son named William Knox (1767-1851), and two other sons, George Knox (1764-1830) and John Knox (d. 1793), all three of whom immigrated to Pennsylvania between 1785 and 1791. "A fourth son, James Knox, remained in Ireland but moved from Strabane to Castlebar in county Mayo." Descendants of the three immigrants moved to the midwest.

Erasmus Darwin Tracy (1810-1877) moved from Connecticut to Centreville, Georgia, where he married Maria Isabella Hatcher in 1834, served in the Seminole War in Florida, settling then in Nassau County, Florida. Descendants lived in Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, California and elsewhere. Ancestors (including nobility) lived in England, France and elsewhere.

Johannes Kientsch was born 26 February 1710 in Mühlhausen-an-der-Enz, Württemberg, Germany. His parents were Johannes Leonard Kientsch (1676-1758) and Anna Ursula Kientsch (1672-1750). He married Sophia Faulhaber, daughter of Johannes Caspar Faulhaber and Ana Maria, 13 June 1736. They had seven children. They emigrated in 1754 and settled in Pennsylvania. He died 15 January 1785 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Descendants and relatives lived mainly...

Charles Cordier (ca.1813-1848?) was a son of widow Theresa Anchly (who married François Cordier), and Charles took the surname of his step-father. Charles immigrated from France to Stark County, Ohio in 1832/1833, and married Frances (Françoise) Frantz in 1835. He purchased and was running an oil well some distance from home, and when he did not return in 1848 from one of his frequent trips there, the family feared he had been murdered for the considerable...

John Perkins was born in 1590 in Hilmorton, Warwickshire or Newent, Gloucestershire in England, and married Judith Gater in 1608. They immigrated to Boston in 1630, and settled in Ipswich, Massachusetts. He died in 1654.

Henry Crane (ca.1635-1711) and Benjamin Crane (ca.1630-1691), brothers (according to the author), emigrated from England to Wethersfield, Connecticut during or before 1655 (possibly Benjamin had been in Massachusetts earlier). Their father was probably John Crane (fl.1637-1642) of the "Muddy Brook" section of Boston now known as Brookline. Henry married Concurrence Meigs about 1663 and made several moves, but maintained a residence at Guilford, Conn....

Thomas Read was living in Salem, Massachusetts by 1636. He married Alice and they had four children. He married Mary and they had eleven children. He died in 1667. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Maine, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Wisconsin..

Henerie Hericke was born by about 1598 in England. He emigrated in 1629 and settled in Salem, Massachusetts, where he married Editha Laskin, daughter of Hugh Laskin and Alice, in about 1634. They had nine known children. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in England, Massachusetts, Connecticut. Maine, Vermont, New York, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.

Georgina Shiner was born 26 November 1879 in Utah. Her parents were George William Shiner (1835-1918) and Janet Lefler (1841-1925). She married Edward Gardner Snow, son of James Chauncy Snow, 4 January 1901 in Salt Lake City, Utah. They had twelve children. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Germany, Scotland, Virginia, South Dakota and Utah.